High Tech Ceramics News articles from December 2001

High Tech Ceramics News archives from December 2001

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: Nanoparticles Market Tops $60 Billion.
December 1, 2001... Although nano may not yet be a household word, it is indeed well known within, and increasingly vital to, the advanced materials community and high-technology business sector. In part due to the credibility and visibility imparted by the...

PROCESSING AND TECHNOLOGIES MAC Introduces Sacrificial Cores.
December 1, 2001... Morgan Advanced Ceramics (MAC) has introduced sacrificial cores for use in industries such as automotive and aerospace. According to MAC, sacrificial cores are the most cost-effective way to cast complex cavities in components. As the compacted...

Aremco Offers Ceramic Adhesive.
December 1, 2001... A new adhesive from Aremco Products, Ceramabond 503, is a single component, alumina-based adhesive system used to bond nichrome heating element wire to mica ceramics. The system is inorganic, water soluble, alumina-filled, and resists...

NIST to Launch Combo Center.
December 1, 2001... NIST will launch in January 2002, an important resource for those using combinatorial approaches to characterize and develop new materials-a collaborative research center devoted to advancing state-of-the-art methods that can rapidly accelerate...

DARPA Wants Optical UV Sources.
December 1, 2001... Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of semiconductor ultraviolet optical sources (SUVOS) for use in a variety of military platforms. Proposed research should investigate...

METROLOGY AND ANALYSIS Beckman Offers Diffraction Analyzer.
December 1, 2001... Beckman Coulter offers the LS 13 320 laser diffraction particle analyzer. According to Beckman, it meets and exceeds the new ISO standards for particle sizing, providing complete audit trails for each step. Building on a track record of...

POWDERS AND NANOCERAMICS: Altair Files Patent for Zirconia Process.
December 1, 2001... Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. recently announced that it filed a patent covering its process for making nanosized stabilized zirconia. Stabilized zirconia is one of the dominant materials used today in thermal spray coatings, which protect...

Nanoparticles Form Thinner Electrolytes.
December 1, 2001... Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. has formed electrolyte films well under 25 microns thick using nanosized yttria stabilized zirconia (YSZ). Incorporating thinner films into solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) increases oxyanion transfer efficiency....

Hydrothermal Powders and Thin Films.
December 1, 2001... Hydrothermal processing enables the fabrication of ceramic powders and thin films at temperatures of 200(C and below. Research by E. Slamovich at Purdue and other laboratories on hydrothermally derived processing has demonstrated that...

COATINGS: Top Coat Sintering Enhances Debonding.
December 1, 2001... Cambridge University researcher T.W. Clyne investigated the effect of topcoat sintering on interfacial debonding by subjecting thermally sprayed thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) to a variety of heat treatments in the temperature range 1,000 to...

FIBERS AND COMPOSITES: Rapid Sintering of Alumina Composites.
December 1, 2001... Researchers D.D. Jayaseelan, N. Kondo, M.E. Brito, T. Ohiji, at Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology, conducted rapid rate sintering of high-dense alumina- based composites. The researchers also studied their...

DIAMOND PRODUCTS: Boron-Doping by Bias Method.
December 1, 2001... Japanese researchers S. Yugo, T. Tashiro, and D. Saito have used bias method to dope impurity to the diamond. They produced boron dope diamond in order to evaluate the effectiveness of this method. They further examined the electrical...

FILTERS AND MEMBRANES: Cermet Thin-Film for Hydrogen Separation.
December 1, 2001... Argonne National Laboratory scientists T.H. Lee, S.E. Dorris, and U. Balachandran are developing dense membranes for separating hydrogen from gas mixtures at the National Energy Technology Laboratory. These efforts initially focused on...

FUEL CELLS: Ceramic vs. Polymer Electrolytes.
December 1, 2001... Fuel cells offer a clean, low-pollution technology to electrochemically generate electricity from hydrocarbon fuels at high efficiencies and have recently attracted great worldwide attention, both in technical and in investment community, for...

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS: CoorsTek Gains Five OEM Customers.
December 1, 2001... CoorsTek, Inc., a leading designer and manufacturer of critical components and integrated assemblies for the semiconductor capital equipment industry and other high technology applications, has announced that during the third quarter of 2001 it...

More Products from Vishay Intertech.
December 1, 2001... New single-package DC/DC converters, surface-mount LEDs, and tantalum chip capacitors have been released by Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE: VSH). The new Vishay FunctionPAK synchronous dc-to-dc converters set industry records for solution...

Cypress and Ramtron Announce SRAM.
December 1, 2001... Cypress Semiconductor (NYSE:CY) and Ramtron International Corp. (Nasdaq:RMTR) subsidiary Enhanced Memory Systems, Inc. has announced the world's highest density SRAM products. The 72 Mb NoBL (No Bus Latency) burst SRAM family targets the...

Digi-Key Adds CTS Products.
December 1, 2001... CTS Corp. (NYSE: CTS) has announced that Digi-Key Corp., one of North America's largest, premier catalog/web stocking distributors, has added the full line of CTS Corp. ClearONE high- speed bus termination and bias networks to its inventory of...

SUPERCONDUCTORS: AMSC to Supply GE with Wire.
December 1, 2001... American Superconductor Corp. announced that it has been selected by the General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) as the primary supplier of high-temperature superconductor (HTS) wire for development of the world's first 100-MW HTS generator. The...

Conductus to Supply Military Filter Systems.
December 1, 2001... Conductus, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDTS), a leading manufacturer of superconducting wireless systems, has been awarded a subcontract from General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems in connection with General Dynamics' receipt of a delivery order from...

STI Sells 1,000th SuperFilter System.
December 1, 2001... Superconductor Technologies, Inc. has announced two significant company milestones-1,000 SuperFilter Systems sold to customers, and more than 10 million cumulative hours of operation for deployed units. "These milestones mark significant...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Two H.C. Starck Subsidiaries Merge.
December 1, 2001... The German subsidiaries of H.C. Starck GmbH-TeCe Technical Ceramics and CFI Ceramics for Industry-recently merged into a single company, H.C. Starck Ceramics GmbH & Co KG. H.C. Starck assumed responsibility for Bayer's engineering ceramics...

Vishay Acquires Mallory.
December 1, 2001... Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. announced the acquisition of Mallory, a North American Capacitor company. Mallory is a leading manufacturer of wet tantalum electrolytic capacitors and also manufactures aluminum and audible signal products with...

FMC Lithium, Altair Enter into Agreement.
December 1, 2001... FMC Lithium and Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. executed a letter of interest concerning the development and marketing of nano-lithium titanate spinel-related metal oxides and associated proprietary technologies for the energy storage industry....

Ramtron Reports Third-Quarter Slip.
December 1, 2001... U.S. semiconductor maker Ramtron International Corp. has reported results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2001. Revenue for the third quarter was $7.5 million, compared with $8.1 million for the same quarter a year ago. Excluding a...

Improved Results for Supercon Components.
December 1, 2001... Superconductive Components, a manufacturer of advanced ceramics, optical materials, and high-temperature superconductive and non- superconductive products, reported income applicable to common shares of $22,407 for the 3 mo. ended September 30,...

American Technical Earnings Decline.
December 1, 2001... American Technical Ceramics Corp. (AMEX Symbol: AMK), a leading manufacturer of high-performance electronic components including capacitors and thin-film circuits for a broad range of commercial and military applications, has announced earnings...

EDO Declares Regular Dividend.
December 1, 2001... EDO Corp. announced that its board of directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend on its common stock of $0.03 per share, payable on January 4, 2002, to shareholders of record at the close of business December 14, 2001. James M....

CALENDAR.
December 1, 2001... January 13-18, 2002. 26th Annual International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, Cocoa Beach, FL. Contact: American Ceramic Society, P.O. Box 6136, Westerville, OH 43086- 6136; Tel: 614/890-4700, Fax: 614/899-6109; Email:...