High Tech Ceramics News articles from December 2004

High Tech Ceramics News archives from December 2004

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: Nanomagnetics May Top $12 Billion in 2009.
December 1, 2004... Ceramics find use as nanomagnetic particles. The properties of nanostructured magnetic materials and devices are extraordinarily different from those of conventional magnetic systems. Exchange coupling, giant magnetoresistance, single-domain...

METROLOGY AND ANALYSIS Atomic Clues to Tougher Ceramics.
December 1, 2004... For massive use of advanced ceramics as a structural material components, the problem of brittleness has to be solved. Poor resistance to fracture damage has been the major drawback to the widespread use of advanced ceramics as structural...

STRUCTURAL CERAMICS: Biomorphic Silicon Carbide Fabricated.
December 1, 2004... Researchers V.S. Kaul, K.T. Faber (Northwestern University, IL); A.R. de Aerllano-Lopez, J. Martinez-Fernandez, R. Sepulveda (University of Seville, Spain); M. Presas, J. Y. Pastor, J. Llorca (Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain) joined...

ArmorWorks Ships Humvee Armor.
December 1, 2004... ArmorWorks, a producer of high-tech armor protection made of ceramic composites, has shipped its 1,000th kit of Humvee armor to the United States Army from its facility in Tempe.U.S. Rep. J.D. Hayworth helped seal the crate, along with the Adj....

Ceradyne Receives Armor Orders.
December 1, 2004... Ceradyne, Inc. won two orders totaling $6.4 million for the company's ceramic body armor systems used to protect certain elite U.S. military personnel. These orders are projected to be shipped during the first nine months of 2005. Joel...

POWDERSAND NANO CERAMICS: Nanophase Offers Mixed Oxide Nanocrystals.
December 1, 2004... Nanophase Technologies Corp. announced the commercial availability of NanoArc Zinc Oxide. NanoArc is a patented process that employs a novel plasma technology to prepare nanocrystalline materials with highly controlled surface chemistry. ...

Nano-Zirconia from China.
December 1, 2004... Shandong Zhongshun Science & Technology Development Co., a provincial high-tech company, specializing in new material and biochemicals, developed and commercialized nano zirconia. Current production is 300 metric tons a year. Zhongshun has...

Nano TiO2 for Gas Sensors.
December 1, 2004... Washington State University researchers Y. Choi, A Bandyopadhyay and S. Bose have investigated the nanostructed TiO2 materials for industrial gas sensors. They synthesized and processed nanostructured TiO2, with and without dopants, on the...

COATINGS: Plasma Spray Makes Metastable Ceramics.
December 1, 2004... Solution precursor plasma spray (SPPS) is a new method for depositing thick ceramic coatings, where solution chemical- precursor feedstock (liquid), instead of conventional powder, is injected into a plasma. This versatile method has several...

FIBERS AND COMPOSITES: Inorganic Reactions form BN-Containing Composites.
December 1, 2004... Japanese researchers G. Zhang and M. Ando (Fine Ceramics Research Association); T. Ohji (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)); and S. Kanzaki (Synergy Materials Research Center (AIST)) have prepared hexagonal...

ADVANCED GLASSES: Saint-Gobain Considers LCD Glass Market.
December 1, 2004... Saint-Gobain, one of the world's leading glass companies, is considering entering the business of highly pure glass for liquid- crystal display screens, a booming area of the electronics industry, the Financial Times reported, citing the...

Corning Licenses Hitachi-Maxell.
December 1, 2004... Corning Inc. and Hitachi-Maxell, Ltd. have entered into a non- exclusive licensing agreement that will allow Hitachi-Maxell to use Corning's Precision Molded Optics (PMO) patents in the manufacture of aspheric glass lenses such as those used in...

BIOCERAMICS: Hydroxyapatite Formation in Bioactive Cement.
December 1, 2004... Crystalline calcium phosphate cements have been used as bone substitutes. They are biocompatible, but the major drawbacks of this cement are low strength and slower reaction to bone cell. Glass bone cement in the system of CaP-SiO2-P2O5, has...

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS: Tessera, Matsushita in Packaging Agreement.
December 1, 2004... Tessera Technologies Inc., a provider of a broad range of advanced packaging solutions, has signed a technology licensing agreement with Matsushita Electric Ind. Co. Ltd (MEI), giving the Japanese consumer electronic supplier access to its IP...

Miniature Piezo Buzzer Introduced.
December 1, 2004... CUI Inc., a solutions provider of electro-mechanical components for OEM manufacturing, has introduced industry's smallest piezo buzzer with an IP67 rating. The device, CPE-243, is designed for a range of waterproof and dustproof applications...

Nanocrystals A Quick Route to Change.
December 1, 2004... Just as the Microtechnology Age was built upon the introduction of impurities into crystals of semiconductor materials, so, too, will crystalline doping be the bedrock upon which the Nanotechnology Age is built. To advance the arrival of this...

Integrating Silicon, III-V Semiconductors.
December 1, 2004... A team of scientists from Philips and the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft has announced to be the world's first to successfully demonstrate the growth of III-V semiconductor nanowires on germanium and silicon substrates. In their article...

Rewritable Smart Tag Chip Developed.
December 1, 2004... Hitachi ULSI Systems Co. has developed an integrated circuit chip that allows data rewriting through wireless communications, in a move to strengthen the Hitachi group's smart tag business. The chip can be used as a smart tag, also known as a...

FRAM Memory in Tiny DFN Packaging.
December 1, 2004... Ramtron International Corp., a supplier of nonvolatile FRAM memory products, introduced the availability of select FRAM (ferroelectric random access memory) products in DFN (dual flat no-lead) plastic packaging. The existing FRAM products that...

Ceramtec Offers More Substrates.
December 1, 2004... CeramTec is offering Alunit aluminum nitride ceramic substrate, a thermal expansion coefficient that is comparable to silicon. With its outstanding insulating properties and high thermal conductivity rating (~180 W/mK), the Alunit substrate...

SUPERCONDUCTORS: Intermagnetics' SuperPower, AEP EmTech Collaborate.
December 1, 2004... Intermagnetics General Corp. announced that its Energy Technology subsidiary, SuperPower, Inc., has executed a collaboration agreement with AEP EmTech, LLC, a subsidiary of American Electric Power Company, Inc. of Columbus, Ohio, for the...

AMSC Gets Order for D-VAR Systems.
December 1, 2004... American Superconductor Corp. announced an order for two D-VAR voltage regulation systems and ancillary equipment for use in a 150-megawatt (MW) Rushlake Creek wind farm in Saskatchewan, Canada. When completed in December 2005, the project is...

ISCO International Wins $2 Million in Orders.
December 1, 2004... ISCO International, Inc., a supplier of interference-control and other RF processing solutions for the wireless telecommunications industry, says it received more than $2 million in customer orders for its RF(2) product platform for delivery...

STI in Follow-on Purchase Commitment.
December 1, 2004... Superconductor Technologies Inc. announced that it has received a follow-on purchase agreement for a minimum of $7.5 million from a major North American wireless carrier. STI renewed its existing purchase agreement with the carrier, a...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Ceradyne Joins S&P SmallCap 600 Index.
December 1, 2004... Ceradyne, Inc. has been added to the Standard & Poor's (S&P) SmallCap 600 Index under the industrials GICS (Global Industry Classification Standard) economic sector and aerospace and defense GICS sub-sector. According to Standard & Poor's, the...

Companies Report Quarterly Results.
December 1, 2004... Altair Nanotechnologies has reported that revenue for the third quarter of fiscal 2004 ending Septemebr 30th 2004 increased to approximately $347,000 compared to revenue of approximately $17,000 for the third quarter of fiscal 2003. The net...

CALENDAR.
December 1, 2004... January 23-28, 2005: The Fall Divisional Meeting of the Electronics Division of The American Ceramic Society in conjunction with the 29th International Conference & Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, Doubletree Oceanfront Hotel...