High Tech Ceramics News articles from February 2002

High Tech Ceramics News archives from February 2002

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: Ion Implantation, MBE Technologies to Grow.
February 1, 2002... Ion implantation and molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) are two of the critical deposition technologies used in semiconductor manufacturing. Implantation also plays an important role in other industrial applications such as enhancing the properties...

PROCESSING AND TECHNOLOGIES Funding for Military Lasers.
February 1, 2002... A Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) from the military requests proposals for University-based Laser Technologies for Information and Materials Advancement (ULTIMA). The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Phillips Research Site (PRS), Directed...

Bush Budget Boosts Nanotech Funding.
February 1, 2002... The $2.12 trillion budget the Bush administration submitted to Congress in early February calls for huge increases in spending for nanotechnology research, including a 17% boost in the National Nanotechnology Initiative, to $679 million. ...

Ceradyne Contracts Body Armor.
February 1, 2002... Ceradyne, Inc. has received a $3.3 million order for its ceramic body armor ballistic plates. The order was issued by a government agency in order to protect certain "elite'' military personnel. The order is scheduled for delivery from April...

Innovative Ceramic Metal Bonding.
February 1, 2002... Ceramic engineer and Rutgers professor Victor A. Greenhut unveiled a new process for bonding ceramics and metal that may have some use in machines that operate at high temperatures. The Transient Eutectic Phase Process (TEPP), which was...

METROLOGY AND ANALYSIS NIST Creates New Reference.
February 1, 2002... Hardness is frequently measured on advanced or technical ceramics, but accuracy and precision are often poor. An international round- robin identified many problems, and errors up to 20% were observed. A prime conclusion was that there was a...

POWDERS AND NANO CERAMICS Nanophase Expands Zinc Oxide Line.
February 1, 2002... Nanophase Technologies Corp. has announced the availability of a new line of high-purity zinc oxide nanoparticles primarily targeted for electronic, personal care, and other applications requiring UV protection combined with a very high degree...

Comb Discovery for New Materials.
February 1, 2002... Superior MicroPowders, LLC (SMP) has announced it manufactures combinatorially discovered materials. At a presentation at the 4th Annual Combinatorial Approaches for New Material Discovery Symposium organized by the Knowledge Foundation...

Pechiney Develops Alumina Business.
February 1, 2002... Pechiney has announced its acquisition of Alufin GmbH Tabularoxid. The company specializes in the production of tabular alumina, which is mainly used in high-performance refractories. It was founded in 1992 by Dieter P. Schlayer and employs...

Nano Institute in Canada.
February 1, 2002... University of Alberta will house a new National Institute of Nanotechnology. It will be funded by the governments of Canada and Alberta to the tune of $120 million. The institute will focus on building on the university's strengths in...

COATINGS: CBN Film by Plasma-Jet CVD.
February 1, 2002... Owing to its unique properties such as high hardness, high thermal conductivity, low dielectric constant (for high frequency), largest band gap among all the covalent materials so far known, dopability to n- and p-type semiconductors, and low...

FIBERS AND COMPOSITES ZIRCAR Intros Alumina Composite.
February 1, 2002... ZIRCAR Refractory Composites, Inc., Florida, has introduced Refractory Sheet Type RS-99-a high-strength, high-temperature ceramic composite material that machines with standard tooling. It is a high-density fiber-based ceramic material with...

DIAMOND PRODUCTS Sumitomo Reveals R&D Status.
February 1, 2002... Sumitomo Electric Industries (SEI) has developed several kinds of diamond products by using CVD methods. The R&D mainly have been performed in Itami R&D Laboratories since 1981. SEI's CVD diamond products include speaker diaphragms,...

ADVANCED GLASSES Joint Team Patents Dynaglass.
February 1, 2002... Imagine glass so thin and flexible it can be used to wrap food, but so strong that it withstands more pressure than steel. Imagine a pollution-free glass battery with an endless life and with up to 30 times more energy than a conventional...

STRUCTURAL CARBON AND NANOTUBES Follow the Bouncing Ball.
February 1, 2002... Russian scientists say they may have created the next big thing in computer memory: flexible, transparent sheets of carbon, the first pure nonmetallic magnets to work at room temperature. The material could lead to cheap, durable, extremely...

CATALYSTS AND CATALYST SUPPORTS Silica Spheres for Catalysts.
February 1, 2002... A novel method for the preparation of silica spheres using sol-gel chemistry and a patented multi-stage drying process has been developed by a private group that did not want to be identified. The resultant silica spheres have a narrow particle...

Vanadium Catalyst Forms Formaldehyde.
February 1, 2002... Israel E. Wachs, professor of chemical engineering at Lehigh University, has developed a method relying on vanadium pentoxide on a titania support to convert a methanol-water waste stream contaminated by sulfur compounds (methyl mercaptans) and...

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS Package That Does a Flip.
February 1, 2002... United Test and Assembly Center Limited (UTAC) and Ramtron International Corp. subsidiary Enhanced Memory Systems, Inc. (Enhanced) have announced that they have jointly developed a Flip- Chip Chip Scale Package (FC CSP). This package was...

EDO Receives JSF Contract.
February 1, 2002... EDO Corp. (NYSE: EDO) has a contract in the amount of $24.8 million from the prime contractor, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. for the design, development, and manufacture of a suite of pneumatic weapon delivery systems for the Joint Strike...

Eriez's Grate Magnets Double in Strength.
February 1, 2002... Eriez Magnetics has announced that its ceramic grate, trap, and tube magnets use a new super-strength circuit, effectively doubling their strength. This new circuit design greatly improves the separation performance of all of the company's...

SUPERCONDUCTORS STI Intros 3G Filter.
February 1, 2002... Superconductor Technologies, Inc. introduced its new IMT-2000 SuperFilter Tower Top System, the industry's first product launch of a cryogenic receiver front-end (CRFE) system designed specifically for deployment in international markets...

Applied Thin Films in License Deal.
February 1, 2002... Applied This Films of Evanston, Illinois, a privately held company developing advanced materials and thin film technologies for the energy, aerospace, and automotive industries, has a nonexclusive license agreement related to low-cost thin...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Morgan Advanced in Reorganization.
February 1, 2002... Morgan Advanced Ceramics (MAC), a leading supplier of engineered ceramic solutions for the medical, microelectronics, semiconductor, laser/power tube, and aerospace industries, has announced its new management force. Consistent with its...

Ceradyne Adds New Capacity.
February 1, 2002... Ceradyne, Inc. has announced that it has leased, with an option to purchase, a manufacturing facility in Irvine, California, to expand its production capacity by approximately 40% to accommodate projected growth in demand for its ceramic diesel...

Textron Sells Composite Business.
February 1, 2002... Textron, Inc. (NYSE: TXT) has sold its Composite Material Products business, a unit of Textron Systems, to Specialty Materials, Inc., a subsidiary of Fiber Glass Industries of Amsterdam, New York. Composite Material Products (CMP) develops,...

CeramTec Closes Mansfield Facility.
February 1, 2002... CeramTec North America, a wholly owned subsidiary of CeramTec AG, has announced that it is closing its facility in Mansfield, Massachusetts, and moving the plant's operations to its North American headquarters in Laurens, South Carolina. The...

Cooperative Materials Research Projects.
February 1, 2002... Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials Manufacturing Technology Division (AFRL/MLOP ) is soliciting research proposals for the Cooperative Materials Research Projects Program. The purpose of this program is to develop materials and processes...

CoorsTek Updates Earnings Expectations.
February 1, 2002... 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 recently updated its previously issued guidance...

Nanophase Revenues Coming Up.
February 1, 2002... Nanophase Technologies Corp. (Nasdaq: NANX) has announced that its revenues for the quarter ending December 31, 2001 were up slightly compared with fourth-quarter 2000 results. Unaudited results indicate that the company realized revenue of...

Kemet Posts Quarterly Loss.
February 1, 2002... Kemet Corp.(NYSE:KEM), a maker of electrical parts used in cell phones and computers, said it posted a net loss in the December quarter versus a profit in the year-ago quarter, as revenues fell sharply. Kemet said revenues for the March quarter...

Intermagnetics Income Gains.
February 1, 2002... Intermagnetics General Corp. (NasdaqNM: IMGC), a maker of magnetic resonance imaging products for medical diagnostics, said that its second-quarter operating income, excluding unusual items, rose 18% due to robust magnet sales. Intermagnetics...

CTS Posts Fourth- Quarter Loss.
February 1, 2002... CTS Corp. (NYSE: CTS), which makes electronic components and assemblies for communications, computer, and automotive manufacturers, has posted a fourth-quarter loss and said the current quarter's revenues would show little sign of recovery. The...

Corning's Losses Widen Quarter.
February 1, 2002... Corning, Inc., badly shaken by a slump in the telecommunications industry in 2001, lost $655 million in the fourth quarter but exceeded Wall Street forecasts. The loss of $0.69/share compares with a net loss of $58 million, or $0.06/share, in...

CALENDAR.
February 1, 2002... April 1-5, 2002. Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Contact: Materials Research Society, 506 Keystone Dr., Warrendale, PA 15086-7573; Tel: 724/779-3003, Fax: 724/779- 8313; Email: info@mrs.org April 28-May 1,...