High Tech Ceramics News articles from February 2005

High Tech Ceramics News archives from February 2005

Editors' Note.
February 1, 2005... High Tech Ceramics News (HTCN) published its maiden issue in February 1989. For the last sixteen years, we have brought you industry analysis, news updates in various segments of advanced ceramics as well as competing advanced materials,...

TECHNOLOGY: Adhesive for Shuttle Exterior Repair.
February 1, 2005... The shuttle Discovery is currently scheduled to lift off in March 2005 as the return to-flight mission following the destruction of the Columbia orbiter on Feb. 1, 2003. The Discovery mission has been redesigned to include extravehicular...

MARKETS: SOC Sales Set to Triple in Five Years.
February 1, 2005... To accommodate exponential growth demands for larger and faster transistors, chip designers and manufacturers have constantly pushed the envelope of technological, physical, and design constraints. Various innovations and paradigm-defining...

Big Potential for Nanosensors.
February 1, 2005... Nanotechnology is generally defined as the creation and utilization of materials, devices and systems through the manipulation of matter at scales of less than 100 nanometers (i.e., about the size of three atoms.) Thus, the potential impact of...

PROCESSING AND TECHNOLOGIES Here's How to Petrify Wood.
February 1, 2005... A team of materials scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Yongsoon Shin and colleagues, have converted wood to mineral, achieving in days what it takes nature millions of years to do in such places as the Gingko Petrified...

METROLOGY & ANALYSIS: Research Software for Malvern Zetasizer Series.
February 1, 2005... Malvern Instruments announced the launch of a new Research Software package for its Zetasizer Nano series of particle characterization systems which measure the size, zeta potential and molecular weight of nanometer-size particles and...

Visual Observation of Carbon-Nanotubes.
February 1, 2005... Scientists at NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (Houston, TX) have devised a simple optical setup to enable safe viewing of the arc and measurement of the interelectrode gap. They used this in a process in which carbon nanotubes are...

Netzsch Introduces New Analyzer.
February 1, 2005... Netzsch Instruments is leading worldwide in thermal analysis, thermophysical properties measurement, and contract testing. The company has now introduced its new LFA 457 MicroFlash(R) system to measure thermal diffusivity, thermal conductivity...

STRUCTURAL CERAMICS: Abresist Supplies Tungsten Carbide Lining.
February 1, 2005... Abresist Corp., based in Urbana, Indiana, manufactures fused cast basalt and ceramic linings that provide excellent abrasion and impact protection. Abresist has started supplying KALMETALL-TC (tungsten carbide), which withstands the severe...

POWDERS & NANO CERAMICS: Direct Deposition of MnxOy Nanowires.
February 1, 2005... Researchers as NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA have fabricated mats of freestanding manganese oxide (MnxOy) nanowires as experimental electrode materials for rechargeable electrochemical power cells and capacitors. Because they...

ADVANCED GLASSES: Corning to Commercialize TFT Grade Substrate.
February 1, 2005... Corning Inc. has announced the world's first commercially available thin film transistor (TFT) grade Generation (Gen) 7 glass substrates for active matrix liquid crystal displays (LCD). TFT-grade substrates are ultra-clean, flat, stable, light,...

Innovation Continues at Precision Electronic.
February 1, 2005... In 1962, when John R. Rossi founded Precision Electronic Glass (PEG) he didn't know he was starting a tradition of innovation in the manufacturing of glass products in southern New Jersey. But over the years the innovations have placed PEG on...

Smart Glass Blocks IR Light.
February 1, 2005... UK scientists, Ivan Parkin and Troy Manning at University College London, have developed a glass that can block out heat without blocking out light. The glass is coated with vanadium dioxide. This material transmits both visible and infrared...

Lehigh Wins NSF's Materials Institute Award.
February 1, 2005... Lehigh University is one of the three to receive a highly competitive grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish an international research center supporting research into new uses for glass. The International Materials...

BATTERIES AND FUEL CELLS Altair Develops New Battery Materials.
February 1, 2005... Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. announced that it has achieved a breakthrough in Lithium Ion battery electrode materials, which will enable a new generation of rechargeable battery to be introduced into the marketplace, as well as create new...

FCT, TOTO Collaborate on SOFC Systems.
February 1, 2005... Fuel Cell Technologies Ltd. (FCT) and TOTO Ltd. have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) regarding the design, development and manufacture of a 2-3kW solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) system. Under the terms of the MOU, FCT will design and...

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS: Strained Silicon in Chips.
February 1, 2005... As transistors become tinier, the power consumption problem (which is primarily an issue of leakage) could limit the processing power of laptops, smart phones and other battery-powered mobile devices upon which the industry's technology...

Vishay Dual Schottky Rectifiers Win Award.
February 1, 2005... A family of 200-V, 20-A dual Schottky rectifiers from Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. has been honored with a Product of the Year Award by analogZONE.com for "Best High-Voltage Use of Silicon." Outperforming 200-V forward voltage Schottky...

Compound Semiconductor Market to Double.
February 1, 2005... Advantages of compound semiconductor devices over traditional silicon devices include higher operating speeds, lower power consumption, reduced noise and distortion, higher operable temperature, light emitting and detecting properties, higher...

Modelithics to Provide ATC Component Models.
February 1, 2005... American Technical Ceramics announced that it has engaged Modelithics, Inc. to develop substrate-scalable models for a wide variety of its industry-leading surface-mounted capacitors, inductors and resistors. Modelithics will be distributing...

SUPERCONDUCTORS: Superconductor Tech Wins Patent Case.
February 1, 2005... Superconductor Technologies Inc., a maker of filter systems to improve transmissions between cellular base stations and mobile devices, said that a federal appeals court upheld a 2003 decision against Isco International Inc., who filed a patent...

Advance in Second Generation HTS Wire.
February 1, 2005... American Superconductor Corp., reported it has doubled the electric performance of its latest high temperature superconductor (HTS) wire in strong magnetic fields at relatively high temperatures, an achievement necessary for incorporating the...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Armor Producer Gets Orders.
February 1, 2005... Ceramic Protection Corp., a manufacturer of ballistic ceramic armor products used in personnel, vehicular and structural armor systems have announced that is has received several orders for ballistic armor plates. The orders originates from...

Companies Report Financial Results.
February 1, 2005... Ceramics makers continue to report quarterly and annual results. This time, it's a mixed bag. Here are some of the most recent. Alcoa announced that its full year 2004 income from continuing operations was $1.402 billion, or $1.60 per...

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES: Producer of Indium Tin Oxide Sought.
February 1, 2005... Seeking least cost method of producing indium tin oxide ceramic as a transparent conductive oxide materials. Production method should be able to achieve density of 99% with a 99.99% purity and able to achieve minimum nodules formation during...

Nanomaterials for Coating Manufacturing.
February 1, 2005... NineSigma, representing CAMP Inc., is seeking proposals for developing and commercializing various coating and film manufacturing processes using several nanoparticle formulations. The nanoparticles (size 10-100 nanometers) of interest are...

CALENDAR.
February 1, 2005... April 10-13, 2005: 107th Annual Meeting and Exposition of The American Ceramics Society, Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel, Baltimore, MD. Contact: American Ceramic Society, P.O. Box 6136, Westerville, OH 43086-6136, Tel: 614/890-4700, Fax:...

WHO'S WHO: Joel Muskowitz, A Pioneer in Advanced Ceramics.
February 1, 2005... Joel Muskowitz, President and CEO, founded Ceradyne in 1967. The company develops, manufactures and markets advanced technical ceramic products and components for defense, industrial, automotive/diesel and commercial applications. Ceradyne...