High Tech Ceramics News articles from February 2006

High Tech Ceramics News archives from February 2006

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS Rapid Growth Seen For Display Materials.
February 1, 2006... The worldwide growth of displays in both traditional and electronic formats has generated a growing market for a variety of materials including advanced glasses. Flat panel displays (FPD) have made major inroads into some application areas,...

STRUCTURAL CERAMICS Ceradyne Receives Body Armor Orders.
February 1, 2006... Ceradyne, Inc. received a $9.3 million order for its lightweight ceramic body armor system for use by the U.S. Marine Corps. Shipments are expected to commence in January 2006 and be completed in the second quarter of 2006. Ceradyne also...

POWDERS AND NANO CERAMICS Nanophase Technologies Advances Synthesis.
February 1, 2006... Nanophase Technologies Inc. says it has made advances in its patented NanoArc synthesis technology for nanoparticle ceramics. Improvements extend the capability for finite particle size control, increase production rates, and increase...

Nanodynamics Collaborates with Binghamton.
February 1, 2006... NanoDynamics, a nanotechnology organization and manufacturer of nanomaterials, announced a collaboration agreement with Binghamton University, State University of New York, to develop and implement experimental designs utilizing nanomaterials....

Altair Issued Patent for Stabilized Zirconia.
February 1, 2006... Altair Nanotechnologies Inc. was awarded U.S. Patent 6,982,073, titled 'Process for Making Nano-sized Stabilized Zirconia.' The patent specifies an economical method of making high quality, nano-sized stabilized zirconia, a material that can be...

COATINGS Contaminant Threshold on Y-Zirconia Coatings.
February 1, 2006... Yttria-stabilized zirconia top layers need to be resistant to impurities in ingested fuel such as vanadium compounds. The effect of these impurities on properties, like thermal conductivity or their thermomechanical response, is important. A...

DIAMOND PRODUCTS PCD Tools Showcased at Westec 2006.
February 1, 2006... The CITCO and Gardner Abrasives operations of the Cinetic Landis Grinding Ltd. will present several new cutting and grinding products at WESTEC 2006, organized by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers at the Convention Center Los Angeles on...

BIOCERAMICS Orthopedic Cements for Skeletal Repair.
February 1, 2006... Hydroxy Apatite (HA)-based cements typically used a-tricalcium phosphate [a-TCP, a-Ca3(PO4)2] or tetracalcium phosphate [TTCP, Ca4(PO4)2O] as their major constituents. Production of a-TCP (or TTCP powders) is extremely tedious and involves a...

BATTERIES AND FUEL CELLS GTI Demonstrates High-Power SOFC.
February 1, 2006... Gas Technology Institute (GTI), Des Plaines, Ill., has demonstrated operation of a high-power-density solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) using real-world military logistics fuel (JP8) containing 600 to 700 ppm of sulfur. This is a key milestone on...

Li-Ion Cells Exceed Power Requirements.
February 1, 2006... Altair Nanotechnologies Inc. announced that its battery research and development team successfully completed a testing program for lithium ion battery cells containing Altairnano's nano-structured lithium titanate electrode materials. "The...

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS Ceramic Tape Facility Schedules Expansion.
February 1, 2006... ESL Electro-Science has announced plans for a $1,5 million dedicated ceramic tape facility, to be installed in a 2,000 square meter [about 20,000 sq ft] building that ESL acquired earlier this year next to its existing headquarters in King of...

White LED Patent Licenses to Kingbright.
February 1, 2006... Cree, Inc. licensed its white LED patent, U.S. Patent No. 6,600,175, to Kingbright Electronic Co., Ltd., a strategic LED chip customer headquartered in Taiwan. The license authorizes Kingbright to manufacture and sell white LEDs that...

Freescale Developes GaAs MOSFET.
February 1, 2006... Freescale Semiconductor developed a device that combines the high performance of gallium arsenide (GaAs) semiconductor compounds with the advantages of traditional metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) technology and its...

SUPERCONDUCTORS AMSC Inks Cable and Wire Contracts.
February 1, 2006... American Superconductor Corp. won several cable and wire contracts. AMSC has finalized a contract amendment with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Under the terms of the amendment, the DOE will increase its share of the overall approved...

INDUSTRY NEWS KEMET Acquires EPCOS Capacitor Business.
February 1, 2006... Kemet Corp, on (NYSE: KEM), a major producer of ceramic capacitor has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase the Tantalum Capacitor Business of EPCOS AG for EUR 86.5 million, or approximately $101.9 million. The transaction is...

Avnet Honors AVX with Top Passives Supplier Award.
February 1, 2006... AVX Corp. (NYSE: AVX) has been named by Avnet, a world leader in electronics distribution, as the Top Passives Supplier for 2005. AVX received the honor at a Senior Executives Strategy Meeting held in Myrtle Beach, S.C. The component...

CALENDAR.(Calendar)
February 1, 2006... March 12-16, 2006 TMS 135th Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, San Antonio, Texas. Contact: TMS, 184 Thorn Hill Road, Warrendale, PA 15086-7514, Tel: 724/776-9000. April 17-21, 2006 MRS Spring Meeting - San...

(((((BRIEFS)))) BUSINESS.
February 1, 2006... BASF to Acquire Engelhard. BASF Aktiengesellschaft has made an all-cash proposal to acquire all outstanding shares of common stock of Engelhard Corp., Iselin, N.J., for US$37.00 per share or an aggregate of US$4.9 billion. This price represents...

PERSONNEL.
February 1, 2006... ISCO Elects Jim Fuentes as Chairman. ISCO International, Inc., a supplier of radio-frequency management and interference-control systems for the wireless telecommunications industry, has announced the resignation of Stuart Chase Van Wagenen...

FINANCIAL RESULTS.
February 1, 2006... AVX Sales Up. AVX Corp. reported that Net Sales were $349.1 million in the third quarter ended December 31, 2005. This was an increase of $23.1 million, or 7.1%, from the previous quarter ended September 30, 2005, and represents an increase of...

TECHNOLOGY INSIGHT Highly Strengthened Non-brittle Heat resistant Ceramic Matrix Composites.
February 1, 2006... Contributed by yet2.com, Cambridge, MA A new winding technology is used to produce a highly innovative all oxide fiber-reinforced ceramic matrix composites for extreme high temperature applications. WHIPOX (Wound highly porous oxide...

Tough Composition.
February 1, 2006... The material is composed of alumina fibers which toughen the mullite matrices. The matrix of these composites are highly porous, allowing damage tolerance without any specific fiber/matrix interphase. The oxide/fiber matrix composites are...

Application and Potential Advantage.
February 1, 2006... * 1 Firing aids or ceramic hot-gas filter elements - due to their high thermal shock resistance, the ceramics will remain intact in conditions where there are very high heating and cooling rates. * 2 Replacement for asbestos plates - These...

Technology.
February 1, 2006... The technology is supported by two U.S. patents. The most recent year of issue is 2000. The patents are as follows: US 6139916, "Process for coating oxidic fibrous materials with metal aluminates for the production of failure-tolerant,...

WHO'S WHO Promoting AlSiC Composites.
February 1, 2006... Mark Occhionero is the Vice President of Marketing and Technical Sales for Ceramic Process Systems (CPS) Corp.. Occhionero joined CPS in 1985 where he was one of the principal developers of the CPS AlSiC materials forming and fabrication...