High Tech Ceramics News articles from January 2001

High Tech Ceramics News archives from January 2001

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: Continued Growth in the Year 2001.
January 1, 2001... Advanced ceramics continued to grow last year. Electronic ceramics still constitute a major segment with a matured market, with some of its segments still growing very strongly. Growth is predicted for several electronic ceramic segments...

PROCESSING AND TECHNOLOGIES Eltron Develops Glass/Ceramic Seal.
January 1, 2001... While ceramics have many useful properties including great tensile strength and modulus, there are many applications where some other properties of ceramics are less desirable. Applications-such as engines-frequently require parts to have both...

METROLOGY AND ANALYSIS Technique Measures Moisture Content.
January 1, 2001... NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) researcher, P.S. Wang, conducted an assessment of moisture measurement tests by techniques currently available for ceramic processing applications. It was presented in a report published by...

Tactile Sensor Interprets Stress.
January 1, 2001... Sensor Products, Inc. has introduced the Topaq pressure analysis system. Used in conjunction with Pressurex/Fuji prescale stress indicating films, Topaq provides a unique perspective of the distribution and actual magnitude (PSI) of pressure...

POWDERS AND NANO CERAMICS Metal/Insulator Nanocomposites.
January 1, 2001... Inductive components are extensively used in high frequency (> 1 MHz) electronic devices from radar, satellite, telecommunication systems to home radio stereos. The applications require the core magnetic materials with high initial...

DuPont, AirProducts Form Join Venture.
January 1, 2001... DuPont (NYSE: DD) and Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (NYSE: APD) have formed a joint venture-DuPont Air Products NanoMaterials L.L.C.-to develop, manufacture, and market colloidal silica-based slurries. These slurries are for electronic...

COATINGS: Advanced Thermal Barrier Coating.
January 1, 2001... R.S. Bhattacharya of Universal Energy Systems (Dayton, OH) has been involved in developing a novel thermal barrier coating (TEC) system by depositing a high quality alpha alumina sublayer on the metallic bond-coat, prior to the deposition of...

FIBERS AND COMPOSITES ZIRCAR Introduces Refractory Cloth.
January 1, 2001... ZIRCAR Refractory Composites, Inc. (Florida, NY) has introduced refractory sheet cloth and tape. These are ceramic fiber reinforced Alumna textile-like products scientifically engineered for use in the most demanding industrial applications....

Rath Intros Altra Composites.
January 1, 2001... The Altra composite system (ACS) from Rath Performance Fibers is a modular insulation system designed to meet the needs of today's rapid fire furnace applications at temperatures up to 175C. Based on Rath's unique Altra high-alumina fiber...

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS ATMI Expands Epitaxial Foundry.
January 1, 2001... ATMI, Inc, a provider of specialty materials and related equipment systems and services for the worldwide semiconductor industry, has announced the expansion of its Epitaxial services business into the Taiwan and Asia-Pacific semiconductor...

Ceramic Tips for Gene Chips.
January 1, 2001... Reed George of Lawrence Berkeley Lab has devised a method for creating smaller and more uniform size DNA spots on the glass slide of a DNA chip, using the "Stanford" type technology. Berkeley Lab's new technology produces spotted bioarrays,...

ATC Launches HP Products.
January 1, 2001... American Technical Ceramics Corp. (AMEX Symbol: AMK), a Huntington Station-based manufacturer of RF and microwave ceramic capacitors, announced today the official launch of its new line of high power resistive products designed for microwave...

CTS Debuts Crystal Oscillators.
January 1, 2001... CTS Corp. announced a new line of miniature surface mount, voltage controlled crystal oscillators (VCXO's) that exhibit extremely clean, exceptionally low jitter properties. Designated Panther, this CTS product line (Model 333) provides one of...

Piezoelectric Transducer Design Optimized.
January 1, 2001... Researchers A.E. Uzgur, and A. Dogan (Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey) and R.J. Meyer, Jr., and R.E. Newnham (Pennsylvania State University), have conducted design optimization of piezoelectric composite transducers using finite element...

Alberox Introduces Electronic Packages.
January 1, 2001... Alberox has introduced its electronic packages for aerospace applications. Using its application engineering expertise, Alberox produces electronic packages that incorporate advanced materials to maximize current, voltage, and power handling...

Toshiba Ceramics Goes to 300 mm.
January 1, 2001... Toshiba Ceramics Co., Ltd. has announced mass production of its "Hyper Hi" 300 mm wafers. The company will start production in the fourth quarter of 2001, and increase monthly production capacity to 40,000 sheets by the fourth quarter of 2002....

SUPERCONDUCTORS AMSC and Litton to Collaborate.
January 1, 2001... Litton Industries (NYSE: LIT), through its Litton Ship Systems (LSS) group, and American Superconductor Corp. (Contact: Gregory Yurek, president and CEO, American Superconductor Corp., Two Technology Dr., Westborough, MA 01581; Tel:...

Pirelli's Cables for Detroit Edison.
January 1, 2001... Pirelli Cables and Systems has announced the construction of a 2,400 A ac high-temperature superconducting multi-layer conductor for use in one of the world's first demonstrations of superconducting power cables installed in an electric utility...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Cree Acquires Spectran's UltraRF.
January 1, 2001... Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) has announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire UltraRF, a division of Spectrian Corp. (Nasdaq: SPCT) of Sunnyvale, California through an asset purchase transaction. UltraRF designs, manufactures,...

Ceradyne Opens China Office.
January 1, 2001... Ceradyne, Inc. (Nasdaq:CRDN) has opened its first office in mainland China. The sales and marketing office is located in Beijing and will be headed by Lu Ning. Lu was formerly with Ceradyne Thermo Materials' Chinese agent and has several years'...

Kyocera to Acquire Tycom Corp.
January 1, 2001... Kyocera Corp's wholly owned U.S. headquarters, Kyocera International, Inc. (KII), has reached a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Tycom Corp.. The acquisition will be effected through a merger of a subsidiary of KII into Tycom...

ISCO Acquires ANF from Lockheed.
January 1, 2001... Illinois Superconductor Corp. (OTC Bulletin Board: ISCO), a leading supplier of interference management solutions for the wireless telecommunications industry, has announced that it has closed the previously announced acquisition of Lockheed...

Corning Adds 1,500 PA Jobs.
January 1, 2001... Corning, Inc. will spend $150 million to expand a Pennsylvania manufacturing plant and add 1,500 jobs by fall 2002. With the additional workers, the company will employ a total of 2,500 at the Benton Township plant, which makes optical...

Record Sales for AVX.
January 1, 2001... AVX Corp. (NYSE: AVX) reported that net sales were $709.5 million in the third quarter ended December 31, 2000, compared with net sales of $416.4 million for the same quarter last year. This represents an increase of 70.4% from the same quarter...

MEETING: ACERS 2001 Schedules Announced.
January 1, 2001... The American Ceramic Society (ACerS) will hold the following meetings in 2001: *The 25th Annual International Conference on Advanced Ceramics & Composites, January 21-26, Doubletree/Hilton Hotels, Cocoa Beach, FL, *103rd Annual...

CALENDAR.
January 1, 2001... February 19-22, 2001: Fourth Industrial Energy Efficiency Symposium and Exposition, Washington Hilton and Towers, Washington, DC. Contact: Office of Industrial Technologies (EE- 20), Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, DOE, 1000...