High Tech Ceramics News articles from July 2000

High Tech Ceramics News archives from July 2000

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: Growth Predicted for Fine Powders.
July 1, 2000... A surprising number of industries - from ceramics to cosmetics, metals to paints and coatings, electronics to cutting tools - rely on powdered materials to produce their products. And the production of these powders is by no means a mature...

PROCESSING AND TECHNOLOGIES Laser Cutting Nears Market.
July 1, 2000... Laser machining of ceramic components, long disregarded because of surface damage and other performance problems, may get a boost and find a near-term commercial application with a laser-assisted ceramic cutting technology developed at Purdue...

Ceradyne Introduces Modular Armor.
July 1, 2000... Ceradyne, Inc. has introduced a new high-performance ceramic armor system, developed jointly with Hutchinson SNC, Defense and Security Division, a world leader in enhanced military vehicle mobility systems, including run-flat tires. Based...

METROLOGY AND ANALYSIS Horiba Introduces Particle Sizer.
July 1, 2000... Horiba Instruments, Inc. has announced the introduction of the Crystalsizer, manufactured by Retsch, to the U.S. market. The Crystalsizer uses incoherent light diffraction and is reportedly designed to measure both free-flowing and cohesive...

NIST Supports Standards Effort.
July 1, 2000... The American National Standards Institute (ANSI), coordinator of the U.S. voluntary consensus standards system, has been awarded a grant of $500,000 from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to further "U.S. interests in...

POWDERS AND NANOCERAMICS Novel Synthesis Using ESAVD.
July 1, 2000... Electrostatic spray-assisted vapor deposition (ESAVD) is a novel and cost-effective ceramic synthesis method. Sol precursors are preferred as starting materials. The precursor is atomized and sprayed across an electric field, where the charged...

Nanophase Adds More Space.
July 1, 2000... Nanophase Technologies Corp., a leader in nanomaterials and nanoengineered products, has announced that it has secured additional facility space to enable the company's anticipated growth for the next three to five years. Nanophase has leased...

COATINGS: Coating System for ATS Engines.
July 1, 2000... In order to meet the ATS operation and efficiency objective, new thermal barrier coating systems capable of withstanding higher surface temperatures are essential. A comprehensive plan to achieve this objective was initiated by Siemens...

FIBERS AND COMPOSITES Metallic Laminae Toughens SiN.
July 1, 2000... University of Florida researchers D. J. Mitchell and J. J. Mecholsky have developed a Si3N4 composite which is toughened by incorporation of metallic (Cr) laminae. The composite specimens were formed using a processing method including tape...

Processing of Porous CMCs.
July 1, 2000... University of California Santa Barbara researcher F. F. Lange has developed a new method to process ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) with porous matrix. In the technique, the researcher treated powder to produce a special interparticle pair...

DIAMOND PRODUCTS: Brazed-Tip Carbide Inserts Introduced.
July 1, 2000... Abrasive Technology, Inc. has introduced the availability of polycrystalline diamond (PCD) brazed-tip carbide inserts as an in- stock product, immediately available and with no quantity minimums. According to the company, the inserts are ideal...

BIOCERAMICS: Silica-Coated Hydroxyapatite.
July 1, 2000... Surface modification is a promising method to tailor the interfacial properties and colloid stability of hydroxyapatite (HAp) for biomaterials application. University of Maryland researchers L. T. Borum and O. C. Wilson, Jr. have developed a...

Hydroxyapatite from Sol-Gel.
July 1, 2000... Chinese researchers M. F. Hsieh, T. S. Chin (National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C.), and L. S. Perng, H. G. Perng (Ta-Haw Institute of Technology, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C.) synthesized hydroxyapatite using calcium nitrate...

FILTERS AND MEMBRANES DOE Selects First Vision 21 Projects.
July 1, 2000... Siemens Westinghouse and Eltron Research, Inc. (4600 Nautilus Court S., Boulder, CO 80301-3241; Tel: 303/530-0263, Fax: 303/530- 0264) have been named as part of the Department of Energy's (DOE) first selections for the Vision 21 Program....

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS ATC Ships New Microwave Capacitors.
July 1, 2000... American Technical Ceramics Corp. (ATC) has begun shipping its new 600 Series capacitor to fulfill customers' volume requirements. The 600S capacitor product, developed with ATC's 34 years of expertise in RF and microwave technologies, employs...

CTS Introduces Ceramic Duplexer.
July 1, 2000... CTS Wireless Components, an innovator in wireless cellular handset component technology and a world leader in wireless component manufacturing, has announced that it has incorporated its patented monoblock technology in the design of a new,...

Vishay Introduces New Products.
July 1, 2000... Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. has announced the release of new thin-film resistor networks, microprocessor crystals, and infrared transceivers. The thin-film resistor networks offer absolute tolerances to +/-0.1% and resistance ratio matching...

Piezocomposite Hydrophone Design.
July 1, 2000... Composite hydrophones offer significant performance gains, flexibility, and weight savings compared with monolithic piezoelectrics. However, design complexity also increases. U. S. Naval Research Laboratory researchers T. L. Jessen, R....

INDUSTRY NEWS: Venture Incubator to Share Profit.
July 1, 2000... UniStates Technology Corp. has created a unique opportunity for businesses and individuals to profit from a breakthrough technology. UniStates has announced that it is expanding its collaboration on Reflexive Materials Technology (RMT) to...

AMSC Acquires Integrated Electronics.
July 1, 2000... American Superconductor has acquired the assets of Integrated Electronics, LLC, a Milwaukee-based private company, for shares of American Superconductor common stock and cash valued in aggregate at approximately $2 million. Integrated...

ISO 9001 for ICP.
July 1, 2000... Industrial Ceramic Products, Inc. (ICP) has successfully completed all requirements to achieve ISO 9001 certification, according to EAGLE Registrations, Inc. The scope of registration includes design, development, and manufacture of custom...

Ceramics.org Features New Resources.
July 1, 2000... The American Ceramic Society's (ACerS) redesigned website at www.ceramics.org provides two new easy-to-use resources for those in the ceramics field - ceramicSOURCE Online and Ceramic Links. CeramicSOURCE Online is the industry_s most...

AVX Profit Up Sevenfold.
July 1, 2000... AVX Corp., the electronic-components maker controlled by Japan's Kyocera Corp., said fiscal first-quarter profit surged almost seven-fold as a result of higher demand for its products. Net income for the quarter ended June 30 increased to...

SUPERCONDUCTORS: DOE Recognizes Detroit Edison.
July 1, 2000... The U.S. Department of Energy has recognized Detroit Edison for its leadership in supporting new environmental technologies, and particularly superconductivity. Assistant Secretary of Energy Dan Reicher said the utility received the...

DOE Partners with IGC Superconductor.
July 1, 2000... The Department of Energy has announced a partnership with IGC- SuperPower, LLC of Schenectady, New York, a subsidiary of the Intermagnetics General Corp. (IGC), which will take advantage of new advances in superconducting coated conductors, a...

American Superconductor Licenses ORNL Tech.
July 1, 2000... The Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and American Superconductor of (Westborough, MA) have signed a nonexclusive patent license agreement covering a key component of high-temperature superconducting (HTS) wire...

Environmental Issues Discussed.
July 1, 2000... Argonne National Laboratory has issued a report by Alan M. Wolsky describing the likely environmental, safety, and health (ES&H) effects on the general population that would follow from the adoption of superconducting power equipment by the...

Welding May Increase Uses.
July 1, 2000... A new welding technique for high-temperature superconductors, developed at DOE's Argonne National Laboratory, is adding to the range of practical applications for these materials, which conduct electricity without resistance. Superconductors...

CALENDAR.
July 1, 2000... September 6-9, 2000, ACerS Pacific Coast Regional Meeting with Basic Science Division, Renaissance Stanford Court Hotel, San Francisco, CA. Contact: American Ceramic Society, P.O. Box 6136, Westerville, OH 43086-6136; Tel: 614/890-4700, Fax:...