High Tech Ceramics News articles from July 2001

High Tech Ceramics News archives from July 2001

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: Growth Seen for Mineral Additives.
July 1, 2001... The use of minerals as additives is widespread in today's industrial market. Historically, mineral fillers were used to extend other raw materials as a cost savings measure. Today, specific materials are developed and selected for the...

PROCESSING AND TECHNOLOGIES Ceramic Grinding Beads from SEPR.
July 1, 2001... SEPR has introduced a new high-density ceramic grinding bead produced from yttria-stabilized zirconia powder by a unique manufacturing process. Zirmil ceramic beads offer increased productivity and longer media life for microgrinding paint,...

Insulation Firebrick from Thermal Ceramics.
July 1, 2001... Thermal Ceramics, a division of the Morgan Crucible Co., England, has recently introduced a new product, K(R)-26 IFB. Historically, 2,600(F grade-insulating firebrick have been relatively dense materials, generally produced by a pressing or wet...

METROLOGY AND ANALYSIS: Sensor Products Finds Pressure Points.
July 1, 2001... Sensor Products, Inc. has introduced Pressurex Pressure Points, tactile force-indicating films. Pressure Points represent a new cost-effective and convenient method of utilizing Pressurex sensor film. Pressurex is a useful metrology tool in...

Beckman Coulter Offers New Analyzers.
July 1, 2001... Beckman Coulter has introduced its SA3100 with dewar lift, which enhances the walk-away operation, ease of use, and sample throughput of surface area and pore size measurements. The compact SA3100 was specifically designed to satisfy the needs...

POWDERS AND NANO CERAMICS Aremco Intros Potting Compound.
July 1, 2001... Aremco Products has introduced a new potting compound, Ceramacast 586. It is a zirconium phosphate-based, chemically setting ceramic compound ideal for bonding and encapsulating high-temperature electrical components such as heaters, halogen...

Pechiney Doubles Al Oxide Capacity.
July 1, 2001... The French company Pechiney has announced that it would double capacity for superground aluminum oxides at its Gardanne, France, facility. Following the development of a range of low soda reactive alumina for refractories applications, Pechiney...

COATINGS: Solgel Coating Protects Carbon.
July 1, 2001... Involving alumina sol-gel coating in the protection of carbon against oxidation at high temperature was highly deserved because of its exemplar thermal stability and the considerably reduced cost. However, the high temperature required for...

ADVANCED GLASSES: Breakthrough in Optical Fibers.
July 1, 2001... Simax Technologies is pioneering the next generation of material processing by developing subnanometer molecular processes, chemical solution gelation (CSG), and chemical solution deposition (CSD), to replace the traditional submicrometer...

Optical Crystal Fibers from Denmark.
July 1, 2001... A Danish company called Crystal Fibre, a spin-off from the Technical University of Denmark, has developed advanced software tools for predicting the optical properties of new crystal fibers. The new software can quickly identify which types of...

CATALYSTS AND CATALYST SUPPORTS Radio Frequency Drying System.
July 1, 2001... Radio Frequency Co., Inc. has introduced an RF dryer for processing ceramic catalytic converter substrates. The Macrowave RF drying system uniformly removes moisture; eliminates surface cracking; and saves drying time, energy, and floor space...

ADVANCED GLASSES: Corning Opens AMLCD Plant.
July 1, 2001... Corning, Inc. recently celebrated the opening of its active matrix liquid crystal display (AMLCD) glass substrates production facility in Tainan Science-Based Industrial Park, Taiwan. The ceremony marked the opening of the first AMLCD glass...

Lucent Scientists Estimate Information Capability.
July 1, 2001... Scientists from Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs, led by physicist Partha Mitra, have calculated the maximum amount of information that can be transmitted through optical fiber, demonstrating that fiber optics technology will result in robust,...

FILTERS AND MEMBRANES Alumina Treats Wood Wastewaters.
July 1, 2001... Finnish scientists have discovered that ceramic membranes modified with titania or magnesia removed suspended solids and turbidity almost totally from biologically treated wastewater at a Finnish board mill. The alumina membranes, with pore...

Perovskite Transports at Low Temp.
July 1, 2001... Praxair has developed a perovskite membrane that selectively transports oxygen ions at relatively low temperature. With flux detected at approximately 600C, the membranes perform under considerably cooler conditions than conventional...

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS: Transparent Materials Make Advances.
July 1, 2001... Researchers at Oregon State University have made significant advances in the emerging science of transparent electronics, creating transparent "p-type" semiconductors that have more than 200 times the conductivity of the best materials...

Transistor Made from Carbon Nanotubes.
July 1, 2001... IBM scientists developed a breakthrough transistor technology that could preview how computer chips can be made smaller and faster than what is currently possible with silicon. As reported in the April 27 issue of the journal Science, IBM...

Applied Materials Adds Products.
July 1, 2001... Applied Materials, Inc. has announced a new addition to its Ultima HDP-CVD product family that targets next-generation gap-fill for advanced STI, IMD, and PMD applications. The new Ultima X(TM) system is the first HDP-CVD solution to support...

World's Smallest Bluetooth Module.
July 1, 2001... Murata Electronics North America has introduced Blue Module, the world's smallest Bluetooth module. Developed using unique low- temperature co-fired ceramics (LTCC) technology. Murata integrates both active devices (IC's) and passive components...

Ramtron Gets Big FRAM Orders.
July 1, 2001... Ramtron International Corp., a leading developer of specialty semiconductor memory products, has announced that it has received an additional $1.6 million in FRAM product orders from a subcontractor that manufactures products designed by...

World's Smallest Ceramic Duplexer.
July 1, 2001... CTS Corporation (NYSE:CTS), an innovator in wireless handset component, has introduced the smallest WCDMA (Wide-Band Code Division Multiple Access) ceramic duplexer currently available. This miniduplexer, Model KFF6669A, measures only 9.8 by...

SUPERCONDUCTORS: LANL Dedicates Research Park.
July 1, 2001... Los Alamos National Laboratory's new industrial research park has been officially dedicated and is open for business. Among the park's first occupants is Motorola, which has placed a number of personnel at the facility. This new research...

Contract for Tunable Filter Technology.
July 1, 2001... Conductus, Inc., announced that it has been awarded follow-on funding from the Office of Naval Research to further develop advanced tunable filter technology under the FAME (Frequency Agile Materials for Electronics) program sponsored by the...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Lucent Deals with Deutsche Telekom.
July 1, 2001... Deutsche Telekom AG has selected Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) to supply 1.5 million kilometers of optical fiber in a 3-yr., multimillion-dollar deal. Lucent will deliver single-mode fiber and its award winning AllWave fiber. The Lucent...

USG Files for Chapter 11.
July 1, 2001... USG Corp., a supplier of raw materials for the ceramic and construction industry, has announced today that it filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code to manage the growing asbestos litigation...

MEETINGS: CERS Announces Meetings Schedule.
July 1, 2001... The American Ceramic Society (ACerS) will hold the following meetings through 2001: ACerS Whitewares and Materials Division and Canadian Ceramic Society Fall Meeting, Toronto, Canada, September 23-25; Pac Rim 4: an International Conference on...

CALENDAR.
July 1, 2001... September 9-13, 2001. 7th Conference and Exhibition of the European Ceramic Society, Oud Sint Jan Congrescentrum, Brugge, Belgium. Contact: Belgian Ceramic Society, 4 Avenue Gouverneur Cornez, B-7000 Mons, Belgium; Tel: +32 65-403454, Fax: 32...