High Tech Ceramics News articles from July 2002

High Tech Ceramics News archives from July 2002

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: Profits in Iron-Based Powders.
July 1, 2002... Iron metal powders and iron-based alloy powders such as steel are manufactured by several methods in higher quantities than any other metals. Costs are lower because their mineral source is abundant in nature and manufacturing, and because of...

PROCESSING AND TECHNOLOGIES Ceradyne's Inserts Receive Approval.
July 1, 2002... Ceradyne, Inc., announced that its new design for its ceramic small-arms protective inserts (SAPI) lightweight ceramic armor received First Article approval and production authorization from the U.S. Defense Supply Center in Philadelphia, the...

Hardener for Zircar Sheet Products.
July 1, 2002... Zircar Refractory Composites, Inc., has introduced a Zircar Al- Hard rigidizer/hardener. The new hardener can be used to increase the hardness of Zircar refractory sheet products. Al-Hard is composed of aluminum oxide and phosphoric acid in...

METROLOGY AND ANALYSIS: Ceramic Technology Streamlines Inspection.
July 1, 2002... Scientists and engineers at the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, working with the University of Dayton Research Institute, identified an efficient, cost-effective means for improving one of the inspection processes for turbine engine...

Brookhaven Launches Photodiode Option.
July 1, 2002... Brookhaven Instruments recently launched a photodiode detector option for its 90Plus particle size analyzer, enabling it to detect particles with hydrodynamic radii as small as 1.5 nm. The BI-APD avalanche photodiode detector has more than 10...

POWDERS AND NANO CERAMICS Clearing Arsenic from Drinking Water.
July 1, 2002... Altair International, Inc., d/b/a/ Altair Nanotechnologies (NASDAQ: ALTI) has entered into an agreement with the University of Nevada, Reno, to prepare advanced drinking water purification materials. These materials will be made using Altair's...

Nanophase Awarded Dispersion Patent.
July 1, 2002... Nanophase Technologies Corp. filed a U.S. patent application titled, "Process for Preparing Nanostructured Materials of Controlled Surface Chemistry." The application details a novel approach for plasma nanoparticle processes to prepare...

Motorola, DA NanoMaterials Market Slurry Formulation.
July 1, 2002... Motorola's semiconductor products sector (SPS) and DuPont Air Products NanoMaterials, LLC, plan to collaborate on an advanced copper chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) formulation. Motorola will provide its CMP formulation for 0.13- to...

COATINGS: Laser-Assisted Molecular Deposition.
July 1, 2002... AMBP Tech Corporation has made revolutionary discoveries of chemical reactions within gas-phase clusters utilizing state-of- the-art mass spectrometric techniques. New chemical reactions can occur within the environment of a molecular...

FIBERS AND COMPOSITES: Nanofiber Composites for Aerospace Uses.
July 1, 2002... Scientists at the Air Force Research Laboratory's Materials and Manufacturing Directorate (ML) are developing a cost-effective way of producing carbon nanofiber composites, which can be used to build military and commercial aerospace...

DIAMOND PRODUCTS: Norton to Exhibit Grinding Wheels.
July 1, 2002... Norton Abrasives will exhibit at the IMTS show in September its BRGi vitrified grinding wheels with XG low-pressure abrasive grain. These precision wheels are designed for internal diameter and bore grinding. The new XG micro fracturing...

BIOCERAMICS: Glass Can Repair Bone.
July 1, 2002... Arthritis sufferers may soon find relief from an unlikely source: glass. Researchers at the University of Missouri-Rolla are developing special glasses that could be used to repair bone and microscopic glass spheres that could be injected into...

ADVANCED GLASSES: Hoya Launches Semiconductor Unit.
July 1, 2002... Hoya Corp., a major advanced glass products manufacturer, has announced to establish a new company, Hoya Advanced Semiconductor Technologies Co., Ltd., at Akishuma-shi, Tokyo, for development and production of silicon carbide wafer as well as...

FUEL CELLS: Fuel Cell Powers Electric Motor.
July 1, 2002... Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc., announced a successful series of its advanced solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) test demonstrations. The first series of tests of the company's SOFC were held on March 28, 2002, and produced electricity. The second...

SMP Announces Two NIST ATP Awards.
July 1, 2002... Superior MicroPowders, LLC (SMP), has announced receiving two NIST ATP (National Institute of Standards and Technology Advanced Technology Program) awards for the development of high-volume manufacturing of next generation membrane electrode...

FILTERS AND MEMBRANES LANL Seeks to Leapfrog PEM.
July 1, 2002... Membrane-based, precious-metal-free alkaline fuel cells may "leapfrog" proton exchange membrane fuel cell technology, transcending first-generation design hurdles and achieving significant operational cost reductions. Los Alamos National...

CARBON NANOTUBES: Actuators and Force Sensors Proposed.
July 1, 2002... Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Pasadena, CA) have proposed to develop bimorph actuators and force sensors based on carbon nanotubes. The proposed devices could make it possible to generate, sense, and control displacements and...

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS Dow Corning's CVD Products.
July 1, 2002... Dow Corning Corp. has announced the introduction of three new chemical vapor deposition (CVD) precursors-Z4MS(TM), ZTOMCATS(TM), and Z2DM(TM). Dow Corning's introduction of these products demonstrates a continued effort to innovate solutions...

Nanowires Get Their Stripes.
July 1, 2002... Today's top computer chips can cram about 40 million transistors onto a square of silicon no bigger than a postage stamp. That same size chip, however, might hold billions of transistors in the future world of nanometer-sized devices. A...

FRAM Memory for China's Meters.
July 1, 2002... Ramtron International Corp. (NASDAQ: RMTR) has announced that six of the largest utility meter manufacturers in China have selected the company's ferroelectric random access memory (FRAM) for use in a variety of single- and triple-phase...

Richardson to Carry AVX's RF Products.
July 1, 2002... Richardson Electronics signed an agreement with AVX, an international supplier of passive electronic components, to become a specialty distributor in North America. Under the terms of this agreement, Richardson's RF Wireless Group will assume...

Cree Awarded Government Contracts.
July 1, 2002... Cree, Inc. (NASDAQ: CREE), has announced that the Office of Naval Research (ONR) has awarded Cree two contracts, with a total value of approximately $14.4 million, as part of the Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Technology Initiative of the Defense...

Vishay Intertechnology Releases Products.
July 1, 2002... Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE: VSH), has released a new, thick film chip resistor, new silicon NPN planar RF transistors, and a new surface-mount infrared receiver module. The new Vishay CRCW0201 thick film rectangular chip resistor is...

SUPERCONDUCTORS AMSC Achieves New Record.
July 1, 2002... American Superconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: AMSC), a leading global supplier of superconductor products and power electronic converters for the electric power industry, has announced that its commercial power quality superconductor magnetic energy...

SCI Engineered Materials Established.
July 1, 2002... Superconductive Components, Inc. (OTCBB: SCCI), has announced a new corporate structure with SCI Engineered Materials becoming the sole operating unit of the company. Target Materials, Inc., and SCI Division, previously separate divisions of...

INDUSTRY NEWS: CoorsTek Wins Assembly Contracts.
July 1, 2002... CoorsTek, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRTK), a leading designer and manufacturer of critical components and integrated assemblies for the semiconductor capital equipment industry and other high-technology markets, has announced that it has signed a multiyear...

U.S. Committed to Small Things.
July 1, 2002... Small stuff is a hot topic in Washington, and the Bush Administration has made nanotechnology a top R&D priority. President Bush has proposed a 17% increase in funding for the government-wide National Nanotechnology Initiative. The federal...

CALENDAR.
July 1, 2002... August 1-2, 2002, Intl. Workshop on Processing and Applications of Superconductors, Gatlinburg, TN. Contact: Materials Research Society, 506, Keystone Dr., Warrendale PA 15086-7573; Tel: 724/779-3003, Fax: 724/779-8313; Email: info@mrs.org. ...