High Tech Ceramics News articles from July 2004

High Tech Ceramics News archives from July 2004

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS Nanofilms to Gain Market Share.
July 1, 2004... Surface modification has earned an important role in the current technological world. Over the past three decades, surfaces and their coatings have improved the performance of, or protected new and existing products. Techniques usually include...

PROCESSING AND TECHNOLOGIES Substrate for Advanced Uses.
July 1, 2004... CeramTec has a new substrate, Rubalit HSS, the newest aluminum oxide ceramic substrate, among the company's line of ceramic substrates. Rubalit HSS substrates offer extremely high strength and elasticity along with outstanding thermal...

Secret for Making Porous Materials.
July 1, 2004... UniStates, LLC has revealed its secret method for making porous materials with beaded preforms. The beads are like pearls on a necklace and form voids inside products during manufacturing. Putting the voids inside makes a vast number of...

Zircar Introduces New Products.
July 1, 2004... ZircarR Refractory Composites, Inc. has introduced a refractory sheet type RSLE-501 cylinder. The new product incorporates low- expansion, high-strength reinforced silica matrix composites in a cylindrical form. The material was designed as a...

Moly Disilicide Heating Elements.
July 1, 2004... M. E. SCHUPP Industriekeramik GmbH & Co KG has extended its range of electric heating elements for industrial furnaces, ceramic kilns, and sintering equipment. A new member of the MolyCom series is the MolyTec 1600 Fibre Heater Panel. MolyTec...

METROLOGY AND ANALYSIS Software for Nano Research.
July 1, 2004... Malvern Instruments has announced the launch of a new Research Software package for its Zetasizer Nano series of particle characterization systems which measure the size, zeta potential and molecular weight of nanometer-size particles and...

POWDERS AND NANO CERAMICS: Altair Nanotechnologies Receives NSF Grant.
July 1, 2004... Altair Nanotechnologies announced it has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), effective July 1, 2004. Under terms of the grant award, Altair will initially receive $100,000 for work to be completed within six months...

Collaboration on Ingredients Project.
July 1, 2004... Huber Engineered Materials, a business unit of J.M. Huber Corporation, and Nanophase Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: NANX), a leading developer and manufacturer of engineered nanomaterials, have agreed to collaborate in projects directed at...

Cabot, NanoProducts in Alliance.
July 1, 2004... Cabot Microelectronics Corporation (NASDAQ: CCMP), the leading supplier of chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) polishing slurries to the semiconductor industry, has announced today that it has entered into a strategic alliance with...

Nanograined Polycrystalline Alumina Prepared.
July 1, 2004... Polycrystalline alumina (PCA) has great potential for providing aerothermal performance comparable to or better than single- crystal sapphire, yet offers the opportunity for low-cost powder based manufacturing. High density, large grain-sized...

COATINGS: Chameleon Coatings React to Environment.
July 1, 2004... Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have received a $1 million grant, as part of a $2.5 million joint research project with the University of Florida, to develop a new generation of synthetic lubricant coatings for future aircraft...

ADVANCED GLASSES: Device Protects from Enemy Lasers.
July 1, 2004... An enemy laser beam can reach and blind a pilot or soldier in about a billionth of a second. University of Central Florida (UCF) researchers are trying to develop an eyeglass-like device that would react quickly enough to prevent such beams...

BIOCERAMICS: Sol-Gel Coatings for Orthopedic Applications.
July 1, 2004... Hydroxyapatite (HA) coated titanium has been used for orthopedic implants. Plasma spray deposition of hydroxyapatite (HA) into a titanium implant involves high temperatures that may decrease HA crystallinity, induce cracks in the coating, and...

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS: Cree Introduces Linear LDMOS Transistors.
July 1, 2004... Cree Microwave, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cree, Inc. introduced a range of products in Linear Pulsed Metal Oxide Semiconductor (LDMOS) transistor at the 2004 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium being held at the Fort Worth...

Second KEMET China Facility.
July 1, 2004... Following the successful start-up of KEMET Corps first production facility in Suzhou, China, the ground breaking was recently held for its second Suzhou facility, initially announced in November 2003. Components produced in this facility will...

Micro Hotplate Heats Up.
July 1, 2004... Boston Micropsystems engineers have created a miniature hotplate that can reach temperatures above 1100C (2012F), self-contained within a "laboratory" no bigger than a child's shoe. The micro- hotplates are only a few dozen microns across...

Ramtron Intros High-Speed FRAM.
July 1, 2004... Ramtron International Corp., a supplier of nonvolatile ferroelectric semiconductor products, announced the availability of the FM25L256, a 256-Kilobit (Kb) 3-volt nonvolatile ferroelectric random access memory (FRAM) product with a serial...

SUPERCONDUCTORS HTS Coil Powers Maglev Train.
July 1, 2004... American Superconductor Corp., a electricity solutions company, announced that Central Japan Railway Co. successfully utilized AMSC's high temperature superconductor (HTS) wire in a prototype electromagnetic coil designed for use as the lifting...

IMGC Superpower Begins Construction.
July 1, 2004... Intermagnetics General Corp's Energy Technology subsidiary, SuperPower, Inc., has launched the construction phase for a 350- meter high-temperature superconducting (HTS) cable that will run between two Niagara Mohawk substations in Albany, New...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Ceradyne to Acquire ESK Ceramics.
July 1, 2004... Ceradyne, Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire ESK Ceramics (ESK) for approximately 111.4 million Euros, or approximately $136 million, in cash payable at closing. Ceradyne said the purchase of Wacker Ceramics, which is known as...

Huber, Nanophase to Collaborate.
July 1, 2004... Huber Engineered Materials, a business unit of J.M. Huber Corporation, and Nanophase Technologies Corp., a developer and manufacturer of engineered nanomaterials, have agreed to collaborate in projects directed at research and development of...

Alcoa Increases Stake in Halco.
July 1, 2004... Alcoa has announced that its Alcoa World Alumina affiliate, a global alliance between Alcoa (60%) and Alumina Limited of Australia (40%), has increased its ownership stake in Halco (Mining) Inc. from 43 to 45% as part of Comalco's sale of its...

Rockwood Forms Chemical Group.
July 1, 2004... Rockwood Specialties Group, Inc., Princeton (NJ), is acquiring four businesses of Dynamit Nobel, Troisdorf (Germany), to form a new specialty chemicals group with combined revenue of $2.5 billion (2003). To create this worldwide group,...

ASTM Subcommittee Seeks Participants.
July 1, 2004... ASTM Committee C28 on Advanced Ceramics is currently seeking participation in a new subcommittee, C28.04, on Applications. According to subcommittee chair Dave Carruthers, C28.04 was established in 2003 to focus on identifying new or existing...

Companies Report Quarterly Results.
July 1, 2004... * Superconductor Technologies Inc. announced results for the first quarter ended April 3, 2004. Total net revenues for the first quarter were $5.4 million compared to $7.6 million for the year- ago first quarter. Net commercial product revenues...

CALENDAR.
July 1, 2004... September 12 - 16, 2004: 5th International Conference on High- Temperature Ceramic Matrix Composites, Red Lion Hotel, Seattle, Washington; Contact: American Ceramic Society, P.O. Box 6136, Westerville, OH 43086-6136, Tel: 614/890-4700, Fax:...