High Tech Ceramics News articles from July 2005

High Tech Ceramics News archives from July 2005

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: Remember to Watch Non-Volatile Memory.
July 1, 2005... The worldwide semiconductor memory market is characterized by rapidly evolving technology, continuous reduction in process, increasing competition, and a rapid move towards nanotechnology. Chip sizes are shrinking and memory content increasing....

METROLOGY AND ANALYSIS: Horiba Introduces New Analyzers.
July 1, 2005... Horiba Instruments Inc. has introduced its DT-300 zeta potential analyzer, which allows high-precision measurements (+/- 0.1mV) at concentrations of up to 70% by volume, eliminating the dilution required by light-based methods. The probe type...

STRUCTURAL CERAMICS: Smart Ceramics Replace Steel Elbows.
July 1, 2005... The Smart Elbow from process equipment manufacturer HammerTek Corp., Landisville, Pa., has enabled global ceramics manufacturer Carbo Ceramics, Eufaula, Ala., to slash maintenance costs and recapture lost productivity by eliminating troublesome...

POWDERS AND NANO CERAMICS: Rutgers, NEI Establish Nano Cooperative.
July 1, 2005... Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and NEI Corp., a proven provider of nanoengineered materials, have established a cooperative research program in nanotechnology with an Indian government research and development center. Under the...

New Materials from Nanophase Tech.
July 1, 2005... Nanophase Technologies, a technology leader in nanomaterials and nanoengineered products, announced the commercial availability of nanocrystalline iron oxide from its patented NanoArc Synthesis process. NanoArc Iron Oxide is available in two...

IVM Processing Brown Fused Aluminum Oxide.
July 1, 2005... Located about 90 miles west of Chicago, Ill., Illinois Valley Minerals (IVM) is the world's newest processor of refined brown fused aluminum oxide. IVM has installed state-of-the-art crushing, screening and process control equipment for...

FIBERS AND COMPOSITES: Marketing Carbon Fiber Furnace Systems.
July 1, 2005... According to a release from Harper International, the company has received orders from around the world for carbon fiber furnace systems, and the company is currently supplying these systems on three continents. Carbon fiber usage has surged...

DIAMOND PRODUCTS: AIST Develops n-Type Semiconductor.
July 1, 2005... As a semiconductor, diamond is characterized by high mobility of electrons and holes, and by very small difference between mobility of the two carriers, promising a wide spectrum of applications in electron devices. In particular, the...

ADVANCED GLASSESS: EGP's Gerhardinger Earns 8th U.S. Patent.
July 1, 2005... Engineered Glass Products has announced its latest patent, a vacuum insulated quartz glass heater assembly provided for heating fluids and solids. Pete Gerhardinger, VP of technology at EGP, and his engineering team created the assembly to...

BATTERIES AND FUEL CELLS: Altair Receives SBIR Phase II NSF Grant.
July 1, 2005... Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. has been awarded a SBIR Phase II grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The grant of $476,850, titled "Carbon-Coated Nano-Structured Electrodes for Next-Generation Lithium-Ion Batteries," will be used...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Nextech Awarded SBIR to Develop Solar Cell.
July 1, 2005... NexTech Materials, Ltd. is the recipient of a USDA Phase I SBIR to develop a novel biomimetic dye-sensitized solar cell. This project allows NexTech to leverage years of experience producing advanced nanomaterials for alternative energy...

CALENDAR.
July 1, 2005... Sept. 11-16, 2005, 6th Pacific Rim Conference on Ceramic & Glass Technology, Maui, Hawaii, Contact: American Ceramic Society, P.O. Box 6136, Westerville, OH 43086-6136, Tel: 614/890-4700, Fax: 614/899-6109, E-mail: customersrvc@acers.org ...

OPTICAL AND PHOTONIC MATERIALS: Nanophotonic Technology Comes A Few Steps Closer.
July 1, 2005... One day our electronic technology, which is based on the manipulation of electrons, could be supplanted by photonics, which is based on the manipulation of light waves (photons). If the promise of photonic technology is realized, the high-speed...

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS: AVX X8R Capacitors Stand the Heat.
July 1, 2005... AVX Corp. (NYSE: AVX), a leading manufacturer of passive components, is developing a range of capacitors specially designed for high temperature applications such as under-hood sensors for the automotive industry and parts used in oil...

Cree Awarded Navy Contract.
July 1, 2005... Cree, Inc. announced that it has been awarded a $12 million contract by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to develop silicon carbide (SiC)-based high voltage, high power electronic devices and power modules that can significantly reduce the...

A Model for Quantum Dots.
July 1, 2005... Quantum dots, tiny crystals consisting of a few hundred to a few thousand atoms, sparkle with promise for uses ranging from tagging proteins in living cells to foiling counterfeiters to enabling quantum computers. The optics and electronics of...

UMC Engineers Improve Oxynitride Gate.
July 1, 2005... Foundry chipmaker United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) claims that its R&D team has reduced the so-called Equivalent Oxide Thickness (EOT) of nitrogen doped silicon oxide (Oxy-nitride, SiON) gate dielectrics to approximately 1.0 nanometer using...

SUPERCONDUCTORS: AMSC Goes For The Long Haul.
July 1, 2005... American Superconductor Corp. announced that it has successfully produced the world's first 20-meter-long strips of 4-centimeter (cm) wide second generation (2G) high temperature superconductor (HTS) material in a continuous reel-to-reel...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Nextech Awarded SBIR to Develop Solar Cell.
July 1, 2005... NexTech Materials, Ltd. is the recipient of a USDA Phase I SBIR to develop a novel biomimetic dye-sensitized solar cell. This project allows NexTech to leverage years of experience producing advanced nanomaterials for alternative energy...

TECHNOLOGY INSIGHT: Ceramic Generates Electric Power from Waste Heat.
July 1, 2005... Contributed by Research Institute for Ubiquitous Energy Devices (RIUED) of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 1-3-1, Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku,Tokyo, 100- 8921, Japan. The Research Institute for...

Finding Solutions.
July 1, 2005... Japan has asked its researchers to find best solutions for the stable supply of energy and the global- environmental issues, while keeping the economic growth. The annual consumption of primary energy in Japan is hundreds thousands kiloliters...

Thermoelectric Module.
July 1, 2005... The thermoelectric module is made of p- and n-type oxides connected alternately in series, as illustrated in Fig. 1. Connecting a lot of materials is inevitable as a unicouple generates a voltage 100 mV or so at the highest, however great the...

Thermoelectric Power Generation.
July 1, 2005... A disconnection or enhanced electrical resistance at any of these junctions may reduce electrical energy deliverable from the module. As the thermoelectric module generates electric power on the basis of temperature differences, failure may be...

WHO'S WHO: Promoting Net Shape Solutions in Advanced Ceramics.
July 1, 2005... High Tech Ceramics News interviewed Dave Bobrek, President and CEO of Blasch Precision Ceramics. Bobrek graduated from Fredonia State University of NY in 1973 and went on get masters degree at Syracuse University in 1975 and PMD from Harvard...

BUSINESS NEWS: Virginia Tech Awarded Funding.
July 1, 2005... Peizhen Kathy Lu, assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Virginia Tech, has been awarded a Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities to advance her research to add electrical...

PERSONNEL.
July 1, 2005... Ceradyne Names Gerk Operations VP. Ceradyne, Inc. announced that Alvin Gerk, Ph.D., has been promoted to the corporate position of vice president operations. A seven-year Ceradyne veteran, Gerk has been responsible for the bulk of Ceradyne's...

FINANCIAL.
July 1, 2005... STI Expects Higher Revenues. Superconductor Technologies Inc., a provider of high performance infrastructure products for wireless voice and data applications, has announced that its preliminary revenue for the second quarter of 2005, which...