High Tech Ceramics News articles from March 2001

High Tech Ceramics News archives from March 2001

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: Dielectrics to Cross $2.4 billion by 2005.
March 1, 2001... Good fences make good neighbors-especially when the available real estate is limited. For more than 30 years, silicon dioxide (SiO2) has been the versatile dielectric "fence" material of choice for the semiconductor device industry, providing...

PROCESSING AND TECHNOLOGIES Aremco Offers Ceramcast 646.
March 1, 2001... Aremco Products, Inc. has introduced Ceramacast 646, a new high temperature ceramic potting. The new product is a hydraulic- setting, zirconium oxide based compound ideal for encapsulating and potting high temperature electrical components such...

METROLOGY AND ANALYSIS: Zetaprobe from Colloidal Dynamics.
March 1, 2001... Colloidal Dynamics has introduced the ZetaProbe zeta potential analyzer. The new analyzer does not require any dilution or sample preparation. Samples can be measured directly at concentrations up to 50% volume. The versatile dip probe sensor...

POWDERS AND NANOCERAMICS Faster, Cheaper Better Nanoparticles.
March 1, 2001... A mechanical engineer at Washington University in St. Louis has developed a patented technology that makes nanoparticles smaller, faster, cleaner, and cheaper than existing commercial processes. Richard L. Axelbaum, Ph.D., Washington University...

SMP Granted Phosphor Patent.
March 1, 2001... Superior MicroPowders, LLC (SMP) has been granted a broad-based U.S. patent pertaining to oxide-based phosphor powders for the display industry. SMP's newly issued patent, U.S. No. 6,180,029, entitled "Oxygen-containing phosphor powders,...

Tosoh Doubles Zirconia Capacity.
March 1, 2001... Tosoh Corp. will double its production capacity for zirconia powders to 1,300 tons per year. Work on the expansion project at Tosoh's Nanyo complex is scheduled to begin in the spring with completion expected by autumn of this year. Tosoh...

Nanocrystal Comes Down to Earth.
March 1, 2001... A University of Arkansas research team has created semiconductor nanocrystals made from materials that are said to be inexpensive and non-volatile. Such nanocrystals could be used in semiconductor, energy storage, optoelectronics, and medical...

BIOCERAMICS: Ceramic Femoral Knee Replacement.
March 1, 2001... Encore Orthopedics, Inc., the primary operating subsidiary of Encore Medical Corp. (Nasdaq: ENMC), has been granted approval by the Food and Drug Administration to conduct a feasibility clinical study on a ceramic femoral knee component used in...

Ceramic Knee Gets FDA Approval.
March 1, 2001... The FDA has just approved for general use a new ceramic total knee replacement after more than two years of clinical trials at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in Manhattan. The new knee offers relief to younger patients in their late 40s to...

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS Air Force Contract Goes to EDO.
March 1, 2001... EDO Corp. (NYSE:EDO) has announced that it has been awarded a $4.9 million contract from the Air Force for 70 field test simulator (FTS) test sets, to be delivered in the next 15 months, including options for up to 890 units through 2005. The...

Smaller, More Powerful Chips.
March 1, 2001... British scientists at the University of Surrey say they have found a way to get silicon to emit light, making it possible to build smaller and more powerful microchips than ever. Modern telecom networks use light to send signals down optical...

CTS Wins $30 Million Award.
March 1, 2001... CTS Corp. (NYSE:CTS), a world leader in automotive position sensor and actuator technology, has announced that CTS Automotive Products (Elkhart, IN) has been chosen by a tier 1 automotive supplier to provide electrical actuators for a global...

World's First SiC Power Semiconductors.
March 1, 2001... Infineon Technologies is the world's first manufacturer of power semiconductors producing Schottky diodes based on silicon carbide (SiC) technology. Compared with conventional power diodes in silicon or gallium arsenide technology, SiC Schottky...

MOSFETs Break Performance Records.
March 1, 2001... A series of new TrenchFETs that set records for on-resistance in the tiny LITTLE FOOT SC-89 and SC-75 packages were introduced by Siliconix, Inc., an 80.4%-owned subsidiary of Vishay Intertechnology. The smallest MOSFETs on the market, the new...

SUPERCONDUCTORS: Japanese Team Achieves Magnesium Diboride.
March 1, 2001... Jun Akimitsu and colleagues of Aoyama-Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan, reported that magnesium diboride, a cheap, "off-the-shelf" chemical compound, can be made into a superconductor. Akimitsu and colleagues have found that magnesium...

Plastic as a Competitor to Ceramic?
March 1, 2001... Scientists from Bell Labs, the research and development arm of Lucent Technologies, have created the world's first plastic material in which resistance to the flow of electricity vanishes below a certain temperature, making it a superconductor....

New Orders for ISCO.
March 1, 2001... ISCO International (AKA: Illinois Superconductor Corp.) announced that it is planning to deliver 140 adaptive notch filter (ANF) systems to Bell Mobility, the wireless subsidiary of Bell Canada. The value of the order is in excess of US$1...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Corning Changes Earnings Estimate.
March 1, 2001... Concerns about a possible glut of liquid crystal display (LCD) screens led glass and fiber optics maker Corning, Inc. to widen the range of its first-quarter earnings forecast, chair and chief executive John Loose said recently. Loose, speaking...

Kyocera Expects Higher Earnings.
March 1, 2001... Kyocera Corp. recently bucked the trend among Japan's big electronics makers for profit warnings by boosting its earnings outlook for the year to March. The company, which specializes in fine ceramics and ceramic packages for chips, raised its...

MINTEQ to Acquire Refractory Business.
March 1, 2001... Minerals Technologies, Inc. says that its wholly owned subsidiary MINTEQ International, Inc. has signed an agreement to purchase the refractories business component of Martin Marietta Magnesia Specialties, Inc., which is a wholly owned...

Companies Report Quarterly Earnings.
March 1, 2001... Here are some filings from the past month: *Intermagnetics General Corp. (Amex: IMG), reached another record high in quarterly revenues, with second-quarter net income more than doubled to $3.1 million, or $0.19 per diluted share, from $1.5...

MEETINGS: World Ceramic Expo 2001 Korea.
March 1, 2001... The World Ceramic Exposition 2001 Korea (WOCEK) will be held from August 10 to October 28 concurrently in Ichon, Yoju and Kwangju, Korea. WOCEK is a nonprofit, international cultural festival celebrating the past, present, and future of ceramic...

CALENDAR.
March 1, 2001... April 16-20, 2001, MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Contact: MRS, Warrendale, PA 15086-7573; Tel: 724/779-3003, Fax: 724/779- 8313, Email info@mrs.org April 21-26, 2001, Society of Vacuum Coaters Forty-fourth Annual Technical...