High Tech Ceramics News articles from May 2002

High Tech Ceramics News archives from May 2002

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: Growth Seen for Sol-Gel Market.
May 1, 2002... The term "sol gel" was first coined in the late 1800s. It generally refers to a low-temperature method using chemical precursors that can produce ceramics and glasses with better purity and homogeneity than high-temperature conventional...

PROCESSING AND TECHNOLOGIES PNNL Recognized for Tech Transfer.
May 1, 2002... Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have been recognized for transferring technologies that are improving inventory management, semiconductor materials, and electronic flat panel displays. The...

Ceramics Data on the Web.
May 1, 2002... Designers and manufacturing engineers aiming to exploit the high- temperature strength, superior wear resistance, and other potential advantages of ceramic materials now have a valuable free resource to consult: the National Institute of...

Ceramics Made from Wood.
May 1, 2002... The term "ecoceramics" (a contraction of "environment-conscious ceramics") denotes a class of ceramics made partly from wood-based products, which can include natural wood, sawdust, cardboard, and/or paper. In addition to the environmental...

Catalytic Materials in Heating Appliances.
May 1, 2002... Novel high-temperature (300 to 1,250C) catalytic materials supported on silica and ceramic panels have been developed. These panels play a key role in many applications in which a radiant heater is needed. Fuel-combustion based heating...

Tactile Surface Sensor Unveiled.
May 1, 2002... Sensor Products, Inc. has introduced Xsensor, a new electronic tactile force and pressure indicating sensor. Xsensor allows an engineer to monitor precisely how force is disbursed between any two contacting or mating surfaces in real time while...

METROLOGY AND ANALYSIS: Shimidzu Introduces Particle Size Analyzer.
May 1, 2002... Shimadzu Scientific Instruments has introduced its new SALD-7001 laser diffraction particle size analyzer, which is designed for measurement of superfine particles. The SALD-7001 features a violet semiconductor laser (405-nm wavelength) and...

Single-Point Surface Area Measurements.
May 1, 2002... Micromeritics has introduced a new Flowsorb III, which provides single-point surface area measurements with exceptional speed, accuracy, and reliability. Multi-point BET analysis can also be performed. Samples having surface areas from 0.01 to...

POWDERS AND NANO CERAMICS Battery Developers Using Altair's Spinel.
May 1, 2002... Altair International's subsidiary Altair Nanotechnologies (Nasdaq: ALTI) has announced that through its affiliations and partnerships with reputable battery and distribution companies in the United States, Ireland, and Japan, its nanosized...

Continuous Combustion Synthesis of Powders.
May 1, 2002... Israeli researchers have achieved the continuous combustion process for production of advanced materials by an exothermic reaction followed by spontaneous propagation of a combustion wave within initial reactantsSHS (self-propagating...

FIBERS AND COMPOSITES: Hitco Wins Defense, Aerospace Contracts.
May 1, 2002... Hitco Carbon Composites, Inc., a subsidiary of SGL Carbon Group, recently announced the award of three new contracts worth a total of $26 million in sales. Hitco will provide the Atlas V nose fairing, which will ultimately be part of the...

ADVANCED GLASSES: Superior MicroPowders Issued 14th Patent.
May 1, 2002... Superior MicroPowders, LLC has been issued U.S. Patent 6,360,562, entitled "Methods for Producing Glass Powders." It is SMP's latest and 14th U.S. patent to issue and contains 20 claims regarding manufacturing powder-based glasses of virtually...

DIAMOND PRODUCTS: Vanderbilt Researchers Fabricate DMEMS.
May 1, 2002... CVD diamond films can be processed similar to "conventional" semiconductor device fabrication and as such can be used to achieve microelectromechanical structures (MEMS) also similar to, for example, silicon technology. Very small cantilever...

Micromachining of CVD Diamond.
May 1, 2002... The excellent mechanical, electrical, thermal, and chemical properties of diamond make it a candidate material for microsensors and microstructures to be used in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). There has been a growing interest in...

BIOCERAMICS: Nanostructured Surfaces for Bio-Implants.
May 1, 2002... At the first annual meeting of the Nano-Biotech conference, hosted by BCC from May 5 to May 7, 2002, Thomas Webster of Purdue University gave a talk on nanostructured surfaces for biological implants, which generated a great deal of interest....

Ceramics-to-Metal for Medical Devices.
May 1, 2002... Morgan Advanced Ceramics (MAC), a world-leading supplier of innovative ceramic solutions for medical, telecommunications, semiconductor and aerospace markets, offers a range of products for medical devices. Designed to provide superior...

FILTERS AND MEMBRANES: Nanoscale Ceramics Flexible, Yet Strong.
May 1, 2002... Researchers at Cornell University have developed a class of nanoscale hybrid materials they describe as "flexible ceramics" that illustrate a long theorized, yet previously unmanifested, molecular configuration, a cubic bicontinuous structure....

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS Heraeus Intros Zero-Shrink LTCCs.
May 1, 2002... Heraeus has introduced the HL 2000 zero-shrink, low-temperature co-fire ceramic (LTCC) tape system. HL 2000 incorporates proprietary HeraLock (patent pending), zero-shrink materials technology, providing a means to significantly increase the...

Stackable Actuators for Vibration Generation.
May 1, 2002... If one piezoelectric unimorph is good, stacking two must be twice as good. Unfortunately, getting stacked unimorph actuators to work in harmony to combine their forces often results in inefficient devices. That is until Dynamic Structures and...

SUPERCONDUCTORS: ASC Wins Power Electronics Contract.
May 1, 2002... American Superconductor Corp. has announced that it has received a $2.9 million contract from the U.S. Navy's Office of Naval Research (ONR). Under its Advanced Electric Power Systems thrust, ONR is developing architectures for Power...

Investigating CuO2 Superconductors.
May 1, 2002... A new way of preparing copper oxide superconductors that makes it easier to probe important aspects of their behavior has been developed in a collaborative effort among Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies (Murray Hill, NJ), and other research labs....

INDUSTRY NEWS: Starfire Systems Is the Winner.
May 1, 2002... Starfire Systems, Inc., a producer of novel polymeric materials solutions for the manufacture of advanced ceramics located in the RPI Incubator, today announced that it captured the prestigious $100,000 prize for the best business plan...

Altair Nanotechnologies Completes Funding.
May 1, 2002... Altair International's subsidiary Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALTI) has announced that it has completed a $1,000,000 equity placement with two accredited institutional investors. "Our partnership with these successful, experienced...

Companies Report Quarter Results.
May 1, 2002... Ceradyne Sales Up. Ceradyne, Inc. has reported results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2002. Sales for the quarter rose 23% to a record $14.7 million from $11.9 million in the first quarter of 2001. Net income was $579,000, or $0.07 per...

CALENDAR.
May 1, 2002... July 1-5, 2002. Fuel Cell 2002 Featuring The Fuel Cell World and Fifth European SOFC Forum, Lucerne, Switzerland. Contact: European Fuel Cell Forum, Morgenacherstrasse 2F, CH - 5452 Oberrohrdorf, Schweiz, Switzerland; Tel: +41-56-496-7292, Fax:...