High Tech Ceramics News articles from May 2003

High Tech Ceramics News archives from May 2003

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: Faster Growth for Nano Ceramics.
May 1, 2003... Advanced ceramic materials constitute a mature technology with a very broad base of current and potential applications and a growing list of material compositions. These include inorganic, nonmetallic materials with combinations of fine-scale...

PROCESSING AND TECHNOLOGIES CeramTec Gets Facility Certifications.
May 1, 2003... CeramTec North America recently announced successful re- certifications at both of its U.S.-based manufacturing sites. This includes ISO-9001:2000 International Standard at the company's New Lebanon Operations (Ceramaseal Division) and...

Oxide Nano-Hole Array Developed.
May 1, 2003... S. Yamanaka and his research group at the Department of Nuclear Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University in Suita-shi, Osaka have succeeded in developing a very simple preparation technology at a room temperature of the...

Simula Receives Armor Contracts.
May 1, 2003... Simula, Inc. (AMEX: SMU), designs and makes armors and systems that save human lives. Simula has announced the receipt of a $9 million order for its small arms protective insert (SAPI) body armor. The new order was received from the U.S. Army's...

Microwave Absorbing Material Debuts.
May 1, 2003... San Jose Delta Assoc., Inc. is an integrated manufacturer of oxide materials, including Alumina, Beryllia, and ALN, specializing in precision diamond grinding, polishing, and assembly of hard non- metallic materials for commercial and military...

Cut-Off Wheels Introduced.
May 1, 2003... Carborundum's new Premier RedCut cut-off wheels are manufactured with premium performance zirconia alumina and aluminum oxide abrasive grain in a free-cutting bond structure. According to Saint-Gobain Carborundum Abrasives, in-field and...

Ceradyne Awarded Radome Contract.
May 1, 2003... Ceradyne, Inc. has been awarded initial facilitation and qualification funding of approximately $600,000 by the Boeing Co. and Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI). This award is related to production of the ceramic radome (nose cone) assembly for...

METROLOGY AND ANALYSIS: Zetasizer Nano Series for Ceramics.
May 1, 2003... Malvern Instruments has introduced Zetasizer Nano series, which combines the technologies to simplify the measurement of particle size, zeta potential, and molecular weight of molecules and nanosized particles. Its features include the ability...

Matec Offers Software for SAM.
May 1, 2003... Matec Micro Electronics (MME) has introduced its new MI-SCAN scanning acoustic microscope (SAM) last year and since then has built a library of analysis software. Features of the software include an auto dynamic contrast control button; signal...

POWDERS AND NANO CERAMICS Nanophase Offers Rare Earths.
May 1, 2003... Nanophase Technologies Corp. announced additions to its family of NanoArc nanomaterials, the first commercial nanoscale availability of an innovative family of high surface area, very pure nanocrystalline rare earth oxides. NanoArc...

Congress Approves Nanotechnology Bill.
May 1, 2003... The U.S. House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved oversight legislation authorizing a national nanotechnology R&D program. By a vote of 405-19, House members approved a 3-year spending plan totaling $2.36 billion for nanotechnology...

NANOTUBES: NASA Innovates in Computers.
May 1, 2003... The life of the silicon chip industry may last 10 or more years longer, thanks to a new manufacturing process developed by NASA scientists. The novel method, announced in the April 14 issue of the journal Applied Physics Letters, includes...

COATINGS: Coating Insulates Magnetic Fields.
May 1, 2003... At the recent NanoBio Convergence conference organized by BCC in Stamford, Connecticut, Michael Wiener from Biophan presented a medical application of a nanosized coating containing both Al and Fe. This coating was developed as a spin-off of...

ADVANCED GLASSES: No More Conventional TV Glass for Corning.
May 1, 2003... Corning, Inc., the largest maker of fiber optic cable for telecommunications, has announced that it would stop making glass for conventional television screens in North America because of competition from lower-cost imports and weak demand. ...

Better Glass in Space.
May 1, 2003... It's easy: mix together some materials like sand, limestone, and soda. Heat them above 2,000F and then cool the incandescent liquid carefully so that crystals cannot form. That's how you make glass. Craftsmen on Earth have followed this basic...

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS: MIT Scientist Proposes Pizoceramic Applications.
May 1, 2003... Although there have been many fanciful applications involving piezoceramics functioning as relatively large scale actuators, frequently the power supplies required and the limited range of these materials have been daunting constraints. In...

Vishay Boosts Resistor Capacity.
May 1, 2003... Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. announced that it has increased its capacity for packaged standard and custom thin-film resistor networks beyond levels in February 2002, when fire struck the company's Electro-Films, Inc. facility in Warwick, Rhode...

CoorsTek Develops Substrate Technology.
May 1, 2003... CoorsTek, Inc. has announced that it now offers MidFilm ceramic substrates, which promise near thin-film printing performance at prices much closer to traditional thick-film substrates. The new technology uses the same lower-cost manufacturing...

NEC Selects Applied Materials.
May 1, 2003... NEC Electronics Corp. has selected Applied Materials, Inc.'s Black Diamond and BLOk (Barrier low-k) dielectric films for manufacturing NEC's UX6 chips. NEC developed UX6 90-nm process technology to enable next-generation, low-power ASIC designs...

AMAT Awarded Detection Patent.
May 1, 2003... Applied Materials, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) has been granted U.S. Patent 6,537,133 entitled the "Method for In Situ Endpoint Detection for Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) Operations." This endpoint technology is used in the manufacturing of...

Material Boasts High Q Performance.
May 1, 2003... According to Temex, its E7000 series of high frequency ceramic materials offers twice the performance of the company's previous materials over the 8- to 15-GHz frequency range. The high Q materials exhibit a QF of 200,000 to 250,000 at 10...

Global Chip Sales Top $12 B in March.
May 1, 2003... Worldwide semiconductor sales climbed to $12.1 billion in March 2003, a 2.6% sequential increase from the $11.8 billion in revenue reported in February. For 1Q03, industry sales were $36.4 billion, a 3.2% sequential decline from the final...

SUPERCONDUCTORS: Eightfold Quantum States in HTc.
May 1, 2003... Researchers based at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have used a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to reveal eightfold patterns of quasiparticle interference in the high-temperature...

AMSC Completes Motor Tests.
May 1, 2003... American Superconductor Corp. announced the successful completion of no-load factory testing for the world's first high-temperature superconductor (HTS) electric ship propulsion motor. The company's ultra-compact HTS motors are as much as half...

INDUSTRY NEWS: EDO Awarded Navy Antenna Contract.
May 1, 2003... EDO Corp. (NYSE: EDO) has received an initial $3.6 million contract from Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) to manufacture radar antenna equipment. The antennas will be used on the U.S. Navy's Arleigh Burke DDG-51 class guided-missile...

Kyocera America Relocates Operation.
May 1, 2003... Kyocera America, Inc. has announced that it plans to move its Beaverton, Oregon, low-temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) manufacturing operations into its 288,000-square-foot main manufacturing facility in San Diego, California. "Relocating the...

AMK Reports Flat Sales.
May 1, 2003... American Technical Ceramics (AMEX Symbol: AMK), a leading manufacturer of high-performance electronic components, including capacitors and thin film circuits for a broad range of commercial and military applications, today announced financial...

AVX Sales Turn Down.
May 1, 2003... AVX Corp. reported that net sales were $261.2 million in the fourth quarter ended March 31, 2003, and $1,134.1 million for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2003. Chief executive officer and president, John Gilbertson, states, "Sales were down...

Cree Swings Quarterly Profit.
May 1, 2003... Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) has reported quarterly revenue for its fiscal year 2003 third quarter of $60,223,000, an 80% increase over the $33,376,000 reported in the comparable quarter in the year-ago period. Net income for the third quarter...

CTS Continues Profitable Performance.
May 1, 2003... CTS Corp. announced first-quarter 2003 results, with diluted earnings per share of $0.02, $0.01 better than consensus estimate. First-quarter revenues were $105.8 million, down 6% from the first quarter of 2002. The decline in sales from the...

STI Revenues Up in Quarter.
May 1, 2003... Superconductor Technologies Inc, announced final results for its first quarter ended March 29, 2003. According to STI, the company met previously announced expectations, posting first-quarter revenues of $7.6 million compared with $4.6 million...

CALENDAR.
May 1, 2003... July 20-26, 2003. Tenth International Conference on Composites and Nano Engineering, New Orleans, LA. Contact: David Hui, University of New Orleans, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, New Orleans, LA 70148; Tel: 504/280-6652, Fax: 504/280-6192;...