High Tech Ceramics News articles from May 2005

High Tech Ceramics News archives from May 2005

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: Fast Growth for Quantum Dots.
May 1, 2005... Quantum dots (QDs) are a unique subset of nanomaterials characterized by their extraordinary quantum confinement behavior. The materials include ceramic materials such as gallium arsenide and cadmium sulfide. Most notably, this manifests itself...

Nanophotonics Takes Off.
May 1, 2005... Photonics is the technology of generating and controlling light and particularly using light to carry information. Photonics includes the emission, transmission, amplification, detection, modulation and switching of light. Light is used to...

PROCESSING AND TECHNOLOGIES Saint-Gobain Intros Moldable Vitoceramics.
May 1, 2005... French company Saint Gobain has introduced MICAVER HT (High Temperature), a new moldable vitroceramic that combines the benefits of plastics and ceramics. The product features plastics moldability and the ability to integrate inserts (metal or...

METROLOGY AND ANALYSIS Malvern and PerkinElemer Collborate.
May 1, 2005... Malvern Instruments Ltd (Malvern, UK), a leading supplier of analytical solutions for particle and rheological characterization, and PerkinElmer, Inc, a provider of drug discovery, life science research and analytical solutions, have announced...

Particle Sizing Added to Zeta Potential Systems.
May 1, 2005... Particle Sizing Systems has announced the addition of the PALS Zeta module and Autotitrator to its line of zeta potential monitoring systems. The PALS Zeta capability allows the company's Nicomp to measure zeta potential values at much higher...

STRUCTURAL CERAMICS: Ceradyne Receives Body Armor Order.
May 1, 2005... Ceradyne, Inc. announced the receipt of an order for approximately $1.1 million of its lightweight ceramic body armor components scheduled to be delivered in the second and third quarters of 2005. Joel Moskowitz, Ceradyne chief executive...

POWDERS AND NANO CERAMICS: ORNL Researchers Study Functional Nanomaterials.
May 1, 2005... The U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) is currently constructing a network of five new Nanoscale Science Research Centers (NSRCs) that will operate as user facilities. The Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS), located at Oak Ridge...

Self Assembled ZnO Nanostructure Fabricated.
May 1, 2005... Zinc oxide (ZnO) nano structures and thin films have stimulated much attention due to their promising potential in short wavelength optoelectronic and field emission devices, due to its wide band gap (3.3 eV) and large excitonic binding energy...

COATINGS: Titania Nano Coating Shows Superior Strength.
May 1, 2005... Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. announced that two papers have recently been published that illustrate the improved durability of Altair's titanium dioxide nanoparticles, when used as coatings on titanium metal or other high performance metal...

FIBERS AND COMPOSITES: SiC Reinforced MMCs Suits well for LEDs.
May 1, 2005... CPS Corp., a producer of metal matrix composites, is offering AlSiC (aluminum silicon carbide), a metal matrix composite ideally suited for thermal management solutions for high brightness LEDs. AlSiC enables a tailored coefficient of thermal...

DIAMOND PRODUCTS: Coated Catheters May Avoid Infection.
May 1, 2005... According to study conducted be German researchers Norbert Laube at the University of Bonn, Lisa Kleinen at the Institute of Thin Film Technology of the Technical University of Kaiserslautern (Kaiserlautern, Germany) and Karin Schenk New...

ADVANCED GLASSESS: Durability Model for Rad Waste Glass.
May 1, 2005... Savannah River National Laboratory has developed a new glass durability model that has the potential to allow those facilities that stabilize radioactive waste as a glass form to increase the waste loading, or the amount of waste that can be...

BATTERIES AND FUEL CELLS: Altair Agreement with Advanced Battery Tech.
May 1, 2005... Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. and Advanced Battery Technologies, Inc., a U.S. and Chinese-owned company with factories in Harbin, People's Republic of China, announced that they have signed a mutually exclusive development agreement for lithium...

Nano Titania for Solar Cells.
May 1, 2005... Dye sensitized solar cells (DSSC) are one of the emerging and interesting applications of the nanomaterials. Typical DSSC consists of several different materials namely, optically transparent electrodes, nano-titanium dioxide acting as...

Researchers Demonstrate Super-Capacitance Battery.
May 1, 2005... Japan's AIST (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) researcher Zhou Haoshen affiliated with ETRI (Energy Technology Research Institute) has demonstrated that CGMN (crystalline-glass mesoporous nanocomposite) material...

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS: Cape Simulations Tools Make Pure SiC.
May 1, 2005... For the next generation optoelectronics, silicon carbide (SiC) is the next big thing since SiC as a wide-bandgap material promises high-power radars, fast high-voltage switches, and light-emitting diodes. However, one needs ultra pure SiC for...

Motorola Unveils CNT Emissive Display.
May 1, 2005... Motorola Labs, the applied research arm of Motorola Inc., has unveiled a prototype color display based on carbon nanotube technology. Motorola said its prototype could lead to development of large flat-panel TV screens that cost less but...

Kemet Expands MLCC Portfolio.
May 1, 2005... Kemet Corp, announced the addition of new high capacitance offerings to its X5R ceramic surface mount portfolio. The latest releases offer capacitance ranges from 0.12 microfarads to 1.0 microfarads in the 0402 case size at a rated voltage of...

SUPERCONDUCTORS: Micron-sized Refrigeration Device.
May 1, 2005... National Institute of Standards and Technology researchers (A.M. Clark, N.A. Miller, A. Williams, S.T. Ruggiero, G.C. Hilton, L.R. Vale, J.A. Beall, K.D. Irwin, J.N. Ullom) have exploited the difference in resistance between a normal conductor...

Systems Help Wind Farms.
May 1, 2005... American Superconductor Corp. and GE Energy, a business of the General Electric Co. have announced that they have been selected by Hawi Renewable Development LLC (HRD) to provide a voltage control solution for the Hawi Wind Farm project...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Walsin, Pan Overseas In Stock Swap.
May 1, 2005... Multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) manufacturer Walsin Technology Corp. and passive component maker Pan Overseas Electronic Co. Ltd recently filed stock swaps at the Taiwan Stock Exchange to form a merger. According to Walsin, the move is...

CALENDAR.
May 1, 2005... May 22-25, 2005, BCCs 8th Nanotech Conference and 4th NanoBusiness Alliance Conference, New York Marriott Financial Center, New York city. Contact: BCC, 25 Van Zant St., Norwalk, CT 06855, Tel: 203-853-4266, extn. 313 or E-mail:...

PERSONNEL.
May 1, 2005... Engineered Glass Products Names CFO. Patrick J. Earley has been named chief financial officer of Engineered Glass Products. The Chicago-based technology and manufacturing firm is the world leader in heated glass, an emerging science with...

FINANCIAL.
May 1, 2005... American Technical Sales Up. American Technical Ceramics Corp., a manufacturer of electronic components, including capacitors and thin film circuits, said its net sales for the quarter ended March 31, 2005, increased 18% to $18,991,000 from...

WHO'S WHO: Promoting Non Oxide Ceramics.
May 1, 2005... High Tech Ceramics News interviewed Richard Palicka, President of Cercom Inc. A graduate of Rutgers University (BS in Ceramic Technology) and Penn State University (MS in Ceramics), Palicka worked for the 3M Company in Minnesota and the...

TECHNOLOGY INSIGHT: Microwave Processing of Ceramics, Composites and Metallic Materials.
May 1, 2005... By Dinesh Agrawal, Professor of Materials, and Director of Microwave Processing and Engineering Center, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA The versatility of the application of microwave energy has been long recognized...

Fabricating Materials.
May 1, 2005... We have made remarkable achievements in the sintering and syntheses of these materials using microwaves. The recent developments have been that all common metals (Cu, Fe, Ni, Ti, Al, Co, Ag, Au, etc.), and refractory metals (W, Re, Mo, etc.),...

Microave Heating.
May 1, 2005... In case of microwave heating, it is the absorption of the microwave energy followed by volumetric heating involving a conversion of electromagnetic energy into thermal energy. In this process there is no thermal conductivity mechanism involved,...

Advantages.
May 1, 2005... Microwave heating has significant advantages over conventional heating in materials processing such as substantial energy savings (in some cases as much as 90% energy savings have been reported , very rapid heating rates, considerably reduced...

Nanostructured Materials.
May 1, 2005... Microwave processing of materials until recently mostly had been confined, to ceramics, semi-metals, inorganic, and polymeric materials. There has been hardly any detailed report on microwave processing of metallic materials. The main reason...