High Tech Ceramics News articles from November 2004

High Tech Ceramics News archives from November 2004

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: Industrial Sensors Continue to Grow.
November 1, 2004... Advanced ceramics find use sensor elements in many industrial sensors. Despite sluggish and challenging economic conditions, the sensors industry is inherently robust and is well positioned to enjoy an upswing and experience sound growth in...

PROCESSING AND TECHNOLOGIES Allied Minerals Wins EVS Patent.
November 1, 2004... Allied Mineral Products, Inc., a designer and manufacturer of monolithic refractories and precast refractory shapes was granted a U.S. Patent for its Electric Vibration System (EVS). Titled, "Method of Installing a Refractory Lining," the...

Pred Introduces Paper Products.
November 1, 2004... Pred Materials International, Inc., a distributor of specialty chemical raw materials for electronics, fine ceramics, and specialty applications, has announced the availability of ceramic papers made from zirconia and alumina for use in making...

Sacmi Introduces Rotary Super-Cooler.
November 1, 2004... SACMI USA Ltd. has installed and started up it first RRA 350, a rotary super-cooler for spray-dried powder. Sacmi claims RRA 350 to be the biggest cooler ever built, can cool up to 35,000 kilograms of spray-dried powder per hour by more than...

METROLOGY AND ANALYSIS: Malcern Introduces Zetasizer Nano System.
November 1, 2004... A series of new downloadable notes describing applications of the Malvern Zetasizer Nano system in the characterization of polymers, proteins and other biomaterial is now available on the Malvern Instruments website. These can be accessed via...

POWDERS AND NANO CERAMICS Nanophase Granted U.S., Euro Patents.
November 1, 2004... Nanophase Technologies Corp., a producer of nanomaterials and nanoengineered products, has announced that the U.S. Patent Office has given the company notice of allowance of Nanophase's patent application for "Substantially Transparent,...

Altair Nano Announces European Patent.
November 1, 2004... Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. announced that the European Patent Office has notified Altair that it has approved Altair's patent application for a "Process For Making Lithium Titanate." This European patent application describes the process and...

COATINGS: Combi System for Plasmanitriding, PVD.
November 1, 2004... As a result of decades of experience in plasma heat treatment (IONIT) and PVD coating technology (MAXIT), Sulzer Metco's Metaplas Ionon has developed the IOMAX Combi System. The combined application of plasma nitriding and PVD hard coating...

CVD Coated Cutting Tool Inserts.
November 1, 2004... Kyocera Corp. announced a new development in the field of cutting tools. The company has developed the CA5515 and CA5525, two new cutting tools for steel processing that utilize both new materials and a newly designed chipbreaker. These new...

DIAMOND PRODUCTS DLC Coatings for Racing Cars.
November 1, 2004... Morgan Advanced Ceramics (MAC), a manufacturer of innovative ceramic, glass, metal and engineered coating solutions, and its Diamonex Products division, will showcase Diamonex Diamond-like Coatings (DLC) at the Performance Racing Industry Trade...

ADVANCED GLASSES: NSF Grant Goes to Lehigh University.
November 1, 2004... Lehigh University has received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish an international research center supporting research into glass. The International Materials Institute for New Functionality in Glasses (IMI) will...

BIOCERAMICS: HAp Coated Cardiovascular Stents.
November 1, 2004... MIV Therapeutics Inc. (Vancouver, Canada) has a lead product under development, a passive, nano-film Hydroxyapatite (HAp) coating. In parallel, the company is developing a multi-layer nano-film coating with drug-eluting capabilities to...

Nanotechnology's Role in Cancer Research.
November 1, 2004... The National Cancer Institute (NCI) announced a new $144.3 million, five-year initiative to develop and apply nanotechnology to cancer. Nanotechnology, the development and engineering of devices so small that they are measured on a molecular...

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS: NEC Development in High-k Dielectrics.
November 1, 2004... NEC Corp. and NEC Electronics Corp. claim that they can incorporate a high-k dielectric in their chip-making processes next year because of a breakthrough in determining the reliability of the film. The companies have developed a transistor...

FRAM Memory Embedded in System Board.
November 1, 2004... Ramtron International Corp. announced that Seventech, an Italian company, has selected Ramtron's FM3808 ferroelectric random access memory (FRAM) for use in its innovative Merlino embedded system board. The Merlino board allows PC hardware to...

TSMC, Freescale Develop SOI technology.
November 1, 2004... Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg Co. (TSMC) and Freescale Semiconductor Inc. have signed an agreement to jointly develop a next-generation silicon-on-insulator (SOI) transistor front-end technology targeted for the 65nm advanced CMOS process node. The...

TDI Demonstrates 6-Inch GaN Epitaxy.
November 1, 2004... Technologies and Devices International (TDI) Inc., a developer and manufacturer of nitride compound semiconductors, GaN, AlN, and AlGaN says it has fabricatd the industry's first 6-inch diameter GaN epitaxial materials. 6-inch diameter...

SUPERCONDUCTORS: AMSC, Northrop Grumman in Strategic Alliance.
November 1, 2004... American Superconductor Corp., a leading electricity solutions company, and Northrop Grumman Marine Systems, a unit of the Electronic Systems sector of Northrop Grumman Corp., announced a strategic business alliance to sell, market and develop...

Super Superconductors Using Nanotechnology.
November 1, 2004... University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory with a researcher from the University of Cambridge have demonstrated a simple and industrially scaleable method for improving the current densities of superconducting...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Crystal IS Gets Venture Funding.
November 1, 2004... Crystal IS, Inc., a supplier of ultra-low defect density native aluminum nitride (AlN) single crystal substrates, closed on $5 million of Series A round venture funding. The investor syndicate includes ARCH Venture Partners, JVP, 3I, Harris &...

Companies Report Quarterly Results.
November 1, 2004... Here is our latest sales and earnings data: * U.S. semiconductor maker Ramtron International Corp. reports that the third-quarter 2004 revenue increased 98% to $15.2 million, from $7.7 million for the year-ago quarter, as both ENEL and...

RESOURCES: Ceramic Microsystems Papers Invited.
November 1, 2004... The International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS) and The American Ceramic Society (ACerS) have issued the Call for Papers for the First International Conference on Ceramic Interconnect and Ceramic Microsystems Technology...

CALENDAR.
November 1, 2004... January 23-28, 2005: The Fall Divisional Meeting of the Electronics Division of The American Ceramic Society in conjunction with the 29th International Conference & Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, Doubletree Oceanfront Hotel...