High Tech Ceramics News articles from October 2000

High Tech Ceramics News archives from October 2000

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: Zirconia Sales Up in Japan.
October 1, 2000... The Japanese domestic sales of zirconia ceramics products in 1999 was around 8,610 tons, a 5% increase compared to the previous year, according to DKK, a major zirconia manufacturer in Japan. The expanding sales reflected strong and healthy...

PROCESSING AND TECHNOLOGIES: Controlled Resistivity Ceramics from Morgan.
October 1, 2000... Morgan Advanced Ceramics (MAC), a world-leading supplier of innovative ceramic solutions for the medical, telecommunications, semiconductor, and aerospace markets, offers its controlled resistivity ceramics for static charge dissipation. MAC's...

Machinable Ceramic from Aremco.
October 1, 2000... Aremco has introduced Aremcolox 502-1100, a new low-cost, machinable, alumino-silicate ceramic produced by Aremco Products, Inc. According to the company, the material is ideal for producing reliable combustion nozzles, along with a variety of...

GBC Expands in Latrobe, PA.
October 1, 2000... GBC Materials, a division of Morgan Advanced Ceramics (MAC), a leader in high-volume production of intricate ceramic and glass components for the electronics and telecommunications markets, has expanded its manufacturing operations in Latrobe,...

METROLOGY AND ANALYSIS NASA Program Predicts Creep.
October 1, 2000... NASA's Glenn Research Center has developed a program to predict creep lives of ceramic components. Known as Ceramics Analysis and Reliability Evaluation of Structures/Creep (CARES/CREEP), it is a computer program that predicts the creep lives...

Microscope Looks Beyond Atomic Layers.
October 1, 2000... In processes where surface properties are important, modification of a material's surface has been used increasingly to provide a beneficial effect in operation without affecting material bulk properties like mechanical strength. Traditionally,...

Tactile Sensor Interprets Stress.
October 1, 2000... Sensor Products, Inc. has introduced the Topaq Pressure Analysis System that, used in conjunction with Pressurex/Fuji Prescale stress indicating films, provides a unique perspective of the distribution and actual magnitude (PSI) of pressure...

COATINGS: Lanthanum Aluminate Thermal Barriers.
October 1, 2000... Germany researchers A. Killinger, C. Friedrich, T. Schirmer, and R. Gadow (Institute for Manufacturing Technologies of Ceramic Components and Composites, University of Stuttgart) have developed a lanthanum aluminate, thermal barrier coating...

FIBERS AND COMPOSITES: SiC/SiC Composites Joints Evaluated.
October 1, 2000... Researchers M. Singh and E-Lara-Curzio have designed, fabricated, and tested ceramic joints for high-temperature SiC/SiC composites. In a report to their contractor, NASA, they discussed various issues associated with the design and mechanical...

DIAMOND PRODUCTS: CVD of Diamond Using MPD Sources.
October 1, 2000... NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has research and development program to address the feasibility of using magneto-plasma-dynamic (MPD) sources in the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of synthetic diamond films. Because of its unique combination...

FUEL CELLS: New Ceramic-Based Fuel Cells.
October 1, 2000... Scientists at Motorola Labs have reached another milestone in their development of a new, miniature fuel cell that may one day replace the traditional batteries that now power everything from cellular phones and laptop computers to portable...

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS Smart Card in Solar Watch.
October 1, 2000... IBM, Philips Semiconductors, and Junghans have created an exciting new type of watch, worn exactly like a standard wristwatch, but which provides far greater functionality than just time measurement. The Junghans radio-controlled, solar ceramic...

High-Performance, Compact Electronics.
October 1, 2000... Edwin Jacobson, president and CEO of Heartland Technology, Inc. (AMEX:HTI) has announced that Zecal Technology, LLC, which is 50% owned by Heartland Technology, and Amkor Technology, LLC (NASDAQ:AMKR) have entered into a strategic alliance. The...

OSI Releases Line of InGaAs Photodetectors.
October 1, 2000... A new family of indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) photodetectors has been released by OSI Fibercomm, Inc., a subsidiary of OSI Systems, Inc., a provider of security solutions, pressure- sensitive electronic subsystems, optoelectronics, and...

Murata Expands Production.
October 1, 2000... Murata Electronics North America has increased production of their new high-capacitance tantalum replacement ceramic capacitors (GRM Series). Available for use in all electronic circuits, these ceramic capacitors are increasingly popular with...

First 2-in. and 4-in. AlN Wafers.
October 1, 2000... Kyma Technologies has completed the world's first 2-in. and 4-in. aluminum nitride (AlN) wafers to be used as the base technology in a variety of applications for the optoelectronic, communications, and semiconductor industries. Examples of...

EDO Wins Undersea- Sensor Contract.
October 1, 2000... EDO Corp. has announced that it won a major contract from a new international naval customer for advanced-technology, undersea warfare sensor systems for installation in a new class of ships. EDO's advanced-technology sensor systems, which...

CTS Supplier for Lucent.
October 1, 2000... CTS Corp. has been selected by Lucent Technologies (NYSE:LU) Microelectronics Group, the world leader in communications semiconductors, to supply multi-layer, low-temperature, co-fired ceramic (LTCC) substrates for Lucent's integrated Bluetooth...

Vishay, DaimlerChrysler in Licensing Deal.
October 1, 2000... DaimlerChrysler and Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. have signed a licensing agreement that will enable Vishay to undertake the high- volume manufacture of semiconductor products using DaimlerChrysler's Silicon Carbide (SiC) technology. Under...

SUPERCONDUCTORS: STI Gets Order from U.S. Cellular.
October 1, 2000... Superconductor Technologies, Inc. (STI; NASDAQ: SCON) has announced that it received a $7.8 million purchase order for SuperFilter Systems from United States Cellular Corp. (U.S. Cellular; AMEX:USM) to be deployed over the next nine quarters....

AMSC, GE Win First SMES Order.
October 1, 2000... American Superconductor Corp. and GE Industrial Systems, a business of General Electric Co., have received their first order for a D-SMES system. American Superconductor and GE formed a strategic alliance in April 2000 to market and sell D-SMES...

ISCO Filters for Spain's Telephones.
October 1, 2000... Illinois Superconductor Corp., a supplier of high-temperature superconducting (HTS) systems to the wireless industry, has received an initial order for the deployment of HTS filter systems by Telefonica, the leading telecommunications operating...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Ceradyne Awarded $2.3 Million Contract.
October 1, 2000... Ceradyne, Inc. announced that it has recently received four Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contracts covering a two-year period and valued at $2.3 million. These awards were made by the Department of Defense and the...

3M Offers Nextel Thermal Barriers.
October 1, 2000... 3M has introduced Nextel thermal barriers for application in the marine and industrial markets. Nextel ceramic textiles were developed for commercial aerospace, spacecraft, and industrial furnace applications. Now fabricated into Nextel thermal...

Package Technologies Acquired by StratEdge.
October 1, 2000... StratEdge, a company that designs and manufactures ceramic packages and filters for microwave and millimeter-wave applications, has purchased the assets of Package Technologies, Inc. (PTI, Taunton, MA). PTI designs and manufactures state-of-...

Corning Upgrades North Wales Plant.
October 1, 2000... Corning, Inc. (NYSE:GLW), a world-leading supplier of optical fiber, has announced its plans for a series of investments totaling $50 million to facilitate an upgrade and expansion of its Deeside, North Wales, optical fiber manufacturing...

Intermagnetics' Quarterly Income Doubles.
October 1, 2000... Intermagnetics General Corp., citing the highest quarterly revenues in its 29-year history, has reported that first-quarter net income doubled to a record $2.4 million ($0.16 per diluted share) from $1.2 million ($0.09 per diluted share). Net...

NIST's ATP Launches 54 R&D Projects.
October 1, 2000... Commerce Secretary Norman Y. Mineta has announced the selection of 54 new industrial research projects chosen for cost-shared support under the Commerce Department's Advanced Technology Program (ATP). The projects are valued at $274 million in...

CALENDAR.
October 1, 2000... September 6-9, 2000, ACerS Pacific Coast Regional Meeting with Basic Science Division, Renaissance Stanford Court Hotel, San Francisco, CA. Contact: American Ceramic Society, P.O. Box 6136, Westerville, OH 43086-6136; Tel: 614/890-4700, Fax:...