High Tech Ceramics News articles from October 2001

High Tech Ceramics News archives from October 2001

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: Rapid Growth for Piezoelectric Crystals.
October 1, 2001... Jacques and Pierre Curie discovered the piezoelectric effect in the late 1800s. In just over 100 yr., piezoelectricity moved from being a laboratory curiosity to big business. The U.S. piezoelectric industry has undergone several boom and bust...

PROCESSING AND TECHNOLOGIES CoorsTek to Supply Fused Quartz.
October 1, 2001... CoorsTek, Inc., has announced that it has entered into a fabricator agreement with a U.S.-based market leader in fused quartz materials. As an authorized quartz fabricator, CoorsTek will sell and distribute high-purity fused quartz, primarily...

Radiant Tube Gas Burner.
October 1, 2001... Hauck Manufacturing Co. has developed the SERamic, a new radiant tube gas burner. Fabricated using a newly developed technology, the SERamic's radiant tube, recuperator, and combustor are constructed from high heat-resistant silicon carbide...

SiC Heats HS Furnaces.
October 1, 2001... Lucifer Furnaces offers new-generation High Speed (HS) steel furnaces. The HS series, a new line of high-temperature box furnaces, is now available from Lucifer Furnaces, Inc. Designed for 2,450F operation, the new furnaces feature silicon...

Ceradyne Licenses Sprayform Technology.
October 1, 2001... Ceradyne, Inc. has announced it has licensed a Ford Motor Co. proprietary technology for forming complicated metal components by means of a technique known as "sprayforming." This license agreement is between Ceradyne and Ford Global...

Aremco Introduces Machinable Ceramics.
October 1, 2001... Aremco Products, Inc. has introduced Aremcolox 502-1100-UF, an advanced alumino-silicate machinable ceramic for producing reliable, low-cost brazing fixtures and a wide variety of industrial parts, such as electrical and thermal insulators,...

METROLOGY AND ANALYSIS PharmaVision 830 from Malvern.
October 1, 2001... It is well known that particle shape as well as size distribution affects the physical characteristics and behavior of particulate materials. Characterization of particle shape has always been difficult to achieve in a routine way. ...

POWDERS & NANO CERAMICS: Low-Cost Nanopowders from Microcoating Tech.
October 1, 2001... MicroCoating Technologies (MCT) has developed a new methodology for producing low-cost nanopowders ( Nanopowders have utility in industries including electronics, cosmetics, catalysts, and polishing due to their attractive properties such as...

Nanophase Supplies Electronics Materials.
October 1, 2001... Nanophase Technologies Corp. (Nasdaq: NANX) has announced it has received an initial order for its proprietary nanocrystalline material through its technology licensee, C. I. Kasei Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Itochu Corp. of Japan, to be used in...

COATINGS: Role of Starting Powder Size Studied.
October 1, 2001... Researchers C. Batson (University of California, Santa Barbara, CA), R. Trice (Purdue University, IN), and K.T. Faber (Northwestern University) studied the role of starting powder size on the compressive response of stand-alone plasma-sprayed...

New Coating from Aremco.
October 1, 2001... Aremco has introduced Cerama-Dip 538-BL, a single part, water- based, inorganic ceramic coating system used to electrically isolate high power resistors that generate very high heat. This advanced coating exceeds the temperature limitations of...

FIBERS AND COMPOSITES Zircar Introduces Fiber Board.
October 1, 2001... Zircar Ceramics, Inc. has announced the introduction of its new alumina silica insulation type ECO-27, a utility grade of ceramic fiberboard suitable for use to 1,260C (2,300F). Type ECO-27A contains a small amount of organic binder for...

DIAMOND PRODUCTS: GE Superabrasives Intros Si2 Diamonds.
October 1, 2001... GE Superabrasives has introduced MBS Si2 diamonds for the stone and construction industry. Toolmakers can now gain considerably greater process flexibility by using more iron in their bonding systems. Numerous past attempts to manufacture bonds...

CVD Diamond for High-Temp Electronics.
October 1, 2001... Researchers Susan L. Heidger, Navid J. Baraty, and Joseph A. Weimer at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base deposited diamond films on tungsten substrates and on silicon substrates coated with metal electrodes. Due to the difference in thermal...

FILTERS AND MEMBRANES Glass-Ceramic Solves PEM Problems.
October 1, 2001... Researchers at Iowa State University's Department of Materials Science & Engineering are in the early stages of developing nanoengineered glass-ceramic fast proton-conducting membranes that can be operated in fuel cells at higher temperatures...

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS CTS Introduces New VCXOs.
October 1, 2001... CTS Corp., a global supplier of voltage controlled crystal oscillators (VCXOs) and reference clocks for the data communications industry, today introduced Model 350, a new surface mount of 9 mm by 14 mm PECL VCXO for fiber optic infrastructure...

Microsemi Introduces 600V Schottky Diodes.
October 1, 2001... Microsemi Corp. (Nasdaq: MSCC) has announced that as a result of its alliance with Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), Microsemi has produced the first in a series of commercial silicon carbide (SiC) Schottky diodes featuring Microsemi's patented...

Cree Gets Osram Contract.
October 1, 2001... Cree, Inc. has renewed its 1-yr. purchase agreement with Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH & Co., OHG (Osram) for standard brightness, high brightness, UltraBright, and MegaBright silicon carbide light emitting diodes (LEDs) and wafer products....

Piezoelectric Biosensors.
October 1, 2001... Israeli scientists have developed piezoelectric biosensors for rapid clinical diagnosis. The device is a direct, rapid, semi- automated biosensor-testing device, simple to operate, yet sensitive and quantitative. It is based on a novel patented...

SUPERCONDUCTORS TVA Order for D-SMES.
October 1, 2001... American Superconductor Corp. and GE Industrial Systems, a business of the General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), have announced that they have received an order from TVA for a D-SMES (Distributed Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage) power...

Conductus Increases Manufacturing Capacity.
October 1, 2001... Conductus, Inc., a leading manufacturer of superconducting wireless systems, announced today that it has finalized the modification of its 40,000-ft.2 facility and completed the upgrade of its manufacturing capabilities for volume production....

STI Introduces SuperPlex Products.
October 1, 2001... Superconductor Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCON) ("STI"), has announced the availability of company's product portfolio: the SuperPlex product family. It offers versatile multiplexing solutions designed to combine and filter RF signals along...

ISCO Seeks Triple Damages.
October 1, 2001... ISCO International, Inc., a global supplier of interference- control solutions for the wireless telecommunications industry, has announced that it will be seeking triple damages plus attorneys' fees from Conductus, Inc. and Superconductor...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Ferro Completes dmc2 Acquisition.
October 1, 2001... Ferro Corp. has announced that it has completed the acquisition of certain businesses of dmc2 from OM Group, Inc. (OMG). The businesses acquired include electronic materials, performance pigments, glass systems, and Cerdec ceramics, and had...

CTS to Establish Center in Taiwan.
October 1, 2001... CTS Corp. has announced a plan to establish a Business Development Center for its communications component products in Taiwan. The center will include the business activities of marketing, sales, field applications, and product design...

New R&D Center for H.C. Starck.
October 1, 2001... H.C. Starck GmbH inaugurated its new Process Technology Center in Goslar, Germany, on September 7, in the presence of Lower Saxony's Ministery president Sigmar Gabriel and numerous guests from industry and politics. The company invested 15...

Exolon-ESK Merger Finalized.
October 1, 2001... Washington Mills Co., Inc. and Exolon-ESK have merged as a result of an agreement by which Washington Mills acquired the Tonawanda, New York-based supplier of aluminum oxide, silicon carbide, and other electro-fused materials for abrasive,...

SCCI Reports Higher Revenues.
October 1, 2001... Superconductive Components, Inc. (SCCI), a manufacturer of advanced ceramics, optical materials, and high-temperature superconductive and non-superconductive products, reported net revenues increased 28.7% for the 3 mo. ended June 30, 2001. ...

Superconducter Technologies Sees Lower Q3 Revenues.
October 1, 2001... Superconductor Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCON) says its third- quarter product revenues will be lower than a year ago, as economic weakness weighs on the wireless sector. The unaudited gross commercial product revenues for the third quarter...

Intermagnetics Net Income Up 50%.
October 1, 2001... Intermagnetics General Corp. reported first-quarter net income climbed 50% to a record $3.6 million, or $0.21 per diluted share, from $2.4 million, or $0.16 per diluted share, a year earlier. Sales for the quarter ended August 26, 2001, also...

CALENDAR.
October 1, 2001... November 4-8, 2001. International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Glasses, Outrigger Wailea Resort, Wailea, Maui, HI. Contact: American Ceramic Society, P.O. Box 6136, Westerville, OH 43086- 6136; Tel: 614/890-4700, Fax: 614/899-6109;...