High Tech Ceramics News articles from October 2004

High Tech Ceramics News archives from October 2004

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: Coatings Market Crosses $ Billion Mark.
October 1, 2004... High-performance ceramic coating service markets were projected to grow very rapidly in the late 1980s and 1990s. However, this rapid growth did not happen. The "ceramics fever" of the early and mid- 1980s had gone and a new realization was...

PROCESSING AND TECHNOLOGIES: Seeking Cost Effective ITO Production Method.
October 1, 2004... yet2.com has been providing information on technologies needs of companies. The service group has announced the technology need for a cost-effective method of producing indium tin oxide (ITO) ceramic as a transparent conductive oxide material....

METROLOGY AND ANALYSIS Image Analysis of Particle Shape.
October 1, 2004... Malvern Instruments has developed a method for particle shape measurement using digital image analysis. The development of fully automated digital image analysis techniques to determine particle shape and size has meant that particle shape...

POWDERS AND NANO CERAMICS Record Length Carbon Nanotube.
October 1, 2004... University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory in collaboration with chemists from Duke University have recently grown a world record-length four-centimeter-long, single-wall carbon nanotube. Single-wall...

Consortium Receives Stage Two DOE Award.
October 1, 2004... A consortium consisting of Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. (NasdaqSC: ALTI), Western Michigan University (WMU) and the University of Nevada, Reno, has received a Notice of Financial Assistance Award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for...

Low Cost Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes.
October 1, 2004... Central Michigan University researchers have grown carbon nanotubes at a record-low 175C using a polymer type known as dendrimers as the substrate. According to the lead researcher and CMU professor Bradley Fahlman, this is the first time...

AlN Nano-Powder Is Synthesized.
October 1, 2004... Japanese researchers T. Yamakawa, J. Tatami, T. Meguro and K. Komeya at Yokohama National University have synthesized aluminum nitride nanopowders by gas-reduction-nitridation of gamma-Al2O3 powders using NH3 and propane (C3H8) as reactant...

COATINGS: Nano-Amorphous Surfaces for Medical Instruments.
October 1, 2004... Researchrs T. Shmyreva and J. Knapp at Praxair Surface Technologies (Indianapolis, IN) have developed thermal Spray coatings with engineered nano-amorphous structure. A detonation gun process was used to deposit the coatings, which were...

FIBERS AND COMPOSITES: CPS Offers AlSiC Composite Material.
October 1, 2004... CPS Corporation, a leader in the design and production of metal matrix composites, is offering AlSiC (Aluminum Silicon Carbide), a metal matrix composite ideally suited for insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) base plates for high-power...

ADVANCED GLASS: Corning Expands LCD Glass Facility.
October 1, 2004... Corning Inc. announced that its board of directors has approved an additional capital expenditure plan of $326 million for expansion of the new liquid crystal display (LCD) glass substrate manufacturing facility currently under construction in...

Big Squeeze Forms High Density Glass.
October 1, 2004... Studying how glasses react to extreme pressure helps scientists understand how their structure evolves. The research team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Chris Tulk used a newly designed pressure cell to exert 15 GPa (about 2,200,000...

OPTICAL MATERIALS: NSF Grant to Stevens Institute.
October 1, 2004... Stevens Institute of Technology's Henry Du and his research team have pioneered work on the integration of photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) with nanoscale technologies that will potentially lead to robust chemical and biological sensing devices....

BIOCERAMICS: Drug Release from Hydroxyapatite Coatings.
October 1, 2004... A bone scaffold design coated with poly(epsilon) caprolactone (PCL) and hydroxyapatite powder hybrids may be an effective drug- delivery system. According to recent research from South Korea, "A scaffold-coating design, the HA porous bone...

FUEL CELLS AND BATTERIES: Corning, ENrG Awarded for SOFC Development.
October 1, 2004... Corning Inc. and ENrG Inc. won a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Advanced Technology Program (ATP) award to develop solid oxide fuel cell technology. The $8 million award is part of a three-year, $16 million...

Nextech Materials Awarded ATP Project.
October 1, 2004... The U.S. Commerce Department's Advanced Technology Program (ATP) has announced an award to NexTech Materials, Ltd. for its High- Power-Density Solid Oxide Fuel Cells for Aerospace Applications project. This ATP project concerns the development...

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS: IBM Demonstrates Single-Atom Measurements.
October 1, 2004... IBM scientists have measured a fundamental magnetic property of a single atom -- the energy required to flip its magnetic orientation. This is the first result by a promising new technique they developed to study the properties of...

Vishay Rolls Out More Products.
October 1, 2004... Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE: VSH) released new inductors, new thin film resistor divider networks, and a new dual high- voltage, high-current Schottky rectifier. The new Vishay Dale IHLP-5050FD-01 inductors offer designers higher-...

Ultrahigh Quality SiC Crystals.
October 1, 2004... Silicon carbide (SiC) has a range of useful physical, mechanical and electronic properties that make it a promising material for next-generation electronic devices. Careful consideration of the thermal conditions in which SiC is grown has...

ZnO Doped PZT Nanopowder.
October 1, 2004... Washington State University researchers A. Banerjee, A. Bandyopadhyay and S. Bose have studied the effect of dopants in lead zirconate titanate (PZT) based systems to reduce lead loss as well as to improve their properties and sintering...

SUPERCONDUCTORS: AMSC Demonstrates Ship Propulsion Motor.
October 1, 2004... American Superconductor Corp. announced that its prototype 5- megawatt (MW) High Temperature Superconductor (HTS) ship propulsion motor has been demonstrated successfully at full load, under steady state operational conditions, at the Center...

INDUSTRY NEWS: H.B. Fuller Invests in Sage Electrochromics.
October 1, 2004... H.B. Fuller Co. announced that its corporate venture fund, H.B. Fuller Ventures, invested in Sage Electrochromics, Inc. Based in Faribault, Minnesota., Sage develops, manufactures and markets electrochromic glass. The technology behind the...

Ceradyne Opens Office in DC.
October 1, 2004... Ceradyne, Inc. announced the opening of a new office in the Washington, D.C., area to support its lightweight ceramic armor business, with a strong focus on military ground-based vehicles. Marc King, longtime military officer and senior...

Vishay Acquires Thin Film Division.
October 1, 2004... Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. acquired the Aeroflex Pearl River Thin Film Interconnect operations, previously known as MIC Technology, from Aeroflex for $8,800,000. The Aeroflex Pearl River subsidiary designs, develops and manufactures specialty...

Companies Report Quarterly Results.
October 1, 2004... * American Technical Ceramics Corp. announced financial results for the fourth quarter and the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004. Net sales for the quarter ended June 30, 2004 increased 45% to $19,009,000 from $13,070,000 in the comparable...

CALENDAR.
October 1, 2004... October 24-27. Nanomaterials 2004: Emphasizing Nanoelectronics, Nanophotonics, Nanomagnetics, Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicine, Stamford Marriott, Stamford, CT, Contact: Sharon Faust, Business Communications Co., 25 Van Zant St., Norwalk, CT...