High Tech Ceramics News articles from October 2005

High Tech Ceramics News archives from October 2005

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: Advanced Carbon Market Soars.
October 1, 2005... The structural carbon materials industry is at a crossroads. It serves mature industries like defense and aerospace with a wide variety of products satisfying the requirements of well- established applications. These sectors are heavily...

METROLOGY AND ANALYSIS: Malvern Launches Particle Image Analyzer.
October 1, 2005... A new high sensitivity particle image analyzer from Malvern Instruments incorporates the latest Nikon CFI60 optics and a high resolution digital camera to deliver particle size and shape data and images. Based on digital image analysis and...

STRUCTURAL CERAMICS: Ceradyne Receives Orders from Military.
October 1, 2005... Ceradyne Inc. has received a US Air Force order worth $8.3 million for the company's lightweight ceramic armor systems. Shipments for the order, placed by the Defense Supply Center, Philadelphia, are expected to begin in November and expected...

POWDERS AND NANO CERAMICS: Aluminum Oxide For The Disc Drive Industry.
October 1, 2005... The Wesgo Ceramics Division of Morgan Advanced Ceramics (MAC), a manufacturer of innovative ceramic, glass, metal, and engineered coatings, is offering AL-995TM Aluminum Oxide (A1203), a high purity alumina ceramic of 99.5% content, for the...

COATINGS: WAM Adds Coating Capacity with Acquisition.
October 1, 2005... Williams Advanced Materials Inc. (WAM), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Brush Engineered Materials Inc., has acquired privately held Thin Film Technology, Inc. (TFT), a provider of precision optical coatings, photo lithography, thin film hybrid...

Clariant and Starfire Form Development Alliance.
October 1, 2005... Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland) and Starfire Systems, Inc., a world leader in polymer-derived, nanostructured ceramics has announced a broad-based strategic alliance to develop new technology and new applications in the promising field of...

DIAMOND PRODUCTS: DLC Coating Technique Developed.
October 1, 2005... Presently there is a great interest in amorphous carbon (a-C) films that contain significant fractions of sp3 bonding. This bonding gives such diamond-like carbon (DLC) structures with useful properties such as wear resistance, adhesion,...

Diamonex DLC Products for Barcode Scanners.
October 1, 2005... The Diamonex Products Division of Morgan Advanced Ceramics (MAC), a leading manufacturer of innovative ceramic, glass, metal, and engineered coating solutions, offers a complete line of Superhard diamond-like coated glass for barcode scanner...

OPTICAL MATERIALS: Dow Corning Expands In Photonic Materials.
October 1, 2005... Dow Corning Corp. announced plans to extend its materials, technology and services to the $65 billion market for optoelectronics by bringing its photonics solutions business development program under the wider umbrella of the company's...

BATTERIES AND FUEL CELLS Altair Expands Battery Initiative.
October 1, 2005... Altair Nanotechnologies Inc. announced that it has expanded its research, product development, manufacturing and marketing groups with the addition of eleven highly qualified advanced battery scientists, engineers, manufacturing and marketing...

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS: Morgan Electro Intros Piezo Actuators.
October 1, 2005... Morgan Electro Ceramics (MEC), a manufacturer of electro ceramic products, including high voltage and RF capacitors and microwave and piezoelectric ceramics introduced a piezoelectric multi-layer actuators. With over 50 years of experience in...

GE Develops "Ideal" Carbon Nanotube Diode.
October 1, 2005... GE Global Research, the centralized research organization of the General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), has announced the development of an ideal carbon nanotube diode that operates at the theoretical limit, or best possible performance. This is...

Kemet Expands Ceramic MLCC Portfolios.
October 1, 2005... Kemet Cor, announced the addition of voltage and capacitance extensions to its commercial X7R ceramic surface mount portfolio. New releases offer capacitance ranges from 8.2 microfarads to 10 microfarads in EIA 1206 case size with a 16V...

Cree Awarded Contract to Advance SiC Chips.
October 1, 2005... Cree, Inc. has been awarded a $15 million contract by the Department of Defense's Title III Program, which is administered by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL.) Under the new five- year contract, Cree will focus on advancing silicon...

CTS Selling its Low Temp Operation to ATC.
October 1, 2005... CTS Corp, announced that it has entered into an asset purchase agreement with American Technical Ceramics Corp. (ATC) for the sale of the assets of its Low Temperature Cofired Ceramic (LTCC) product operations. The sale includes production...

SUPERCONDUCTORS: Crucial Atoms In Superconductors.
October 1, 2005... With an advanced imaging technique and a savvy strategy, researchers at Cornell University's Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics (LAASP) have shown how adding charge-carrying atoms like oxygen to a superconductor can increase the...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Companies Join in Military Research.
October 1, 2005... Albany NanoTech, IBM, and Applied Materials have teamed on a partnership that will make more than $300 million available for research, development and economic outreach at the State University of New York's Albany NanoTech site and add over 80...

Ceradyne Opens Manufacturing Facility.
October 1, 2005... Ceradyne, Inc. opened its new 115,000-square-foot facility in Lexington, Kentucky. The plant manufactures lightweight ceramic body armor systems for the US military forces and silicon nitride technical ceramic components for diesel engines. ...

AVX Receives ULT Supplier Award.
October 1, 2005... AVX Corp. has received the 2004 ULTimate Supplier Award from Universal Lighting Technologies (ULT), a global leader in ballasts and controls for commercial lighting applications. "In today's competitive world of business, it is always a...

STI Sells $12.5 Million Securities.
October 1, 2005... Superconductor Technologies Inc., a provider of high performance infrastructure products for wireless voice and data applications, announced that it has obtained commitments for the sale of $12.5 million of securities in a registered direct...

Corning to Expand LCD Substrate Facility in Taiwan.
October 1, 2005... Corning Inc.'s board of directors has approved an additional capital expenditure plan of $425 million for expansion of the new LCD glass substrate manufacturing facility at Taichung, Taiwan. This investment will fund the third phase of the...

NSF Funds MRSEC at Yale.
October 1, 2005... The NSF has established a new Materials Research Science & Engineering Center (MRSECs) at Yale University. The Center for Research on Interface Structure and Phenomena will investigate the electronic, magnetic and chemical properties of complex...

CALANDAR.
October 1, 2005... November 8-11, 2005, UNITECR 2005-9th Biennial Worldwide Congress on Refractories, Orlando, FL. Contact: American Ceramic Society, P.O. Box 6136, Westerville, OH 43086-6136, Tel: 614/890-4700, Fax: 614/899-6109, E-mail: customersrvc@acers.org...

PERSONNEL.
October 1, 2005... Management Changes at Vesuvius. Gian Carlos Cozzani, President and CEO of Vesuvius, the major refractories company and part of Cookson Group, retired at his 65th birthday on 6 October 2005 having led Vesuvius for more than 11 years. He will...

FINANCIAL.
October 1, 2005... Praxair Profit Rises. Industrial gas company Praxair Inc., a supplier of industrial gases, ceramic coating consumables and servcies, said that is arnings for the second quarter rose as sales rose in all the company's markets. Net income rose...

TECHNOLOGY INSIGHT: Superconducting Detector Could Provide 100% Efficiency in Mass Spectrometry.
October 1, 2005... Contributed by Masataka Ohkubo, Super-Spectroscopy System Research Group (SSSRG), Research Institute of Instrumentation Frontier (RIIF), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 1-3-1, Kasumigaseki,...

Figure 1 Advanced Mass Spectrometer.
October 1, 2005... In order to use the 100 ssuperconducting detectors, a fast communication technology to link up the 0.3 K cryogenic environment with the room temperature ambient is needed. However, heat flow through the cable has been too great to implement the...

Detection Performance.
October 1, 2005... The superconducting detectors have excellent performance of detecting soft X rays and giant macromolecules, which was not available with the conventional semiconductor-based detectors in the X-ray spectrometry and the mass spectrometry....

History of Research.
October 1, 2005... The RIIF-AIST demonstrated earlier that the superconducting detector had the performance surpassing the limit of conventional technology. The application of such an excellent performance to the actual measuring instruments had to face certain...

Supressed Heat Flow.
October 1, 2005... In the present study, the heat flow per cable has been suppressed to less than 54 nW by reducing cable size to 0.33 mm in diameter and by using metal conductor of lower thermal conductivity. In parallel with this, the feasibility of installing...

Conclusions.
October 1, 2005... The outcome of this R&D work will be utilized for the implementation of superconductivity time-of-flight mass spectrometer for the practical application. It is expected that if cables labeled with thermal conductivity data for temperatures from...

WHO'S WHO Promoting Ceramic Superconductors.(Company Profile)
October 1, 2005... Gregory J. Yurek, Founder, Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of American Superconductor Corp. Yurek is a recognized global leader in the development and commercialization of breakthrough technologies for...