High Tech Ceramics News articles from September 2000

High Tech Ceramics News archives from September 2000

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: CVD Market Continues to Expand.
September 1, 2000... Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) has expanded significantly over the past several decades. More sophisticated manufacturing and fabrication techniques and miniaturized products have broadened the demand for vapor-deposited materials. A variety...

PROCESSING AND TECHNOLOGIES Radiation-Tolerant Materials Demonstrated.
September 1, 2000... A continual issue in the handling of nuclear waste is long-term storage, because internal radiation can cause radioactive host materials to swell or crack, making the stored waste unstable and susceptible to leaching. Now, a team led by...

Pressure Test May Create New Materials.
September 1, 2000... The physical pressures of rapidly accelerating a jet plane or fast car, or diving several atmospheres beneath the sea's surface, test human toughness. But the limited range of conditions in which even the fittest can flourish is brought into...

Measurement Specs for Ceramic Powders.
September 1, 2000... A new focus on characterization methods for ceramic powders and porous materials has been formed within the Versailles Project on Advanced Materials and Standards (VAMAS) to develop technical data on the size distribution and surface area of...

Alumina Reflectors from Morgan.
September 1, 2000... Morgan Advanced Ceramics (MAC) has introduced its alumina ceramic reflectors. Designed primarily for use in pumping chambers for YAG lasers, these ceramic reflectors are reportedly ideal for many diverse laser systems, providing both technical...

POWDERS AND NANO CERAMICS NanoClad Meets Navy Specification.
September 1, 2000... Nanophase Technologies Corp. has developed and qualified an additional product in the NanoClad metal oxide family for use in thermal spray coatings for high reliability applications on United States naval vessels. In cooperation with A&A Co.,...

Tosoh Expands in Zirconia Powder.
September 1, 2000... In July 2000, Tosoh Corp. had completed a production capacity expansion for zirconia powders at its Nanyo Complex. The expansion project, started in September 1999, boosts Tosoh's production capacity from 370 tons to 620 tons per year. ...

COATINGS: CoorsTek Offers Pure SiC.
September 1, 2000... A ceramic coating technique has been used by CoorsTek to manufacture bulk SiC. CoorsTek says that they have achieved this by using a high-temperature chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process. The company use ultrahigh-purity raw materials...

FIBERS AND COMPOSITES Low Expansion, High Strength.
September 1, 2000... ZIRCAR Refractory Composites, Inc. (Florida, NY) is proud to announce the introduction of Refractory Sheet Type RSLE-57 - a new, low thermal expansion, high-strength, silica composite product. Designed for use as a structural insulator in high...

Pred Material Now Offers Fibers.
September 1, 2000... Pred Material Intl. is a distributor of ceramic and refractory raw materials, including nanopowders, borides, carbides, nitride, oxides, and silicides. The company has announced the availability of new refractory fiber and fiber products. ...

DIAMOND PRODUCTS Heat-Sink for Semiconductors.
September 1, 2000... Sumitomo Electric Industry has developed a diamond thin-film-made heat-dissipation substrate, called Heat-Sink, which will raise a functional performance of semiconductors - amplifying signals at the cellular base station. Diamond has the...

FILTERS AND MEMBRANES Silicon Carbide Ceramic Membranes.
September 1, 2000... University of Southern California researchers V. Suwanmethanond, E. Goo, M. Sahimi, T. T. Tsotis (Los Angeles, CA), and P. Liu of Media & Process Technology, Inc. (Pittsburgh, PA) have developed silicon carbide ceramic membranes using a series...

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS: Partnership Targets Ceramic Substrates.
September 1, 2000... To take advantage of growing markets in wireless and broadband communications, Zecal Technology, LLC and Amkor Technology, LLC have entered into a strategic alliance that will lead to the incorporation of Zecal's ceramic circuit technology in...

Thin Films for MEMS Devices.
September 1, 2000... Recent interest in piezoelectric thin films has greatly increased because of their potential as piezoactuators capable of being integrated with micro-electrical mechanical switch (MEMS) devices. Pennsylvania researchers S. S. Kalpat, K. Uchino,...

Dielectrics for Multilayer Actuators and Capacitors.
September 1, 2000... NEC Corp. has developed a dielectric for multilayer actuators and capacitors. NEC researcher Atsushi Ochi has developed small, high- performance, multilayer piezoelectric actuators developed which produce large displacements and strong forces...

PZT by Direct Fabrication.
September 1, 2000... Sandia National Laboratory researchers J. E. Smay, J. Cesarano III, B. A. Tuttle and W. R. Olson, along with researcher J. A. Lewis (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL) have developed a colloidal route for fabricating porous...

Packaging for High-Frequency ICs.
September 1, 2000... Alpha Industries, Inc. has introduced its proprietary multi-chip module packaging technology that it claims will reduce the cost of manufacturing high-speed and high-frequency data communications equipment. Alpha (Woburn, MA) makes gallium...

Vishay Acquires Cera-Mite Corp.
September 1, 2000... Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (Malvern, PA) has announced the acquisition of Cera-Mite Corp. (Grafton, WI). Cera-Mite Corp. is a manufacturer of electronic components. The primary reason for the acquisition, according to Vishay, is Cera-Mite's...

SUPERCONDUCTORS Commercial-Scale HTS Motor.
September 1, 2000... American Superconductor Corp. and Rockwell Automation, an operating unit of Rockwell International Corp. (NYSE:ROK), has announced the successful operation of the world's first 1,000-hp, high-temperature superconducting (HTS) motor. This new...

Magnetic Surface Challenges Theory.
September 1, 2000... A collaboration of German, Japanese, and University of Tennessee (UT) physicists have discovered magnetic properties in a substance that may force theorists to rethink the nature of superconductors. The surface of strontium ruthenate, a...

Conductus Signs Purchase Agreement.
September 1, 2000... Conductus, Inc has signed a purchase agreement with Dobson Communications Corp. a leading provider of cellular phone services to rural markets in the United States, for a minimum of 200 ClearSite systems to be deployed nationwide over the next...

Southwire's Systems Log 2,000 Hr.
September 1, 2000... Southwire Co.'s superconducting power delivery system marked 2,000 hr. of operation at a 100% load on August 16. Unveiled in February, the system provides power to three manufacturing plants at Southwire's Carrollton, Georgia, headquarters. It...

Industry/University Partnership Awarded.
September 1, 2000... The Council for Chemical Research (CCR) has selected the Wire Development Group (WDG), to receive its annual Collaboration Success Award for its outstanding contribution to the advancement of high-temperature superconducting wire technology....

INDUSTRY NEWS: Less Performance From CPS Corp.
September 1, 2000... Ceramics Process Systems Corp. (CPS) announced net income of $70,000 ($0.01 per basic common share, $0.01 per fully diluted common share) on revenue of $1.35 million for the fiscal quarter ended July 1, 2000. This compares with a net income of...

Revenues Down for ISC.
September 1, 2000... Illinois Superconductor Corp. reported a substantially lower revenue for the second quarter of 2000. The company reported net revenues of $14,800 for the quarter ending June 30, 2000, versus net revenues of $317,159 for the same period in 1999....

Norton's Offer for Chemfab Completed.
September 1, 2000... Norton Co., an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, has announced the successful completion of its tender offer, made through an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary, PPLC Acquisition Corp., for all of the outstanding...

MEETINGS: Abstract Deadline Approaching.
September 1, 2000... Abstracts for the poster session of "Fine, Ultrafine, and Nano Powders 2000" must be submitted no later than September 29, 2000. Interested parties should send abstracts (approximately 150 words in length) to Mindy Rittner, program chairwoman...

CALENDAR.
September 1, 2000... October 1-4, 2000, AcerS Glass and Optical Materials Division Fall Meeting, Radisson Corning, Corning, NY. Contact: American Ceramic Society, P.O. Box 6136, Westerville, OH 43086-6136; Tel: 614/890- 4700, Fax: 614/899-6109. October 1-4,...