High Tech Ceramics News articles from September 2001

High Tech Ceramics News archives from September 2001

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: Microporous Adsorbents Applications Expand.
September 1, 2001... The microporous adsorbents (which include several ceramic materials) industry is a mature industry with a wide variety of products satisfying the requirements of well-established applications. However, the expanded scope and applicability of...

Materials Drive Electronics Technology.
September 1, 2001... Nowhere is the ability to produce new materials more critical than in the electronics industry. Indeed, semiconductor device manufacturers pioneered many of the materials and processes now having an important impact in other industries....

PROCESSING AND TECHNOLOGIES MII Enters Ceramics.
September 1, 2001... MII Technologies, LLC has expanded the use of its award-winning powder metal-manufacturing technology to produce complex-geometry parts from ceramic material. Using the same fully digital system that has won MII success in the metal arena, the...

METROLOGY AND ANALYSIS CSC Offers Calibration Samples.
September 1, 2001... CSC Scientific has introduced Endecotts calibration samples. The new calibration samples enable test sieves to be accurately calibrated in a matter of minutes. Accurate calibration was once an expensive and time-consuming process, with sieves...

Neutron Probes Focus on Insulators.
September 1, 2001... The semiconductor industry is desperately seeking better insulating materials. By the end of the decade, state-of-the-art integrated circuits will contain more than a billion transistors, connected by thousands of meters of ultrafine copper...

Horiba Measures Particle Size.
September 1, 2001... Horiba Instruments, Inc. has announced the introduction of the Crystalsizer, manufactured by Retsch, to the U.S. market. The Crystalsizer uses incoherent light diffraction and is designed to measure both free-flowing and cohesive dry powders...

POWDERS AND NANO CERAMICS Powders Produced by Freezing Spray.
September 1, 2001... PowderPro provides equipment and know-how for granulation of ceramic and metallic powders based on instant freezing of sprayed drops (granules) and subsequent freeze-drying. This technology ensures high-quality granules with homogeneous...

COATINGS: PPG Improves Scratch Resistance.
September 1, 2001... PPG Industries has announced a breakthrough powder-coating technology that has the potential to greatly improve mar and scratch resistance in a broad range of industrial applications. Several formulations of ENVIROCRON XMR powder coatings from...

FILTERS AND MEMBRANES: Praxair, Northrup Join for Oxygen System.
September 1, 2001... Praxair, Inc. and Litton Life Support, a division of Northrop Grumman's Litton Industries subsidiary, have agreed to jointly develop and commercialize a revolutionary oxygen-generation system to provide a convenient, point-of-use,...

Irregularities Increase Active Surface Area.
September 1, 2001... Praxair scientists have discovered a method of improving the transport properties of ion-conducting ceramic membranes with a surface treatment that creates submicroscopic ridges and voids, increasing surface area and enhancing permeation rates....

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS NIST Assesses Thin Films.
September 1, 2001... NIST researcher John Henry Scott and his colleagues have been assessing accuracy of thin film dimensions. The thickness of gate dielectrics-the ultra-thin insulating films that separate electrical gates and channels in transistors-is the...

Cree Licenses Pendeoepitaxy Patent.
September 1, 2001... Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) has announced the issuance of U.S. Patent No. 6,265,289 entitled "Methods of Fabricating Gallium Nitride (GaN) semiconductor Layers by Lateral Growth from Sidewalls into Trenches, and Gallium Nitride Semiconductor...

CTS Intros Clock Oscillators.
September 1, 2001... CTS Corp. (NYSE:CTS) has announced the addition of 125.000 MHz Gigabit Ethernet clock oscillators to its CB3 family of economical 5-mm-by-7-mm hermetically sealed, ceramic oscillators for Datacom Network Applications. Wide acceptance of...

Blasch Awarded Grant for SOFCs.
September 1, 2001... Blasch Precision Ceramics, Inc. was recently selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to receive a 10-yr., $20.7 million cost-share grant to further assist in the development of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs). Blasch is a participant in...

Low Voltage Varistors Developed.
September 1, 2001... Brazilian researchers (V.C. Sousa, E.R. Leite, J.A. Varela, and E. Longo) have been investigating TiO2 varistors with the purpose to clarify the roles of the Ta2O5 and Cr2O3 over the microstructure and nonohmic behavior. The properties were...

Cree's Launch into Space.
September 1, 2001... Cree, Inc. has announced that its gallium nitride (GaN) High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT) microwave devices and GaN HEMT epiwafer materials were successfully installed aboard the International Space Station after being launched into...

SUPERCONDUCTORS: HTS Power Cable for Niagara Mohawk.
September 1, 2001... Intermagnetics General Corp. (Nasdaq: IMGC) has announced that its IGC-SuperPower subsidiary will lead a $20 million project to install an underground, high-temperature superconducting (HTS) power cable in Albany, New York. The cable, to be...

Copenhagen Cable Project Launched.
September 1, 2001... On May 28, 2001, Copenhagen Energy began supplying electricity to its consumers through superconducting electric cables from its Amager Substation, which serves some 50,000 households in the Danish capital. "We have focused exclusively on...

Southwire Project Exceeds 8,000 Hours.
September 1, 2001... On January 5, 2000, Southwire Company of Carrollton, Georgia, launched a new superconducting power delivery pilot project in which superconducting power distribution cables provide electricity to three Southwire manufacturing plants in...

ISCO Sells CREF to Verizon Wireless.
September 1, 2001... ISCO International, Inc. (OTC: ISCO), has sold 12 Cryogenic Receiver Front-end (CRFE) Systems and four Adaptive Notch Filter [ANF(TM)] Systems to Verizon Wireless. These interference-control systems serve 37 individual CDMA sectors in 12...

SCCI Receives Grant for HTS Wire.
September 1, 2001... Superconductive Components, Inc. has announced it has received a $300,000 Phase IIB Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Science Foundation. The purpose of this grant is to develop an advanced method to manufacture...

STI Files Response to ISCO's Patent Suit.
September 1, 2001... Superconductor Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCON) (STI), has announced that it has filed an Answer and Counterclaim to the complaint of ISCO International, Inc. (ISCO) filed on July 17, 2001 in the United States District Court for the District...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Saint-Gobain Buys Merit Abrasives.
September 1, 2001... Saint-Gobain Abrasives, Inc. has acquired Merit Abrasives, a manufacturer of specialty abrasive products. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Merit Abrasives employs approximately 180 people worldwide and has plants in Compton,...

Kanthal Consolidates SiC Element Business.
September 1, 2001... Kanthal has recently consolidated its silicon carbide element sales and distribution through its Niagara Falls Kanthal Globar division. Previously, the company had marketed only its U.S. manufactured Globar and Silit specification SiC elements...

Conductus Answers Infringement Complaint.
September 1, 2001... Conductus, Inc., a manufacturer of superconducting wireless systems, has announced that it has filed an answer and counterclaim to the complaint of ISCO International, Inc. (ISCO). The complaint, filed July 17, 2001, alleges that Conductus...

Ceradyne's Reports Stable Revenues.
September 1, 2001... Ceradyne, Inc. has reported sales and earnings for the second quarter and 6 mo. ended June 30, 2001. Sales for the quarter were $11.1 million compared with $11.7 million in the prior-year second quarter. Net income was $1.3 million, or $0.15...

EDO Declares Regular Quarterly Dividend.
September 1, 2001... EDO Corp. announced that its board of directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend on its common stock of $0.03/share, payable on September 28, 2001, to shareholders of record at the close of business September 7, 2001. James M. Smith,...

Record Revenue for Cree.
September 1, 2001... Cree, Inc. reported record revenue for the year of $177,227,000, an increase of 63%, compared with revenue of $108,562,000 in the prior year. Product revenue increased 65% to $159,533,000 over the $96,742,000 reported in the prior year. Net...

CoorsTek Hits Sales Target.
September 1, 2001... CoorsTek, Inc. announced that the company achieved its second quarter 2001 revenue target of $104.1 million. For the second quarter ending June 30, 2000, the Company's revenue totaled $127.4 million. This decrease is attributable to the...

Intermagnetics Exceeds Targets.
September 1, 2001... Intermagnetics General Corp. (Nasdaq: IMGC) has reported that record sales, fueled by ongoing strong product demand, drove a 26% increase in fourth-quarter net income to $2.6 million, or $0.16 per diluted share, from $2.1 million, or $0.14 per...

ISCO Reports Improved Results.
September 1, 2001... ISCO reported consolidated net revenues of $1,374,000 for the quarter ending June 30, 2001, versus $15,000 during the comparable period of 2000. For the 6-mo. period ending June 30, 2001, consolidated net revenues were $1,886,000, versus...

Sales Down for American Technical.
September 1, 2001... American Technical Ceramics Corp. announced its fourth fiscal quarter and year-end results. Net sales for the quarter ended June 30, 2001, decreased 11% to $19,003,000 from $21,384,000 in the quarter ended June 30, 2000. Net income amounted to...

CALENDAR.
September 1, 2001... October 14-17, 2001. Fine, Ultrafine, and Nano Particles 2001, Holiday Inn Chicago City Centre, Downtown Chicago, IL. Contact: Business Communications Co., 25 Van Zant St., Norwalk, CT 06855; Tel: 203/853-4266, Fax: 203/853-0348; Email:...