High Tech Ceramics News articles from September 2003

High Tech Ceramics News archives from September 2003

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: Display Materials on the Rise.
September 1, 2003... Advanced glasses constitute the major materials segment for electronic displays, which constitute one of the fastest growing worldwide technologies. Once reserved for televisions and computers and composed of large cathode ray tubes (CRT),...

NEW PRODUCTS AND TECHNOLOGIES Advanced Cerametrics Wins R&D 100 Award.
September 1, 2003... Advanced Cerametrics, Inc. (Lambertville, NJ) has been awarded an R&D Magazine 2003 R&D 100 Award for its smart, self-powered skis. The skis were developed jointly with the Head Spot Co. (Kennelbach, Austria). The skis have been available...

METROLOGY AND ANALYSIS Zetasizer Nano Strikes Gold.
September 1, 2003... Malvern Instruments' new Zetasizer Nano ZS particle characterization system has won Instrument Business Outlook's (IBO) 2003 Gold Award for excellence in analytical and life science instrument industrial design. Launched earlier this year, the...

POWDERS & NANO CERAMICS: Nano Bismuth Oxide Commercially Available.
September 1, 2003... Nanophase Technologies Corp. announced the commercial availability of bismuth oxide nanomaterials. The new bismuth oxide product is produced using NanoArc Synthesis technology, the company's most advanced nanomaterials manufacturing process....

Grants to Study Nano Social Impact.
September 1, 2003... The National Science Foundation has awarded two grants worth more than $1 million apiece to study societal implications of nanotechnology. David Baird, a philosopher at the University of South Carolina, leads a team that will set up ongoing...

Creating Nanocrystals Nature's Way.
September 1, 2003... Sandia researchers are developing complex nanomaterials that look strikingly similar to the microstructures of diatoms and seashells. The materials may have potential for a wide range of applications. Jun Liu, manager for the Department of...

STRUCTURAL CERAMICS: Ceradyne Wins New SAPI Order.
September 1, 2003... Ceradyne, Inc. announced that it has been awarded a new order for approximately $4.3 million of small arms protective inserts (SAPI) by the Defense Supply Center Philadelphia for the U.S. Army. Deliveries are scheduled to be completed by the...

COATINGS: Calcium Phosphate Layers on Titania Films.
September 1, 2003... The titania films formed by micro-arc oxidation (MAO) are known to have a good biocompatibility because a porous surface morphology is beneficial to bone tissue growth and enhanced anchorage of implant to bone. Researchers W. Song and S. Hong...

DIAMOND PRODUCTS: System for Milling Diamond Films.
September 1, 2003... Under a collaboration of two Singapore universities and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), researchers have performed milling diamond films with gallium beams. Diamond films, created by first installing tiny diamonds in a pitted...

BIOCERAMICS: Phase II Grant for Orthopedic Prostheses.
September 1, 2003... Spire Corp. has received a 2-year, $750,000 SBIR Phase II grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases to develop nanotechnology coatings. Under the grant, Spire will develop hard, extremely adherent...

Sandia Achieves Bone Substitute.
September 1, 2003... A scaffold-like ceramic structure has been developed by Sandia researchers as prosthetic device to replace the standard method of replacing bones. Made of hydroxyapatite, the structure is layered mesh that is stronger than bone, yet porous...

FUEL CELLS & BATTERIES: Battery Materials Exceed Standards.
September 1, 2003... Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. (Nasdaq SC:ALTI), a manufacturer of proprietary nanomaterials and nano-based products, reported that battery prototypes based on the company's nano-sized lithium titanate spinel, have been developed by Telecordia...

FILTERS & MEMBRANES: Membrane for Hydrogen Separation.
September 1, 2003... Japan Finer Ceramics Center (JFCC, Nagoya, Japan) with the support of New Energy & Industrial Technology Development Organization (Tokyo, Japan) has developed an all-ceramic membrane for hydrogen separation. Although palladium (Pd)-based alloy...

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS: Miniature Ceramic Chip Components.
September 1, 2003... Expanding circuit designers' options for EMI suppression, AVX Corp. has recently introduced a new series of miniature ceramic chip components. The W2H/W3H series combines capacitor and inductor elements in a single distributed constant circuit...

Cree APT Agree on Schottky Diode Die.
September 1, 2003... Cree, Inc. reached an agreement with Advanced Power Technology (Nasdaq: APTI) for the purchase of its SiC ZERO RECOVERY Schottky Diode die to be packaged and sold as finished products under the APT brand name. APT intends to primarily address...

New (Zn,Cr)Te Semiconductor Material.
September 1, 2003... The Nanoelectronics Research Institute (NeRI) of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) has developed a (Zn,Cr)Te ferromagnetic semiconductor that functions at the highest temperatures seen to date. Thus...

Toshiba to Use Applied Materials Low-k Films.
September 1, 2003... Toshiba Corp. has selected Applied Materials, Inc.'s Black Diamond and BLOk low-k dielectric films to be used for volume production of its advanced 90-nm CMOS4 process in the Toshiba Oita, Japan, facility. According to Toshiba, they will...

Vishay Puts the Fire Behind It.
September 1, 2003... Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE: VSH) announced that the company's Vishay Electro-Films division has exceeded revenue levels reached before the February 2002 fire at its Warwick, Rhode Island, facility. "The progress from the business...

SUPERCONDUCTORS: Superconductors Could Boost U.S. Power Grids.
September 1, 2003... The U.S. electric utility industry is tapping superconductivity to make a new generation of power lines it hopes will unclog the overworked grids serving New York and other big cities. Scientists and power engineers say breakthroughs in...

Looking Toward Large Films.
September 1, 2003... The film manufacturing method is a solution process that can be mass-produced at a low cost (coating pyrolysis process). The development of fault current limiters of the SN transition resistor type contributing to the stabilization of electric...

DOE Funding for HTS Cable Project.
September 1, 2003... Intermagnetics General Corp. (Nasdaq: IMGC) has announced that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will contribute $13 million toward the $26 million cost of a project designed to demonstrate technical and commercial viability of...

INDUSTRY NEWS: SMAHT Aquires COI's Monolithics.
September 1, 2003... SMAHT Ceramics, Inc. has acquired the monolithic ceramics operations of COI Ceramics, Inc. (COIC). SMAHT acquired substantially all of COIC's assets at the company's Salt Lake City, Utah, division, except for its ceramic fiber operations. The...

EDO Wins Navy Support Contract.
September 1, 2003... EDO Corp., a producer of piezoelectric systems, has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Navy's Space and Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) in San Diego. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract has a base year plus four...

Supercon Components Sales Down.
September 1, 2003... Superconductive Components, Inc., a manufacturer of advanced ceramics, optical materials, and high-temperature superconductive and non-superconductive products, reported results for the 3 months ended June 30, 2003. Dan Rooney, chairman...

CALENDAR.
September 1, 2003... October 13-16, 20003. Materials Solutions Conference & Exposition, Pittsburgh, PA. Organized by ASM International and co-hosted by the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT). Contact: ASM International, 9639 Kinsman Rd., Materials...