High Tech Ceramics News articles from September 2004

High Tech Ceramics News archives from September 2004

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: SOI Market to Reach Billion Mark by 2008.
September 1, 2004... Over the last half-a-century or so, the electronics industry has relied on silicon as the foundation for all electronics-based products. To accommodate exponential growth demands for larger and faster transistors, chip designers and...

PROCESSING AND TECHNOLOGIES Piezoelectric Films by Direct-Write.
September 1, 2004... Piezoelectric thick films can be used to fabricate deices such as surface acoustic waves (SAW), pressure transducers, piezocomposites for medical imaging, microfluidic pumps, and many other miniature devices. Rutgers University researchers M....

METROLOGY AND ANALYSIS Malvern Introduces New Rheometers.
September 1, 2004... Malvern Instruments has introduced the new HPC 300 High Pressure/High Temperature Cell which can be mounted directly on to its Bohlin CVO, C-VOR and Gemini rheometers. The cell is designed to enable rheological measurements under conditions...

STRUCTURAL CERAMICS Ceradyne Wins Body Armor Contracts.
September 1, 2004... Ceradyne, Inc. received a new 36-month Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) government contract for lightweight ceramic body armor with a maximum value of approximately $461 million. The company also received an initial delivery...

Kyocera Introduces CERATIP Catalog.
September 1, 2004... Kyocera Industrial Ceramics Corp.'s CERATIP Cutting Tool Division, announced the introduction of a new expanded general catalog. The new cutting tool catalog features a full line of products for turning, boring, milling, drilling, grooving,...

POWDERS AND NANO CERAMICS Pure Alumina and Silica from Fly Ash.
September 1, 2004... Israeli scientists has developed an industrial process for the production of alumina and silica from fly ash by the burning of coal at the Electric Power station. The alumina products contain extremely low levels of sodium with the purity of...

Nanophase Offers Custom Synthesis.
September 1, 2004... Nanophase Technologies Corp. introduced NanoExpress Custom Synthesis for development of new nanocrystalline material samples. Responding to market needs, the company developed the capability to offer sample quantities of nanocrystalline metal...

DIAMOND PRODUCTS: Dover Acquires Polycrystalline Unit.
September 1, 2004... Dover Corp. announced that its Dover Resources subsidiary has completed the acquisition of US Synthetic Corporation, a supplier of polycrystalline diamond cutters (PDCs) used in drill bits for oil and gas exploration. Based in Orem, Utah, US...

ADVANCED GLASSES: Laser Softens Glass Semiconductor.
September 1, 2004... Scientists at Ohio State University have found that a special type of glass that is finding use in the electronics industry softens when exposed to very low-level laser light, and hardens back into its original condition when the light is...

Glass Blocks Heat, Not Light.
September 1, 2004... UK scientists have developed glass that blocks out heat but not light when a room starts getting excessively warm. At most room temperatures the glass lets both visible and infrared light pass through. But above 29C, a substance coating the...

PPG Introduces Reinforcement Mat.
September 1, 2004... PPG Industries has introduced MatVantage II binder-free, continuous strand fiber glass mat, a stitched product offering high tensile strength and a superior capability for the forming of complex parts. MatVantage II mat uses stitch bonding...

OPTICAL MATERIALS Guiding Light on a Nanoscale.
September 1, 2004... Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California at Berkeley demonstrated that semiconductor nanoribbons, single crystals measuring tens of hundreds of microns...

Digital Camera Has a Ceramic Lens.
September 1, 2004... Casio Computer Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan), announced that it has developed a first in the world transparent ceramics-lens equipped digital cameras. Casio said transparent ceramic lens-incorporated zoom lenses for digital camera will possible to...

BIOCERAMICS: Hip Replacements Undergo Clinical Trials.
September 1, 2004... A new type of artificial hip developed by UK scientists, more robust and longer lasting than conventional artificial joints, is to undergo clinical trials and could be available for patients within five years. These 'ceramic-on-metal' joints...

In Vivo Apatite Dental Material.
September 1, 2004... Swedish researchers H. Engqvist, L. Hermansson and L. Kraft (Doxa AB, Sweden) looked at the in vivo apatite formation on dental filling materials. In their study investigated if apatite is present on the surface of a bioactive mineral (calcium...

FILTERS AND MEMBRANES Porous Tube Will Clean Arsenic.
September 1, 2004... Millions of Indians from the state of West Bengal and Bangladeshis live under the threat of arsenic poisoning from contaminated naturally occurring ground water. This ground water serves the need for 80 percent drinking water in these areas,...

FUEL CELLS AND BATTERIES Altair Commences SBIR Project.
September 1, 2004... Altair Nanotechnologies Inc. announced that it has begun work on a development project entitled "SBIR Phase l: Carbon-Coated Nano- Structured Electrodes for Next-Generation Lithium-Ion Ultra Capacitors." The technology from Altair,...

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS: Cree to Expanding in North Carolina.
September 1, 2004... Cree, Inc. announced that it will expand its manufacturing and R&D operations in North Carolina with initial expansion activity beginning in the Fall of 2004. This expansion will be located in the Research Triangle area near the company's...

Ramtron to Debut Nonvolatile FRAM.
September 1, 2004... Ramtron International Corp. announced that the company will debut its nonvolatile ferroelectric random access memory (FRAM) products at Convergence 2004, scheduled from October 18th through 20th at the Cobo Center in Detroit, Michigan. Ramtron...

SUPERCONDUCTORS: AMSC Condenser in Ohio Grid.
September 1, 2004... American Superconductor Corp. announced the successful operation and testing of an advanced prototype SuperVAR synchronous condenser, generating 8 mega-VAR (MVAR) of reactive power on a continuous basis when synchronized with the First Energy...

Intermagnetics' Tests Power Valve Device.
September 1, 2004... Officers of Intermagnetics General Corp.'s Energy Technology subsidiary, SuperPower, Inc., in the presence of U. S. Senator Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) and other dignitaries, announced the successful proof-of-concept tests conducted on the Matrix...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Dover Adds Corning Frequency.
September 1, 2004... Diversified industrial manufacturer Dover Corp. completed the acquisition of industrial materials maker Corning Inc.'s frequency control division for an undisclosed sum. Corning Frequency Control will be integrated into Dover's Vectron...

Ceradyne Completes ESK Acquisition.
September 1, 2004... Ceradyne, Inc. completed the acquisition of ESK Ceramics GmbH & Co. KG, a Germany-based manufacturer of industrial technical ceramic powders and advanced technical ceramic products. The purchase price, including the amount paid to the...

Ceralink Moves to Rensselaer Tech Park.
September 1, 2004... Ceralink Inc. announced its move to a new location at the Rensselaer Technology Park in Troy, N.Y. This move represents a growing phase for Ceralink, as the company graduates from the Ceramics Corridor Innovation Center (CCIC) incubator in...

ACer Partners with Publisher.
September 1, 2004... The American Ceramic Society (ACerS) and Blackwell Publishing have announced a new publishing partnership. ACerS selected Blackwell Publishing, a global society publisher, to publish its two premier publications, the Journal of the American...

Companies Report Quarterly Results.
September 1, 2004... Here are some recent earnings reports in the ceramics industry: Superconductor Technologies Inc. reports that for the second quarter and six-months ended July 3, 2004 total net revenues were $6.3 million compared to $11.3 million for the...

Ceramics Committee Invites Opinion.
September 1, 2004... The American Society for Testing and Materials Advanced Ceramics Committee (C28) is working to enhance the services it provides to the advanced ceramics community. ASTM believes that the growth of many new applications of advanced ceramics...

CALENDAR.
September 1, 2004... September 12-16, 2004: 5th International Conference on High- Temperature Ceramic Matrix Composites, Red Lion Hotel, Seattle, Washington; Contact: American Ceramic Society, P.O. Box 6136, Westerville, OH 43086-6136, Tel: 614/890-4700, Fax:...