High Tech Ceramics News articles from September 2005

High Tech Ceramics News archives from September 2005

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: Gains Seen In Structural Ceramics.
September 1, 2005... Advanced ceramic materials constitute a mature technology with a very broad base of current and potential applications and a growing list of material compositions. Advanced ceramics are inorganic, nonmetallic materials with combinations of...

PROCESSING AND TECHNOLOGIES: Fluoropolymer Surface Enhancement Developed.
September 1, 2005... Surface Engineering Associates has developed a new nanolayer fluoropolymer surface enhancement for ceramics. Trade named, Fluoropolymer xR, it has been developed specifically for improving the surface properties of aluminum oxide, zirconia and...

Shenango Wins Funds for Upgrading.
September 1, 2005... Shenango Advanced Ceramics, a leader in designing and supplying made-to-order and stock kiln furniture, has received funding from the State of Pennsylvania for its to its existing New Castle, Pa., facility. Pennsylvania Governor Edward G....

STRUCTURAL CERAMICS: Simulation Shows Possibility of Pliable of Ceramics.
September 1, 2005... A discovery reported in the August 5 issue of Science could speed the design of materials that approach the hardness of diamond yet remain supple enough to be worked like metal. In a massive computer simulation involving 128 computer processors...

ArmorWorks Receives $5.5 Million Order.
September 1, 2005... ArmorWorks has received a $5.5 million contract to deliver 164 Light Weight Armor Replacement System (LWARS) kits for the U.S. Marine Corpss CH-46E helicopter. Work will be performed in Tempe, Ariz. for the Naval Air Systems Command based in...

Ceradyne Receives Armor Orders from the Navy.
September 1, 2005... Ceradyne, Inc. has received two orders totaling $5.6 million for its lightweight ceramic armor systems. A $1.6 million order was received from the U.S. Navy for ceramic armored seats for Navy helicopters, and a $4 million order was received for...

Armor Holdings Gets Orders for HMMWV Armor System.
September 1, 2005... Armor Holdings, Inc. received an order from AM General under a blanket purchase agreement for procurement of long-lead-items valued at $16.2 million for the intended production of armor systems for the M1151 and M1152 HMMWV variants. Armor...

Kyocera Introduces Micrograin Tool Inserts.
September 1, 2005... Kyocera Industrial Ceramics Corp., Cutting Tool Product Group, released its new KBN510 and KBN525 micro-grain CBN cutting tool grades. Both materials are designed for cutting hardened steels, a material widely used in the automotive industry;...

POWDERS AND NANO CERAMICS: Process Generates Mechanical, Thermal Energy.
September 1, 2005... Countries across the world continue to search for new ways to create energy. As current means for energy continue to deplete, thus making them more expensive to generate, governments are searching for new energy resources. Researchers at...

DIAMOND AND DLC PRODUCTS: Researchers Synthesize Diamond-Nanotube Composite.
September 1, 2005... Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have combined the world's hardest known material - diamond - with the world's strongest structural form - carbon nanotubes. This new process for "growing" diamond and...

DLC is As Smooth As Diamond.
September 1, 2005... Research by M. Moseler and P. Gumbsch at Fraunhofer Institute of Mechanics of Materials in Freiburg, Germany and C. Casiraghi, A. C. Ferrari, and J. Robertson at Cambridge University in Cambridge, UK, provides an explanation for the extreme...

ADVANCED GLASSESS: Schott Unveils Optical Glasses.
September 1, 2005... Schott North America, Inc. announced the availability of new lead- and arsenic-free glass types for use in optical systems for digital cameras, camcorders and projection units. Glasses free of both lead and arsenic are designated as N glass and...

SOLAR ENERGY DEVICES: CNT Diode for Solar Cells.
September 1, 2005... GE Global Research, the centralized research organization of the General Electric Co., disclosed the development of a carbon nanotube diode for use in developing cheaper solar energy. This is an improvement upon the original nanotube diode...

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS: EDO Receives Contract for Sonobuoy Launcher.
September 1, 2005... EDO Corp. has been selected to design and develop the sonobuoy- launcher system for the U.S. Navy's new P-8A Multi-mission Maritime Aircraft. The sonobuoy-launcher uses ceramic piezoelectric elements in its system. The contract was awarded by...

RF Transistors Tone Down The Noise.
September 1, 2005... Infineon Technologies Corp. claims that its new SiGe:C (Silicon- Germanium Carbon) B7HFe process technology shatters existing performance benchmarks for cost-effective RF semiconductor processes. This technology is the foundation for the latest...

Miniature SAW Duplexer Targets Wireless Mart.
September 1, 2005... Murata Electronics has developed a miniature SAW duplexer for wireless communication products using CDMA800 technology such as cell phones and laptops. The ultra-small SAW Duplexer series measures just 3.0 mm x 2.5 mm x 0.80 mm. The device's...

Here is the Worlds Tiniest Transistor.
September 1, 2005... A group of scientsts led by Prabhakar Bandaru from University of California, San Diego along with his collegue Sungho Jin, graduate student Chiara Daraio and Clemson University physicist Apparao M have created history by making the world's...

SUPERCONDUCTORS: HTS Ship Propulsion Passes Rigorous Tests.
September 1, 2005... American Superconductor Corp. announced that the prototype 5- megawatt (MW) High Temperature Superconductor (HTS) ship propulsion motor it designed, developed, and built for the United States Navy has successfully completed the Navy's rigorous...

SuperPower Announces Superconductor Milestone.
September 1, 2005... SuperPower Inc., the energy technology subsidiary of Intermagnetics General Corp., has achieved world record performance by carrying more than 100 amperes of current over a 206-meter length of second-generation (2G) high-temperature-...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Rath Performance Fibers Changes Name to Rath Inc.
September 1, 2005... Rath Performance Fibers, effective September 1, 2005, announced it changed its name to Rath Inc. to better reflect the companys identity in areas of refractories other than ceramic fibers. Rath Incorporated is the wholly owned subsidiary of...

Malvern Opens Offices in China.
September 1, 2005... Malvern Instruments, a leading supplier of analytical solutions for particle characterization and rheological applications, has opened a new head office in Shanghai for all its sales and marketing activities in China. Malvern began direct...

Alcoa to Double Alumina Capacity in Jamaica.
September 1, 2005... Alcoa has announced that its board of directors has approved plans for the company's Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals (AWAC) affiliate to join with the Government of Jamaica to expand the Jamalco alumina refinery in Clarendon, Jamaica. The...

CALENDAR.(Calendar)
September 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...

BRIEFS.
September 1, 2005... Brush Ceramics Increases Capacity. Brush Ceramic Products Inc., Tucson, Ariz., a leading manufacturer of high performance engineered materials for the global electronics market has increased manufacturing capacity at its Arizona facility to...

PERSONNEL.
September 1, 2005... ATRI Elects Wiber as Board Chairman. The board of directors of Alfred Technology Resources, Inc. (ATRI), which operates the Ceramics Corridor Innovation Centers (CCIC) program, recently announced the election of Thomas E. Wilber as chairman for...

FINANCIAL.
September 1, 2005... Intermagnetics Revenues Gain. Intermagnetics General Corporation (Nasdaq: IMGC) has reported that fourth-quarter normalized net income increased to $8.1 million, or $0.29 per diluted share- excluding acquisition and integration-related...

TECHNOLOGY INSIGHT: New n-Type Diamond Semiconductor Synthesized.
September 1, 2005... Contributed by Diamond Research Center (DRC), The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Tsukuba Central 2, 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 05-8568, Japan, Tel: +81-29-861-2770 For implementing electron...

Background.
September 1, 2005... Besides the top value in the family of gems, diamond has a number of merits in some physical properties, such as topmost hardness, exquisite thermal conductivity, extremely high breakdown voltage, broad transmission wavelength band, and superb...

History of Research.
September 1, 2005... The DRC-AIST has been engaged in the study on the element technologies required for the development of diamond-based semiconductors, such as synthesis of high quality diamond semiconductor, synthesis of both p- and n-type diamond...

Details of Research.
September 1, 2005... Vapor Deposition Process for Diamond. The diamond semiconductor is synthesized through the microwave chemical vapor deposition (CVD) using methane diluted with hydrogen as source gas. The substrate is prepared on the basis of a diamond...

WHO'S WHO.
September 1, 2005... William J. Perciballi, Promoting Ceramics Usage in the Military HTCN interviewed William Perciballi, President, Chief Executive Officer of ArmorWorks, LLC. combined engineering acumen with extensive military experience, to create one of the...