December 19, 2006 A high-technology ceramic coating originally developed for the nuclear industry and already used by five Formula One teams is now available for automotive applications. Applied to ...

Materials that can withstand very high temperatures well over 2000 degrees (up to 3000 degrees celsius) can enable hypersonic vehicle, better rockets, better reentry vehicles and other space and ...

A series of stacked-ceramic capacitors specially designed for SMPSs features the thermal performance of conventional ceramics without their mechanical drawbacks, enabling higher reliability and ...

Ultrasonic-assisted hot pressing (UAHP) has shown significant potential in enhancing both densification and mechanical ...

Researchers in the UK and around the world are currently working on prototype technologies that could enable new types of aircraft to travel at hypersonic speeds – five times faster than the speed of ...

Ceramics could be applied more widely following the development of a patent-pending method that makes them more plastically deformable at room temperature. Haiyan Wang (left), the Basil S. Turner ...

In theory, ceramics are great materials for encasing electronics. They’re tough, they insulate against electricity, protect against heat, and in the case of implants in the body, they’re biocompatible ...

Negative temperature coefficient (NTC) ceramics and thin films represent a pivotal class of materials in modern electronics, where their intrinsic property of decreasing electrical resistance with ...

No cracks: the ceramic welding system in action. (Courtesy: David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering) A low-power pulsed laser has been used to weld ceramic materials together in ...

This tutorial explains how ceramic capacitor type designations, such as X7R and Y5V, imply nothing about voltage coefficients. Engineers must check the data to know, really know, how a specific ...