Centorr Vacuum, Nashua, N.H., has received orders for six furnaces in the Workhorse product line for various applications in the precision processing of metals in heat treating, brazing, and annealing applications.
New technology for evaporating metals at low temperatures
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, researchers have invented a cheaper, safer, and simpler technology that will allow a group of metals and metal oxides to evaporate at temperatures lower than 200 C, much lower than current working temperatures.
One Minute Mentor: Effect of copper content on powder metallurgy hardenability
The most important function of alloying elements in heat treatable steels is to increase hardenability, whether for quench and tempering or sinter hardening. Adding copper increases both hardness and tensile strength in the sintered condition.
Seco/Vacuum sells two Vector furnaces to Australian Defense
Seco/Vacuum, Meadville, Pa., has sold two new Vector single chamber high-pressure quench vacuum to the Australian defense industry through HTA. These will go to the Melbourne and Sydney commercial heat treatment facilities to provide expanded processing capabilities.
Extremely high thermal conductivity interfacial material for large electronics packages
Amkor Technology, Incheon, Korea, has demonstrated three new types of thermal interfacial materials (TIM) with high thermal conductivity (> 20W/mK). Workability and reliability test results for metal sheet TIM (60W/mK), graphite sheet TIM (24W/mK), and silver (Ag) sintered TIM (50W/mK) have been presented in a new paper.