Morgan Advanced Materials has further extended its offering to the utilities sector with the addition of a range of ultra-wide bandwidth, high-sensitivity air coupled ceramic sensors for flow metering. The sensors offer an increase of magnitude in sensitivity compared with alternatives which are currently on the market, whilst maintaining and widening the bandwidth.

A further significant investment in Morgan Advanced Materials capability has been made to produce high-specification ceramic hydrocyclone liners at its manufacturing facility in Rugby, Warwickshire, UK, following unprecedented levels of demand from the oil & gas sector. The investment involves the recruitment of five new employees as well as additional kilning and grinding capacity to satisfy increased demand from South East Asian and Af...

  Test carried out by Morgan Advanced Materials on its proprietary range of Lead Zirconium Titanate (PZT) materials for deep sea applications are proving they can withstand pressures greater than any they are likely to encounter in deep sea use with no loss of performance.

An innovative silicon nitride coating for ceramic components is now available from Morgan Advanced Materials, across a variety of its oxide and non-oxide ceramic materials.

Morgan Advanced Materials has joined forces with a leading research university to investigate the use of alumina blocks in next-gen ultrasonic flow meters. Together, Morgan and Loughborough University's Advanced Ceramics Research Group are exploring the potential use of reflective alumina blocks in place of the stainless steel blocks which are currently widely used in these applications.

Designed to meet the exacting requirements of the global automotive sector, Morgan Advanced Materials has introduced a versatile new range of high-specification sensors. Designed for high-volume manufacture, the sensors can measure levels from as low as 5 to more than 250mm within fractions of a millimetre, making them suitable for applications including fuel tank gauging, oil level detection and gearbox oil measurement.

Morgan Advanced Materials has launched of a range of piezoelectric materials that deliver reliable sensing and monitoring in environments above 200ºC. Based on the proven properties of lead zirconate titanate (PZT), the materials are suitable for both vibration and pressure sensing in applications such as process & plant control, power generation, automotive and aerospace.

With options to significantly reduce contaminants that can be shed by graphite parts, Morgan Advanced Materials’ Specialty Graphite business, wants to help its customers within the semiconductor industry to operate in challenging environments with its Glassy Carbon Impregnation and Glassy Carbon Coating for custom-machined pure graphite products.

Morgan Advanced Materials has announced the availability of high purity Chemical Vapour Deposition (CVD) SiC, a material suitable for semiconductor equipment components. Morgan offers precision-machined RTP edge rings along with gas distribution plates and focus rings for plasma etching. Also available are Metal Organic CVD (MOCVD) components used to manufacture LED lights.

Morgan Advanced Materials and Sentronics have been working together to create a fuel flow sensor, providing motorsport manufacturers with accuracies of ±0.25% and helping to contribute to increased control over fuel consumption. Designed to promote efficiency in motorsport by measuring fuel flow as part of limiting total energy use, the sensor is appropriate for all categories of motor racing, including touring and rally cars

Morgan Advanced Materials’ Specialty Graphite business is helping customers within the semiconductor industry to operate in challenging environments with its Glassy Carbon Impregnation and Glassy Carbon Coating for custom-machined pure graphite products. Both options significantly reduce contaminants that can be shed by graphite parts.

As the design and build of the Bloodhound Supersonic Car (SSC) moves into the final few months before heading to South Africa to challenge the world land speed record, Morgan Advanced Materials has conducted specialist ballistic testing on the panels it has provided to form part of the driver cockpit.

Designed for ultrasonic flow metering, a 2MHz water coupled sensor has been released by Morgan Advanced Materials. The sensor, which is customisable for any liquid measurement application from water metering to fuel flow, provides a high receive signal over a very small area. Measuring only 20mm in diameter, the device offers space and material savings.

Morgan Advanced Materials has highlighted the benefits of its Active Brazing Alloy (ABA) process to join metals to ceramics in a variety of applications where conventional metallisation and brazing are either costly or impractical. The ABA process is currently used in specialist applications in sectors including medical and aerospace.

Morgan Advanced Materials has further enhanced its manufacturing capability for large components used in the development of ultra large PZT components to meet actuator demands from advanced technologies such as adaptive optics and deformable mirrors for aerospace, astronomy, commercial and defence applications and new generator designs for novel energy harvesting applications.

In response to demands for miniaturisation, Morgan Advanced Materials has further developed manufacturing capabilities using temperature stabilised dielectric materials with high permittivity for advanced substrate applications.

Morgan Advanced Materials’ ultrasonic flow sensors provide consistent readings across a temperature range of -10ºC to 120ºC that enable users to take precise measurements across a range of diverse applications and environments; including the oil and gas industry, large industrial ultrasonic flow systems and fuel measurement technologies.

Suitable for use in semiconductor applications, CVD SiC and PBN materials have been introduced by Morgan Advanced Materials. The applications in which the materials are suitable for include rapid thermal processing and plasma etch process chamber components. The materials can also be used as metalorganic CVD tools for high-brightness white LED manufacturing using the indium gallium nitride process. 

To extend the life of alumina or beryllia electrostatic chucks (ESCs), sacrificial wear layers have been released by Morgan Advanced Materials. The Diamonex technical hard-coats, which are applied as a final protective layer, extend the life of ESCs for semiconductor, solar and LED applications.

Suitable for rapid thermal processing and plasma etch process chamber components, Chemical Vapour Deposition (CVD) SiC and Pyrolytic Boron Nitride (PBN) materials have been introduced by Morgan Advanced Materials. The materials are also suitable as metalorganic CVD tools for high-brightness white LED manufacturing using the indium gallium nitride process.