Thoughtventions creates, develops and sells commercial research equipment, specializing in furnaces, vacuum equipment, sapphire products, and optical products. Our goal is to perform and assist Research and Development on a broad range of topics in the Applied Physical Sciences, including fluid mechanics, heat transfer, propulsion, sensors, vacuum, materials and materials processing, optics, and other topics.
Leading Products
1200 °C Transparent Furnace Thoughtventions offers a gold-coated transparent furnace that operates stably at 1200 °C with precision temperature control and computer data acquisition in a variety of sizes. The High Temperature Transparent Furnace shown left is a resistively heated, gold-coated quartz tube furnace that is operating at 1200 °C. This is a commercial product that has been sold and successfully operated by a major international laboratory. Contact Thoughtventions with furnace specifications for a quote.
| - | Temperature | Pressure | Atmosphere | Size (Internal Volume) | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Specifications | Up to 1200 °C | Up to 1 atm | Air, Inert, Vacuum | 500 cm3 | As low as $5000 |
High Temperature High Pressure Air Furnaces Thoughtventions offers a wide variety of High Pressure (up to 1350 bar) High Temperature (up to 1800 °C) low power air furnaces. Custom and semi-custom furnaces of this type can be purchased at a customer specified maximum pressure and temperature. Contact Thoughtventions with furnace specifications for a quote.
| - | Temperature | Pressure | Atmosphere | Size (Internal Volume) | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Specifications | Up to 1800 °C | Up to 1350 atm | Air | 500 cm3 | As low as $10000 |
High Temperature High Pressure Sapphire Viewports Thoughtventions offers High Pressure High Temperature sapphire viewports of a broad range of sizes. Custom and semi-custom viewports can be ordered with with specified pressures, temperatures, and viewing diameters. Thoughtventions has made sapphire viewports with all metal fittings, KF fittings and with water cooling. Contact Thoughtventions with your target viewport specifications for a quote.
| - | Temperature | Pressure | Atmosphere | Viewing Diameter | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Specifications | Up to 1500 °C | Up to 425 atm | Any | Up to 20 cm | As low as $500 |
Research at TvU
Thoughtventions performs a wide variety of research in the applied physical sciences. Published work of the company founder and owner Stephen C. Bates can be found here and an overview of Thoughventions' technical areas of expertise can be found here.
Past Work of TvU
Since 1993 Thoughventions has performed many government research programs and built furnaces for hundreds of customers, listed in our company's Customer List. A full listing of Thoughventions' past research project descriptions, furnaces, customers, and other documents, is available here.