Thoughtventions Capabilities
Coating Equipment:
- Apparatus for vacuum evaporation internal gold coating of tubes
- Two multiported vacuum coating chambers with large diffusion pumps and high current feedthrus, rated 10-6 torr
Combustion:
- Variety of laminar and turbulent burners of different geometries
- Torches
- Compressed flammable gases
Cryogenics:
- Cryostat with optical access
- LHe, LN2 dewars
- Transfer lines
- Thermometry
Electrical:
- Electronics:
- 400MHz digital storage oscilloscope
- Standard oscilloscope
- Pulse Generator
- Frequency Generator
- High Precision Adjustable Power Supplies
- High Precision Multimeters
- Low Current Meters
- Photoelectric Sensors
- Amplifiers
- Power supplies
- Extensive breadboarding capabilities
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- Power Electrical:
- Multiple Transformers: 30 kW, 1000 A transformer, High Power 3 Phase Transformers 575, 480, 240, 120 VAC
- Variacs of 10, 20, 50 & 75 A capacities, 240 VAC and 120 VAC, 3 Phase 50 A Variac
- SCR Power Supplies up to 70 A
- Variety of high and low voltage controlled DC power supplies for supplying stable voltages and high currents
- Clip-on Ammeters
- High Current Shunts
- High Voltage Probes
- High Power Capacitors, Inductors, Power Factor Reactors
- Power resistors
Fabrication:
- Ceramics:
- Diamond circular saws
- Diamond band saw
- Diamond core drills
- Precision diamond table saw
- Diamond jig saw
- Diamond files
- Diamond point tooling
- Ceramic finishing materials
- Thoughtventions has a complete machine shop, including lathes, milling machines, and extensive associated equipment.
- Multiple Presses up to 20 ton
Furnaces:
- Able to test samples from high vacuum (10-9 torr) to 170 atm, Temperatures up to 2000 C, inert, air, reducing, and carbon atmospheres
Motors:
- Horsepower from low to 50 hp
- Speed from 1 mm/hr to 15,000 rpm
Materials and Chemicals:
- Rare metals
- Precious metals
- Polishing materials
- Optical materials
- Ceramic insulation and glues
- Specialized chemicals, solvents, flameproof storage
- Hazardous chemical handling and storage equipment
Materials Inspection, Handling, and Testing Equipment:
- Controlled atmosphere glovebox
- Hood and vent systems
- Ultrasonic cleaners
- Precision balances
- High power stereo microscopes
- Polishing Equipment:
- 2 Strasbaugh polishing machines with polishing apparatus
- Planetary lapping machine, manual polishing equipment
- Vibrating polisher with various media
- Buffing wheels
- Polishing supplies including abrasive material, dops, etc.
Optics:
- Fiber Optics:
- Wide variety of fibers: sapphire, quartz, glass, plastic
- Fiber polishing equipment
- Fiber test optical mounts
- Fiber Fixturing devices
- Fiber Focussing optics
- Filters:
- Neutral density filters
- Narrow Bandpass filters
- Polarization Filters
- Lenses:
- Simple cylindrical and spherical lenses of varying focal lengths
- C-mount camera lenses
- Light Sources:
- 15W CO2 laser
- Low power HeNe lasers
- Arc lamps
- Compact arc flash lamps
- High power halogen lamps
- Mercury UV lamp
- Tungsten filament lamps
- Fiber optic illuminators
- Mirrors:
- Elliptical focussing mirrors (low f-number)
- Gold coated mirrors
- Silvered mirrors
- Optical Diagnostics:
- Zoom stereo microscope 7 - 90X
- Near infrared (NIR) video camera for thermal imaging
- Precision radiant power meter, illumination meter, high speed intensity detector
- Optical Materials:
- Sapphire
- Quartz
- Glasses
- IR materials
- Optical cements
- Optical Mounting Equipment:
- Optical bench
- Mounting and multiaxis translation apparatus
- Lens holders and multiaxis translation apparatus
Sensors:
- Vacuum to 10-10 torr
- Pressure to 670 atm
- Temperature to 2375°C (Thermocouple) inert/reducing/vacuum, 1800°C air with readouts
- Strain
- Laser Power
- Displacement: 1 µm to 1 m
- Temperature, 2 to 3000K
- Pressure: 10-9 torr to 150
- pH
- Gas flow rate: 0.1 to 500 lph
- Liquid flow rate: 0.1 to 50 lpm
- Acoustic pressure to 170 dB
Pressure:
Temperature:
- Intert gas: 2000°C
- Air: 1900°C, 2200°C under development
- Carbon atmosphere: 2200°C
- Vacuum
- 4 K
- Automatic temperature control
Vacuum:
- Vacuum to 10-9 torr
- Pumping rate:
- up to 250 l/s at 10-9
- up to 1030 l/s at 1 mtorr
- Volume: 20 cm ID x 110 cm long, 60 cm ID x 40, bell jar
- RGA to determine gas composition
- Optical access
- Rotary feedthrus
- Electrical feedthrus
- Feedthrus - electronic, shielded, high current, thermocouple
- KF/NW seal apparatus
- ISO seal apparatus
- LN2 baffles and traps
- Seal Types
- KF/NW
- ISO
- Conflat
- VCO, VCR, Parker Ultraseal
- O-ring
- Wire ring
- Vacuum Epoxy
- High temperature silicone
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