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Glastonbury, CT 06033
Tel: (860) 657-9014
Email: thought@Thoughtventions.com
Customer Furnace List by Product - Alphabetic Customer List
Clemson University, Clemson, SC - Air Quench Furnace - Quickly drops a vertically suspended sample heated to 1200°C in a tube furnace, down into a flowing air quench zone.
Clemson University, Clemson, SC - Microscopic droplet air Imaging Furnace, with Sample Image of a 4 mm diameter screw head at 600°C with optical filtering.
Meller Optics, Providence, RI - Sapphire annealing furnace.
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Physics of Materials, Brno, Czech Republic - Any gas Vacuum/Gas Furnace where the heated sample can be rapidly inserted into or withdrawn from a 1200°C maximum environment.
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM - Fast Furnace with sample temperature monitoring.
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Physical Optics Corporation, Torrance, CA
II-VI Inc., Saxonburg, PA, - Getter Furnace - Vacuum Furnace that eliminates specific gases from an ultra high vacuum environment through a heated gettering material.
Clemson University, SC - Microscopic droplet air Imaging Furnace, with Sample Image of a 4 mm diameter screw head at 600°C with optical filtering.
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada - High Temperature Inert Gas Imaging Furnace - Provides imaging access to an inert gas environment up to 1450°C through a sapphire tube.
Tyndall Institute UCC, Cork, Ireland 0.5 Tesla Annealing Furnace - High magnetic field furnace system for annealing materials at high magnetic field and temperatures up to 600°C
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada - High Pressure, High Temperature Furnace - Furnace system for materials studies up to 1800°C and 2300 psig/150 atm.
IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India
Osram Corporation, Hillsboro, NH - 1,000 psi, 1700°C tube furnace.
Sporian Microsystems Inc., Lafayette, CO - 1,000 psi, 1600°C tube furnace.
University of Houston, Houston, TX
University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, - 3,000 psi, 800°C tube furnace
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
JSC "Svetlana-Optoelectronica," Saint-Petersburg, Russia - Tungsten coil furnace.
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL - Inert Gas High Temperature Furnace. Tungsten coil furnace with tungsten heat shields for high temperature temperature calibration experiments.
Apel Laser s.r.l., Bucharest, Romania
Bandung Polytechnic for Manufacturing, Bandung, Indonesia
Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
TIAX Inc., Cambridge, MA - Low cost, 1800°C Vacuum Minifurnace, complete operating apparatus shown; the minifurnace is contained within a 6" long conflat tube.
University of Bristol, Bristol, England
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, WI
Blue Square Energy, North East, MD - 2-Zone Silicon Refining Furnace operating at 1500°C.
CINVESTAV-IPN, Col.San Pedro Zacatenco, Mexico DF - 1200°C Vacuum/Gas Furnace fitted to conflat flanges, designed for high vacuum operation.
Clemson University, Clemson, SC - Oil Quench Furnace - Quickly drops a vertically suspended sample heated to up to 1800°C in a tube furnace, down into a oil quench bath.
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada - High Temperature Inert Gas Imaging Furnace - Provides imaging access to an inert gas environment up to 1450°C through a sapphire tube. The furnace gas isolation tube is made from a alumina/sapphire tube sandwich. Also shown is the sample holder tube and airlock apparatus at the top.
DOE/NETL, Morgantown, WV
JSC "Svetlana-Optoelectronica," Saint-Petersburg, Russia - High Temperature Tube Furnace for treating materials under special gas atmospheres.
MTI Corp., Richmond, CA - 2000°C metal hot zone furnace.
NASA Kennedy Space Center, Orlando, FL - 1500°C Vacuum/Inert Gas Furnace.
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL - 1600°C Vacuum Furnace.
Syracuse Orthopedic, Syracuse, NY - Used Metal Hot Zone Furnace operating to 2000°C. The unique aspect of this apparatus is its self contained cooling system - no external cooling water required!
Theseus Labs S. R. O. Prague, Czech Republic - 1600°C SiC growth furnace (paid 47k$ of 70k$ contract)
University of Texas Austin, Austin, TX - 1600°C Vacuum/Inert Gas Furnace.
University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia - High Vacuum 1600°C Furnace
Spanish National Research Council, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain - Microsphere Condensation Flow Furnace
Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Buenos Aires, Argentina - Controlled, High Heating Rate Furnace using mirror radiant heat focusing of high power lamps and a special, ultra-fast temperature controller to achieve >30°C per second linear heating rates.
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Visualization Furnace
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI - 700°C Optical Breakdown Test Furnace
NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, 1100°C Transparent Furnace for reduction of lunar stimulant powder.
Clemson University, Clemson, SC - Air Quench Furnace - Quickly drops a vertically suspended sample heated to 1200°C in a tube furnace, down into a flowing air quench zone.
Clemson University, Clemson, SC - Oil Quench Furnace - Quickly drops a vertically suspended sample heated to up to 1800°C in a tube furnace, down into a oil quench bath.
Queen's University, Kingston, Canada - Quench Furnace
Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson AFB, OH - Vibration Test Furnace System (image shows the vacuum chamber/furnace enclosure - large shaker unit placed below this) to test electronics at 1000°C in a variety of environmental conditions, including vacuum.
Fraunhofer-Institut fur Optronik, Ettinggen, Germany, single zone 1200°C furnace
General Electric China, Shanghai, China - Vertical, 3-zone gold coated tube 1200°C Transparent Furnace.
Fudan University, Shanghai, P.R. China - 3-zone gold coated tube 1200°C Transparent Furnace.
Hewlett Packard Corporation, Palo Alto, CA
Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea 3-zone gold coated tube 1200°C Transparent Furnace with crystal growth very low speed Traverser.
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan - 3 zone, gold coated tub
Clemson University, Clemson, SC - Air Quench Furnace - Quickly drops a vertically suspended sample heated to 1200°C in a tube furnace, down into a flowing air quench zone.
Clemson University, Clemson, SC - Microscopic droplet air Imaging Furnace, with Sample Image of a 4 mm diameter screw head at 600°C with optical filtering.
Meller Optics, Providence, RI - Sapphire annealing furnace.
General Electric China, Shanghai, China - Vertical, 3-zone gold coated tube 1200°C Transparent Furnace.
Hewlett Packard Corporation, Palo Alto, CA
Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea 3-zone gold coated tube 1200°C Transparent Furnace with crystal growth very low speed Traverser.
Shanghai Institute of Ceramics/Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, P. R. China - 2-zone vertical, air furnace, gold coated tube 900°C
University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, TN - 2-zone vertical, air furnace, gold coated tube 900°C (2)
University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, TN - 3 zone, gold coated tube operating 1200°C Transparent Furnace
National Energy Technology Laboratory, US Dept. of Energy, Morgantown, West Virginia - single zone, air gold coated tube furnace 850°C
Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Shanghai, P. R. China - single zone, air gold coated tube furnace 850°C
Stanford University, Stanford CA - single zone, air gold coated tube furnace 700°C
Qingdao Sunred Equipment Manufacture Co, Qingdao, China - single zone, air gold coated tube furnace 850°C
DANA Canada Corp., Oakville, Ontario, Canada - 700°C Fully Transparent Furnace during test operation.
DOE/NETL, Morgantown, WV - 1000°C Fully Transparent Furnace operating.
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM - Multizone Fully Transparent Furnace setup.
National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Stanford University, Stanford, CA - single zone, air gold coated tube furnace 700°C
TFDesign(Pty) Ltd, Matieland, Republic of South Africa - Fully Transparent Furnace, to 700°C.
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX - long gradient furnace 350°C maximum.
II-VI Inc., Saxonburg, PA, - Getter Furnace - Vacuum Furnace that eliminates specific gases from an ultra high vacuum environment through a heated gettering material.
Clemson University, Clemson, SC - Oil Quench High Temperature Furnace - Drops a vertically suspended sample heated up to 1800°C in a tube furnace, down into an oil quench bath.
INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico, Catania, Italy - 1500°C Vacuum Pedestal Furnace
National Institute for Lasers, Plasma and Radiation Physics, Laboratory of Laser Photochemistry, Bucharest, Romania - High Vacuum, 1200°C Furnace System.
Total Friction Management LLC, Violaw, ID - 1600°C Vacuum Furnace
Coolescence, LLC, Boulder, CO - Basic 1200°C Vacuum Tube Furnace fitted to KF50 standard vacuum flanges.
Detector Electronics Corporation, Bloomington, MN - 2-zone, 1000°C alumina Tube Furnace operating under vacuum or any gas with an insulated Trolley to move parts into the furnace and between zones.
Etalim, Inc., Vancouver, BC, Canada - 1200°C vacuum tube furnace.
International Atomic Energy Agency, Culham, England - Double walled 1200°C Vacuum/Gas Furnace to treat radioactive gases.
Walter Schottky Institute, Garching, Germany - Vacuum/Gas Furnace with air lock for heat treating materials in toxic gases.
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - 1200°C Low Flow Nitrogen Preheater
Last updated: April 2023
