Thermic Edge Ltd is a design and manufacturing business with specialist knowledge of every kind of laboratory heating applications, from basic elements or sample heaters, to complete hot stages with rotation, manipulation and substrate bias. We have standard ranges of stand alone sample heaters and flange mounted sample heaters with feedthroughs incorporated. Our sample heaters and hot stages are used in a very wide range of laboratory applications including, PVD sputtering, thermal deposition, e-beam, CVD, MOCVD, PLD, ion beam implanters, carbon nanotubes and graphene growth.
Thermic Edge Ltd can offer a range of sample heater controllers to accurately control any kind of hot stage or sample heater. Heater controllers are fitted with Eurotherm PID temperature controllers as standard, but we can incorporate any type of controller that our customers might specify.
Thermic Edge Ltd also has a range of high temperature laboratory vacuum / inert atmosphere furnaces with graphite hot zones. These furnaces can heat a crucible or wafer to 2100C. All furnaces are plc controlled and are fully interlocked, with simple one button pump / vent operation. A choice of PID temperature controllers enables a high degree of control and programmable temperature ramping and cooling functions. Dual zone temperature control on flat wafer furnaces gives very high uniformity across the substrate.
We can offer a complete range of technical ceramic materials and components including Shapal, Macor, Alumina, Boron Nitride, Aluminium nitride and Quartz. We can also offer CVD produced ceramics such as pyrotytic boron nitride PBN and pyrolytic graphite.
Tornado Spectral Systems designs, manufactures, and sells dispersive optical spectrometers and systems primarily for Raman spectroscopy and spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT). Raman spectroscopy is a powerful analytical technique but Raman systems have traditionally been limited by a lack of sensitivity due to the input slit trade-off between resolution and throughput. Tornado’s proprietary high throughput virtual slit (HTVS™) design technique eliminates spectrometer slit losses while maintaining high spectral resolution, resulting in an order of magnitude improvement in sensitivity. Tornado's HyperFlux™ HTVS-enabled spectrometers and spectroscopy systems are the perfect solutions for lab and process Raman as well as many other spectroscopy applications. With higher sensitivity than ever before possible, they provide faster measurement for dynamic reactions and transient features, more accurate chemical identification and quantitation even with challenging mixtures and low concentrations, and low laser power operation in hazardous environments. Tornado's knowledge and expertise in dispersive spectroscopy has also been applied to SD-OCT, for which a spectrometer is a key component of the instrumentation. OCT-Prime is a small, robust, and high-performance solution ideally suited for ophthalmic imaging and other medical and industrial measurement applications. Discover how Tornado’s spectroscopy solutions can improve your quality, efficiency, and economics!
Tower Optical Corporation is a premier manufacturer of high quality precision optics. Its stock and build to print custom products are used in leading edge photonics technology, electro-optics, lasers, telecommunications, medical instruments, optical imaging and optical computing. Products include, but are not limited to, crystal quartz waveplates and achromatic waveplates (retarders), lenses, prisms, beamsplitters, windows, mirrors, and assemblies.
Founded in 1978, Tower has operated under its present ownership since 1997. Its customers represent a broad variety of companies and industries including aerospace, government labs, industrial, medical, university researchers and key U.S. Department of Defense contractors. Tower is registered with the U.S. State Department for ITAR export licenses.
Technical Capabilities:
Surface Grinding, Edging, Grinding, Beveling and Generating Lapping/Fine Grinding - Fixed and Loose Abrasive Polishing - Spindle, Planetary, 2 Angstroms RMS, Double sided Polishing, Slicing, Dicing and Slotting.
Testing: Phase Measuring Interferometry, Laser Sensor Technology for sub-micron precision measurements, Non-Contact Video Microscope for dimensional measurements, Laser Damage, Retardation (polarization), Spectrophotometry and Environmental Testing
Coatings: Anti-Reflection, Reflective, Partial Reflective High Laser Damage; Beamsplitter and Filter Coatings: Dichroic; Metal Coatings: Aluminum (protected and enhanced), Silver and Gold; Broadband and Narrow Band Dichroic coatings for UV, VIS, NIR and IR; Wavelength Range: 193 nm to 10.6 microns
Optical Materials: NBK7,H-K9L,Fused Silica (UV and NIR), Crystal Quartz, Lead-free, RoHs compliant optical glass (many types), CaF2, MgF2, Zerodur, Sapphire, Ge, Si, SiC, All Commercially available Optical materials.
For nearly 50 years, TREK , INC. has been providing innovative electrostatic measurement and high-voltage power solutions to customers worldwide. Trek's superior engineering design capability and manufacturing facilities allow us to provide high quality, cost-effective products and services to meet market needs and customer-specific applications.
Our proprietary technology and technical expertise, coupled with our long-term relationships, sets us apart from our competitors and has made us the leader in the markets we serve.
Trek's commitment to develop new technologies will enable us to continue to provide current and future customers with innovative solutions.
A significant portion of Trek's business is derived from the design and manufacture of custom products for OEM customers. Trek has been supplying solutions to some of these customers for over 20 years. Although we cannot disclose information about our custom OEM designs, the following provides some perspective on our capabilities. If this information interests you, please contact us to initiate a dialogue regarding your specific requirements for custom-designed product solutions.
Applications:
Electrophotography
ESD
Piezoelectronics
Research & Development
Semiconductor
Power Amplification
Metrology: These products are used for precision measurements of voltage and surface charge distributions; resistance and resistivity meters are also utilized.
Twente Solid State Technology (TSST) was founded in 1998 as a spin-off company from the University of Twente, and offers high quality thin film solutions. As a result TSST products can now be found around the world.
TSST wants to contribute to the progress in the worldwide scientific community of advanced thin film materials by providing state-of-the-art deposition equipment, with focus on pulsed laser deposition, and developing and sharing relevant expertise
The company is specialised in design and production of customised thin film deposition equipment, specifically Pulsed Laser Deposition equipment for advanced studies. An example is the use of Reflection High Energy Electron Diffraction (RHEED) under high-pressure conditions, which gives real-time information about the surface morphology during depositions.
Every system can be controlled through a central console, giving full control of all parameters involved. This allows the rapid replication of settings and depositions, which results a higher reliability in less time.
Apart from the equipment, the company also produces ceramic thin films, and offers services for research in the field of ceramic thin films, such as the surface treatment of ceramic substrates. TSST is able to provide these services due to the strong cooperation with the MESA+ institute at the University of Twente.
Founded in 2003, Ultratech/CambridgeNanoTech grew directly out one of the foremost atomic layer deposition (ALD) research groups in the world: the Gordon Lab at Harvard University.
With hundreds of systems shipped for research and development, Ultratech/CambridgeNanoTech has become the leading ALD supplier to academic and industrial institutions worldwide. Our Savannah ALD system has been used to produce hundreds of peer-reviewed academic papers.
We followed this success with the introduction of our Phoenix ALD system and will continue to expand our ALD and plasma-enhanced ALD systems to meet the ever-changing requirements of our customers.
Ultratech, Inc. (NASDAQGM:UTEK), founded in 1979, is a leader in both of its major technology markets—advanced packaging and laser processing. The company’s advanced packaging lithography systems deliver compelling yield gains and superior packaging performance at the industry’s lowest overall cost of ownership. Ultratech’s laser processing is an equally impressive technology which increases device yield, improves transistor performance and helps enable the production of the most advanced consumer electronic devices. These state-of-the- art technologies are considered by today’s leading chipmakers to be the gateway to future device generations.
University Wafer is a Leading Supplier of Silicon Wafers and other Substrates.
One of the most tedious processes in supplying the researchers with affordable substrates is quoting. In fact, it is so time consuming that most wafer supply firms won’t even quote a job for a small run, never-mind a single wafer.
Most researchers have experienced being ignored. They send a request, then they wait for the quote that never comes. They then send a follow-up email. And they wait some more. Finally the researcher makes the phone call. When the researcher tells the wafer vendor that they just want one wafer they are either hung-up on or provided with a ridiculously high quote and long lead-items.
But there is hope!
UniversityWafer, Inc. was created to cater to the researcher who wants small quantities and short lead-times. Our professional staff is trained to handle even the most difficult low volume requests and we pride ourselves on fast responses and turnaround.
Why buy in volume if you don't have to?!
Chris Baker
President
AVS Vacuum Furnace is manufactured to satisfy our customer's temperature and vacuum atmosphere requirements. AVS vacuum furnace allow various combinations of high temperatures up to 3000°C, high vacuum to 10-6torr, partial pressure gas atmospheres in the millitorr or torr ranges, and positive pressures up to 1 atmosphere (14.7 psig). AVS has in-house capabilities to fabricate graphite hot zones using soft felt or rigid g-board insulation, as well as non-particulate metal hot zones including stainless steel, nichrome, inconel, molybdenum or tungsten, when required.
AVS adherence to ASME codes allows AVS the confidence to offer the only standard 5 year chamber warranty in the industry. Vacuum furnace chambers are manufactured by certified AVS welders in our facility and, depending on requirements, can be fabricated from mild steel, 304 stainless steel or 316 stainless steel. The standard leak rate on an AVS vacuum chamber is 5µ/hour, but through the use of electro-polishing or with specialty coatings, can be fabricated to meet tighter specifications if required.
With the addition of a condenser system or hydrogen burn-off system, an AVS Vacuum Furnace can also allow for combination debinding and sintering. Debinding can be performed in positive pressures or partial pressures of flowing argon, nitrogen, hydrogen, or other inert or reactive gases or gas mixtures.
Vacuum Furnaces:
Sinter HIP Furnaces
Hot Press Furnaces
MIM Furnaces
CVD Furnaces
Hetherington Furnaces
Bell Style Furnaces
Debinding Furnaces
Zinc Reclaim Furnaces
Industrial Autoclaves
Custom Furnaces
VPT designs and manufactures thin film coating systems. Bottom line, that's what we do. But that doesn't really tell you who we are. We're the company our customers come to when a problem needs a fresh perspective. A new approach.
We listen. Add their input to our expertise and experience. And deliver the thin film coating solution that meets their unique need, solves their particular problem, in a way that only VPT can. It's what we call thinnovation. Chances are, you'll call it exactly what you've been looking for.
Across the country, and around the world, VPT has invested nearly 20 years serving customers in a broad range of markets. From solar to optics, display and imaging to health sciences, aerospace to defense. Our product line is equally broad, ranging from optical coaters and sputtering systems to control and planetary systems. We also offer custom systems and spare parts—and we're doing more and more technology consulting as our reputation continues to grow.
We're especially enthusiastic about our work in solar cell technology. Thin-film solar cells offer real cost and efficiency advantages over traditional silicon, and VPT is leading the way in high-performance, thin-film photovoltaic technology.
VPT is a member of the American Vacuum Society and the Society of Vacuum Coaters. And we'd like to be your partner in thinnovation.
Veeco creates process equipment that enables technologies for a cleaner and more productive world. We design, manufacture and market thin film equipment aligned with global trends, such as energy efficiency, mobility and the internet-of-things. We develop highly differentiated, best-in-class equipment for critical high-tech performance steps in thin film processing.
Veeco's process equipment is primarily used to make light emitting diodes (LEDs), power electronics, wireless devices, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), hard disk drives and semiconductors. We are the market leader in MOCVD, MBE, Ion Beam Etch and other advanced thin film process technologies. Veeco operates in 10 countries with approximately 800 employees worldwide.
Growing, depositing, etching and processing thin films is our core competency.
