Minus K’s negative-stiffness isolators provide superior isolation control and performance while offering better ease of use and no facility requirements. In order to achieve the lowest possible noise floor (on the order of an angstrom), isolation is always used.
Many of our clients' microscopes have nano and micro vibration isolation requirements that are unparalleled in the metrology world (for brain research and at NASA as examples).
The vertical axis can be the most sensitive factor, in addition to sensitivity to vibrations in the horizontal axes. Large air tables provide decent isolation vertically but are limited horizontally. Bench top air systems provide limited isolation vertically and very little isolation horizontally. Bungee systems are very good isolators but are extremely cumbersome and somewhat risky to use.
Minus K's negative-stiffness "passive" technology enables SEM, AFM, TEM, SPM, STM, STEM, NSOM-SNOM’s to achieve their highest level of performance. Our isolators and custom systems provide the performance of an ideal bungee system and the convenience of a bench top system without any of the problems associated with many of them, including air tables. We even have the flexibility of custom tailoring resonant frequencies vertically, horizontally and in tilt to your liking.
Whether our Tables, Workstations, Floor Platforms, Bench tops, Multi-isolator or Custom Systems, our isolators require No Air or Electricity for our signature 0.5 Hz vertical natural frequency.
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