Products and Services Supporting Research and Higher Education
The products and services S & D Materials supplies are also used in the development of leading edge technologies. Silicon and sapphire wafer substrates; protective screens and covers; waveguides, filters and imaging systems; the fields of astrophysics, nanotechnology, and astronomy; exotic materials like graphene; galactic space exploration and voyages to the bottom of the sea: S & D supports them all and more in the pre-production development phase that can involve small runs and new processes.
S & D welcomes the unique needs of the technology pioneers in R & D labs and Institutes of Higher Education worldwide.
| SOLUTIONS FOR R&D and HIGHER ED | ||
|---|---|---|
| TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION | PRODUCT / SERVICE | USE / APPLICATION |
| Sapphire Solutions | Wafers – 2”, 4”, 6”, 12” Windows, screen, plates Domes, tubes, prisms, pins Lenses, filters, optics components |
Device growth Waveguide, waveplate Optics protection Light & energy manipulation |
| Optical Materials | Wafers – SiC, Silicon Elements -Disks, plates, rings Caf2, MgF2, quartz, ruby |
Device growth, energy storage Optical components – filters, lenses Various optical components |
| Coating Solutions | Anti-reflective, Band-pass filters – long, short Oleophobic, hydrophobic |
Eye safe protection Cloaking optics Deposition inhibitor |
| Ferrofluidics | Rotary gas unions Feedthroughs Magnetic fluid |
High efficiency power transfer High vacuum, rotational systems Ferrofluidic seal repair |