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Multi-CF™ Product Line Overview

 Vacuum Chamber Benefits

  • Accessibility and versatility
    • High number of ports allow great experimental access
    • Multi-port vacuum chambers
  • UHV performance
    • Highly polished 316L stainless steel
    • Contoured inside surfaces
    • Greater conductance with larger ID CF ports
    • Compactness reduces pumping requriements
    • Chambers have minimal welds
  • Space saving – Compact
    • Maximize internal volume
    • Accommodate a great amount of experimental apparatus in a small space
    • Reduced pumping requirements
    • Lighter and more portable
    • Miniature vacuum chambers
  • Precision - Port alignment of < 0.1 degree
  • Custom chambers available (including Titanium)

 

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Internal Mounting System

What is it?

  • Devices to mount apparatus in chambers

How does it work?

  • Apparatus attaches to Groove Grabbers™
  • Groove Grabbers™ lock into grooves on Kimball Physics ports

What are the benefits?

  • Mount almost anything
  • Save set-up time
  • Re-arrangeable; re-usable
  • Bakeable; no virtual leaks
  • Rigid, high precision
  • Mates with Kimball Physics eV Parts®
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External Mounting System
Patent Pending

What is it?

  • Clamps which mount CF components on tables

How does it work?

  • Clamps attach to OD grooves in Kimball Physics ports
  • The clamps then mate to standard optical table hardware (shown in dark gray), which mount to the tables.

What are the benefits?

  • Rigid. Mates with standard optical table hardware.
  • Allows for CF rotation during set-up/clamp down
  • No need for custom machining.
  • Precise alignments

 

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Specialty Fittings / Flanges

Thin Flanges

  • Spacer flanges; imports Groove Grabbers™

Weldable Clusters

  • Large instrument housing with weldable port

Perimeter Weld Flanges

  • Weldable CF flange with oversized conical bore

Flange Multiplexers

  • Instrument housings
  • Facilitates quick experimental set-ups & changeovers

Flange Crosses

  • 2- and 4-way flange crosses

Flange Adaptors

  • Imports Groove Grabbers™ to UHV System

Close Couplers

  • Joins CF components in minimal length

Mounting Flanges

  • Mounts CF systems to optical tables

 

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Summary of Major Benefits of Multi-CF™ Product Line

  • Accessibility & Versatility
    • High port densities & larger CF ID’s allow greater access for probes, optics, feedthroughs and other experimental apparatus
  • Convenience / Time-Saving
    • Unique & practical Internal Mounting System and flange multiplexers make it easier to set up & modify experiments
    • External Mounting System makes it easier to secure hardware
    • Double density bolt holes allow for greater adjustments
  • UHV Performance
    • Compact chambers with minimal welds
    • Larger CF IDs for greater conductance & physical access
    • Highly polished 316L surfaces
    • Spherical designs eliminate internal corners that could trap contaminants
  • Space Saving / Compact
    • Unique designs allow a great amount of experimental apparatus to be packed in a small space
    • Spherical designs maximize volume to surface ratios
  • Cost Savings
    • Improved UHV performance and compactness reduces pumping requirements
    • Off-the-shelf mounting apparatus reduces the need for special machining
    • High port densities accommodates changes in experimental set-ups, often eliminating the need for new chambers
    • Compactness results in improved instrument performance, lighter systems, better rigidity and almost always lower costs

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