Product Overview

Multi-CF™ Product Line Overview

 Vacuum Chamber Benefits:

• Accessibility and versatility
  • High # of ports allow great experimental access
• UHV performance
  • Most chambers have no welds
  • No inside corners
  • Greater conductance with larger ID CF ports
  • Mirror-finished 316L stainless steel
  • Compactness reduces pumping requriements
• Space saving – Compact
  
  • Maximize internal volume
  • Accommodate a great amount of experimental apparatus in a small space
  • Reduced pumping requirements
  • Lighter and more portable
• 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^TM
• Groove Grabbers^TM 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

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 few or no 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.