We design, build, upgrade, and decommission vacuum and thin-film processing systems — and license a growing portfolio of technologies born in our own laboratory work.
Click any service for details. Every one is backed by hardware we've built, run, and maintained ourselves.
Modern computerized control for existing chambers — PID loops, interlocks, recipes, and data logging.
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Vacuum systems for thin-film deposition, engineered to your process, footprint, and budget.
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Purpose-built close-space sublimation and sputtering systems for R&D and pilot production.
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Graphite and custom-designed heaters for high-temperature vacuum processing — designed, fabricated, validated.
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Safe teardown, toxic-material handling, and refurbishment of systems and facilities for a fresh use.
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Deposition and device-process troubleshooting backed by decades of hands-on experience.
Learn moreTechnologies developed through our research, available for licensing and co-development. Technical details are shared under NDA.
License options for advanced CdTe solar technology developed at a leading research university.
An advanced doping approach for higher-performance CdTe devices.
Coating technology for biomedical implants that resists microbial colonization and fouling.
A novel heating approach for thin-film deposition with the potential to reshape thermal budgets.
Hull painting without dry-docking — semifinalist in an international maritime pitch competition.
New technologies are added as our research advances. Ask about the current portfolio.
Where indicated, technologies are patent-pending or in preparation for filing. Technical details are disclosed only under confidentiality agreements.
We're cataloging our extensive stock of vacuum and thin-film processing components — fittings, feedthroughs, sources, heaters, surplus equipment, and more. Organized for findability, priced for researchers.
Most working vacuum systems are decades old and controlled by knobs, chart recorders, or aging PLCs. We retrofit modern computerized control without replacing the hardware that already works.
From bell jars to multi-source research systems, we design and build vacuum deposition systems — and give tired ones a second life. Pumping, sources, substrate handling, thermal design, and controls, engineered as a whole.
Close-space sublimation is our home turf — the workhorse process behind high-throughput CdTe — and we build sputter tools with the same philosophy: match the tool to the film you actually need to grow.
High-temperature vacuum processing lives and dies by its heaters. We design and fabricate graphite and specialty heaters — pictured mid-fabrication in our shop — for sources, substrates, and process zones.
Systems and facilities that have processed toxic materials need expert handling at end of life — or before a new use. We decontaminate, decommission, and dispose responsibly, or refurbish equipment and spaces for a clean second act.
Uniformity drift, adhesion failures, mystery contamination, efficiency loss — thin-film problems are physics problems wearing disguises. We've fabricated over 300,000 devices; chances are we've met your problem before.
