Novel and Compound Glass

Equipment

• High Purity Tube Furnaces

• Sealed Ampoule Techniques

• Conventional Melt Quench

Thin film fabrication

Potential uses:

• Wavelength filters and multiplex
• All optical switching
• Waveguide lasers
• Memory devices
• Reconfigurable circuits
• Micro resonators
• Photonic crystals
• Plasmonics

New glass for emerging applications

• Furnaces

  • Wide range of horizontal and vertical tube furnaces, chamber furnaces, high and low temperature ovens, vacuum processing
  • Processing in dry nitrogen, argon, oxygen, SF6, hydrogen and hydrogen sulphide
  • Speciality heating including rapid thermal annealing and RF induction

Other processing equipment

• Hot Press

• Cutting and Polishing

• Ball Milling

• Mixing

• Vacuum Processing

• Plasma Asher

Key thermal measurements

• Thermogravimetric Analyzer (TGA)

  measures the change in mass of a sample as the sample is heated, cooled or held at a constant (isothermal) temperature.

• Thermomechanical Analyzer (TMA)

  measures dimension changes of a sample (such as expansion or contraction) as a function of temperature, time and force applied to the sample.

Glass extrusion and pressing equipment

• Testometric Extrusion Equipment

  • Loads of up to 100kN can be applied
  • Speeds from 0.010mm/minute to 300mm/minute
  • Range of Test Protocols Available
  • Extrusion of Cylindrical Preforms, with Complex Geometries possible, currently up to 16mm OD & 1000mm length, depending upon geometry
  • Process Temperatures currently up to 660oC

• Hydraulic Extrusion Equipment

  • Loads of up to 85kN can be applied
  • Constant Pressure Control
  • Extrusion of Cylindrical Preforms, with Complex Geometries possible, currently up to 16mm OD & 1000mm length, depending upon geometry
  • Process Temperatures currently up to 660oC