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Helping make advanced science and processes possible

For many scientific inquiries and engineered processes, it is necessary to create evacuated spaces. Creating, measuring, and maintaining low-pressure conditions can be challenging and require several technologies, as well as robust design, preparation, and maintenance practices.

In these pages, we explore how vacuum is used to accomplish a range of scientific, analytical, and industrial processes. Discover the vacuum solutions for many applications, from particle physics to space simulation, and from mass spectrometry to optical coating.

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Vacuum and leak detection to support electric vehicles and alternative fuels

New “eMobility” technologies offer promising solutions to the problems of carbon emissions, climate impact, and environmental degradation. Vacuum and leak detection techniques play key roles in supporting the development and rapid growth of alternative transport technologies and production. Several steps in the production of lithium-ion batteries, for example, are enabled or enhanced by low pressures or the elimination of gas bubbles. Other steps require precise leak testing to ensure compliance with safety and performance standards


Ultra-high vacuum and extreme high vacuum

Where Advanced Research and Vacuum Technology Intersect

Whether isolating subatomic particles or simulating the conditions of space, ultra-high vacuum and extreme high vacuum are at the center of the human search to understand the physical universe. The unique condition of such very low pressure, nearly devoid of matter, is almost never found on our planet and must be created using specialized equipment and technique. Mastering the creation and maintenance of vacuum is critical to the pursuit of advanced research of the natural world.


Vacuum in particle and plasma physics

Understanding How the Universe is Constructed

Particle and plasma physics are branches of the larger area defined as high energy physics (HEP). The goal of HEP is to explore what the world is made of and how it works on the smallest scale. Study of matter on this scale requires isolating subatomic particles in evacuated devices such as accelerators. The challenges of engineering such unique environments are considerable, as such systems require the breadth of vacuum technologies to create, measure, and maintain the very low pressure required.


Industrial process vacuum

Vacuum is used for a multitude of industrial applications.  Vacuum is critical for high-quality and performance-sensitive applications for eliminating contaminants and ensuring precision and uniformity, to enable insulation and coatings. 


Precision Leak Detection

The Bottom Line: Everything Leaks

This is a major challenge for vacuum systems as well as many products and processes that are pressurized or hermetic. How much leakage is too much? Helium leak detection is the ideal solution for determining the vacuum tightness of a large vacuum chamber. Precise, reliable, easy-to-use helium leak detectors assure the integrity of sealed devices and chambers.

Learn how they work and how to use them effectively to ensure your scientific experiment, process, or product performs as intended.



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