Vendors for the Eighth Users Meeting
April 15-17, 1997
ADVANCED CONTROL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
10 Old Mine Rock Way
Hingham, Massachusetts 02043
Telephone: (617) 740-0223
Fax: (617) 740-4227
E-mail: @acsmotion.com
Contact person: Leopold Bric
Advanced Control Systems (ACS) designs and manufactures controllers and drivers for stepping motors. Emphasis on low noise, RFI-free designs in easy-to-use modular format has made ACS a leader in multi-motor applications on beamlines, goniometers, etc.
ADVENT ASSOCIATES, LTD.
5808 N. St. Louis Ave.
Chicago, Illinois 60659-4408
Fax: (773) 583-7260
Contact person: Bud Botkin
Telephone: (773) 583-7979
Advent Associates, Ltd. is a Chicago-based manufacturers' representative, offering technical and sales service to users of high vacuum and UHV processes and/or environments.
Advent's product line includes: APD CRYOGENICS - cryopumps, open/closed-cycle refrigeration; HOVAC, INC. - oil-free pumping packages; FERRAN SCIENTIFIC - micropole RGA for pumping diagnostics and leak detection; INSULATOR SEAL - ceramic-to-metal sealed electrical and optical components; MDC VACUUM PRODUCTS - flanges, fittings, valves, custom chambers and components, e-beam evaporation sources and power supplies; MILL LANE ENGINEERING - custom-designed vacuum systems for physical vapor deposition; OSAKA VACUUM - turbomolecular pumps (helical, compound, and magnetic bearing types); PLASMA SCIENCES, INC. - small (tabletop) research systems for thin film deposition by magnetron sputtering and for reactive ion etching; SPECS, GmbH - components for surface analysis; sources for UV, x-ray, ions and electrons; electron analyzers and mass specs for XPS, AES, UPS, SAM, ISS, SNMS, and SIMS; TELEVAC - vacuum measurement and control instruments; diaphragm, convection, thermocouple, and ionization gauges and sensors. UHV cold-cathode and hot-filament ion gauges to the 10-11 Torr range; US, INC. - planar magnetron sputtering sources and power supplies.
A.J.R. INDUSTRIES,
INC.
117 Gordon Street
Elk Grove Village, Illinois 60007
Fax: (708) 439-0230
Contact person: Bill Batalden
Telephone: (708) 439-0380
E-mail:
Bill@AJRindustries.com
A.J.R. Industries specializes in CNC machining, large capacity CNC jig boring, manufacturing and precision assembly of vertical stage and optical table assemblies. A.J.R. Industries currently maintains a MIL I 45208A quality system.
BLAKE INDUSTRIES, INC.
660 Jerusalem Road
Scotch Plains, New Jersey 07076-2099
Fax: (908) 233-1354
E-mail: BLAKEINDUSTRIESINC@worldnet.att.net
Contact person: David G. Rognlie
Telephone: (908) 233-7240
Blake Industries provides x-ray diffraction equipment and accessories for synchrotron and laboratory use including Huber rotary tables, goniometer heads, and beamline instrumentation accessories.
THE BOEING COMPANY, ROCKETDYNE DIVISION
2511C Broadbent Parkway NE
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87107
Telephone: (505) 345-2660
Fax: (505) 345-2589
Contact Persons: Joel Anspach or Tom Tonnessen
E-mail: joel.e.anspach@boeing.com or tom.w.tonnessen@boeing.com
Rocketdyne designs, analyzes, and manufactures specialized optical components and systems for synchrotron radiation sources. Our products include cooled and uncooled optics up to 1.5 meters in length, cooled and uncooled silicon monochromator crystals, and mirror chambers and bender systems.
Optical surfaces include flats, spheres, cylinders, cones, toroids, and aspheres. Optics materials include: glasses, silicon, SiC, Ni:GlidCop, and other metals. Full thermal and mechanical analysis capabilities are also available. Optics have been delivered to most U.S. and International synchrotron facilities.
BRUSH
WELLMAN - ELECTROFUSION PRODUCTS
44036 South Grimmer Boulevard
Fremont, California 94538
Fax: (510) 623-7600
E-mail: Electrofusion@BrushWellman.com
Contact persons:
Christopher K. Dorn
Director
(510) 661-9747
Edward Hefter
Applications Engineer
(510) 661-9714
Gordon Simmons
Engineering Manager
(510) 661-9715
Brush Wellman - Electrofusion Products was founded as Electrofusion Corporation in 1966 and has become the recognized world leader in fabrication and joining of specialty metals and materials including aluminum, copper, monel, steel, titanium, and beryllium. Our capabilities are focused on, but not limited to, engineering design, hot and cold sheet metal forming, atmospheric and vacuum brazing, electron beam and conventional welding, epoxy bonding, mass spectrometer leak testing, chemical and photoetching processes, and more. Our parent company, Brush Wellman, Inc., has been a recognized source for beryllium metal products since 1931. This relationship uniquely qualifies BW-Electrofusion as the only fully integrated source in the world for beryllium x-ray windows and vacuum assemblies for the analytical, medical, and scientific industries.
BYRON ELLIS ASSOCIATES, INC.
136 Park Drive
Barrington, Illinois 60010
Fax: (847) 516-4899
E-mail: HBURRILL@AOL.COM
Contact persons: Henry B. Stanfield or Alan Burrill
Telephone: (847) 516-5830
Byron Ellis Associates, Inc. represents Physical Electronics vacuum products, Huntington Mechanical Laboratories vacuum components, Ceramaseal metal-to-ceramic seals and vacuum feedthroughs, and other quality vacuum system and component manufacturers.
CANBERRA
INDUSTRIES
800 Research Parkway
Meriden, Connecticut 06450
Fax: (203) 235-1347
Contact person: Dale Elmore
Telephone: (203) 639-2363
Canberra x-ray detectors have been used widely in fluorescence EXAFS and related applications for the past eight years. Canberra has recently introduced an Advanced Array Detector that provides vastly improved count rate performance when used with complementary high-rate amplifiers. Canberra will present information on these Advanced Array Detectors for hard and soft x-rays in sizes ranging up to 30+ channels.
DEARBORN VALVE & FITTING COMPANY
1540 N. Old Rand Rd.
Wauconda, Illinios 60084
Telephone: (847) 526-6900
Fax: (847) 526-1221
Contact person: Michael O'Grady
Telephone: (630) 612-9673
Dearborn Valve and Fitting Company is the local distributor for the Swagelok Companies. These includes Swagelok tube fittings, Cajon face seal and pipe fittings, and Whitey and Nupro valves. We are an AMOS vendor. Visit our web site at www.swagelok.com or call Mike O'Grady at 630-612-9673.
GOODFELLOW
CORPORATION
800 Lancaster Ave.
Berwyn, Pennsylvania 19312-1780
Fax: (800) 283-2020
E-mail: info@goodfellow.com
Contact person: Stephen Aldersley
Telephone: (800) 821-2870
Goodfellow specializes in the supply of small quantities of metals and materials for R&D and prototype development. Metals, alloys, polymers and ceramics are available in a variety of forms including rod, wire, foil and powder. Our latest catalog is available as either a printed book or via the Web at http://www.goodfellow.com. This details our 4000+ standard items that are held in stock ready for immediate shipment throughout the world. In addition, we offer a custom-make service for those items that are difficult to source.
IDEAL TOOL & MANUFACTURING COMPANY
5615 S. Claremont Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60636
Fax: (773) 476-8259
E-mail: 73233.1304@compuserve.com
Contact persons: Eric Sund or Greg Sund
Telephone: (773) 476-1080
Ideal Tool & Manufacturing Co. specializes in the design, fabrication, and inspection of large high-precision machined components. We are a 76-year-old company that has significant experience working with research laboratories.
INEL, INC.
P. O. Box 147
Stratham, New Hampshire 03885
Fax: (603) 778-9171
Contact person: Greg Stollstorff
Telephone: (603) 778-9161
Inel, Inc. specializes in curved position-sensitive detectors and diffractometer systems for x-ray diffraction. Curved PSD models include the CPS 120 for 120-degree simultaneous data collection at a radius of 250 mm and the CPS 590 for 90-degree simultaneous data collection at a radius of 500 mm. We represent Cilas, the world's leading manufacturer of neutron guides, and GMI, a subsidiary of Cilas, offering rotary tables, stages, and complete instruments for synchrotron and neutron beamlines.
KURT J. LESKER COMPANY
1515 Worthington Avenue
Clairton, Pennsylvania 15025-2700
Fax: (412) 233-4275
E-mail: sales@lesker.com
Contact person: Bob Wehrle
Telephone: (800) 245-1656
Kurt J. Lesker Company offers the brand new AccuQuadTM, our own sophisticated, yet affordable, quadrupole RGA. Kurt J. Lesker Company is the exclusive North American agent for Vacuum Generators - for the best UHV flanges, components, hardware, chambers, and the Daresbury Laboratory x-ray monochromator; VG Microtech - for the finest 100 mm and 150 mm hemispherical energy analyzers and surface science components for XPS, AES, UPS, RVLEED, RHEED and angle-resolved UPS; and LK Technologies - for compact high resolution EELS and cylindrical deflector energy analyzers for high- resolution photoemission studies.
MDC VACUUM PRODUCTS,
INC
23842 Cabot Blvd.
Hayward, California 94545
Fax: (510) 887-0626
E-mail: sales@mdc-vacuum.com
Contact persons: Tom Bogdan
Telephone: (510) 887-6100
MDC Vacuum Products Corporation manufactures a full line of UHV stainless steel vacuum components described in a 360-page catalog. Full technical staff is maintained to assist with technical queations and the design and manufacture of custom components and chambers.
MDC's product line contains: flanges and fittings - Del-Seal-CF, ISO-LF, ASA, and wire seal with tees, crosses, elbows, glass adapters, etc.; valves - gate, right angle, butterfly, MESA rectangular and all metal angle; roughing - fourline traps, pumps, accessories; instrumentation - gauge controls, gauge tubes; accessories - tubing, bellows, couplings, quick-disconnects, ceramic and glass adapters; electrical feedthroughs - instrumentation, electrical RF power, liquid feedthroughs; motion feedthroughs - rotary, linear, port aligners, XYZ stages, fast-entry load-locks; chambers - feedthrough collars, bell jars, surface science chambers; custom engineering - custom chambers, special designs, modifications; electron beam sources, power supplies - complete line of high vacuum and UHV evaporation sources, single or multiple rotary pockets, DC switching power supplies up to 15 kW, spare parts, accessories.
MELLES
GRIOT
1770 Kettering St.
Irvine, California 92614
Telephone: (714) 261-5600
Fax: (714) 261-7589
Melles Griot is a photonics company. We design, manufacture, and distribute a wide range of optical elements, opto-mechanical components, helium neon and diode laser assemblies, optical tables and breadboards, vibration isolation systems, fiber optic nanopositioning equipment, and laser beam measuring instrumentation. Melles Griot also provides state-of-the-art optical coating services and precision optical subsystems.
MEYER TOOL & MFG., INC.
4601 West Southwest Highway
Oak Lawn, Illinois 60453
Fax: (708) 425-2612
Contact persons:
John G. Carusiello
Vice President - Operations
(708) 425-9080
Kenneth F. Wilson
Manager, Sales & Marketing
(708) 425-9080
Meyer Tool & Manufacturing, Inc. (MTM) is a recognized leader in
the design and manufacture of cryogenic, high-vacuum and precision
equipment for basic science, research, development, and industrial
applications. This includes prototype and production, as well as
unique systems, subsystems, assemblies and components. MTM has
supplied a diverse array of equipment for the Advanced Photon Source
program, including UHV chambers (integral shutter chambers, storage
beam bump and beam bump kicker chambers, and upstream and downstream
insertion device boxes), radio frequency subsystem components (input
coupler assemblies, tuner assemblies and beam current transfer
assemblies), front end supports and precision stages (beam pipe
supports, beam position monitor supports, window supports, and vacuum
equipment tables) and pressure vessels and piping.
MIDWEST VACUUM, INC.
201 E. Ogden Ave., Suite 15-1
Hinsdale, Illinois 60521
Fax: (630) 323-2142
Contact persons:
Hans Luedi or
Cynthia Positano
Illinois and Michigan
(630) 323-5399
John Raffl
Indiana, Michigan,
Ohio, and Missouri
(317) 848-5712
Fredrick Thompson
Minnesota, Wisconsin,
and Iowa
(612) 823-2649
Midwest Vacuum, Inc., represents manufacturers in vacuum and UHV-related fields. Products include RGAs, valves (from Viton to all metal), shutters, fast closing valves, bellows, components and fittings, translators, feedthroughs, crystals, scintillators, particle detectors, dry pumping systems, dry helium leak detectors (oil free), mechanical pumps, turbos, compound turbos, drag pumps, ceramics and components, and novel all-metal seals. The company is also active in special systems and fabrication.
NEWPORT CORPORATION
1791 Deere Avenue
Irvine, California 92714
Telephone: (714) 253-1888
Fax: (714) 253-1650
E-mail:
jstathis@newport.com
Contact person: Jim Stathis
Newport designs and manufactures a wide range of goniometers, rotation devices, and systems for x-ray diffraction applications. These include single-axis and Kappa and Eulerian geometry multi-circle general purpose diffractometers. Also offerred are slits and other accessories including metrology equipment for measuring sphere of confusion.
Newport also provides a full range of vibration-isolation tables, optical mounting hardware, and precision positioning equipment.
OREGON MICRO SYSTEMS,
INC.
1800 NW 169th Place, Suite C100
Beaverton, Oregon 97006
Telephone: (503) 629-8081
Fax: (503) 629-0688
E-mail: sales@omsmotion.com
Oregon Micro Systems produces multi-axis motion controllers for use in PC, VME, and stand-alone applications. Each of our programmable boards control up to eight stepper and/or servo motors.
OSMIC, INC.
1788 Northwood Dr.
Troy, Michigan 48084
Telephone: (810) 362-1290
Fax: (810) 362-4043
E-mail: jwood@osmic.com
Contact person: Jim Wood
Osmic manufactures Ovonyx™ multilayer optics for use in x-ray applications, such as spectroscopy, diffraction, lithography, astronomy, plasma diagnostics, and synchrotron research. Ovonyx™ synchrotron optics are used internationally as supermirrors, monochromators, polarizers, and focusing mirrors. These coated optics provide high reflectivity for selected x-ray energies between 50 eV and 100 keV and have excellent durability and stability.
OXFORD INSTRUMENTS
Accelerator Technology
Group
130A Baker Avenue Ext.
Concord, Massachusetts 01742
Fax: (508) 369-6616
Contact persons:
Robert Penn
Telephone: (508) 369-9933
E-mail:
penn@oxford.usa.com
Dean Morris
E-mail:
morris@oxford.usa.com
Oxford Instruments designs and manufactures specialized equipment for the high energy, particle and fusion physics communities, employing skills in ultrahigh vacuum, precision mechanical engineering, magnetism, and cryogenics.
Equipment manufactured for the Advanced Photon Source includes front-end components (photon shutters / beam position monitors / masks / beryllium windows / bremsstrahlung stops), beamline components (slits / integral shutters / filters / masks / windows), liquid nitrogen cryocoolers, a liquid gallium pumping system, and mirror vessels.
Our range of products for the synchrotron radiation community also includes custom designed monochromator systems including optics, insertion devices (both permanent magnet and superconducting), mirror systems including optics, superconducting magnets and laboratory cryogenics for experimental stations.
PFEIFFER VACUUM
TECHNOLOGY, INC.
24 Trafalgar Square
Nashua, New Hampshire 03063
Fax: (603) 578-6500
Contact person: Steve Mueller
Telephone: (847) 259-6888
Pfeiffer Vacuum is the world's largest producer of turbomolecular pumps and has over 100 years of vacuum experience. Pfeiffer offers a complete line of turbomolecular, dry, rotary vane, roots and membrane pumps. Pfeiffer Vacuum is also the exclusive world-wide representative for Balzers Instruments including total pressure gauges, helium and gas leak detectors, mass spectrometers, gas analyzers, valves, and vacuum construction components.
North American operations, known as Pfeiffer Vacuum Technology, Inc., are located in Nashua, New Hampshire, and offer marketing, sales, service and repair. In addition, sales and service offices are located throughout North America with a major customer support center in Fremont, California.
The world headquarters of Pfeiffer Vacuum is located in Asslar, Germany. Arthur Pfeiffer pioneered the development of the mechanical vacuum pump in 1890 used in manufacturing incandescent light bulbs at the turn of the century. The world's first turbomolecular pump was introduced by Pfeiffer Vacuum in 1958.
THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES
LABORATORY
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
Kegonsa Research Campus
3725 Schneider Drive
Stoughton, Wisconsin 53589
Telephone: (608) 877-2251
Fax: (608) 877-2201
Contact persons:
Farshid Feyzi
(608) 877-2213
Don Holly
(608) 877-2207
Bill Mason
(608) 877-2264
The Physical Sciences Laboratory (PSL) is a self-supporting unit of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. PSL has designed and constructed double-crystal and spherical-grating monochromators, mirror chambers and front-end equipment for the APS. PSL does development, design, and construction of projects having mechanical, electrical, and scientific instrumentation components.
PRINCETON INSTRUMENTS, INC.
3660 Quakerbridge Road
Trenton, New Jersey 08619
Telephone: (609) 587-9797
Fax: (609) 587-1970
Contact person: Gary Hancock
Princeton Instruments (PI), established in 1981, is the world's largest manufacturer of scientific cooled CCD cameras for imaging and spectroscopy applications. All PI cameras are fully integrated with all the required controls and computer interface electronics. We also support the most popular computer platforms, such as PC, Macintosh, Sun Microsystems, and SGI Workstations.
At the Eighth Users Meeting for the Advanced Photon Source, Princeton Instruments will display cameras for x-ray powder diffraction and crystallography. These high-resolution, high-sensitivity cameras are supported by most of the popular computer platforms. PI will also exhibit their cooled CCD cameras, sensitive enough to use for photon estimation and detecting x-rays from soft x-rays to 60 keV and higher.
RESEARCH SYSTEMS, INC.
3995 Wilderness Place
Boulder, Colorado 80301
Telephone: (303) 413-3982
Fax: (303) 786-9909
Contact person: Francis Kelly
E-mail: fkelly@rsinc.com
Research Systems will provide a brief overview of our IDL (Interactive Data Language) and ENVI (the Environment for Visualizing Images) software.
IDL's features include advanced image processing, interactive 2D and 3D graphics, volume visualization, integrated mathematics and statistics, flexible data I/O, a cross-platform GUI tool kit, and versatile program linking tools - all accessed via a fourth-generation programming language.
Immediately gain insight from your data with IDL - advanced software for visualization, data analysis and application development. If you analyze data from images, experiments or tests, or, if you write applications for others to use, IDL will give you clear results faster.
ENVI is the most interactive, powerful and easy-to-use image processing package available for your remotely sensed data. Efficiently access and analyze any type of remote sensing data with ENVI - the most interactive, powerful and easy-to-use image processing package available. Discover more information and improve identification with ENVI's advanced hyperspectral and radar tool sets.
Research Systems' Visible Human CDs. The first complete male and female data sets containing digital references of photographic images for exploring human anatomy.
SIEMENS ANALYTICAL X-RAY
SYSTEMS, INC.
6300 Enterprise Lane
Madison, Wisconsin 53719-1173
Telephone: (608) 276-3000 or (800) 234- XRAY
Fax: (608) 276-3006
Contact person: Sue Byram
Siemens AXS manufactures x-ray diffraction detectors, goniometers, low and high temperature accessories, and software for single-crystal, polymer, and powder diffraction applications. Highlighted will be the SMART family CCD detectors - 1K, 2K, and mosaic - for crystallographic structures of proteins, inorganics, organics, and minerals. Software for analysis of single crystals, powders, polymers, SAXS/WAXS, and texture/stress will be demonstrated.
E. L. SIMETH COMPANY, INC.
403 S. Hawley Road
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53214
Telephone: (800) 837-9270
Fax: (414) 771-9043
Founded in 1945 by Edward L. Simeth, a tool designer, we distribute about 30 related lines that include XYZ linear slides, linear bearings, steppers, servos, controllers, hydraulic clamping, linear motors, rotary motion devices, robotics, metal stamping products, tooling and fixturing components, and standard machine components. We specialize in the linear motion area for micron tolerances.
X-RAY INSTRUMENTATION ASSOCIATES
2513 Charleston Road, # 207
Mountain View, California 94043-1607
Telephone: (415) 903-9980
Fax: (415) 903-9887
Contact persons: Dr. William K. Warburton or Ms. Mark Ellen Daly
X-ray Instrumentation Associates develops and sells high performance components for x-ray experimentation. The current product line includes a 4-channel, high-speed digital x-ray spectrometer, with time-resolution option, for instrumenting multi-element detector arrays; a differential pump that suppresses the straight-through beam; and an in-hutch shutter/filter set with control electronics. We are introducing the DXP-1X, a stand-alone, single-channel digital x-ray spectrometer, with both shaping amplifier and multichannel analyzer, whose functions are all controlled via a PC parallel port.
Last updated 4/97 by Susan Picologlou.