Celebrating its’ tenth yr of their U.S. Academic Giveaway, Minus Okay Know-how has to-date granted over $100,000 of its superior performing patented Unfavourable-Stiffness low-frequency passive mechanical vibration isolators to high schools and universities within the USA.
This yr Minus Okay congratulates the next winners for the 2024/2025 giveaway:
College of North Texas – Physics Division
The vibration isolator might be used to stabilize their AFM to attain excessive decision pictures of grain sizes in skinny movies. They are going to modify these movies by means of totally different thermal processes.
Rose-Hulman Institute of Know-how – Physics and Optical Engineering Division
The vibration isolator might be used for experiments in ultra-sensitive optical measurements and characterization of magneto-optic nanoparticles for most cancers hyperthermia remedy.
Wellesley Faculty – Chemistry Division
The isolator will for analysis research of pathological modifications to excitable cells utilizing fluorescent reporters. They are going to use microinjection and electrophysiology on intact worms in vivo and tradition cells utilizing their Nikon Ti-U microscope which at the moment has an excessive amount of vibration motion.
Cornell College – Utilized and Engineering Physics Division
The isolator will used fabricating novel two-dimensional (2D) materials heterostructures by combining atomically skinny 2D supplies, equivalent to graphene, hBN, transition steel dichalcogenides, to discover new digital and quantum phenomena inside an MBraun glovebox beneath an inert argon ambiance.
Rutgers College – Physics Division
The isolator might be for a scalable atomic gravimeter to measure absolutely the gravity, the vertical gravity gradient, and the third-order vertical spinoff by dropping three spatially separated cold-atom cloud and forming atom interferometry, to a retroreflector beneath a vacuum chamber.
Sam Houston State College – Organic Sciences
The isolator will help in fluorescent and part distinction imaging utilizing an ECHO Revolve upright/inverted microscope, permitting publication-quality fluorescence, part, and darkfield imaging to graduate and undergraduates in analysis or doing live-cell video.
“Giving again to academia at all times provides us nice feeling.”, says Minus Okay’s President Steve Varma, “When speaking to college students at our sales space on the totally different commerce exhibits, there may be at all times an important curiosity in getting isolation methods for his or her faculties to assist with their experiments. We’re happy with having the ability to present methods for ten years.”
Minus Okay® Know-how, Inc. was based in 1993 to develop, manufacture and market state-of-the-art vibration isolation merchandise primarily based on the corporate’s patented negative-stiffness-mechanism know-how. Minus Okay merchandise are utilized in a broad spectrum of purposes together with nanotechnology, organic and neuro sciences, semiconductors, supplies analysis, quantum analysis, zero-g simulation of spacecraft, and high-end audio. The corporate is an OEM provider to main manufactures of scanning probe microscopes, micro-hardness testers and different vibration-sensitive devices and gear. Minus Okay prospects embrace non-public firms and greater than 300 main universities and authorities laboratories in 52 nations.
