Polaron
Models:
| Model | Description | Features | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| E6100 | eBay | ||
| E6300 | Bench Top Evaporator | ||
| E6700 | Bench Top Evaporator
(turbo pumped) |
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| E6701 | eBay
Has some nice pictures of the chamber | ||
| E7000 | eBay | ||
| McMaster | No idea the model | ||
| SC7610 | |||
| SC7640 | eBay
"Quorum/Polaron SC7640 Auto/Manual High Resolution Sputter Coater" |
Branded also as: BioRad, Quorum
Units in the wild:
Oreon state: "The Polaron Thermal Evaporator uses a standard resistive filament evaporation source, and a quartz bell jar deposition chamber. The tool incorporates a diffusion pump as the high vacuum pump and reaches a base pressure of < 5 E-5mbar. The tool is used for depositing aluminum."
Link: "Polaron E6700 Turbo Pumped Bench Top Evaporator - The E6700 Turbo Pumped Bench Top Evaporator is able to deposit carbon support films, to make metal evaporation, to prepare replicas, to perform shadowing and aperture cleaning. The instrument is equipped with rotary planetary stage allowing producing a multi-directional coating in high vacuum for different type of samples."
Link "It enables transmission and scanning electron microscopy (TEM and SEM) specimen preparation, like producing carbon support films, preparation of replicas, shadowing, aperture cleaning, etc. The usage of a turbo molecular vacuum pump ensures oil free vacuum chamber environments. The further benefits are: simple operations, rapid pump down and high vacuum operation (routinely 10-5/10-6mbar). All accessory power supplies are vacuum interlocked for user protection and cannot be energized unless the chamber is under vacuum. Mounted on a 300 mm (12”) diameter stainless steel base plate, the TEM set includes resistive evaporation sources for 6 mm diameter carbon rods, metal evaporation (tungsten basket), tiltable specimen holder and base, glow discharge work chamber and baseplate electrode. The jigging is a one piece assembly making it easy to remove or modify. A “cool” sputtering head (not routinely mounted) allows SEM sputter coating. The base has 10 ports through which electrical, vacuum and water connections can be made. A rotating source shutter is also available. A 250 mm (10”) diameter bell jar provides the vacuum chamber."
McMaster Polaron
Some sort of large PVD machine. Trying to find info on it
