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The Equipment SS Scientific is proud to supply some of the first essential pieces of equipment to the ITER Vacuum Group. Assuring vacuum quality is a key responsibility for the ITER Vacuum Group. “This means scrupulous testing during assembly and careful qualification of the materials that go into the vacuum vessel.” Currently based in a Temporary Vacuum Laboratory the Outgassing Rig and Laminar Flow Bench will meet the immediate needs of ITER. For more news on ITER Vacuum Group see the article ‘Keeping ITER’s microscopic enemies at bay’. The science going on

PPD is a revolutionary new physical vapour deposition (PVD) technique proved to deposit thin films of numerous materials such as oxides, complex oxides, nitrides, carbides, carbon based films, semiconductors, etc. The deposition of thin films using PPD is done by ablation of a target material using a fast pulse of electrons (100ns) and the material is deposited on the substrate. Ablation by the fast electron beam causes the formation of a hot, dense, and high-velocity plasma. The benefit of the PPD system is its wide dynamic range of deposition rates (0.01 nm/s to 5 nm/s) and wide range of

Low cost dual channel Bayard-Alpert ion gauge controller with full local software and web browser control. The MG13 Bayard-Alpert Ion Gauge Controller supports 2 vacuum gauges connected at once: One Bayard-Alpert ion gauge and any other existing vacuum gauge on the market based on the 0-10V output standard. As standard, all of Oerlikon-Leybold vacuum gauges and ion gauges are supported: ITR 100, ITR 90, DI 200, DI 2000, TTR 211 S, TTR 91, PTR 225. Any others can be implemented as an option, e.g. MKS, Pfeiffer Vacuum etc. Although just 1U height, the ion gauge controller is able to display