Photonics.com - July 2005
Vibration Isolation Products
Minus K Technology
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Website: https://minusk.com
Email: sales@minusk.com
Phone: (310) 348-9656
Minus K Technology produces ultrahigh-performance passive
vibration isolators. Our growing list of users includes many
of the world's leading manufacturers of SPMs, micro-hardness
testers, profilers and interferometers. Our passive isolators
are highly robust, require no air or electricity, are lightweight,
easy to set up and effectively maintenance-free. Minus K's patented
negative stiffness technology can achieve 0.5 Hz isolation,
outperforming air tables by 10 to 100 times and even outperforming
much more costly and less robust active systems. Minus K Technology
is introducing a new line of low-profile isolators for benchtop
applications. The new BM-6 is only 4.5 inches tall, yet offers
idealized air table performance (2.5 Hz vertically and 1.5 Hz
horizontally), weighs only 30 pounds and requires no leveling
feet. The only adjustment is a single knob. The BM-6 is perfect
for microscopes, profilers and optics that need isolation where
no space is available for an air table. Minus K Technology is
also previewing the new ultrahigh performance BM-8, in the same
compact packaging as the BM-6, and offering our signature 0.5
Hz vertical isolation for the most demanding benchtop applications.