UHV, or Ultra High Vacuum, is a vital technology which is utilised in all manner of scientific applications today. There is all manner of utilisation for Agilent Ion Getter Pumps as well as Agilent Titanium Sublimation Pumps in multiple scientific fields, as a result.
Some sciences, such as high energy physics, medical particle acceleration, as well as the surface science community in general have benefitted massively from the application of Ultra High Vacuum to their respective fields, and this technology was developed to be far superior to existing methods which involved the application of glass chambers – which understandably, are very impractical for high-temperature and high-pressure testing.
Ultra High Vacuum is today utilised with the Vaclon Pump, which uses stainless steel in both forms and tubing. Furthermore, flanges are copper-sealed, and feedthroughs are designed in meta-ceramic in order to deal with environments and pressures which are very high. Stainless Steel showed to have low outgassing rates, and the application of low UHV pressure gauges were evaluated in stainless steel enclosures as standard.
Perhaps one of the most famous applications of the Ion Getter Pump was the Large Hadron Collider, which is very much a household name due to the experiments that CERN performed in 1971 to 1984, and still do to this day. Ion Getter Pumps are utilised in the Large Hadron Collider’s ISR (Intersecting Storage Rings) , and for the Large Hadron Collider alone, Agilent Technologies opened a new manufacturing facility for supply to the Large Hadron Collider exclusively.
When you’re looking for Ion Getter Pumps for a project perhaps as grand as the Large Hadron Collider, or perhaps a great deal smaller, Agilent Technologies is a name which is synonymous with quality. They have named a number of specialist companies for distribution of their products, most notably Scanwel, based in Bala, for their UK and Irish supply. Scanwel are a specialist in Ion Pumps themselves, and offer their customers 30 years’ experience in the supply, manufacture, and repair of Ion Getter Pumps.
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