INGLEWOOD, Calif. -- Minus K Technology, a leading manufacturer
of vibration isolation products, announces that Minus K
has been selected by the Manoharan Nanoscale Facility at
Stanford University to provide critical vibration isolation
for Stanford's Scanning Tunneling Microscopes (STMs).
The Minus K supplied vibration isolation will incorporate
the Minus K patented Negative Stiffness technology and will
be used by Stanford to support advanced nanotechnology research.
"Sub-Hertz vibration isolation is an important enabling
technology for sub-Angstrom nanotechnology research, and
Minus K Technology is the only company we identified that
can deliver the level of isolation we need to achieve our
performance goals with our Scanning Tunneling Microscopes
(STMs)," said Professor Hari Manoharan of the Geballe
Laboratory for Advanced Materials at Stanford University.
"The selection of Minus K Technology by the prestigious
Manoharan Laboratory is further validation that our Negative
Stiffness technology uniquely solves some of the most difficult
vibration problems known today, facilitating crucial advances
in science and technology," said David Platus, President
and Chief Executive Officer of Minus K Technology. "Applications
and research which up until recently were either impossible
or cost prohibitive are now feasible, even in vibration-harsh
environments. In particular, this project proves that Negative
Stiffness technology can be easily scaled up for very large
payloads in spatially restricted environments."
Minus K vibration isolators incorporating Negative Stiffness
technology can guarantee natural frequencies as low as 0.35
Hz, deliver 10 to 100 times more isolation than high performance
air-based solutions, and are ideal for isolating applications
on upper floors and subject to low-frequency building vibrations.
Minus K isolation efficiencies exceed 90% at 2 Hz and 99%
at 5 Hz.
Because Negative Stiffness technology is entirely passive
and lightweight, it can be uniquely deployed in vacuum,
clean room and other critical applications where heat from
power, noise and leakage from air facilities, or electrically
induced magnetism can pose a significant risk to the application.
Minus K isolation products offer easy installation and virtually
no operation and maintenance costs.
Minus K Technology, Inc. is a leading global supplier of
high performance vibration isolation products, systems and
services to a wide range of markets from biology and neuroscience
to aerospace, semiconductors, and nanotechnology. Minus
K's innovative solutions leverage its expertise in vibration
isolation to enhance the capabilities and productivity of
its customers'; manufacturing, engineering and research
applications. Minus K is the vibration isolation platform
of choice for many critical applications, providing end-user
and OEM solutions to commercial, academic and government
customers worldwide. They are an OEM supplier to leading
manufactures of SPMs, SEMs, micro-hardness testers and other
sensitive instruments, and they have sold to more than 200
universities and government laboratories in 35 countries.
Founded in 1993, Minus K is headquartered in Inglewood,
California.
