Designed to Meet Your Specific Criteria
We provide thermal management hardware solutions that can involve the simplest components such as thermal straps or heat pipes to complex state-of-the-art cryostats or custom cryogenic cooling systems. The thermal technologies that we have been involved with and utilize on a regular basis to provide integrated thermal management system solutions include:
Thermal straps built from either copper rope (bundled copper wires), copper foil, aluminum foil or ultra-high conductivity carbon-based materials.- Heat pipes and vapor chambers that can operate between elevated and cryogenic temperatures. We also integrate our thermal straps directly with heat pipes and vapor chambers when there is the combined need to move heat long distances with some mechanical flexibility.
- Thermoelectric coolers (Peltier devices) that can provide solid state cooling down to about 200 K.
- Vapor compression (J-T) refrigerators that utilize many different refrigerants and have the capability for cooling into the cryogenic temperature range.
- Regenerative mechanical cryocoolers that are commonly used in space instrument systems.
- Cross- and counter-flow heat exchangers commonly used to minimize cold-stage loads.
- Phase-change materials (PCM) and heat exchangers for load-leveling in transient thermal dissipation applications.
- Flexible and distributed cryogenic cooling loops for remote and broad area cooling.
- Advanced insulations systems involving multi-layer insulation (MLI), glass microspheres, and high-vacuum using turbo molecular or vac-ion pumps.
- Vacuum insulated lightweight cryogen tanks.
Those thermal components and subsystems that are highlighted in light-blue, we custom fabricate in house. The others we acquire from our close network of suppliers and partners. We can combine many of these components or subsystems for use in any integrated thermal-management system.