Atlas Technologies Product Guides Feb. 2014 | Page 50

Atlas Customers and Testimonials Atlas Customers & Testimonials Atlas Customers Customer Testimonials The Atlas customer base consists of a wide and diverse grouping of industrial, government, academic and scientific entities located around the globe. “During my tenure at Ovonic ECD (United Solar) I was very pleased with the service and quality we received from Atlas Technologies. Our primary areas of business include Semiconductor, FAB, Solar, Particle Physics, Synchrotron, Nuclear Medicine, Cryogenic and Neutron Radiation disciplines, and many others. For your reference, the following is a partial list of Atlas customers: Before working with Atlas all of our thin film photovoltaic production line was manufactured out of stainless steel. Atlas assisted us in converting the drive and transition chambers to aluminum; this created a substantial (50 to 60%) cost savings. Industrial Customers By using the standard weld-on bimetallic Atlas AT- CF flanges we were able to eliminate O-rings and reduce contamination. The quality of the chambers and equipment we have received from them has been exceptional. Furthermore when we commission their chambers it has become worry-free for our installation crews. aggressively. I strongly recommend Atlas Technologies for future work” We maintain a very aggressive production schedule and they have always been accurate, up-front and on time with their delivery commitments. They also price themselves George Uzoni Formerly, Design Supervisor Energy Conversion Devices (United Solar) Applied Materials, USA Novellus Systems, USA Durex, USA General Atomics, USA General Electric, USA Lucent Technologies, USA Sencera Solar, USA Ovonic ECD, USA Tokyo Electron, USA Oxford Instruments, United Kingdom Ulvac, Japan Beneq, Finland Advanced Cyclotron, Canada Government Customers ANL, Argonne National Lab BNL, Brookhaven National Lab CAMD, Louisiana State University FNL, Fermi National Lab JNL, Jefferson National Lab LANL, Los Alamos National Lab LBL, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab LLNL, Lawrence Livermore National Lab  NASA, National Aeronautics & Space Administration SLAC, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center BESY, Germany CERN, Switzerland KEK, Japan ESRF, France DESY, Germany Academic Customers Louisiana State University, CAMD Ohio State University University of Texas University of California, Berkeley Stanford University University of Rochester University of Wisconsin University of Washington 48 Atlas Technologies orbit. All flanges including e-beam orbit, synchrotron radiation ports and pumping ports were fabricated from Atlas CF flanges. In addition to the demanding geometrical constraints of the dipole magnet the chamber was required to absorb all excess synchrotron radiation not entering the beamlines and resist any deformation due to forces incurred under vacuum. Atlas presented a preliminary design for approval before fabrication and conducted a complete FEA analysis of the chamber studying both the thermal loading and the vacuum deflection. "We have been working with Atlas for many years using their Atlas CF flanges and explosion bonding capability for assemblies such as beryllium windows. In 2005 we had a need for a dipole magnet vacuum chamber. Atlas competed with vacuum equipment manufacturers worldwide and won the bid, beating out stainless steel vendors in Europe and Russia by a large margin. This is a large chamber ~2.9 m long with two 50 mrad acceptance aperture IR beamlines tangential to the synchrotron electron beam www.AtlasUHV.com Atlas fabricated the chamber in two halves with each half having a water cooling surface machined into the chamber. The two halves were welded together and final machining brought the chamber overall thickness tolerance and chamber radius of curvature tolerance to less than 1mm. The chamber is presently installed in the CAMD synchrotron in bending magnet 2 and attains a base pressure less than 5 x10-10 Torr without bakeout" Research Associate Engineer Engineering Support Group A USA Academic Synchrotron 360-385-3123