Detecting and measuring gravitational waves requires extremely sensitive equipement. In this article, MinusK explains how vibration isolators are key when building such measurement systems.
If it s good enough to have been adopted by Stanford University as its audio reference to analyse vintage recordings from the Smithsonian archive, it s good enough for us!
Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) technology continues to advance. Recently, negative stiffness vibration isolation has been touted as a means to make AFM more compact and user-friendly.
Vibration Isolation in Fiber Optic Sensing Systems
There is a new generation of fiber optic sensing systems, which can be employed to great utility in the monitoring of well conditions within the oil and gas industry, resulting in improved performance.
The engineer and scientist onsite can make decisions that support operational optimization using critical data from the downhole well environment from distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS). This informed decision naturally leads to well production performance enhancement along with safety at the well site, and ultimately works towards optimizing production from oil and gas wells. Currently, there is no other method that obtains the same quality and level of detail about physical conditions in a wellbore when compared to fiber optics.
In its continued efforts to innovate discovery-based research to comprehend the most detailed biological systems, Pacific Biosciences has launched the Sequel™ system, its next generation of long-read, automated genomic sequencers with Single-Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT ) sequencing technology.
The Pac Bio Sequel II utilizing Minus K Negative Stiffness Vibration Isolation from Pacific Biosciences
The sequel system is very multifaceted in operation.
It encompasses robotics, chemical and biological processing and photonics.
Kevin Lin, Mechanical Engineer, Pacific Biosciences
As the system was designed for use in a range of R&D environments, significant ambient vibrations could affect the data.
He continued,
We needed to implement a vibration isolation component that would not only isolate the sensitive components from vibrations, but also that would be sufficiently small, compact and integrative.”