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Instrumentation and measurement

Instrumentation and measurement

Additive manufacturing makes vacuum systems smaller, lighter and smarter

01 Aug 2019
This article first appeared in the 2019 Physics World Focus on Instruments & Vacuum under the headline "Smaller, lighter, smarter"

For quantum technologies to fulfil their promise, the systems that support them need to shrink. Laurence Coles explains how advances in additive manufacturing are bringing miniaturization within reach and heralding a wider revolution in vacuum system design

A prototype magneto-optical trap chamber – designed and built by Added Scientific in collaboration with quantum physicists at the universities of Nottingham and Sussex, UK
Fresh approach This prototype magneto-optical trap chamber – designed and built by Added Scientific in collaboration with quantum physicists at the universities of Nottingham and Sussex, UK – has a mass of just 245 g thanks to additive manufacturing techniques, which make it possible to construct a robust ultrahigh-vacuum device with much less material. (Courtesy: Added Scientific)
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Laurence Coles is a computational research engineer at Added Scientific Ltd, a Nottingham, UK-based firm that provides additive manufacturing-based consultancy services to companies wishing to adopt AM techniques, e-mail laurence.coles@addedscientific.com
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