Vacuum & Cryogenic Links

CCD developers might also find my CCD Related Links page handy

Read here how we identified and solved our CCD contamination problems.

Vacuum

• Organizations
  • The Vacuum Page
  • The Vacuum Solutions Magazine
  • American Vacuum Society home page
  • The Bell Jar
  • The Bell Jar home page
• Companies
  • BOC Edwards Vacuum Technology group
  • MDC Vacuum Products Corporation
  • Nor-Cal Products - Manufacturers of High Vacuum & UHV components
  • PAVE Technology
  • Pfeiffer Vacuum
  • K&K Associates - lots of thermal constants, etc
  • UHV Design - Manufacturer of high quality vacuum components
  • Vacuum Generators - Sussex, England
  • Vacuum science and Thin film technology
  • Ceramaseal - manufactures and sells hermetically sealed vacuum components
  • Danielson Vacuum Products
  • Kurt J. Lesker Company - Vacuum Components and Systems
• Tutorials & Tools
  • Online Vacuum units conversion Calculator by the Netherlands Vacuum Society
  • Nor-Cal Products - Vacuum tips & Solutions page
  • M.G. Blamire - Vacuum Techniques Graduate Lecture Cource notes
  • Roy Schmaus' Vacuum Technology Page - Covers a range of vacuum disciplines
  • Technique of High Vacuum - Chapter 3 from Strong's classic, transcriped to the Web
  • A Short History of Vacuum Terminology and Technology
  • "In Pursuit of the Perfect CCD Environment" - How SAAO's contamination was identified
  • How ESO Achieves Ultraclean Cryostats
  • "CLEANING UP OUR ACT" - Alternatives for Hazardous Solvents Used in Cleaning
  • Technical Papers on Zeolites, Charcoal and O-Ring sealed dewars
  • NASA's Contamination Engineering Design Guidelines for spacecraft page
  • K&K Associates - Massive collection of thermal information for computing losses, etc.
  • The Vacuum Chronicles
  • MODERN VACUUM PRACTICE - Links - lots of links on useful educational material dealing with vacuum and its applications
  • Very comprehensive technical vacuum information pages
• Useful Data
  • NASA Outgassing Data for Selecting Spacecraft Materials / Alternative URL
  • The NASA Contamination Monitoring Laboratory
• Other Link Lists
  • Vacuum Solutions Mag. - Vacuum Web Sites
  • World Wide Vacuum - Many links to companies and organizations

  Cryogenics

• Infrared Laboratories, Tucson, AZ
• Oxford Instruments, UK
• Caburn-MDC, UK
• Cryovac Systems Ltd - UK
• PAVE Technology - Vacuum, electrical and electronic hermetic connector and cable harness

  Data on Cleaning Materials & Chemicals

• Environmental Health Center's Chemical Backgrounder Index - useful data on chemicals
• Crossroads on Chemical Information and Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
• Spectrum Laboratories - Alphabetical List of Chemical fact sheets
• NASA Outgassing Data for Selecting Spacecraft Materials