• Minus K Technology Inc

    Inglewood, CA 90301

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    460 Hindry Ave
    Unit C
     Inglewood, CA 90301
    United States
    http://www.minusk.com
    310-348-9656
    310-348-9638

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    Minus K Vibration isolation products require NO AIR or ELECTRICITY. Applications include Laser/Optical Systems, Nanotechnology, Biology/Neuroscience Microscopy, Micro-Hardness Testing / Nano Indentation, Spacecraft Ground Testing, Quantum Computing and vacuum chambers.

    Products

    Bm10 New
    The BM-10 has Minus K’s signature 0.5 Hz vertical natural frequency and 1.5 Hz horizontal natural frequency. It offers 10-100 times better performance than a full size air table...
    Ct2 Aspectnew
    The Compact Tabletop (CT-2) uses Minus K's patented technology allowing for the best performance on the market in just a 2.7 inch tall isolation platform. This completely passive...
    Cm1 Cleanup
    The CM-1 is a compact high capacity, low-frequency negative-stiffness isolator. They are completely passive and use No Air or Electricity. The isolators can be combined into multi...
    Bm1 New2
    The BM-1 negative-stiffness vibration isolator is a large (almost 2 ft x 2 ft) high capacity bench top isolator for payload weight loads up to 1000 lbs. Providing 1/2 Hz performance...
    Mk52 2 Leg
    Minus K MK52 Series Vibration Control Optical Table with more ergonomic comfort is designed specifically for ultra-low natural frequency applications. The system utilizes Minus...

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    (Inglewood, California, April 3, 2023)Celebrating its’ thirtieth year in business, Minus K Technology has to-date granted over $65,000 of its superior performing patented Negative...

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    The negative-stiffness CT-10 passive vibration isolator measures just over 12.5 × 2.7 in.
    (Courtesy of the Busani Research Group)
    FIGURE 1. The Busani Research Group’s AFM probe for semiconductor patterning, equipped with an aluminum nitrate laser nanowire used as a lithographic tip, allows traditional laser scanning to be performed along with spectroscopy to record the fluorescence signal of the material.
    An AFM probe for semiconductor patterning, equipped with an aluminum nitrate laser nanowire used as a lithographic tip, allows traditional laser scanning to be performed along...
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    The CT-2 negative-stiffness passive isolator delivers 1/2 Hz vertical and ~1-1/2 Hz horizontal natural frequencies.
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    For the second year, Laser Focus World held its Innovators Awards program, which celebrates the disparate and innovative technologies, products, and systems found in the photonics...
    FIGURE 1. Shown is a schematic of a typical cantilevered horizontal-motion flexure that permits a low isolator height and low horizontal natural frequencies; bearing a weight load W on its end, the flexure has x and y displacement capability.
    Fitting high-performance vibration isolation into a small microscope platform can be done using negative-stiffness mechanical isolators.
    (Image credit: NASA/Chris Gunn)
    NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is suspended from Minus K vibration isolators on top of Chamber A at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
    Negative-stiffness vibration isolators place the telescope in a hammock that isolates JWST during cryogenic testing.
    (Courtesy of the Special Collections & Archives Department, Nimitz Library, U.S. Naval Academy)
    FIGURE 1. The Michelson-Morley experiment was performed on this slab in the basement of a stone dormitory at Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
    Stability and precision have been crucial for optics since the 19th century. The birth of holography and other precision laser measurements brought a new generation of equipment...
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    The LC-4 compact, negative-stiffness vibration isolator supports weight loads from 1 to 130 lb.
    (Courtesy of TMC)
    FIGURE 1. A large, massive Stage-Base vibration-isolation system from TMC is an example of the technology needed to satisfy the requirements for manufacturing precision and speed in the semiconductor industry.
    Essential for many experiments in optics, the vibration-isolation table comes in many forms, including active and passive vibration isolation, as well as pneumatic and non-pneumatic...
    CM-1 negative-stiffness isolators from Minus K Technology
    CM-1 negative-stiffness vibration isolators support heavy payloads while reducing low-frequency vibrations.

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    Minus K negative-stiffness vibration isolators will be used for ground testing of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
    After completing the initial order for negative-stiffness vibration isolators for JWST ground testing, Minus K Technology has received the complete order.
    Minus K MK52 negative-stiffness optical vibration isolation table
    The MK52 negative-stiffness optical vibration isolation table achieves vertical and horizontal natural frequencies of 0.5 Hz or lower without limiting its ability to support static...
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    When air tables, stacked air tables, and active electronic vibration-isolation systems failed to reduce vibrations to a level allowing measurement of neuronal brain activity for...
    (Courtesy of Minus K Technology)
    FIGURE 1. The transmissibility of a passive negative-stiffness vibration isolator-that is, the vibration that transmits through the isolator as measured as a function of floor vibrations-can be 100 times better at low frequencies of around 2.5 Hz than a higher-cost air table.
    Although low-frequency vibration isolation can be achieved by suspending nanoinstrumentation from a ceiling or using air tables, passive negative-stiffness vibration-isolation...