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SPI-Module™ Sputter/Carbon Coater Proposal

Everything you would ever want to know about the easiest-to-use coaters for SEM/EDS labs in the world!


Thank you for clicking onto this section, thereby showing an interest for detailed information about the world renown SPI-MODULE™ Sputter/Carbon Coating System, the first completely "modular" system for SEM/EDS sample preparation.

The basic system consists of three modular units that ultimately fit together to form a center for sputtering precious metals or evaporating carbon fiber or rod onto samples destined for examination by SEM and/or EDS. The base, called the SPI-Module Vacuum Control Base, accepts the addition of either the SPI-Module Sputter Coater module or the SPI-Module Carbon Coater or both! These two modules each measure 10" (12.4 cm) to 12" (30.5 cm) x 4" (10.2 cm) high to and fit on top (together or alone) of the SPI-Module Vacuum Control base unit, itself having a small "foot print" of 18.75" (47.6 cm) wide x 12.375" (31.4 cm) deep x 4" (10.2 cm) high, not counting the height taken up by the posts and bell jar chamber.

The SPI-Module Carbon Coating System is supplied "standard" with a carbon filament head; however, a carbon rod head may be purchased separately as an optional accessory item.

Never before has the SEM lab been offered an instrument so flexible and efficient and at such a reasonable price. The SPI-Module Sputter/Carbon Coating System provides the same fast deposition of both precious metals and carbon that earned the SPI Sputter series of coaters their reputation for reliability and performance going all the way back to 1975. SPI was one of the very earliest firms to recognize the value of small table top sputter coaters in the SEM laboratory and we were one of the very first in the world to offer such coaters to SEM users.

All SPI-MODULE systems are available for purchase with or without a separate vacuum pump. Important options for some users would include the Etch Mode and Quartz Crystal Thickness Monitor. Since these options are not needed by all purchasers, make sure you understand when such options are and are not useful and whether for you specifically they would be useful additions or an other wise unnecessary waste of precious resources.

SPI-Module ™ Sputter/Carbon Coater Proposal





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