By Center for Functional Nanomaterials Brookhaven
The Instrumentation Department’s Mechanical Engineering, Fabrication, and Integration Group transforms conceptual designs into functional components and complete systems. With in-house expertise and fabrication capabilities—including a fully equipped machine shop—we support large collaborative experiments, prototype development efforts, and commercial applications. Our designs, components, and systems are used in a range of technologies, from ultrahigh vacuums capable of producing photocathodes for electron sources to parts for telescopes and neutrino detectors. Our Capabilities - Generation of innovative, creative mechanical design and fabrication solutions for application-specific needs, such as for cryogenics and ultrahigh-vacuum and extreme-high-vacuum systems that require substrate transfer, substrate heating, and evaporative deposition sources - Development of assembly and test fixtures for concept realization and validation - Verification of completed design elements on computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) software - Validation of design requirements via computer-animated simulations and analyses run on Ansys software - Inspection of fabricated parts to ensure conformity to specifications
