The Amsterdam Piezo Valve is designed to produce short, intense pulsed atomic and molecular beams, with pulse durations of less than 20 microseconds.
Amsterdam Piezo Valve
The Amsterdam Piezo Valve is designed to produce short, intense pulsed atomic and molecular beams, with pulse durations of less than 20 microseconds. This versatile valve can operate in both continuous and pulsed modes, spanning from DC to 5 kHz. Its ultra-short pulse duration makes it particularly suitable for applications involving pulsed lasers. One of its key advantages is its exceptional efficiency, typically consuming ten times less sample compared to conventional pulsed plunger valves, thereby minimizing sample wastage. Moreover, its low gas load simplifies the design of vacuum systems, necessitating smaller pumps and resulting in cost savings.
The Amsterdam Piezo Valve was developed by former Prof. Maurice Janssen in collaboration with FMIB and Elektronica Beta. It is produced by us and commercially distributed by our partner, MassSpecpecD BV in the Netherlands. This innovative valve has been adopted by over 50 research groups and institutes worldwide, including prestigious institutions such as:
- Fritz Haber Institute, Max Planck Gesellschaft Berlin, Germany
- DESY, CFEL, and XFEL, Hamburg, Germany
- SwissFEL and the Paul Scherrer Institute, Villingen, Switzerland
- Argonne National Laboratories, USA
- Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
- Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom
- Beijing University, China
- CNRS Bordeaux, France
- Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, USA
- University of Tokyo, Japan
- East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
- University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
- ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
- University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
- IBM (Thomas J. Watson Research Center), USA
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