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For years, engineers have had to choose between a machined aluminium plate and a honeycomb optical breadboard. Steve Ryan, Divisional Vice President at Technical Manufacturing Corporation TMC talks to AZoM about their new product the Hybrid Honeycomb Breadboard which combines the best of both.

As the name suggests, the design is a hybrid.  It combines the best attributes of metal honeycomb optical breadboards and machined aluminium plates.

A honeycomb pattern is machined in the underside of an aluminium plate and a face sheet is bonded to the structure.

The Hybrid Honeycomb Breadboard combines the ability to machine a precision hole pattern with the high stiffness to weight ratio and structural damping of a honeycomb breadboard.

Optical Engineers often desire to mount optical sub-assemblies on a rigid structure.  Aluminum is typically chosen as the structure because of its ability to be machined to precise tolerances.

However, aluminium plates do not always provide the required stiffness or damping necessary to maintain the stability of the precision optical pathways.

Any complex tool with a precise optical sub-assembly. Typical applications include optical inspection instruments, metrology tools, lab automation, and gene sequencing tools.

The Hybrid Honeycomb allows engineers to incorporate the benefits of honeycomb technology in ever smaller envelopes.

Industries in which tools sizes are rapidly decreasing will benefit the most.  These include gene sequencing tools and other lab automation equipment.

The Hyrbid Honeycomb Breadboard offers better stiffness, stiffness-to-weight, and damping then machined aluminium plates and a more precise hole pattern than a honeycomb optical breadboard.

It allows complex optical insturments to be made lighter and smaller without compromise in optical resolution or precision of the optical sub-systems. Until now, engineers have had to choose between a machined aluminum plate and a honeycomb optical breadboard.

It is the latest in our long line of innovations in the field of precision floor vibration vibration isolation and optical breadboards.

It is an indication of our commitment to innovation and in our industry leadership position.

Please check out our website at techmfg.com.  

Steve Ryan is the Divisional Vice President with overall responsibility for TMC, an AMETEK business.  

Steve holds a B.S. in Physics from Bates College and has over 30 years of experience in building floor vibration control and vibration control of nuclear reactors and steam & electric plants in Trident and Seawolf submarines.

A patented inventor with other patents pending.

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Originally from Ireland, Mychealla graduated from Northumbria University in Newcastle with Bachelor's degree in Journalism with English Literature. After spending a year traveling around Asia and Australia she moved to Manchester. In her spare time, Mychealla can be found spending time with family and friends, hiking, going to the gym/doing yoga and like everyone else getting stuck into the latest Netflix series.

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