Goodfellow is pleased to supply a wide variety of ceramic and glass microcomponents, both standard items and items precision-machined to customer specifications.
Depending on the material, most ultra-thin glass micro sheets are from 0.030mm in thickness, which can be used a transparent substrates and electrical insulators. The most common substrate materials used are: Alumina, Aluminium Nitride, Silicon carbide and Zirconia.
Precision spheres (from 0.127mm diameter) can be used as flow meter balls where red and black balls give clear visibility as well as gauging and measuring standards.
Micro optics such as prisms require components ranging from plain toughened float glass windows to sophisticated aspheric lenses made by vacuum molding hot glass in ultra-accurate molds. Goodfellow can offer a range of items made by different techniques depending on the quantities and optical specifications required. These can include; windows, mirrors, lenses, prisms and filter glasses. Prisms from (0.5mm), lenses (from 1mm diameter) and windows (from 0.5mm diameter).
Ceramic injection molding can be used for surgical equipment and fibre optic applications. Unlike other conventional forming processes, it offers economic and design advantages in the production of high precision, complex ceramic components.
Polished sapphire bearings and sub mm bore nozzles can offer the ideal solution for applications where standard glass and technical ceramics are not sufficient. Superior physical, chemical and optical properties allow sapphire to be used in demanding conditions.
Single and multi-bore capillary tubing with sub mm diameters and 20-micron tolerances can be flow checked to ensure compliance with your specifications.
Goodfellow can supply other items on request as a bespoke offering for those wanting smaller or larger quantities.
For more information about ceramic and glass microcomponents from Goodfellow, contact a Goodfellow technical expert on 0800 151 3115 (UK) or +44 (0) 1480 424 800, email ceramic@goodfellow.com
