Minus Okay Expertise’s U.S. Academic Giveaway has granted over $125,000 of its superior performing patented passive mechanical Unfavorable-Stiffness low-frequency vibration isolators since 2014.
This yr Minus Okay congratulates the next winners for the 2025/2026 giveaway:
College of Texas at Dallas – Physics Division
The vibration isolator might be used for experiments figuring out and assembling stacked two-dimensional heterostructures for quantum transport and scanning tunneling microscopy research.
College of Pittsburgh – Physics and Astronomy Division
The vibration isolator might be used for experiments with their quantum twisting microscope inside an acoustical chamber.
Northwestern College – Electrical and Laptop Engineering Division
The isolator might be used with a diamagnetically levitated optical cavity experiment to develop an ultra-high-Q mechanical oscillator with out clamping losses.
College of Illinois Urbana-Champaign – Physics Division
The isolator will used to assist a Totally Motorized 2D Switch System in an MBraun glovebox used to manufacture van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures, by stacking atomically skinny layers – reminiscent of Graphene, hBN, and TMDs – to create particular moiré superlattices.
Illinois Wesleyan College – Physics Division
The isolator might be for experiments with Spin noise measurements in GaAs quasi-1D semiconductor mesowires or measurements of thermal conduction of MX3 mesowires with a Michelson interferometer.
Northwestern College – Utilized Physics Division
The isolator will help in experiments by supporting a precision laser frequency stabilization setup primarily based on the Pound–Drever–Corridor (PDH) locking approach.
“Minus Okay believes that aiding analysis on the faculty stage is crucial for the continued developments inside all disciplines.”, says Minus Okay’s President Steve Varma, “It’s a nice feeling to assist all these faculties with their analysis. We’re at all times interested by seeing what functions and the way the isolators might be used.”
Minus Okay® Expertise, Inc. was based in 1993 to develop, manufacture and market state-of-the-art vibration isolation merchandise primarily based on the corporate’s patented negative-stiffness-mechanism know-how. Minus Okay merchandise are utilized in a broad spectrum of functions together with nanotechnology, organic and neuro sciences, quantum computing/analysis, semiconductors, supplies analysis, zero-g simulation of spacecraft, and high-end audio. The corporate is an OEM provider to main manufactures of scanning probe microscopes, micro-hardness testers and different vibration-sensitive devices and tools.
Minus Okay prospects embrace personal firms and greater than 300 main universities and authorities laboratories in 53 nations.
