Researchers can go to the TechoCentre's glass instrument workshop to manufacture a wide range of devices and set-ups, to design new products, to make repairs, to modify existing test set-ups and to get advice. Depending on demand and the materials needed, the glass is processed in the hot or cold section.
Hot section
Here we work on (test) setups, distillation equipment and laser tubes. The usual types of glass are borosilicate and quartz glass.
Cold section
In the cold section we process hard and brittle materials such as glass, aluminium oxide, makor, silicon carbide and boron nitride. The standard techniques are drilling, milling, sawing and polishing. We use diamond-tipped tools to process these materials.