Welcome to Solid Sealing Technology

Solid Sealing Technology Capabilities. 

Experts in hermetic feedthroughs and connectors.

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Custom Vacuum Designs

Over the years xtronix has delivered many custom designed products, both systems and components. xtronix custom designs removes the burdensome task of design engineering, parts procurement, assembly, testing and final qualification. We work with suppliers, often companies we actively distribute products of, to obtain the best price and delivery, leaving our customers more time to focus on their own applications and less time worrying about all the intricacies of custom designs. Solid Sealing Technology (SST) partners with us for various custom feedthrough assemblies. Here is an overview of their capabilities:

DESIGN REVIEW
The basis of most Solid Sealing Technology products is ceramic-to-metal sealing and/or glass-ceramic sealing. The process of making your custom part(s) begins with a comprehensive review of engineering needs that ensures a complete understanding of the application’s requirements. A skilled team will define a production plan that gets you your hermetic feedthroughs and connectors quickly. 

MATERIAL SOURCING
SST materials and components are sourced from world-class suppliers. Detailed documentation and specifications are available for all custom hermetic feedthroughs and connectors to ensure the materials meet your needs. 

PRECISION CLEANING
All components at SST must meet strict standards and are processed through a customized cleaning system. The standardized process includes a specialty aqueous cleaner followed by a cascade DI water rinse. This cleaning process has been used and approved by key customers like Sandia National Labs and the United States' Army. The same process can be used for precision cleaning of metals, ceramics, and glass and is suitable for UHV environments. SST will ship your custom hermetic products sealed so they are ready to use out of the box. 

MANUFACTURING
With your production plan in place, SST will begin manufacturing your parts. Whether you are creating a completely new custom hermetic product or modifying one of our many hermetic feedthroughs or connectors, we offer a technology suite that will meet your needs. SST offers metalizing and plating of ceramics, active metal joining, vacuum and hydrogen brazing, glass-ceramic sealing, TIG welding, spot welding, machining, and mechanical assembly. 

FINAL INSPECTION & TESTING
SST verifies all critical requirements before shipping, and the customer service team will provide any product-related resources you need. SST offers vacuum-bagging and other special packaging options if needed. Parts will arrive clean and ready to use out of the box.

Calibrated tools, vision systems, and a CMM are used to verify mechanical attributes. And electrical requirements are validated with the latest electrical test equipment. SST is certified compliant to ISO9001:2015 and often works within the more stringent requirements of defense and medical customers.

• Helium Leak Detection – 100% of SST parts are leak tested before shipping. Parts are tested to a leak rate of less than 1x10^-10 atm.cc/sec
• Pressure Testing - Hydrostatic Pressure testing up to 30,000 psi
• Electrical Testing – Continuity, HiPot/DWV (Dielectric Withstanding Voltage), Megohm Resistance, Capacitance, Heat Rise Testing
• Physical Testing - Torque, Push-Pull Testing, Engagement Force Measurement
• CMM, Vision Systems, Go/No-Go thread and pin gauges, Surface Profilometer, and certified metrology equipment for inspection and analysis
• XRF Thickness Testing of Coatings & Material Verification
• Basic Thermal Testing: LN2 exposure, vacuum bakeout
• Fiber Optic Insertion Loss Testing

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WELCOME TO SOLID SEALING TECHNOLOGY

Solid Sealing Technology (SST) designs and manufactures essential electrical components for today’s high-tech world. SST's innovative material-joining technologies bond ceramics and glass to metal to create hermetic feedthroughs and connectors tailored for use in vacuum environments. Experts in design, SST offers a vast catalog of standard high-performance sealing solutions that improve reliability in demanding engineering settings. And for customers with unique challenges, SST’s skilled engineering group creates fully customized parts from the ground up. Working with an unrivaled commitment to quality and customer service, SST inspires innovation and enables technology around the world.

With a focus on customer satisfaction, SST strives to constantly improve their quality management system and product performance. SST are proud to be ISO9001 certified. 

Solid Sealing Technology's commitment to continuous improvement extends to all aspects of their business, from the first contact with customers to delivery of your final part. Through persistent attention to quality and customer service, SST ensure that they meet customers' needs with reliable high-performing vacuum products spanning feedthroughs, connectors, isolators, viewports, pinch-off tubes, and related accessories for both air-side and vacuum-side use.

SST engineers work closely with every customer to deliver custom hermetic solutions that can be found behind the scenes of some of the world’s most advanced technologies. Examples include industrial, medical, and research facilities where SST parts are used in equipment like energy storage systems, MRI machines, and particle accelerators. They have even sent parts to Mars, empowering NASA’s Mars Insight Mission to tackle the challenges of our solar system. Highly Innovative, Creatively Bespoke, and Impressively Robust, SST hermetic sealing solutions help push the boundaries of technological advancement in an evolving world.

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Solid Sealing Technology Starts 2021 With New Website

Solid Sealing Technology, our partners in Ceramic Feedthroughs and thousands of industry standard parts for vacuum technology, have opened 2021 with a new website which we invite you to visit: www.solidsealing.com 

Solid Sealing Technology designs and manufactures essential electrical components for today’s high-tech world. Their innovative material-joining technologies bond ceramics and glass to metal to create hermetic feedthroughs and connectors tailored for use in vacuum environments. Experts in design, SST offers a vast catalog of standard high-performance sealing solutions that improve reliability in demanding engineering settings. And for customers with unique challenges, SST’s skilled engineering group creates fully customized parts from the ground up.

SST products include: vacuum feedthroughs, hermetic connectors, ceramic-to-metal sealing, metalizing and brazing of ceramics, glass-ceramic sealing, sapphire viewports, UHV-grade copper pinch-off tubules and custom feedthrough design.

SST engineers work closely with every customer to deliver custom hermetic solutions and industry-leading ceramic-to-metal seals that can be found behind the scenes of some of the world’s most advanced technologies. Examples include industrial, medical, and research facilities where SST parts are used in equipment like energy storage systems, MRI machines, and particle accelerators. SST have even sent parts to Mars, empowering NASA’s Mars Insight Mission to tackle the challenges of our solar system. Highly Innovative, Creatively Bespoke, and Impressively Robust, SST vacuum feedthroughs and hermetic connectors help push the boundaries of technological advancement in an evolving world.

 

 

 

VES-210 Production Vacuum Exhaust & Gas Backfill System

For over two decades xtronix has been delivering unique custom systems, instruments, cryostats and vacuum components.

Our latest shipment is a Vacuum Exhaust Station (VES-210) with gas backfill capability for an EU production plant of a very large multinational instrumentation firm.

xtronix custom designs removes the burdensome task of design engineering, parts procurement, assembly, testing and final qualification. We work with trusted suppliers, often companies we actively distribute products of, leaving our customers more time to focus on their own clients and less on worrying about all the intricacies of custom designs.

Past custom designs have varied from components as vacuum feedthrough assemblies for radar or night vision devices to Pirani vacuum gauges, cryostats, sputter coating and gas blending systems.

The VES-210 pictured here can be used for production of gas-backfilled devices typically as used in X-ray collection techniques such as X-ray Fluorescence / Diffraction products, or in the manufacture of appendage ion pumps, small communication devices or other pinch-off cavities. This concept can be expanded to a VES-310, -410 or reduced to a VES-110 concept.

High vacuum is achieved by a turbo-molecular pump with a scroll backing / roughing pump.

The vacuum cycle is fully automated via a touchscreen, menu-driven controller. Vacuum and gas hardware is stainless steel throughout and the vacuum components are mostly right out of our own 88-page vacuum components catalog. The system conforms to CE norms.

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Hermetic fiber optics are here!

Solid Sealing Technology now offers a full line of single and multimode fiber optic feedthrough adapters for ultra high vacuum!

SST's line of hermetic fiber optic adapters utilize a precision zirconia ferrule terminated to multimode or single mode (125µ OD) optical fiber. The zirconia ferrules are high temperature brazed into mating metal hardware to provide the highest reliability seal. This construction allows these connectors to be welded directly into packages or into a wide variety of flanges and fittings for easy installation.

Each product is helium leak checked to < 1x10 -10 cc/sec and optically tested before it leaves the factory to ensure performance. All SST optical feedthroughs and accessory connectors feature an industry standard UPC polish.

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Solid Sealing Technology Celebrates 10 Years of Excellence

In 2014, Solid Sealing Technology is happy to celebrate its ten year anniversary as a designer and manufacturer of highly engineered, hermetic products through metalizing and brazing, glass-ceramic sealing, welding and critical mechanical assembly.

Since its inception in 2004, Solid Sealing Technology has been a global provider of industry standard and custom designed products and has continually been committed to serve its customers in the high-tech market place. 

 

Throughout Solid Sealing Technology's past ten years as a member of the Watervliet Arsenal Business & Technology Partnership, the company has continually reached new heights in the manufacturing industry. Solid Sealing Technology's growth and success stems from the company's dedicated workforce and the company's awareness of the latest technology. Solid Sealing Technology has focused on delivering "Solid" Customer Service, Rapid Response, On Target Quality and Superior Customer Value over the past ten years and plans to build and strengthen these areas in the future.

Krytox® PFPE in Vacuum Applications

Krytox® performance lubricants are the products of choice for applications where complete nonflammability, oxygen compatibility, and resistance to aggressive chemicals are requirements. These synthetic lubricants provide superior performance and extended life as lubricants and sealants.

xtronix caters to a variety of vacuum and non-vacuum applications with different grades of Krytox® oils and greases. We have addressed aerospace related markets, high voltage industrial applications, paper mills, tribology applications in clean room environments, and many others.

An important area of use for Krytox® relates to vacuum-based applications:
• Vacuum pumps, where safety is critical
• Hostile environments, where semiconductor process chemicals can attack most other lubricants
• Vacuum system valves, seals, bearings and connectors, where low vapor pressure, outgassing, and contamination are intolerable

Tips & Tricks - Vacuum Viewports

This had already been posted back in September 2007 on our old blog and as it had attracted tremendous interest I'm happy to give it a makeover with more detail !

For those who do not often change things on a UHV vacuum system, here's some tips if you need to mount a viewport. First, never use a viewport that appears to be, or is known to be damaged. A replacement viewport costs far less than repairing a system that has been subject of an implosion caused by a faulty viewport.

SAFETY

Pressure differentials: Kodial VPZ viewports are designed to withstand 1 Bar differential pressure. Other standard viewports are designed to withstand 2 Bar differential pressure. The pressure on the ‘vacuum side’ of the viewport must not exceed a positive pressure differential of 1 bar. The viewports are designed for vacuum applications.

• WARNING: Pressures in excess of this or high reverse pressures may cause catastrophic failure and result in serious injury.