Halcyonics has expanded its range of laboratory tables with active isolation technology by introducing two new models specifically for vibration isolation of optical microscopes
Halcyonics's Microscopy Workstation continues the development of its Active Workstation concept offering a compact active isolated surface surrounded by a conventional non-isolated laboratory desk surface.
On the non-isolated surface users can place other equipment, can handle test samples or can simply write things down.
The active isolated surface is big enough to carry large inverted research microscopes, ideal for users in life sciences and materials.
Microscope Workstations can also be combined with Halcyonics's Acoustic Enclosures for the ultimate isolation for long term and time-lapse imaging applications.
Thanks to Halcyonics VarioControl technology, active vibration isolation takes effect right at 0.6Hz and considerably increases from this frequency upward.
Above 10Hz, Halcyonics workstations achieve an isolation of 40dB - that means that 99.0% of the vibration is effectively isolated.
In addition to their high isolation from floor vibration through AVI (active vibration isolation), Halcyonics systems also dampen application-generated vibration by AVC (active vibration control), eg, vibration caused when the user touches the equipment.
A major advantage of active Halcyonics systems is that they do not have any natural low-frequency resonance, which is responsible for problems encountered with passive vibration isolation systems in low-frequency ranges below 5Hz.
Microscopy Workstation units isolate vertical and horizontal vibration as well as vibration generated around the vertical axis of rotation as well as both horizontal axes of inclination.
The degree of freedom of the active isolation system is thus six.
The inherent stiffness of Halcyonics systems is typically 20-30 times higher than that of a 1Hz passive isolator.
For this reason, the Halcyonics active isolation technology provides much better position stability than with any passive system, which is a great advantage in many applications.
Thanks to automatic load adjustment, Microscopy Workstations can cope with a wide range of loads allowing flexibility for future upgrades to the microscope.
