Month: March 2019

Box furnaces are ubiquitous heat treatment components in laboratory and industrial facilities. They are widely available in floor standing and benchtop variations and are routinely used to treat single products, or individual batches, at temperatures exceeding 1200°C (2192°F). Ceramic insulation is subsequently used to improve thermal uniformity throughout the processing chamber. This offers the added benefit of limiting heat propagation through the chamber walls, which could be damaging to sensitive components. In this blog post, we will explore ceramic insulation for box furnaces in more detail. Ceramic Insulation: Boards and Blankets The two standard variations of ceramic insulation for box…

Laboratory furnaces have proven instrumental in advancing the capabilities of modern electronics. They are key components for generating intermediate materials like single-crystal semiconductor ingots, which are subsequently used in the manufacture of almost all advanced electronic architectures. Capacitors. Diodes. Integrated circuits. Transistors. Each of these fundamental electronic components can be engineered and optimized using semiconducting materials like silicon (Si) and its various compounds. This has facilitated a new generation of high functionality printed circuit and wiring boards (PCB/PWBs), organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), photovoltaic cells, and more. We have reached the current high-technology landscape of electronics using advanced laboratory furnace…