Minus Ok 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 Ok congratulates the next winners for the 2025/2026 giveaway:
College of Texas at Dallas – Physics Division
The vibration isolator shall 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 shall be used for experiments with their quantum twisting microscope inside an acoustical chamber.
Northwestern College – Electrical and Pc Engineering Division
The isolator shall 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 help a Absolutely 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 shall 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 based mostly on the Pound–Drever–Corridor (PDH) locking method.
“Minus Ok believes that aiding analysis on the faculty stage is important for the continued developments inside all disciplines.”, says Minus Ok’s President Steve Varma, “It’s a nice feeling to assist all these faculties with their analysis. We’re at all times fascinated with seeing what purposes and the way the isolators shall be used.”
Minus Ok® Expertise, Inc. was based in 1993 to develop, manufacture and market state-of-the-art vibration isolation merchandise based mostly on the corporate’s patented negative-stiffness-mechanism know-how. Minus Ok merchandise are utilized in a broad spectrum of purposes 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 gear.
Minus Ok prospects embrace personal corporations and greater than 300 main universities and authorities laboratories in 53 nations.