Engraved frontispiece for The Stack: the vacuum stack as a vintage plate, from a single seal to the largest machine.
THE STACK

The Stack

The whole stack, from a single seal to the largest machine.

7 blocks

  1. 01 Regimes & Pumps The master abacus of vacuum regimes, then the full pump family from rough to ion. Read →
  2. 02 Gauges Pirani, capacitance, Penning, Bayard-Alpert, extractor. Ranges, principles, limits. Sourced A/B/C. Read →
  3. 03 Seals & Materials Elastomer vs metal (CF), flanges, outgassing, the triple point, behavior under high voltage. Read →
  4. 04 Brazing The permanent joint. From metal-to-metal to ceramic-to-metal, the braze that holds the tube together. Read →
  5. 05 Insulators The ceramic that holds the potential. Triple junctions, house rules, and the numbers to carry. Read →
  6. 06 Tubes & Klystrons From the dispenser cathode to the megawatt klystron. Active vacuum devices. Read →
  7. 07 The Big Machines From the photoinjector to the synchrotron, the FEL, up to the largest accelerator in the world. Read →

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