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RMD's research and production
facilities occupy over 30,000 square feet of laboratories
and manufacturing space at our facility in Watertown, Massachusetts.
This space houses RMD's six research groups which conduct
studies in semiconductors, scintillators, laser-optics sensors
and instruments; biosensors, nuclear and X-ray sensors, medical
imaging technology; electronic circuit and ASIC development;
and computer algorithm development.
X-ray and Nuclear Sensor Research
RMD has extensive facilities
for the fabrication, testing, and packaging of nuclear detectors,
including clean rooms. Device fabrication facilities include
high vacuum evaporators with thickness monitoring capabilities
and diffusion furnaces. RMD also maintains a chemistry laboratory,
silicon wafer diffusion facility, and testing laboratories
dedicated to avalanche photodiode fabrication.
For radiation testing, RMD
has a wide variety of isotopic radiation sources, as well
as nine X-ray generators in three X-ray test facilities, including
a 200 square foot X-ray test chamber with three X-ray medical
and dental machines.
Materials Science Research
RMD's Materials Science laboratories
include facilities for the synthesis, purification and preparation
of semiconductor and scintillator crystals. In addition, the
lab includes large area thick films, glove boxes, dry boxes,
fume hoods and clean rooms. Preparation facilities include
more than 20 crystal growth furnaces and multiple tube zone
refiners. Six evaporators are available for producing thick
films to over 500 cm2 area. Materials and device
characterization facilities include optical and infrared microscopes,
four point resistivity probes, SEM and optical spectrometers
as well as numerous sets of nuclear instrumentation. Available
facililities also include various specialized test fixtures
and variable temperature test chambers.
Laser Optics and Optical Sensor Research
RMD houses multiple laser
and optics laboratories that are all equipped with modern
optical, spectroscopic, and electro-optical instruments, including
various lasers, monochromators, optical tables and assorted
optics.
Major equipment of the optics
laboratories includes: UniPhase micro-chip laser, PTI nitrogen
laser, PTI dye laser, H59-635 diode laser, 8 W Lexel argon
ion laser, Quanta Ray 1J Nd:YAG pulsed laser, PDL-3 dye laser,
harmonic generation crystals, 150 mm monochromators, Agilent
54846A (2.5 GHz bandwidth,) infinium oscilloscope, Tektronix
TDS 220 digital storage scope, NIM bin with spectroscopy amplifier
and high-voltage power supplies, PCA3 multi-channel scaler,
assorted optics and electronics, optical benches, and numerous
PCs. Measurement instrumentation includes monochrometers,
spectrophotometers, an integrating sphere, spectrum analyzers
and high speed oscilloscopes. RMD's CCD instrumentation includes
four research grade, high sensitivity and high frame rate
CCD systems from Photometrics, SMD and Roper Scientific.
Biochemical Sensor Research
RMD has a well-equipped BL-2
biochemical laboratory for bacterial culture, RNA/DNA extraction
and surface chemistry. RMD's facilities meet federal, state
and local environmental laws related to the proposed work.
Major equipment in our bio
labs include biological laminar-flow safety hoods, a Zeiss
IM-35 inverted, epifluorescence microscope, gyratory shakers,
a liquid nitrogen storage freezer and a duplex cell culture
incubator. There is a double door chromatography refrigerator,
an autoclave, a Beckman refrigerated centrifuge, a gel electrophoresis
station, a computer interfaced uv-vis spectrophotometer, a
High Performance Liquid Chromatography station, and a gas
chromatograph containing FID and TCD detectors. In addition,
the laboratories contain chemical fume hoods together with
the necessary equipment for gravimetric and pH measurements.
Instrumentation Development
RMD's instrumentation work
involves microprocessor development, software development,
custom printed circuit board fabrication, and ASIC development.
RMD has a complete machine shop and engineering design facilities,
as well as 10,000 square feet of ISO-9001 certified engineering
and manufacturing space for the manufacture of instruments
sold by RMD and RMD Instruments, LLC. Available equipment
includes high-speed storage oscilloscopes, numerous digital
oscilloscopes, and extensive optical and nuclear measuring
equipment.
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