TMC Commemorates 10 Years of Stacis® Installations Custom Designs Solve Your Unique Problems TMC's Gimbal Piston™ takes the rock 'n' roll out of vinyl LPs TMC CleanTop® II Tables Support Single Molecule Spectroscopy Research
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Employing inertial vibration sensors and piezoelectric force actuators, Stacis is a six degree-of-freedom active hard-mount that senses and cancels vibration from 0.6 Hz to 250 Hz. Since 1998 when TMC acquired
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| UCLA Professor Shimon Weiss relies on five TMC CleanTop® II Optical Tables with a combination of lasers and confocal microscopes to perform single molecule spectroscopy on proteins and nucleic acids. The lasers excite two different dye molecules attached to two locations on the macromolecule to study folding translocation on DNA or molecular interaction. The amplitudes of the two color emissions are related to the spacing between the two dyes. Relative changes between the two signals report on distance and conformational changes. TMC’s vibration isolation tables provide the ultra-stable, quiet platform required to obtain the high resolution imaging and spectroscopy needed for this state-of-the-art bioscience research. | ||
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In
April, 2005, TMC marks the 10th anniversary
of the first Stacis® installation at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
for
maximum precision, resonance control, and stability to ensure
the highest resolution information retrieval from the LP grooves.
From its integrally motorized, servo controlled, air-bearing main
spindle with vacuum record hold down, to its linear tracking,
zero friction, air bearing, carbon fiber composite tonearm, the
entire system is an exploration into the outer limits of musical
enjoyment from the LP format. All of these 
efforts
would be rendered impotent however, without a stable, vibration-free
platform from which to work. The Rockport Technologies System
III Sirius incorporates the same TMC Gimbal Piston™
pneumatic vibration isolation system that has become
the industry standard for such diverse instruments as atomic force
microscopes (AFM), NMR spectrometers, interferometers, and electron
microscopes. The Gimbal Piston provides vibration isolation in both
the vertical and horizontal axes beginning just above 2 Hz. Up to
99% isolation is achieved by 20 Hz. Exploring the outer limits of
musical enjoyment requires overcoming many technical challenges.
TMC’s Gimbal Piston eliminates building floor vibration as
a corrupting artifact from LPs as effectively as it allows AFM users
to image individual atoms.