About Us: Facilities and Equipment

Research International facilities support a multidisciplinary focus in the areas of electro-optics and fiber optics, electronics, mechanical design, synthetic organic chemistry, bio-chemistry, fluid dynamics, and micromachining/vacuum technology.

Support tools include a full wet lab and ancillary photolithographic equipment for micromachining; a Hitachi® S-415A SEM; Dektak® III surface profiler; Airco Temescal® e-beam evaporator; and a CVC 601 RF magnetron sputtering system. Optics hardware includes Kodak® Megaplus CCD camera system; Synrad® CO2 laser; precision surface grinder; MicroAutomation® 1006A programmable dicing saw; Buehler® fiber polisher; ultrasonic fiber cleaver, and custom computer-controlled spectrometers. Software for optical design includes OPTICADT, Xemax-XE™, and BeamPropT™. Electronics capabilities include Tango™ circuit board design; Micro-Cap™ V simulation; Forth™, Basic™ and C™ software packages, and miscellaneous tools and equipment (surface mount and though-hole board designs are supported) including an NCI® PA600 logic analyzer; Tektronix® 7603,7633, and 1720A oscilloscopes. The manufacturing facility of 1,500 sq ft includes assembly areas, with an Asymtek© model 403 robot, a 6-station controlled humidity glove box with vacuum interchange, and testing areas with environmental and sterilization chambers.

An on-site chemistry lab is equipped for standard organic and biochemical laboratory techniques, including air and moisture-sensitive compounds, bioassay development, and functionalized surface development. Hardware includes capillary and standard column gas chromatographs; HPLC and gel electrophoresis equipment; UV-Vis® diode array spectrophotometer, spectrofluorometer, and a Perkin-Elmer® Series 1600 FTIR.

Research Machine is an eight-year-old subsidiary of Research International, Inc., a contract research and development company serving the medical, military, and commercial markets. Working in conjunction with Research International's staff of scientists and engineers, Research Machine is well-supported in the areas of mechanical and optical design, synthetic organic chemistry, biochemistry, physics, and electronic design and layout.