Assembling in the cleanroom at SRON

Hardware gets perfectly clean and perfectly aligned with the pick-and-place machine and alignment microscope.

 

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Nanolithography in the cleanroom at SRON

Making the very finest superconducting chips. We make unique structures down to the micrometre, with very elaborate equipment as seen here.

 

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Optical testing of flight models in the cleanroom at SRON

Optical testing: does the final flight model that goes into space perform flawlessly? Even in vacuum?

 

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The space simulator for PLATO camera’s

The PLATO telescope will soon search for exoplanets. How do the cameras perform in this clean room where temperatures change and the vacuum is like in space?

 

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An Instrument in the Making

An infrared grating is designed, made in the workshop and tested in an optical lab. An infrared detector to be combined with the grating to do science, is cooled to 0.1 Kelvin with a cryostat.

 

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