Remember the robots from yesterday's post? Well, they were nowhere near as cool as this thing, which is at the business next door. What is it, you ask?
Why, it's a sputter magnetron, of course!
And what does one do with a sputter magnetron? Even though I heard it explained a couple times, I have no idea. This company specially designs machines and processes for unusual industrial requirements, such as spraying a micron-thick coating on a piece of film in a complete vacuum, which apparently you need a sputter magnetron to do. But what exactly is the sputter magnetron, and how does it help you spray industrial coatings in a vacuum? All I know is that we are happy to have American capital putting Latvian sputter magnetrons to good use, and that "The Sputter Magnetron" would be a great name for a rock band. And if you are an American businessman who found this via Google while looking for information about the emerging Latvian sputter magnetron cluster, please let me know.
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Very very cool picture, and mysterious, too!
Ma
It turns out I use optics that were prepared with a sputter magnetron.... Speaking of such things, have you heard of a company called Quantronix? I use a laser made by them, and I think that they used to be based in Latvia (or was it Lithuania).
I was just going to comment that, maybe Rob should go and work on the sputter magna-whatsit because it sounds like his field. Apparently we are psychic, or I actually sort of know what he does, or we are just married.
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