About us

Our company, founded in March 2006, provides tools for analysis, thin film deposition, measurement and control applications from market-leading suppliers. We focus on research, development and process control in the materials science, energy research and semiconductor markets. We have a significant breadth of product offering, including the World market leading thin film metrology company k-Space Associates, Inc. and our 15+ year relationship has included 9 Distributor of the Year awards.

Products and services

k-Space Associates, Inc.

In-situ thin film metrology

European sales partner.

Staib Instruments GmbH

Products for RHEED and surface analysis

UK & Ireland sales partner.

Thought for the month

"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen" Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. 1870 – 1924

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RTA Instruments Ltd
Highfield
Back Lane,
Monks Eleigh
IP7 7BA
United Kingdom


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Friday 17 December 2010

Paint it black

I doubt that Mick Jagger will ever sing about carbon nanotubes. However NASA have devised a coating based on multiwalled carbon nanotubes that is about 10 times better at absorbing light, and thus suppressing stray light, than the black paint (NASA Z306) typically used by their instrument engineers. NASA has many observational and measurement related activities where background illumination is the ultimate resolution determinant and so require a paint that is blacker than black.

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