Fused Silica CNC Machining and Polishing Services

Valley Design can help you with your most demanding CNC machining projects. Taking Fused Silica from our extensive in-house inventory or your own supplied material or modification needs.

When micron level tolerances and accuracy are crucial our metrology lab utilizes the newest and most advanced CMM technology and 3D profile metrology assuring outstanding quality and product performance.

Our state-of-the-art Haas 4 – 5 Axis Fused Silica CNC machining and grinding technology can achieve micron level tolerances and repeatability of ± .5um (microns).

• Optimum Diamond tool selection.
• Diamond tool wear technology.
• Advanced non-contact laser-based tool setting.
• Vacuum hold down technology.
• Custom adhesion hold down and release technology.
• Proprietary tooling and advanced fixturing technology.

Complex Features

Your ceramic list steps, slots, grooves etc. Plus a few new ones.

• Counter Bores
• Drilling
• Coring
• Light weighting
• Chamfers
• Bevels
• Concave / Convex surface profiles.

Fused Silica is used in the manufacturing of optical components and in applications and industries that include Aerospace, Telecommunications, Semiconductors, Medical, Lasers, Electronics, Scientific Instruments, Camera Lenses, and the Energy Industry.

Advantages of Fused Silica and Fused Quartz properties include the following:

• Extreme hardness
• High softening temperatures and thermal resistance
• High chemical purity and resistance
• Low thermal expansion with high resistance to thermal shocks
• High transparency from the ultraviolet to the infrared spectral range
• High radiation resistance
• Superior electrical insulation qualities

For a list of commonly stocked Fused Silica wafers and substrates, please click here.

25 years ago we made 300mm fused silica membranes, 25 microns thick (0.001”) optically polished both sides. We have advanced since then. Now parts can be fabricated in size ranges from as large as 609mm (24”), as thin as 25 micron thick and as small as .203mm. Our customers are among the top technology companies in the world including Applied Materials, Intel, KLA Tencor, Philips Medical, Boeing, NASA, Raytheon and others.

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