Epner

A broad range of products built for space and astronomy applications performed "as designed" thanks to Laser Gold's incredible low emissivity and/or high reflectivity.

The contract or machining job shops are among Epner's most important customer base.  These shops invest time and money in creating some of the most complicated and exotic machined parts.  

With the advent of diode pumped technology, Epner's main Yag business is refurbishment (including the electroformed Quantronix cavity) of existing cavities while moving on to tubular chambers pumped by diode lasers through a side wall slot.  Laser Gold was named because of its near universal acceptance as the most efficient and durable YAG Laser Pump Cavity coating.  ETI provides solderable gold plating for diode pumped heat sinks.

Epi Reactors, Rapid Thermal Heaters and Memory Disk Heaters all have been improved by re-plating with Laser Gold. ETI both fabricates from scratch or re-plates your existing reflectors on the AMT, ASM, Intevac and Moore Technology heater systems. A patented improvement in the reflector increased shape for EPI reactors has produced the ability to guarantee lamp life for one year with uniformity at the wafer.

ETI has produced Laser Gold plated reflector panels for some 37 auto paint drying tunnel ovens. An experiment at Ford’s Wixom pilot line produced an incredible 36% increase in oven efficiency when compared to the original stainless steel oven walls.

A variety of medically related products from radio opaque markers on catheters to lightpipes used in tympanic (ear) thermometers are made possible with Laser Gold.

Realizing a need in the art community for a plating company that welcomes their chance to contribute to their creativity rather than find them an annoyance, Epner Technology set up a division that draws on its high technology know-how and applies it to the world of art, sculpture and jewelry.