Kimball Physics is a high-tech manufacturer of scientific instruments, with 30 years of experience in ultra-high-vacuum electron and ion optics. The company specializes in precision electrostatic and magnetostatic optics, with beam energies ranging from 1 eV to 100 keV, and beam currents ranging from femtoamperes to amperes. Most units are low power devices. An MIT spinoff, the company is in a half dozen buildings, situated near the top of a hill, surrounded by woods, in southern New Hampshire.

Kimball Physics designs and manufactures electron optics used all over the world. Areas of involvement include: numerous UHV analytical instruments based on electron and ion optics, electron optical equipment for the semiconductor industry, electron sources for electron microscopes and electron lithography, sources for free electron lasers, accelerators, and x-ray systems, fittings and components for general ultra-high vacuum use, custom apparatus for the space industry, and equipment for various esoteric physics experiments.

Kimball Physics is a company run by physicists, ready to assist customers in solving practical, technical, and basic research problems. A staff of outside consultants augments in-house expertise. The company maintains facilities for: source R & D, particle optics design, mechanical cad design, electronics engineering, vacuum engineering, UHV testing, materials characterization, precision mechanical fabrication, joining, brazing, welding, and electronics manufacturing. Unusual capabilities exist in micromanufacturing.

Products include: electron gun and ion gun subsystems, with associated electronics, ready to attach to customer UHV vacuum systems; emitters, Multi-CF™ Fittings (special vacuum components including instrument housings and vacuum chambers), eV Parts^® (parts and raw materials from which customers can assemble their own designs); feedthroughs, particle detectors, and electronics — all related to the generation, propagation, control, and detection, of particle beams.

Applications include: surface physics (ESD, RHEED, IPES, Cathodoluminescence, Charge Neutralization, Heating, Phosphor Testing and Research, etc), analytical instruments, space research, semiconductor processing, semiconductor research, vacuum processing, and various special projects. Considerable design and manufacturing is directed towards OEM customer applications. Kimball Physics equipment has been on several space shuttle and rocket missions.

Many standard electron and ion sources, guns, power supplies, and components are offered in this website. Many others are not. About one-fifth of the items manufactured are custom, with only a fraction of these eventually produced as standard catalog items. Thus if you do not see what you need, please contact engineering. An on-line custom design request form has been included in this website. Filling out this form encourages most of the important design parameters to be addressed.