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New website launch

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We are pleased to announce that we now have a cleaner, more user friendly website. Please let us know what you think - we are always keen to hear comments and corrections.

Razorbill Attending APS March meeting 2023

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We are very pleased to announce that Razorbill's managing director and some of the engineering team, will be staffing booth #925 at APS March meeting this year. We will be unveiling and new product and be on hand to answer your technical queries and swapping hints and tips to getting the most out of your strain and stress cells.

Please drop along and say "hi"!

 

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New device for determining piezoelectric polymer electromechanical properties

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Razorbill Instruments are pleased to announce that a whole new product category: a d31/d32 Analyser for piezoelectric polymer films, is to be launched at the  International Symposium on Advanced Ferroelectrics, ISAF, in Tours, France on the 27th-30th June 2022.  Piezoelectric polymer films are becoming increasingly widely used in a wide range of applications, and so far there has been no commercially available instrument for measuring this piezoelectric property of promising candidate materials.

This d31/d32 Analyser, ESPY31, was developed in a joint venture between Electrosciences Ltd and aixACCT Systems with the mechanical design and OEM manufacture of the complex flexure/actuator/sensor mechanism carried out by Razorbill Instruments.

Flexure systems and other compliant mechanisms offer significant advantages over conventional mechanisms. They provide precise guidance of moving parts without the play or backlash associated with slides, guides, or bearings, and in a smaller volume. Razorbill Instruments has long experience with compliant mechanisms for motion control and force and displacement sensing, including kinematic design, FEA simulation, design for manufacture, assembly and testing. Our mechanisms operate in extreme environments such as vacuum, temperatures below -290C, and high magnetic fields.

Please visit our contact page to discuss your requirements and see if our engineers can lend their knowledge to your product development.

New step-by-step guide and techniques page

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New step-by-step guide and techniques page

Razorbill Instruments are pleased to announce a new easy-to-use step-by-step guide for sample mounting is now available on the website as well as a techniques page that discusses other useful approaches relating to uniaxial strain tuning.

These new webpages should enable a new user of one of our devices to quickly complete their first experiment.

Please let us know if you have any further questions or if you have developed your own cool tricks for getting the best use out of a Razorbill Instruments stress or strain cell. We’d love to hear from you!

New product: the UC200 universal cell

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Razorbill Instruments are pleased to announce that we have launched the new cryogenic stress/strain cell, the UC200 which offers customers the highest degree of control yet. The UC200 fits inside a 2-inch magnet bore and can measure both the force and displacement applied to a sample. This allows both stress and strain to be controlled and allows structural transitions of materials to be observed in real time.

Razorbill Instruments still shipping

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Although our facilities have been closed as a precautionary measure against the current gloabl pandemic, Razorbill is still able to answer your queries, and we have some limited stock that is ready to ship.

Please get in contact – the social interaction will perk us up! Also, if you are planning on purchasing in the near future, then we recommend placing the purchase order as soon as possible as once our current stock has been sold there are likely to be long waits before we are able to manufacture the next batch.

Keep safe and be sure to use your social distancing time to dream about all the cryogenic stress/strain tuning experiments you can do when the world returns to normal!

APS March Meeting 2020: Denver, Colorado.

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Razorbill Instruments are attending APS March meeting 2020 from Monday 2nd March to Wednesday 3rd March. Please drop by booth #1702 and ask our engineers really hard questions, get a chance to see and touch our products, and pick up a much coveted Razorbill branded pen.

See you there!