Vendors

Resources in Chamberlin

Physics Electronics Shop

Located in Chamberlin 3336 on the third floor near the Charter Street stairway

The Electronics Shop has electronics components (resistors, capacitors, diodes, switches, shrink wrap...), materials for building circuits (circuit boxes, circuit boards, lots of wire, some plastic nuts and screws,...), and some cleaning and maintenance supplies (compressed air,...). The technician in the electronics shop can also offer electronics advice and help to fix some electronic devices.

In order to buy parts from the Electronics Shop, you will need to set-up an account on the check-out computer. This is the same check-out system used at WaltMart.

WaltMart (Physics Stockroom)

Located in Chamberlin 1149 on the first floor near the central stairway

Waltmart has many small tools and lab supplies, such as nuts and screws, tubing, and cleaning supplies. Walmart does NOT have much optics-specific stuff.

In order to buy parts from Waltmart, you will need to set-up an account on the check-out computer. This is the same check-out system used in the Physics Electronics Shop.

Below is a link to directory and parts list accurate as of June 2014.

Physics Stockroom Directory

Official UW Vendor Site

Shop@UW

MD Number: MD09227
Password: EIT6.8GHz

Shop@UW includes internal UW supplies and also special external vendors. For Shop@UW, you can order directly from the external suppliers without going through purchasing. The approximately two dozen external suppliers include Airgas (compressed air, liquid nitrogen), Dell Computers, and Grainger (tools, hardware supplies).

Frequently Ordered Items

Airgas - liquid nitrogen container - part number: NI 230LT22

Liquid Helium, 60L dewar. Orders should be placed at least two business days before it is need. To order call 608-263-5473. Also, check out the helium recover system instructions.

External Vendors

In order to place an order at an external vendor, fill out the order form below and e-mail it to Ann Austin (austin@physics.wisc.edu) in purchasing. Cc Deniz on the e-mail.

File:Order Form.xlsx

Only fields that are highlighted near the top of the form are necessary.

You should probably discuss any big purchases (>$500) with Deniz before you order.

Electronics

See "Physics Electronics Shop" in "Resources in Chamberlin" above.

Mini-Circuits
Mini-Circuits is where we get most of our RF circuitry.

Optics and Opto-mechanics

Altechna
Altechna has cheaper polarization optics that a lot of other places. A lot of our waveplates and beamcubes are from Altechna.

Edmund Optics
Edmund Optics has a pretty good selection of optics, but it can be expensive. We purchase optical filters from Edmund.

Newport
Newport sells a variety of optics and opto-mechanics. Most of our opto-mechanics are from Newport. Newport includes the following brands: ILX Lightwave, New Focus, Ophir, Oriel, Richardson, and Spectra-Physics.

Thorlabs
Thorlabs has a wide variety of optics and opto-mechanics. Most are reasonably priced. Nick is probably going to marry their website because he loves it so much.

Vacuum Equipment

Kurt J. Lesker
Kurt J. Lesker has most vacuum equipment that you would need.

Pfeiffer Vacuum
Pfeiffer has several types of vacuum pumps. The turbo pumping station for the cryostat and the roughing pump for the molecular modulator cavity are from Pfeiffer.