[Ifeffit] Substrate material question

[Jeff Terry]

Hi Matt,

Both items are good to know. I didn't realize that the laminated kapton 
structures still had good heat resistance.

Jeff


On Apr 27, 2004, at 10:22 AM, Matt Newville wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
> I think you can get polyimide thicker than 175 microns. It may not
> go as Kapton, but maybe as Cirlex or Torlon or something else.  I
> think goodfellow.com carries these in millimeter thick sheets and
> rods, and that they're still radiation and heat resistant.
> Goodfellow tends to be pricey, but has excellent information on
> thermal and mechanical properties.
>
> Using MgO, sapphire, or even diamond might be reasonable too.
>
> --Matt
>
> PS: I have a working build of PGPLOT with all of Aquaterm, X11,
>     Postscript, and Png devices on Mac OS X.  I'm still tweaking
>     the makefile so that it links directly to the png objects to
>     avoid possible conflicts with dynamic png and zlib libraries,
>     but I should have a working ifeffit binary using this in a
>     matter of days, and then be ready to tweak horae's Makefile.PL
>     so that horae_update works.
>
>
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