Beside the tip treatment of Thomas quartz-glass insulated platinum/tungsten microelectrode fibers (pulling and grinding the fiber with machines available from Thomas RECORDING) it is required to connect an electrode fiber electrical to a connection cable to be able to apply the ready for use electrode to a preamplifier or data acquisitions input. For making an electrical connection it is required to remove the quartz glass insulation from the microelectrode fiber end.

The cladding of this unique TREC electrode fibers with single or multiple metal cores consist of quartz glass (fused silica). Quartz glass is made up amorphous framework of silicon dioxide (SiO4) tetrahedra. Due to its high melting temperature it has an excellent thermal shock resistance. Additionally quartz glass is extremely chemically inert to most elements and resists almost all compounds including virtually all acids, regardless of concentration. The exceptional high energy which is necessary to overcome the strong polar bonds between silicon and oxygen lead to both mentioned properties (and a lot more) and thereby to the difficulties dissolving quartz glass. That is why one needs to use a special designed process to remove the glass insulation. The Fiber Melting Unit (FMU) is a device required to remove the glass insulation. The device is delivered with all accessories required to remove the quartz-glass insulation very fast and reliable from the fiber material

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Key Features

• Pulling of Thomas quartz-glass fibers with platinum/tungsten metal core

• Mains operated control unit for constant-current operation

• Constant-current guarantees reproducible results

• Crafted in Germany with the well know quality “Made in GERMANY”

    

Article number: AN000013

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