Quorum Technologies is the home of the Polaron range.

For over 45 years the Polaron range has been at the forefront of electron microscopy (EM) sample preparation. Since 2001 the Polaron brand has been wholly owned and managed by Quorum Technologies whose business units are now based in Ringmer near Lewes & Ashford in the UK. In 2005 we acquired the Emitech business and are proud to add their exciting products and expertise to our team. We manufacture and distribute our high reliability instruments throughout the world, with applications in scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), FIB, and environmental scanning electron microscopy (ESEM). Our customers include most of the worlds academic institutions as well as leading commercial and governmental research facilities.

Products

The Polaron range includes CRYO-SEM preparation systems, sputter coaters - including a large chamber sputter coater for wafers, carbon coaters, compact combined sputter coater / carbon coater systems, critical point dryers (supercritical dryers for aerogels and MEMS), vacuum evaporators (for electron microscopy preparation and thin film applications), RF plasma barrel reactors for plasma etching, plasma ashing and plasma cleaning. Look out for our robust and efficient water recirculating heater / chiller units.

Service and Support

Our service offering includes instrument hire and low cost maintenance contracts backed by an extensive spares inventory. If you are a user of a Polaron critical point dryer then we offer in-house servicing and pressure testing.

Polaron pioneered SEM critical point drying back in 1971 and at the same time introduced the first commercially successful SEM sputter coater, and have since supplied over 5,000 sputter coaters worldwide.

Sputter Coaters

We continue to support EM preparation instruments with the brand names Polaron, Emscope, Bio-Rad, Fisons Instruments and Thermo VG, with a wide range of spares and consumables including sputter coater targets available on-line.