Much of this list is taken from the Doyle group vendor list

Here are some vendors we've found over the years for various things:

• Physics Today Buyers Guide
• CERN Courier Buyer's Guide
• ThomasNet - Extensive vendor search engine

• K&J Magnetics
• Amazing Magnets
• Dura Magnets
• Storch Magnetics
• Electron Energy
• Shin-Etsu
• MCE
• ACH Magnetics
• Dexter Magnetic Technologies

• MicroDyne
• S&W Wire
• Putnam Plastics - Will e.g. kapton-insulate custom wires
• Cooner Wire
• MWS Wire Industries - Microsquare wire

• Atlantic Nuclear - radiation safety: shielding, radiation meters, dosimetry
• Ludlum Measurements - exhaustive assortment of survey meters
• Canberra - radiation measurement and safety supplies, including radioisotope samples

• McMaster
• MSC - When McMaster just won't do
• Small Parts Small and/or obscure parts
• RAM mounts - Mounts for scopes and other instruments.
• Vlier - Screws with Springs inside and more.
• SunSource Local 80/20 supplier.
• Fiero Fluid Power Local 80/20 supplier.
• Air Incorporated - 80/20 supplier. Phone: 800-341-2800. Best to have the cut numbers and location codes (from an 80/20 catalog) ready for any anchor fastener counterboring, etc., before you call.
• Amazing Magnets - Permanent magnets
• K&J Magnetics - Large selection of rare-earth magnets.
• Olander - Helicoils, including phosphor bronze and other specialty materials.
  Before ordering, it helps to have a part number from a helicoil manufacturer, such as http://www.chrislynninserts.com/helicalpages/AMERbulkQTY.htm Chrislynn Inserts or Emhart Teknologies. If you need non-magnetic helicoils quickly, MSC sells titanium helicoils in many common sizes.
• Solon Manufacturing Belleville spring washers in specialty materials, including phosphor bronze
• United Titanium Titanium fasteners
• Mutual screw Brass (C260) and silicon bronze fasteners
• E&T Fasteners PEEK screws and other exotic plastics. Can even get them vented!

• Cadence Inc., formerly Specialty Blades, has a large selection of razor blades in all shapes and materials.

• Chemglass Things like glassware with vacuum-grade threads.
• Sigma-Aldrich

• Swagelok
• Maryland Metrics Where you get the dumb Serto fittings for Sirah lasers.

• http://www.earsc.com/ EAR Specialty Composites =⇒ Jan's smelly Blue Stuff = #6309-0026

• Applied Test Systems - high-end materials testing and furnaces
• Futek - Load cells and other sensors
• MTI Corporation - relatively inexpensive materials science research supplies (furnaces, temp. controllers, crucibles, gloveboxes, benchtop presses, diamond blade saws, ball mills, nanopowders…); equipment seems generally reliable, but technical support is of little help.
• Renco Corporation - sells glovebox gloves
• Thermo Scientific - general lab supplies, including furnaces

• Alfa aesar - chemical supplier
• American Elements – pretty much the whole periodic table, but don't get too excited - they don't carry a lot of what they list.
• Plasmaterials
• Process Materials
• Refrac systems - Diffusion bonding, hot-pressing
• MP Biomedicals - Cheapest thorium metal powder ever, while supplies last…
• Fisher Scientific
• Sigma Aldrich
• Strem Chemical
• Spectrum Chemical
• VWR
• Pfaltz and Bauer

See also: Chemicals_and_materials

• McMaster
• Cercom Ceramics
• CoorsTek ceramic tubes etc.
• Kyocera - expensive
• Marketech - will do almost anything, but take ~1 week to send quotes
• Orton Ceramics - supplier for hobby or industrial ceramic making, carries pyrometric cones
• Progressive Technology - ceramic tubes etc.
• Stratamet - will do small custom jobs. Talk to Mark Wesson. Tell him Sarah (Bickman, ex-DeMille group) sent you.
• Zircar Zirconia - refractory ceramics in various forms, mainly alumina and zirconia; also some furnaces
• Technical Products - Large selection of ceramics and plastics. Great selection of Macor.
• Astro Met
• Morgan Technical Ceramics
• Cadence Inc., formerly Specialty Blades, has a large selection of fancy razor blades, including ceramics.

• Polytec PI, aka Physike Instrumente
• Piezo Systems
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See also: Chemicals_and_materials

• ESPI - expensive, but has everything
• Goodfellow
• Rembar- Good for Tantalum, Tungsten etc
• Hagstoz - Gold and precious metals, usually cheap
• Refining Systems - Gold and precious metals
• Hauser and Miller - Even cheaper gold and precious metals
• Allfoils - “UHV Aluminum Foil”
• Sophisticated alloys
• Parker Steel - Metric metals (not just steel). Tell Gary Bartlett that Stan sent you.
• Copper.org Data on copper alloy compositions
• Copper and brass sales - THE copper and brass supplier. Doesn't always sell small quantities. Ask for Jeremy Jennings, First.last@thyssenkrupp.com
• Sequoia Copper and Brass - Cheap copper and brass. Sells small quantities at reasonable prices, but might take a while.
• Online Metals - Good selection, fast shipping, reasonable prices on most things. DO NOT BUY COPPER HERE… the price is inflated by a factor of 2-3 compared to Sequoia or Copper and Brass.
• McMaster - Good selection, reasonable prices. Don't buy if you really need a specific alloy of a metal, since they never provide any sort of material certification.
• Brunner Enterprises - Good source for anodized aluminum.
• Turner Steel - Steel
• Ed Fagan - Invar, Molybdenum, Tungsten, Tantalum, Nickel
• Admiral Metals - Aluminum, S.S., brass, beryllium, copper
• Yarde Metals - Large diameter tubes
• Tube Service - Large diameter tubes
• T.W. Metals - Tubing, aluminum, stainless, nickel

• Arnold Magnetics
• More than Metals
• Eagle Alloys - also does inconel and monel
• Goodfellow
• CarTech

• McMaster
• Technical Products - Large selection of ceramics and plastics.
• K-Mac Plastics
• Curbell Plastics
• Patriot Plastics

• K. R. Anderson
• Ellsworth

• Thorlabs
• CVI
• New Focus
• Newport - Excellent damage threshold for price
• Alpine Research Optics - Harmonic separators & other optics w/ great specs and low prices. Speak with Mike Ellison.
• Casix - dirt cheap, long lead times?
• conoptics - Isolators
• Edmund optics
• Optosigma - windows
• Esco Products-unusually fast and inexpensive for custom optics jobs, proven reliable. Also good selection of stock optics, 'especially cheap windows, lenses, etc'
• Precision applied products- windows, coatings, lenses, mirrors.

• Fiberoptic Systems - Custom fiber optic bundles, including high vacuum, non-ferrous, high NA. Great prices.
• Rocky Mountain Instruments - custom coatings, custom lenses, UV specialists, fast service
• Research Electro Optics - High end optics
• Advanced Thin Films - custom jobs
• Tower Optical - waveplates
• EO tech - Isolators
• PI action - CCD cameras
• Semrock - Filters + MaxMirror
• Intor - cheap interference filters
• Uniblitz - shutters
• Andover - colored glass filters
• Omega - stock + custom interference filters
• Coherent - Tell them you want the 'Family Discount' & Get 20% Off all laser measurement products.
• OFR - fiber optics and isolators
• Technical Glass - Quartz rods, discs, tubes, etc.
• NEOS - AOMs
• Intraaction - AOMs
• St. Gobain Crystals - custom crystalline optics
• Standa - mostly optomechanics
• Expla - laser systems, OPOs, some components
• Optometrics - diffraction gratings
• Argyle Optics - custom stuff might be cheap but standard optics are also custom made = expensive
• Vere Optics lab accessories
• Tempotec- Chinese Company…like Casix or casix affiliate?
• Mightex - CCD cameras
• Siskiyou - Unusual optomechanics: top-drive flexures & stages, etc.
• Optical fiber fault checker
• Laser Components - Both custom and stocked cavity mirrors
• Photonic Cleaning Optics cleaning supplies for astronomy, including 'First Contact' goop.
• Nihon Tokushu Kogaku Jushi Fresnel lenses up to f/0.2
• Fresnel Tech Custom and specialty Fresnel lenses
• Custom Scientific Flats, windows, fibers and coatings. They made the EDM field plates: 18” x 8”, < 5 lambda flat with conducting & AR coatings.
• Thin Film Labs Custom AR coating, other kinds of wacky coatings, *extremely fast* turnaround. Yale recommended.
• LayerTec Cheap yet good quality cavity mirrors
• EO Space Fiber phase modulators, with V_pi as low as ~ 5 V !
• NSG America all-glass GRIN fiber collimators
• Apogee Instruments Low-noise CCD cameras
• Electrophysics Objective lenses for C-mount cameras/imagers
• Fiber Optics Store - Various fiber optics supplies. Sells [http://www.fiberopticsstore.com/product_info.php?products_id=85 |fiber-coupled laser pointers]] for cheap, which are very useful for aligning coupling/collimating lenses.

• Sacher
• Eagleyard - AR coated laser diodes
• Roither Lasertechnik - Laser diodes, LEDs, Optics,
• Toptica - Lasers, AR Coated Diodes
• Intelite/Meshtel - Non-AR Coated Diodes, Sacher gets some of their diodes here before AR Coating
• Power Technology - Single Mode Diodes, TAs, DFBs and more
• m2K - Tapered Amplifiers and More
• FLT Laser - Huge selection including DFBs from many suppliers in addition to their own line
• Nanoplus - DFBs
• RPMCLasers - Single Mode diodes and more, not AR
• Intenseco - I think only Multimode / Broad Area
• qPhotonics - Single Mode Laser diodes and more. 895-915 nm and 1050-1080 nm diodes are offered with AR coating (for $300-400)
• Opnext - Make a lot of Non-AR coated diodes
• Axcel Photonics - Common NIR Laser Diodes
• Lab351 - Russian Laser Diode Company
• Wavelength Electronics - Cheap and convenient current & temperature controllers.
• Oclaro (formerly Bookham) - High power (>600mW) 980nm pump laser modules, fiber coupled.
• EM4, Inc. - High power (600mW) 980nm pump laser modules, fiber coupled.
• Photonic Products - distributor for Opnext, Ondax, Sony and SANYO
• ILX Lightwave
• Axcel Photonics

• Lohn Star Optics
• IGP Photonics
• LTW Lasers
• AcuLight

• Exciton

Hamamatsu PMT contact Rich at (908) 252-7728 Fax: (732) 537-3678

• Electron Tubes
• Burle
• Hamamatsu
• RoentDek - Makes MCPs and readout electronics
• DelMar Photonics - MCP
• Beam Imaging - MCP directly coupled to a camera through a fiberoptic rod.
• Primer on MCPs (broken link)

• AIMCAL - Assoc. of Metallizers, Coaters & Laminators FAQ (broken link)
• Spectrum coatings>
• Helia Photonics - Ion-assisted deposition
• Ionedge - Ion-assisted deposition
• Thin Films Inc. - Sputtering, Evaporation, Lithography - flexible small shop
• Thin Film Labs - specialize in optical component coatings
• Koral Labs - thin film deposition + vacuum furnace stuff
• IJ Research - ceramics, deposition, lithography - flexible, associated with USCB, IIRC
• Sophisticated alloys - deposition targets, but “we don't do coatings”
• Process Materials (broken link)
• Sputtering target suppliers
• Sputtering Materials Inc

• Paramount Metal Finishing - Rack Electroplating - reasonable prices
• http://www.amzmfg.com/index.asp AMZ Manufacturing - High quality electroplating
• Metal Finishing Technologies - Various plating services
• Epner Technology - Fancy gold electroplating - expensive, high-tech

• II-VI Infrared - good CO2 optics; possibly worst url ever
• Corning NetOptix - used to be OFC Diamond Turning
• Kugler - German precision optics company, ja
• Kaleido Technology - in Denmark

• Mouser Electronics
• Digikey
• Online Components
• Analog Devices
• Apex Microtechnologies - High Voltage/Power Op-Amps
• Lansing Instruments - Really Nice Enclosures
• Emco High Voltage - DC-DC Converters
• Allied Electronics
• L-Com - Cheap connectors/adaptors
• Powell Electronics - Hard to find/out of stock stuff
• Meritronics - Board Assembly
• Pasternack - Quality BNC cables
• Acopian - Supreme power supplies
• Krohn-Hite Ultra-precise DC sources & other precision stuff
• Phoenix of Chicago Good selection of connectors. Non-magnetic D-sub connectors.
• FCT Non-magnetic connectors of all sorts.
• Souriau Non-magnetic D-sub connectors with crimp contacts.
• Proto-advantage SMT to DIP adapters
• Newark Lots of things, including hearing-aid microphones for supersonic beam characterization.
• Flex Cable Water-cooled cables.

• Micromagnetics Magnetoresistance-based B-field sensors
• Honeywell Anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR) magnetic sensors. Noise is < 1 uG/rt-Hz @ 10 Hz. ~20$ each.

• Manuals from lots of companies for lots of old pumps & controllers

• LDS Vacuum Shopper - fast + cheap. 'This should be your first stop for vacuum stuff!'
• Duniway stockroom Cheap, good selection of used vacuum equipment
• Huntington
• Kurt J. Lesker
• MDC
• A & N Corp - Feedthroughs, flanges etc.

• InstruTech - Makes compact, digital convectron and ion gauges at good prices.
• AVS Technical Resources - Useful calculator for conversion factors, pump/gauge ranges
• Varian High quality dry scroll and turbo pumps at competitive prices. Now owned by Agilent.
• Edwards Turbo and dry scroll pumps. Scrolls are quieter than Varian and often cheaper; also have a chemical-resistant model.
• Precision Cryo Ask for Dick Gummer. They made the EDM beam source chamber.
• Kimball physics - special (cool) chambers
• Sharon - custom chambers
• Key High
• vacuum generators Best quality UHV all-metal valves.
• Insulator Seal - Feedthroughs. Owned by MDC.
• Apiezon Greases and Waxes
• EVAC Vacuum - Unique! Standard QF/ISO hardware, but made out of glass(!), aluminum, etc.
• accuglass products - Unusually nice selection of feedthroughs, in-vacuum electrical connectors, hardware, etc. Prices better than Lesker. Also have in-vacuum RF/microwave parts.
• MPF Products - Similar to accuglass for electrical feedthroughs, but also has nice selection of viewports
• Atlas UHV - UHV grade welded aluminum vacuum chambers. Made the EDM interaction chamber.
• Heating Tapes
• Minco heaters Foil heaters with kapton & copper, non-magnetic
• All Foils UHV clean aluminum foil
• Pfeiffer Vacuum

• Cryodepot
• Cryofab
• Janis
• Lakeshore Cryotronics
• Oxford Instruments
• Cryomech - Pulse tube coolers.
• Calgon Carbon - Activated charcoal for Sorbs
• discountcryo - Great selection of cryo accessories, including small hand dewars.
• Metalized Products - Superinsulation (NRC-2)

• MKS Instruments - Flow controllers.
• Laminar Technologies - Sells used MKS flow controllers. The Harvard cleanroom manager (Noah Clay) claims that used flow controllers are better (since they are screened for infant death), and of course they are cheaper.
• Alicat Scientific - Better flow controllers than MKS (in particular, they do their own temperature correction). Have ultra-low-flow models. Generally not suitable for corrosives.

• Mini-Circuits Everything.
• Dudley Lab Used amplifiers, test equipment, etc.
• Stealth Amplifiers.
• Empower RF Amplifiers.
• Ophir Amplifiers.

• Photonics Innovation Center
• Thomas Keating Ltd

• Quinstar - Large selection of waveguide and coax, ask for Sage Kuno
• Miteq - Largest supplier (and stock) but more expensive
• Penn Engineering - Raw waveguide stock, flanges
• Atwall - Raw waveguide stock, flanges
• UBS - Raw waveguide stock, flanges

• Newmark Systems
• Arrick Robotics
• Parker Hannfin Motion Control
• Cyber Research Motion Control
• Techno Linear Motion Systems
• Velmex Low cost, large travel motorized stages
• Aerotech - Precision stages
• Noliac - Large selection of piezos, including rings
• Micromechatronics - Re-seller for Noliac, other piezos.