All Materials
As a leader in precision materials processing for nearly 30 years, Valley has
extensive experience with a wide variety of materials:
Valley also stocks many of these materials. For a complete summary of Valley Design's capabilities, please visit www.valleydesign.com
About Us
Valley Design has been a leader in materials processing for nearly 30 years.
We offer precision lapping, polishing, dicing, optical edge/angle polishing,
thinning, grinding, shaping and wafering services. Valley specializes
in ultra-thin (as thin as 12.5 microns), ultra-flat
(1/20 Wave) super-polishing (< 10/5 scratch/dig or 5-10 Angstroms)
and tight tolerances (+/- 1 micron).
Applications and products include beamsplitters, DWDM filter substrates, glass blocks/rods/spacers, lenses, mirrors, prisms, SEMI standard dummy wafers, solar cells, waveguides, wedges, polarizers, bandpass filters, laser diodes. Valley Design's products are used in fiber optics/photonics, telecommunications, aerospace, medical, semiconductor and research industries.
Valley enjoys extensive experience with a wide variety of materials, and is
also willing to work with proprietary materials. Valley routinely processes
Fused Silica, Glass, Quartz, AlN, Pyrex, 99.6% and 96% Alumina, Sapphire,
AF45, BK7, B270, D263, LASFN9, 1737, 7070, Ceramics, Lithium Niobate, Borosilicates,
Soda Lime, Crystals, Silicon and Metals. In
stock materials include Fused Silica, 99.6% Alumina, R-plane Sapphire,
Aluminum Nitride and Float Zone Silicon.
Valley Design provides custom parts,
as well as in-stock
items. We process prototype orders, as well as full production runs, and currently
process over 1,000 parts daily for our customers worldwide. With facilities
on both East and West Coasts, we operate three shifts, and are ready to serve
our customers from 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. PST.
| Sales and Customer Service | Corporate Headquarters | |
| Valley Design West | Valley Design East | |
| 151-D Harvey West Blvd. |
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Two Shaker Road, Bldg.E-001 |
| Santa Cruz, CA 95060 | Shirley, MA 01464 | |
| West E-mail: west@valleydesign.com | East E-mail: east@valleydesign.com | |
| Phone: 831-420-0595 | Phone: 978-425-3030 | |
| Fax: 831-420-0592 | Fax: 978-425-3031 | |
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Last updated: 15 January 2002 |