Home :: About Us :: News + Events :: Literature :: Contact Us :: Site MapAn AS 9100-Certified Company

How It Works | How It's Made | Applications | Design Your Barrier

How An Insulon Thermal Barrier Works

Vacuum: The Ideal Thermal Insulator
The most effective insulation isn't achieved by putting insulating material in; it's actually achieved by taking material out.

Thermal engineers have long known that the ideal thermal insulator is the barrier created by a vacuum. Measures of thermal conductivity clearly show a vacuum's superiority.

Why is a vacuum so much better? Put simply, thermal energy passed from molecule to molecule cannot pass through an area devoid of molecules; a vacuum barrier halts conduction.

Even the Thinnest Insulon Barriers Are Fully Effective
Even an extraordinarily thin Insulon shaped-vacuum layer is fully effective at stopping the conduction of thermal energy. We have already produced barriers with vacuum gaps as narrow as 0.1mm, and the theoretical limit of this technology is even narrower still.

 

Insulon Technology Brings Vacuum Insulation to Small Applications
Until now, it was impossible to use deep-vacuum thermal insulation in many of today's advanced applications; the space was too small, or the shape presented problems. But things have changed. Concept Group's proprietary technology has overcome the main barriers to vacuum insulation at such small, miniature scales: cost, manufacturability, and vacuum stability.

The result? The Insulon Shaped-Vacuum Thermal Barrier gives you the power of vacuum insulation for a whole new world of amazingly small applications. It traps a profoundly deep vacuum, a vacuum as deep as that being used in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), in spaces as small as four-thousandths of an inch or smaller.

Small Is Good, in Just About Any Shape You Want
The shape and size of the Insulon barrier are determined by your application, and there are virtually no a priori limitations. An Insulon barrier can likely be designed as small as you want it, and its shape is whatever shape you need.