When evaluating sports cars, one of the first questions is how quickly it can accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h.
In vacuum technology, the equivalent question is how quickly and how deeply the pressure can be reduced.
At Ariel University, research led by Ph.D. student Golan Ben-Ari, supported by Odem’s equipment, successfully demonstrated remarkable vacuum performance in the laboratory’s quantum computing system.
Within about a week of setup, the system dropped from atmospheric pressure to the Extreme High Vacuum (XHV) regime, reaching below 2.1 × 10⁻¹¹ [mbar].
Achieving this pressure requires the controlled removal of gas molecules across more than 15 orders of magnitude, while minimizing leakage, outgassing, and contamination.
The #NEXTorr® HV pumps are compact high-vacuum pumping solutions that integrate a sputter ion pump (SIP) and a non-evaporable getter (NEG) pump into a single, high-efficiency system
This achievement demonstrates strong vacuum-engineering capability and provides the ultra-clean environment required for advanced quantum-technology research.
