Yale Unveils Negative-Stiffness Vibration Isolation Imaging

Led by Professor Lawrence E. Cohen Ph.D. of Yale University's Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, the small lab in room BE58 at the Yale School of Medicine has been conducting research on neuronal activity in brain cells to develop methods for imaging brain activity, and then uses these methods to study the brain. The university has been developing the method for imaging brain activity for 42 years, but it was not until several years ago that the lab opted to move to a higher level of vibration isolation technology to support its microscopy imaging which it conducts at the micron level. It is not unusual for universities, and industry for that matter, to have to deal with problems in site vibration which compromise to a greater or lesser degree the imaging quality and data sets which they acquire through microscopy. Although it is certainly the desire of every lab to rid the unwanted vibration, conventional systems such as air tables which many universities and industry labs still use, have not been successful in providing an adequate level of vibration isolation for ultra-sensitive equipment measuring at the Angstrom and micron levels.