Cryogenic Seals
Indium is ideal for many sealing applications, especially cryogenic sealing. There are two main advantages to using indium in your cryogenic sealing applications:
- It remains malleable at cryogenic temperatures
- It is soft and pliable so it fills imperfections in mating metal surfaces and creates a hermetic seal
Most sealing materials that work at standard operating temperatures will crack and break at cryogenic temperatures of -150°C.
Often cryogenic, or any sealing applications require that a seal be made inside a channel or other feature that isn't always flat and smooth. Indium will compensate for these imperfections without the need for reflow. Indium for cryogenic seals are available in a variety of forms, depending on your application:
- Indium Wire
- Starting at 0.010" (0.254mm)
- Can be used for any manual sealing application
- Works especially well in channel sealing
- Indium Preforms
- Can provide a precise, repeatable amount of indium
- Can be used in automated processes
- Indium Foil or Ribbon
- Good for sealing larger areas
For more information about indium metal or
indium wire, please email esolders@indium.com or call
+1-315-853-4900.
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