🛠 Purchasing Supplies

🛠 Purchasing Supplies#

Computers#

While any reasonably modern workstation with networking capabilities is sufficient for research here, we recommend one of the following retailers if you can afford it. Their products are easy to repair/upgrade, and you can configure the specifications of their systems to meet your personal needs:

RF Lab#

Fixed Capacitors#

American Technical Ceramics

Voltronics Seller : Zully Aldina from RF spectrum zully@rf-spectrum.com

Connectors#

Cables#

Pasternack

Standard coax: http://www.minicircuits.com/homepage/homepage.html

RG316U Coaxial Wire - 95% Shielded

http://addison-electronique.com/catalog/product/view/id/9577/s/042005-cable-coaxial-rg-6-100-pieds/

RG174U Coaxial Wire - 26 AWG - 95% Shielded - Sold by the Metre

RG58U Coaxial Wire - 20 AWG - 95% Shielded - Sold by the Metre

http://addison-electronique.com/catalog/product/view/id/16364/s/cable-coaxial-rg6-77-noir-prix-au-metre-vendu-au-multiple-de-30-metres/

PCB#

  • Rogers

    • Product: 3003, 3006, 3850

    • they offer free samples: say that you are from the university

  • Candor Industries. They are located in North Toronto, and here is their website:http://candorind.com/

  • Advanced Circuits, Aurora, CO, USA

  • PolyGRAMES technical shop

    • fixed a limit dimension for the substrate at 8 x 8 inches.

    • The recommended thickness of the substrate is 5 mils, due to its higher deformation resistance than 2 or 3 mils.

    • Good thickness of copper: 0.5 oz –> this corresponds to the weight of 1×1 foot layer of copper (corresponds to 0.17 um).

  • Dupont

    • Product: Kapton, Pyralux (polymide material)

Rods#

Wet Lab#

Phantoms#

Plastic jars:

Use High-Density Polyethylene because needs to be rigid.

Fomblin:

Miscellaneous#

Pipe Connectors#

Poster Tube#

Reimbursements#

If you purchase supplies for the lab, scan/take a photo/save a PDF of your receipts (and keep any paper copies safe).

Submit a request with the scanned/PDF receipts attached to dge.demandes@polymtl.ca. If you are an employee or student make sure to mention your matricule.

If you are an employee, it should be added to your next paycheque, given a week’s notice. That is, to receive on your thursday pay, it must be submitted by the preceeding Friday. If you are a consultant, it should be paid on your next invoice.

Fedex#

Here is Polytechnique’s Fedex number: 1547-1027-2

**Shipping address: ** [Name of supervisor] Ecole Polytechnique, Genie Electrique 2500, Chemin Polytechnique, Porte S-114 Montreal, QC, H3T 1J4 Canada

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