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2024 Year in review with a 10 years in business banner below to celebrate 10 years of negative CTE ALLVAR Alloys

A Milestone Year for ALLVAR: 2024 YEAR-IN-REVIEW

A Message from James A. Monroe, Founder & CEO 2024 marks ALLVAR’s ten-year anniversary and my goodness have we come a long way. Since

Athermalizing Mounted Doublets with ALLVAR Alloys: Unlocking New Possibilities in Athermal Optics

Increasing your options on the athermal glass map. As a ray tracer, what potential athermal designs could you unlock if optical your glass choices were

Tips for Designing with ALLVAR Alloys: Simplified Thermal Design

Want to learn more about how ALLVAR alloys can help with your thermal design? Find these tips, tricks, and rules of thumb to start designing with Negative CTE Alloys today.

2023 Year In Rewview Image. The Title reads 2023 year in review with images from the allvar team at SPIE Defense and Commercial Sensing, Mirror Technology days, and an image of work being done on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Looking back and launching forward: 2023 YEAR-IN-REVIEW

A Message from James A. Monroe, Founder & CEO To Everyone Rooting For ALLVAR, The ALLVAR team has been working hard in 2023 and is ready

Unlocking the Cosmos: ALLVAR’s Role in the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

ALLVAR is headed to space in a big way! Find out how ALLVAR Alloys are being used aboard the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to improve thermal conductivity.

Thermal compensation washers now available with COTS item numbers!

New commercially-off-the-shelf ALLVAR thermal compensation washer have arrived! Learn more here.

The message on the left says Thermal Compensating Washers: a basic guide, while the right side shows five thermal compensating washers that can be used to tackle CTE Mismatch.

Thermal Compensating Washers for CTE Mismatch

Learn how to use negative thermal expansion ALLVAR washers or spacers to maintain a constant preload and tackle CTE mismatch.

The Evolution of Athermal Design

Athermal design owes its foundations to an 18th century clockmaker’s designs. ALLVAR Alloys will help you revolutionize your design.

Design with Athermal Materials in Solidworks

Athermal Material design is easy with the SOLIDWORKS ALLVAR Alloy 30 material definition. Request the file here and design with negative thermal expansion today!