Company Overview
Four decades of potential drop instrumentation, from university research to worldwide manufacturing.
Matelect has been in the potential drop business since the beginning of the 1980s. The company was started by an electrical engineer and a materials scientist who together decided to turn the fruits of their university-based research into a manufacturing business. Matelect's first commercial product was the CGM-3 ACPD crack growth monitor. This was followed by the greatly improved CGM-5, and after various circuitry updates, the CGM-5R was born — remaining our major product for the ACPD user for many years and still widely respected in the testing community. In 2001, the fully microprocessor-controlled CGM-7 was introduced, a major step forward in functionality and usability, now widely regarded as the premier ACPD instrument for research use.
In 1993, we expanded into the established, traditional DCPD market with a definitely non-traditional microprocessor-based pulsed DC system, the DCM-1. In 2003, having taken on board user feedback about the DCM-1, we introduced the DCM-2, with a similar feel and look to the CGM-7 and again a major step forward in functionality and usability — the DCM-2 has rapidly become a favourite among the DC potential drop community.
Over the years we have augmented both the AC and DC potential drop instruments with a wide variety of peripherals, including multiplexing modules, hand-held depth probes and sophisticated data-acquisition software. Information on all these products can be found throughout this website.
We also manufacture the ISM-6A, used together with a scanning electron microscope to image electrically active defects in semiconductor materials and devices. Long regarded as the industry leader, the ISM series offers quantitative as well as qualitative facilities, the former enabling device parameters and materials data to be obtained. The ISM-6A builds on the original ISM-5 unit, found in many research labs worldwide.
Whilst we remain a commercial organisation, Matelect has not lost sight of its research-based roots. All of our employees are university graduates and we pride ourselves on our ability to provide end-users with detailed assistance and applications support. Matelect also undertakes bespoke design and manufacture for customers whose needs cannot be met from our standard product line.