Covaris is a privately held technology company headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts, USA. The Covaris business was built upon its team’s in-depth knowledge ranging from acoustic physics, mechanical engineering to biophysics and molecular biology.
The Covaris Adaptive Focused Acoustics™ (AFA) process works by sending acoustic energy wave packets from a dish-shaped transducer that converges and focuses to a small-localized area (it is sometimes visualized as a vibrating loudspeaker cone). At this focal point, the energy density may be controllably focused into the sample of interest which has proven to be beneficial to numerous applications of sample preparation. Essentially, the process enables mechanical energy to be applied to a sample without directly contacting the sample.
The precise process control that AFA™ provides beneficially provides a number of scientific disciplines in both advanced biological and chemical applications. Covaris AFA enables a process to be developed and/or improved upon the performance of established processes.
