Physical Sciences Lab

Unique Engineering and Instrumentation Solutions

Welcome to PSL

From small equipment and research tools to large projects in need of complex design and fabrication, PSL provides consulting, engineering, fabrication, and calibration services for both public institutions and private businesses worldwide. Since 1967 our highly trained staff of electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, machinists, and physicists has completed over 6,000 projects.

PSL will help to solve your unique research, development, or prototype needs. Partnering with PSL means partnering with experience.

What's New at PSL

WHAM moves to Chile

Recently the UW Astronomy Department was funded by the National Science Foundation to upgrade some of the WHAM hardware and then relocate WHAM to the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory in Chile (more…)

WSJ catches up with IceCube

The Wisconsin State Journal published an article on the progress of the IceCube project at the South Pole (more…)

PSL helps improve WiscSIMS

PSL was contacted by Dr. Noriko Kita of the Geology & Geophysics Department regarding improving the resolution of a visible light microscope built into the WiscSIMS Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer (more…)