Kepco, Inc. is a power supply manufacturer located in Queens, Flushing,

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. It was founded in 1946 by physicists working on the

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after

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to design and develop

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for commercial and defense purposes. Kepco's ultra low noise power supplies helped the

LIGO The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a large-scale physics experiment and observatory designed to detect cosmic gravitational waves and to develop gravitational-wave observations as an astronomical tool. Prior to LIG ...

(Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) succeed at detecting

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. The company also provides power supplies and development support for US government experiments at RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider) at the

Brookhaven National Laboratory Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) is a United States Department of Energy national laboratories, United States Department of Energy national laboratory located in Upton, New York, a hamlet of the Brookhaven, New York, Town of Brookhaven. It w ...

to help discover the properties of elementary particles in physics.

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