SAXS furnace

Two SAXS-WAXS dedicated furnaces were developed in-house together with SIMaP (Science et Ingénierie des Matériaux et Procédés) colleagues. They can be installed on a translational motorized stage inside a vacuum vessel. These furnaces work in a transmission geometry and have different opening diameters for scanning larger samples.

The first one has an aperture of 4 mm and can heat up to 900 °C (Figure 1).
The second one has an opening of 25 mm and can heat up to 500 °C (Figure 2).

A Nanodac station controls the temperature measured by thermocouples connected to the sample holder.

De Geuser et al. Acta Mater. 2015, 101, 1–9

Deschamps et al. J. Nucl. Mater. 2016, 482, 83–87

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