On-board sample cleaver.
An on-board sample cleaver has been developed in order to cleave small and hard-to-cleave samples. To acquire good cleaves from rigid samples the alignment of the cleaving blade with respect to the internal crystallographic planes is crucial. To have the opportunity to mount the sample and align it to the blade ex situ has many advantages. The design presented has allowed us to cleave very tiny and rigid samples, e.g., the high-temperature superconductor La((2-x))Sr(x)CuO(4). Further, in this design the sample and the cleaver will have the same temperature, allowing us to cleave and keep the sample at low temperature. This is a big advantage over prior cleaver systems. As a result, better surfaces and alignments can be realized, which considerably simplifies and improves the experiments.
Materials Physics, Royal Institute of Technology KTH, S-164 40 Kista, Sweden. martin@materialfysik.se
Martin
M
Månsson
Thomas
T
Claesson
Ulf O
UO
Karlsson
Oscar
O
Tjernberg
Stéphane
S
Pailhés
Johan
J
Chang
Joël
J
Mesot
Ming
M
Shi
Luc
L
Patthey
Naoki
N
Momono
Migaku
M
Oda
Masayuki
M
Ido
D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D008422:Materials Testing / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D008867:Microtomy / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D008904:Miniaturization; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013048:Specimen Handling / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D018511:Systems Integration