Airtight container for the transfer of atmosphere-sensitive materials into vacuum-operated characterization instruments.
This paper describes the design and operation of a simple airtight container devised to facilitate the transfer of atmosphere-sensitive samples from a glovebox to the vacuum chamber of an analytical instrument such as a scanning electron microscope. The use of this device for characterizing the microstructure of highly hygroscopic strontium iodide ceramics by scanning electron microscopy is illustrated as an application example.
CREOL, the College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816-2700, USA. gaume@ucf.edu
Romain M
RM
Gaume
Lydia-Marie
LM
Joubert
D000388:Air; D002623:Chemistry Techniques, Analytical / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004548:Elasticity; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D011312:Pressure; D013696:Temperature