title: Note: development of fast heating inert gas annealing apparatus operated at atmospheric pressure.
abstract: Here, we report the development of a simple, small, fast heating, and portable, homemade, inert gas (Ar) atmospheric annealing setup. Instead of using a conventional heating element, a commercial soldering rod having an encapsulated fast heating heater is used here. The sample holder is made of a block of stainless steel. It takes 200 s to reach 700 °C, and 10 min to cool down. The probability of oxidation or surface contamination has been examined by means of x ray photoelectron spectroscopy of virgin Cu sample after annealing at 600 °C. In addition, we compare the annealing of a hydrogenated carbon nitride film (HCN(x)) in both a conventional vacuum and our newly developed ambient Ar atmosphere setup.
authors.affiliation: UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, Indore 452017, MP, India.
authors.forename: S C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Das
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Majumdar
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shripathi
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hippler