title: Measurement of Outgassing Rates of Steels.
abstract: Steels are commonly used materials in the fabrication of vacuum systems because of their good mechanical, corrosion, and vacuum properties. A variety of steels meet the criterion of low outgassing required for high or ultrahigh vacuum applications. However, a given material can present different outgassing rates depending on its manufacturing process or the various pretreatment processes involved during the fabrication. Thus, the measurement of outgassing rates is highly desirable for a specific vacuum application. For this reason, the rate-of-pressure rise (RoR) method is often used to measure the outgassing of hydrogen after bakeout. In this article, a detailed description of the design and execution of the experimental protocol involved in the RoR method is provided. The RoR method uses a spinning rotor gauge to minimize errors that stem from outgassing or the pumping action of a vacuum gauge. The outgassing rates of two ordinary steels (stainless steel and mild steel) were measured. The measurements were made before and after the heat pretreatment of the steels. The heat pretreatment of steels was performed to reduce the outgassing. Extremely low rates of outgassing (on the order of 10-11Pa m3sec-1m-2) can be routinely measured using relatively small samples.
authors.affiliation: Accelerator Division, Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, POSTECH.
authors.forename: Chongdo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Park
authors.affiliation: Accelerator Division, Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, POSTECH.
authors.forename: Se-Hyun
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: Accelerator Division, Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, POSTECH.
authors.forename: Sanghoon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ki
authors.affiliation: Accelerator Division, Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, POSTECH.
authors.forename: Taekyun
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ha
authors.affiliation: Center for Advanced Instrumentation, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science; blcho@kriss.re.kr.
authors.forename: Boklae
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Cho
mesh_terms: D003343:Corrosion; D008422:Materials Testing; D013193:Stainless Steel; D013232:Steel / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D013193:Stainless Steel; D013232:Steel