Inexpensive Ultrahigh Vacuum Heatable/Coolable xyz-Rotary Motion Sample Manipulator
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Susan L. Peterson and Kirk H. Schulz
Molecule Interface Science and Engineering Research Laboratory
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, North Dakota 58203
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Carl A. Schulz, Jr.
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, Virginia 23529
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John M. Vohs
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6393
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Review of Scientific Instruments, 66, 3048 (1995).
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A simple design for a heatable, coolable, rotatable sample manipulator, suitable for ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) applications, is described.  Highlights of the design include using a combination power/thermocouple feedthrough for heating, cooling, and temperature measurement; and the use of primarily "off-the-shelf" components available from most UHV components vendors.  The described manipulator is capable of sample cooling to ~100 K, sample heating to above 900 K, while maintaining 360° of rotary motion, ~1 in. of x and y motion, and 2 in. of z motion.  The apparatus can be assembled for approximately $5500 (all new parts) and uses about 3L of liquid N2 per day.