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The MDS600 is a motorized version of the THMS600, one of the most widely used heating and freezing microscope stages on the market.
Linkam MDS600 Motorized XY Heating/Freezing System
The sample is motorized in X and Y directions by precision mico stepped motors that enable micron repeatable position resolution and position recall so that a sample can be mapped in order to quickly relocate positions of interest and carry out temperature controlled experiments significant to that point.
Unrivalled accuracy and control of temperature from -196 to 600°C.
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The MDSG600 Geology System is the top of the range solution for geologists working at the cutting edge of research demanding unrivalled temperature accuracy and motorized sample control. This precision built hotstage system is used by many of the best Fluid Inclusion scientists in the world.
Linkam MDSG600 Motorized Geology Heating/Freezing Stage
The sample is motorized in X and Y directions by precision mico stepped motors that enable micron repeatable position resolution and position recall so that a sample can be mapped in order to quickly relocate positions of interest and carry out temperature controlled experiments significant to that point.
Unrivalled accuracy and control of temperature from -196 to 600°C.
The CAP500 stage is designed to heat and cool capillaries from -196°C up to 500°C. It can control the temperature of a ≤50mm section of high pressure (up to 600bar) quartz capillary..
Linkam CAP500 Heating and Freezing Stage
The capillary is inserted through the body of the chamber and housed in a 1mm x 0.6mm rectangular channel within a silver heating block. The block itself has been designed and engineered to minimise the temperature gradient across the length of the capillary and can provide accurate temperature readings to 0.1°C.
Capillaries which are loaded into the channel can be moved using the control mechanism to allow for observation across the length of the sample in the capillary. The CAP500 is suitable for capillaries with an outer diameter of ≤0.6mm. If you require use of different size capillaries, contact us as we may be able to provide a solution.
By using high pressure pump and pressure gauge it is possible to pump samples through the capillary at a specific pressure to investigate the rheology of the sample with respect to temperature and pressure using brightfield, IR or raman microscopy.
The CAP500 stage has also been used to study geological fluid inclusions created in quartz capillaries.
The RH95 quickly controls humidity inside a linkam stage or any other sealed chamber up to a volume of 2000cc from 5 to 90%.
Linkam RH95 Humidity Controller
Unlike other humidity systems, no costly dry air supply is required. Ambient air is dried through a specially designed automatic recycling desiccant system and so can be left controlling humidity for months at a time.
Rather than simply monitoring the humidity of the air supplied to the chamber we also place a sensor inside the chamber to create a feedback loop to the controller.
The LTS420 hotstages are optimised for isothermal sample analysis applications where high speed heating and cooling are compromised by larger sample area with excellent thermal stability of less than 0.1°C.
Linkam LTS 420
The LTS420 is an easy to use, versatile heating and freezing stage. The stage consists of a large area temperature controlled element with a platinum resistor sensor embedded close to the surface for accurate temperature measurements in the range of -196 to 420°C (when used with LNP95 cooling pump).
The sample is simply mounted on a standard microscope slide in direct contact with the heating element and can be manipulated 15mm in X and Y direction. The sample chamber is gas tight and has gas valves to purge with either inert gas or humidity.
This stage is also available with internal electrical connections and probes.
The Linkam Optical Shearing System (CSS450) allows structural dynamics of complex fluids to be directly observed via standard optical microscope while they are under precisely controlled temperature and various shear modes.
Linkam CSS450 Optical Rhelogy Systems
Using the optical shearing cell, it is possible to study the microstructure evolution of complex fluids in great details for many physical processes, e.g. coarsening of binary fluids during their phase separations, flow-induced mixing and demixing of polymer blends, defects dynamics of liquid crystals, aggregation of red blood cells and their deformation in flows etc. We are then in a good position to correlate micro structural dynamics with rheological data for gaining insight into rheology of complex fluids.
The THMS350V stage enables the user to create low pressure environment during complex heating and cooling profiles. Pressure is measured directly on the sample chamber and displayed in software or on the T95-LinkPad LCD screen.
Linkam THMS350V
It is now possible to carry out ultra low temperature experiments with virtually no gas or air contamination of the sample. It is also possible to first pull a vacuum and then bleed in the desired gas.
A prirani gauge can be supplied to relay the sample chamber pressure to either the LINK software or the LinkPad. By connecting the vacuum pump to the MV196 motorized valve, pressure can be quickly and accurately varied utilizing simple on screen software controls.
To cool samples from ambient down to -196°C, add the LNP95 liquid nitrogen cooling system.
The THMS350V stage enables the user to create low pressure environment during complex heating and cooling profiles. Pressure is measured directly on the sample chamber and displayed in software or on the T95-LinkPad LCD screen.
Linkam THMS350V Ellipsometer
Samples loaded onto a 0.17mm cover slip are placed on a nickel palted heating element to ensure excellent heat transfer and extremely sensitive temperature measurement. A platinum resistor sensor, accurate to 0.01°C provides far more accurate and stable temperature signal that can be achieved with a thermocouple.
Samples can be quickly characterized by heating to within a few degrees of the required temperature at a rate of up to 30°C/min with no overshoot, then slowed down to a few tenths of a degrees per minute to closely examine sample changes. The entire experiment can be saved as an online plot or exported to a spreadsheet application.
The TST350 is built with two precision ground stainless steel lead screws to maintain perfect uniform vertical and horizontal alignment
Tensile Stress Testing System 350
Sample jaws move in opposite directions to maintain sample in both reflected or transmitted microscope fields of view. This also means other transmitted techniques such as x-ray, needed for internal observation of sample structure can be used.
As is expected of Linkam equipment, temperature control and accuracy is second to none, with a range from -196 to 350°C with 0.1°C control and up to 60°C/ min rates, there is virtually no temperature feedback to the measurement of force. The sample chamber is gas sealed and can be controlled with various gases via the gas valves built onto sides of the stage, as well as combined with our RH95Humidity Generator to test samples under different humidity levels.
For general heating and freezing applications in the x-ray spectrometer the HFS based systems have low space requirement , high temperature stability and are ideal for horizontal or vertical mounting.
LINKAM HFSX350 Heating and Freezing System
Two variants are available, the HFSX350-CAP supplied with a 1.7mm capillary tube passing through the heating block for liquid samples, and the HFSX350-GI with flush-mounted heating block for grazing incidence and surface mounted capillary.
