Improvements to x-ray diffractometers: Heaters, hygrometry, and thermodifferential and spectra analyses

Abstract

We describe a newly designed stainless steel door which holds cooling fluids and permits the connection of a set of self-improvements to mechanical supplies, sensors, thermocouples, electronic circuits, and new software to traditional x-ray diffraction chambers. Some compatible analytical routines, at various gas temperatures (from 18 to 200°C), stem from restricted combinations of stimulation sources to the sample (x irradiation and heating) and the detector sensors (Geiger x-ray diffraction spectra charge coupled devices, humidity, image TV, thermocouples differential thermal analysis installed). Phase transitions of solids can be detected by spectral, structural, geometrical, and thermodifferential methods. © 2001 American Institute of Physics.