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S3-MICROcaliX®: Nanotechnology meets Calorimetry

The S3-MICROcaliX® combines:

  • Absolute SAXS - it is not a XRS camera with SAXS extention
  • Uniquely adaptable SWAXS instrument
  • Uniquely embedded Calorimeter

DSC-SAXS Scan of Ag_Behenate Powder with S3-MICROcaliX®


DSC-Scan Rate: 1.5°/min from 20° to 200°C // SAXS-Frame Rate: 1 frame/min (1.5°/frame)
measured SAXS and DSC signals displayed in a time-resolved animation of single frames (top) and static contour-plot (bottom)

Converging Technologies

The new S3-MICROcaliX® combines proprietary technologies in X-ray optics, calorimetry and advanced data acquisition systems. The uniquely high X-ray brilliance of the Hecus S3-MICRO SWAXS system allows to perform temperature scanning experiments with rates up to 120°/h, a dynamic calorimeter range of ± 190 mW and a sensitivity of 0.02 µW. Nanostructural and calorimetric effects, phase transitions, reactions in solid powders, pastes and liquid samples can now be investigated simultaneously in one single experiment.

The advantage is not just an economical, but also a qualitative one: uncertainties and errors that previously could originate from different experimental sample environment, history etc, are eliminated.

Specifications

Specifications Values
Source / Optics GeniX 50 Watt Microsource
customized FOX-3D mulitlayer point focussing optics
Brilliance ~1010 ph/s.mm2.mrad2.%BW
Sample Volume 20 µl
Temperature Range (maximum obtained during tests) -25 °C --> 200°C
(-30°C --> 200°C reached when RT~20°C)
Average senstitivity (all the values obtained during the tests) -410µV/mW
Peak to peak noise (isotherm at 26°C) 0.8µW
Isothermal detection limit (2 x peak to peak noise) 1.5µW
Peak to peak noise (scanning) 1.2µW
Scanning detection limit (2 x peak to peak noise 2.5µW
Static drift (25 min isotherm at 26°C) 3µW
Repeatability <1%
Maximum heating rate (maximum tested) 5K/min
Maximum cooling rate (maximum tested) 5K/min (200°C --> 50°C)
1K/min (50°C --> 0°C)
0.5K/min (0°C --> -30°C)


S3-MICROcaliX: A New System for the Laboratory