• DOI:10.1063/1.5141139
• Corpus ID: 208548585

Radiation furnace for synchrotron dark-field x-ray microscopy experiments.

@article{Yildirim2020RadiationFF,
  title={Radiation furnace for synchrotron dark-field x-ray microscopy experiments.},
  author={Can Yildirim and Hugo Vitoux and Leora E. Dresselhaus-Marais and Ricardo G. Steinmann and Yves Watier and Philip K. Cook and Mustafacan Kutsal and Carsten Detlefs},
  journal={The Review of scientific instruments},
  year={2020},
  volume={91 6},
  pages={
          065109
        }
}

• C. Yildirim, H. Vitoux, +5 authors C. Detlefs
• Published 3 December 2019
• Physics, Materials Science
• The Review of scientific instruments

We present a multi-purpose radiation furnace designed for x-ray experiments at synchrotrons. The furnace is optimized specifically for dark-field x-ray microscopy (DFXM) of crystalline materials at beamline ID06 of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility. The furnace can reach temperatures above 1200 °C with a thermal stability better than 10 °C, with heating and cooling rates up to 30 K/s. The non-contact heating design enables samples to be heated either in air or in a controlled atmosphere contained within a capillary tube. The temperature was calibrated via the thermal expansion of an α-iron grain. Temperature profiles in the y and z axes were measured by scanning a thermocouple through the focal spot of the radiation furnace. In the current configuration of the beamline, this furnace can be used for DFXM, near-field x-ray topography, bright-field x-ray nanotomography, high-resolution reciprocal space mapping, and limited powder diffraction experiments. As a first application, we present a DFXM case study on isothermal heating of a commercially pure single crystal of aluminum.