ILL type furnace

This furnace was produced at the ILL, but is now commercially available at AS Scientific Products Ltd. The heater consists of a double tube of noibium foil, and there are up to 8 radiation screens. These screens help to have a small temperature gradient over the sample. The drawback is, that at lower temperatures the cooling is very weak, and therefore the control difficult.

Current Issues

We have to modify sligtly the design of the radiation shields and establish the knowledge how to produce the radiation shields and how to assemble them. As we have actually no replacement parts, the furnace is operational only until the next damage.