DENSsolutions have just launched their latest innovation the Climate Infinity and Stream Infinity systems – both featuring an interoperable eight-contact environmental holder that facilitates cross-platform characterisation. This modular holder enables combined heating and biasing capabilities in both gas and liquid environments. Below, we invite you to explore the benefits of Infinity and discover how it can truly revolutionise your research capabilities.
The Climate/Stream Infinity system was designed based on user feedback and addresses identified pain points. It brings forth numerous advantages for your in situ TEM experiments with its advanced features, which are summarised below:
- 8 contacts → Apply heating and biasing stimuli simultaneously
- Improved design → Perform gas and liquid experiments with the same holder
- Flippable tip → Easily switch between TEM & STEM mode (i.e. change the sample position to be either on the bottom or top without having to disassemble the tip)
- Universal tip → Securely transfer your environmental tip, hosting your assembled chips and sample, between different pole pieces of Thermo Fisher Scientific and JEOL microscopes
- Removable tip → Perform cross-platform characterisation of the same sample, enabling in situ environmental studies across various techniques such as SEM, TEM, Raman spectroscopy and synchrotron
Like their predecessors, the Climate Infinity and Stream Infinity allow you to perform dynamic in situ TEM experiments in gas and liquid environments respectively. For liquid studies, this new development opens the door to performing electrochemistry as a function of temperature.
The new design affords you much greater flexibility with the ability to both flawlessly swap between TEM and STEM by simply rotating the sample as well as offering the ability to perform gas and liquid studies with the sample holder, by simply choosing the appropriate function and connecting the appropriate gas or liquid supply system. Available chips include:
- GH – Gas heating
- LH – Liquid heating
- GHB – Gas heating and biasing
- LHB – Liquid heating and biasing
Regardless of which chip you choose, you can be assured of simplicity, i.e. self-aligning windows designed to fit perfectly eliminate the need for manual adjustments. This customer influenced design also reduces the chance of leaks and allows you to spend more time taking measurements and analysing data and less time setting up!
These systems are suited to a broad range of applications ranging from materials science to energy and life science and the first systems have already been installed at EMAT (Belgium), FAU Erlangen-Nurnberg (Germany) and UC Irvine (USA).