SEM Hot Stage
Select from list below:
Abrasion Testing
Accelerated Life Testing
Chemistry Laboratory
Computer Modeling
Salt Spray Testing
Density
Electrical Properties
Electron Microscopy
Experimental Foundry
Failure Analysis
Hardness Laboratory
Heat Treatment Studies
Light Microscopy
Lubrication Testing
Machine Shop
Materials Databases
Mechanical Testing
Metallography
Paint & Coatings
Product Testing
Rolling Mill
Thermal Testing
HEAT TREATMENT STUDIES
The following list provides an overview of Touchstone’s capabilities in heat treatment:
- Autoclave
- Continuous Annealing Furnace
- Controlled Atmosphere Furnaces
- Cryogenic Thermal Treatment
- Differential Scanning Calorimeter
- Foundry (Ingot / Re-Melt Furnace)
- Hot Microhardness Tester
- Mechanical Testing at Elevated and Cryogenic Temperatures
- Ovens
- Quartz Lamp Furnaces
- Resistance Furnaces
- SEM with Hot Stage
- Tube Furnaces
- Vacuum Evaporator
SEM Hot Stage
Touchstone has a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) equipped with a hot stage which allows for the heating of a sample to 1000 C while imaging inside the SEM. Touchstone has studied soldering and vacuum brazing phenomena in this apparatus.
The hot stage SEM provides a unique way to study wetting angle as well as phase changes – especially of phases too small to see in a hot stage light microscope.
Touchstone’s hot stage SEM is capable of performing various mechanical tests during heating and observation. It is also equipped with X-ray microanalysis.