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THAA02	Mechanical Engineering of a Cryo STXM at CLS	381
	C.N. Regier, A.F.G. Leontowich, D.M. Taylor CLS, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
	A Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscope (STXM) is a useful imaging tool, but its application to certain types of samples is limited by significant rates of x-ray damage to the sample. Cooling samples to liquid nitrogen temperatures can delay radiation damage, but must be done in a vacuum environment to prevent rapid formation of ice on the sample. The Canadian Light Source (CLS) has constructed a Cryo-STXM, which can maintain sample temperatures at 100 K in an ultra-high vacuum environment and rotate the samples in the beam to collect tomographic data sets. This presentation will discuss the mechanical engineering aspects of the development of this Cryo-STXM including the finite element analysis (FEA) for stresses and vibrations, and present the performance parameters being achieved by the instrument.
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DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-MEDSI2016-THAA02
About •	paper received ※ 11 September 2016 paper accepted ※ 16 September 2016 issue date ※ 22 June 2017
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Mechanical Engineering of a Cryo STXM at CLS

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C.N. Regier, A.F.G. Leontowich, D.M. Taylor
CLS, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

A Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscope (STXM) is a useful imaging tool, but its application to certain types of samples is limited by significant rates of x-ray damage to the sample. Cooling samples to liquid nitrogen temperatures can delay radiation damage, but must be done in a vacuum environment to prevent rapid formation of ice on the sample. The Canadian Light Source (CLS) has constructed a Cryo-STXM, which can maintain sample temperatures at 100 K in an ultra-high vacuum environment and rotate the samples in the beam to collect tomographic data sets. This presentation will discuss the mechanical engineering aspects of the development of this Cryo-STXM including the finite element analysis (FEA) for stresses and vibrations, and present the performance parameters being achieved by the instrument.

Slides THAA02 [4.645 MB]

DOI •

reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-MEDSI2016-THAA02

About •

paper received ※ 11 September 2016 paper accepted ※ 16 September 2016 issue date ※ 22 June 2017

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reference for this paper using ※ BibTeX, ※ LaTeX, ※ Text/Word, ※ RIS, ※ EndNote (xml)