Method for specimen preparation
AssigneeR. Jung AG Fabrik fur Prazisionsapparate
InventorsWerner Behme, Manfred Berleth
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Abstract
The invention pertains to method and apparatus for specimen preparation, in conjunction with which at least one specimen surface is produced on a test piece embedded, if required, in a casting-resin mounting medium through chip or slice removal of material and wherein the examined specimen surface is milled; especially, a method for the preparation of hard objects, and/or objects exhibiting differential hardness over the specimen surface, for electron scan microscopic and X-Ray studies. The invention further includes apparatus for preparing a specimen for examination which includes a milling head.
Claims2
A method of preparing, in a microtome having a rotary milling cutter, a specimen composed of materials exhibiting differential hardness through a cross-section thereof the achieve a mirror-smooth and roughness-free specimen surface for viewing in reflected illumination such as in a scanning electron microscope comprising:
- imbedding said specimen in a casting resin medium;
- mounting said specimen on a specimen slide means in said microtome;
- advancing said specimen along said slide means in a generally horizontally direction relatively toward said rotary milling cutter of said microtome in a plane parallel to the plane of said rotary milling cutter of said microtome;
- removing a predetermined thickness of material of said specimen and casting resin medium by cutting by said rotary milling cutter thereby achieving a mirror-smooth, roughness-free, flatly-reduced, planar specimen surface.
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