Holding device for electron-microscope specimens
AssigneeBalzers Aktiengesellschaft
InventorClaude Lieb
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Abstract
A holding device for electron-microscope specimens comprises a guide bar which is connected to an apparatus for controlling its temperature by heating or cooling it as necessary. The guide bar is mounted on a supporting block and it may be pressed into pressure interengagement therewith to provide a thermal contact therebetween or released. The supporting block has a clamping device for clamping a specimen thereto, which for example, comprises a spring member having forked shaped arms which engage around a specimen and hold it tightly to the supporting block.
Claims7
A holding device for electron-microscope specimens comprising a guide bar, means for controlling the temperature of said guide bar, a supporting block associated with said guide bar, support means on said supporting block for supporting a specimen thereon, and means for moving said supporting block and said guide bar relatively to press said supporting block into pressure interengagement with said guide bar to provide a thermal contact therebetween and to permit them to move relatively apart so as to release the pressure interengagement so that one may be disassociated from the other.
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