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Scientists at the Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, are using the Linkam THMSG600 and TS1500 heating stages for mineral evolution research

Market leaders in temperature controlled microscopy, Linkam Scientific Instruments, report on the use of their popular THMSG600 and TS1500 heating stages which are being used for geological research at the Institute of Earth Sciences, Taiwan.

linkam-geology-taiwan-smFounded in 1982, the Institute of Earth Sciences (IES) conducts research in two major disciplines: geophysics and geochemistry. The mineral and rock physics laboratory in the IES is one of the most prominent labs in mineral physics in Taiwan. It is one of nearly 30 institutes and centres that form the Academia Sinica (AS), the main governmental organization for basic research in all academic disciplines in Taiwan. Recent research has included mantle dynamics modelling, heat flow and space remote sensing. With state-of-the-art geochemical instruments and facilities and an expert staff, the IES is well equipped to investigate tectonics, volcanology, geology and cosmology based mainly on radioactive and stable isotope techniques, mineralogy and geological dating of land and marine samples.

Dr. Chung-Cherng Lin and his team are using the THMSG600 and TS1500 to help with this research. He commented "Temperature, pressure and composition are the three most important factors that influence the physical and chemical properties of a mineral inside the Earth. In addition to the study on the elastic properties of minerals and solid materials, the evolution of other physical properties with respect to temperature has been one of the subjects in my research. In our lab, most of the temperature experiments have been carried out by the combination of a Raman spectrometer with the heating stages from Linkam."

The THMSG600 is designed specifically for geological applications. Unrivalled accuracy and control of temperature enable the user to characterize sample reactions to better than 0.1°C and hold a stability of 0.01°C. The response time to a 'Hold' or 'Limit' command where the temperature is stable to 0.1C is only 0.1seconds at 30°C/min. A perfectly uniform temperature is achieved by heating the sample on all sides: the sample is placed on a 7mm quartz cover slip which is encased within a pure silver lid.

The TS1500 stage, with a temperature range from ambient to 1500°C, is ideally suited to the study of small geological samples. The sample is placed inside the ceramic sample cup ensuring that the sample is heated from below as well as the sides. The new T95 controller enables the stage to heat samples at an incredible 200°C/min. The TS1500 has the option to be ordered with vacuum connectors, for experiments requiring low pressure conditions.

Dr. Chung-Cherng Lin added "the latest study on the iso-structural alkaline earth phosphates has revealed that the variation rate with respect to the temperature in the Raman frequency of the internal modes of the PO4 group increase with the increase of P-O bond energy (this will be published in Vibrational Spectroscopy). Further work on thermal induced phase transitions in some compounds (e.g., different apatites and spinels), temperature-dependent structure evolution in magma and glasses and the thermal evolution of thermodynamic properties of some solid materials will be studied in the future."

He noted that "The reliability of experimental results depends significantly on the accuracy in temperature measurement. These stages have good accuracy in temperature (e.g. uncertainty is smaller than one degree at 800°C) and are easy to use. Using these heating stages, we have obtained reliable frequency-temperature dependences for Raman bands of some minerals and compounds. Part of this data has been published in several scientific journals.


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