Features and Benefits:

With this advanced temperature gradient stage it is possible to program extremely accurate gradients across the sample.

Two heating elements are perfectly aligned to ensure uniform thermal contact between the temperature controlled surface and the sample media.

The heating elements are separated by a 2.5mm gap and can be controlled to 0.1°C from -196° to 350°C allowing large precise temperature gradients to be set up.

The T95-Linksys controller and Linksys 32 software enables the precision stepper motor to control the position and the speed of sample movement between the two elements and can be used to determine speed of crystal growth and allow the crystallisation front to remain in the field of view.

The stepper motor control also enables extremely fast heating or cooling by quickly transferring the sample from one element to the other.

To cool samples from ambient down to -196°C, the LNP95 liquid nitrogen cooling system is included. This highly efficient LN2 pump, using proprietary pumps and tubing, automatically controls pumping rate to ensure minimal LN2 is required. Recycled nitrogen gas is used to purge the stage of moisture and prevent condensation hence enable the capture of clear highly resolved images.