Balzers Aktiengesellschaft

Balzers Aktiengesellschaft Fur Hochvakuumtechnik Und Dunne Schichten

Claude Lieb

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.

Holding device for electron-microscope specimens

A clamping device for transporting a specimen plate, particularly for an ctron microscope specimen comprising, a support plate, a carrier plate disposed in juxtaposed relationship with the support plate having at least two resilient arm poritions and at least a portion of the carrier plate contacting with the support plate, and a claw connected to each resilient arm portion of the carrier plate for engaging the specimen plate therebetween. A rod having a threaded end threaded into one of the support plate and the carrier plate is rotatable in a first direction for moving the carrier plate with respect to the support plate to move each claw away from each other and rotatable in an opposite second direction to move each claw toward each other for engagement of the specimen plate therebetween.

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Bad Ragaz, Switzerland

Claude Lieb