User`s guide

Environmental Control 14
Agilent 5500 SPM User’s Guide 210
atmospheric pressure and is not intended to provide a vacuum or high
pressure environment.
Figure 142 Environmental chamber
The environmental chamber includes eight ports which may be used to
introduce or remove gases from the chamber, or to allow wiring access
for sensors or other electronics. Several types of screw-in fittings are
available from Agilent for wires, liquids or 3 mm (1/8 in) inner diameter
gas tubing. The ports can be used in any combination. For example, one
gas port may be used to introduce a gas while another simultaneously
vents the chamber (i.e., when the gas cannot be safely vented directly
into the lab). One such example would be a non-aqueous
electrochemistry experiment requiring the saturation of an inert as with
an organic solvent.
To use the chamber:
1 Prepare the sample on a sample plate.
2 Mount the sample plate on the microscope.
3 Loosen the retaining screws on the front right and left corners of the
microscope base and swing the top section up on its hinge.
4 Lower the microscope base over the environmental chamber, being
careful to avoid contact with the sample plate. The legs of the