User`s guide

Environmental Control 14
Agilent 5500 SPM User’s Guide 211
microscope base will fit into grooves in the environmental chamber
base.
5 Swing the microscope back down over the environmental chamber.
A groove in the underside of the microscope plate provides a tight
seal with the gasket on the top of the chamber (Figure 143).
Figure 143 Environmental chamber on microscope
6 Secure the environmental chamber to the base plate with the four
thumb screws (two in front, two in the rear).
7 Tighten the two retaining screws to hold the top plate down.
The chamber also provides an excellent way to displace oxygen from
solutions used in electrochemistry experiments. Good results have been
obtained by first bubbling an inert gas (nitrogen or argon) through the
solution to be placed into the liquid cell, and then setting the
environmental chamber up with a steady flow-through rate of 1 to
2 SCFH.
When the microscope and environmental chamber are placed inside the
vibration isolation chamber, tubes and cables can be routed to the