Cryogenic device possibilities

Rare-gas samples exist only at cryogenic temperatures and most of the optical spectroscopy of electronic processes should be done in the vacuum ultraviolet. Making experiments requires an indispensable combination of liquid-helium equipment with windowless VUV-spectroscopic devices and synchrotron radiation as a photon source. To study the electronic excitation energy pathways and a variety of subthreshold inelastic processes, we used the complimentary advantages of cathodoluminescence (possibility to vary the excitation depth beneath the sample surface), photoluminescence (selective-state excitation by synchrotron radiation at high-flux SUPERLUMI-station at HASYLAB, DESY, Hamburg) and... 

The considered experimented set - up can be applied in two different ways. The first one is to use is as a semiconductor sensor cooler with low heat dissipation to cool the sensor down to the ambient temperature. It is interesting to be applied in cryogenic range of temperatures. The second option is related with the cooler for high energy dissipation devices (for example laser diode cooler). The first set of experiments was performed with sorption heat pipe and ammonia as a working fluid to demonstrate the basic possibility to decrease the temperature of the heat loaded wall to compare with the temperature of this wall in the phase of loop heat pipe cooling mode. 

Hastie [131] coupled for the first time a quadrupole mass spectrometer with a Knudsen cell. One of the quadrupole mass spectrometer - Knudsen cell systems used at our laboratory is shown in Fig. 4. The system has been developed to study small alkali metal clusters under equilibrium conditions (see Sect. 3.2). Broad-band photoionization by a 1 kW Hg/Xe lamp is used for the first time in Knudsen effusion mass spectrometry to reduce fragmentation. Other quadrupole mass spectrometer - Knudsen cell systems have for example been developed by Hilpert [132, 133], Fraser and Rammensee [134], Plante [135], Ono et al. [136], Kematick et al. [137], and Edwards et al. [138]. Cryogenic pumping is used in the device by Hilpert to reduce mercury background ion intensities for the study of amalgams [132], The instruments described in Refs. 134,135 use a chopper to modulate the molecular beam from the Knudsen cell. Interfering background ion intensities can, thereby, be subtracted. The apparatus developed by the authors of Refs. 137, 138 renders possible the simultaneous application of Knudsen effusion mass spectrometry and the mass-... 

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