Thermal analysis and Knudsen effusion mass spectrometry combined in a specially-adapted commercial skimmer coupled instrument (Netzsch)

Abstract The paper is aimed at informing on Netzsch STA 409 CD/3/403/5/G apparatus, a specially-adapted type of the commercial STA 409 CD - QMS 403/5 Skimmer Coupling Instrument combining methods of thermal analysis with Knudsen effusion mass spectrometry. Construction parameters as well as advantages and disadvantages of the instrument are presented. The instrument can be used for a broad spectrum of studies in materials field from which some of them, including e.g. thermodynamic and phase transformations studies, study of surface and catalytic processes, investigation of materials on multiscale level, are demonstrated. The new multifunction design as well as the instrument capabilities are discussed with respect to already published information.