Miniaturized Ceramic Differential Scanning Calorimeter with Integrated Oven and Crucible in LTCC Technology

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Missal, Wjatscheslaw ; Kita, Jaroslaw ; Wappler, Eberhard ; Gora, Frieder ; Kipka, Annette ; Bartnitzek, Thomas ; Bechtold, Franz ; Schabbel, Dirk ; Pawlowski, Beate ; Moos, Ralf:
Miniaturized Ceramic Differential Scanning Calorimeter with Integrated Oven and Crucible in LTCC Technology.
In: Procedia Engineering. Vol. 5 (2010) . - pp. 940-943.
ISSN 1877-7058
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2010.09.263

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A Miniaturized Ceramic Differential Scanning Calorimeter with integrated oven and crucible (MC-DSC) is presented. Despite its small size of only 11mm×39mm×1.5mm, all functions of a conventional DSC apparatus are integrated in this novel device including the oven. The MC-DSC is fully manufactured in thick-film and Low Temperature Co-Fired Ceramics (LTCC) technology. Therefore, production costs are low. Initial results using Indium as a sample material show a good dynamic performance of the MC-DSC. Full width at half maximum of the melting peak is 2.5 K (sample mass: 10.993 mg, heating rate: 50 K/min). Reproducibility of the Indium melting point is within ±0.1 K. The melting peak area increases linearly up to sample masses of at least 26 mg.