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: Sensors and Actuators A: Physical. Vol. 172 (2011) Issue 1 . - pp. 21-26.
ISSN 0924-4247
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sna.2011.01.025

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A miniaturized ceramic differential scanning calorimeter (MC-DSC) with integrated oven and crucible is presented. Despite its small size of only 11 mm × 39 mm × 1.5 mm, 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 green glass ceramic tape-based low temperature co-fired ceramics (LTCC) technology. Therefore, production costs are considered to be 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 2.4 °C (sample mass approx. 11 mg, heating rate approx. 50 °C/min). Repeatability of the indium melting point is within ±0.02 °C. The melting peak area increases linearly with the sample mass up to at least 26 mg. Simulations of a strongly simplified finite element model of the MC-DSC are in a good agreement with measurement results allowing a model-based prediction of its basic characteristics.