Air-Sensitive AL Top-Loading Sample Holder

These holders are designed for use with the digital phi-stage offered for Siemens D5000 and Bruker D8 instruments. The stage can be used with a special sample cup where the more common 51.5mm sample holder can be loaded, but this configuration requires a reference surface to be above the plane of diffraction. At low angles, this part of the original design can block part or all of the incident beam. These holders mount to the stage magnetically in the same way that the original sample cup does but without the need for any material above the plane of diffraction. 

This stage allows for both spinning of the sample to compensate for inhomogeneity in loose powders as well as collection of texture data in the phi-axis. 

Polyimide film is recommended, but not included.