Method and apparatus for modulated differential analysis
US5346306A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | May 7, 1993 |
| Grant date | Sep 13, 1994 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 7, 2013 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01N25/4866
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
The present invention relates to differential analytical techniques for determining the composition, phase, structure, identification or other properties of a material that undergoes a transition as function of a driving variable. As applied to differential scanning calorimetric analysis (DSC), the preferred embodiment comprises: (1) heating a sample of the material with a linear temperature ramp that is modulated with a sinusoidal heating rate oscillation; and (2) deconvoluting the resultant heat flow signal into rapidly reversible and non-rapidly reversible components.
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