A computer interfaced high-stability temperature controller and heating stage for optical microscopy

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In optical microscopy, as in many fields, it is sometimes necessary to observe and study phenomena that occur over very narrow temperature ranges. For this purpose a temperature controller and heating stage have been developed for use in optical microscopy with an average temperature stability within +or-2 mK. The temperature can be varied from sub-ambient temperatures up to 373 K. The temperature controller is also interfaced to a personal computer via a 16-bit digital to analogue converter which allows remote control and the heating stage to be heated and cooled at predetermined rates.

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