Thermal analysis of large numbers of samples, such as pipette samples by varying heat supply to the sample in a controlled manner and thermographic analysis of temperature changes with high spatial and temperature resolution

摘要

Apparatus for simultaneous thermal analysis of a large number of material samples in which a sample field is placed on a dynamically controlled surface heater or arranged in the field of a radiation heater. Temperature changes in the sample field are analyzed using contact free image generating thermography. The sample field includes a calibration sample. Heater can be an electrical film heater with infrared emitting or absorbing coating of the surface of the heater or on the bottom of the sample tray or a radiative heater, which is used for vertical sample arrangements. A controller can be used with the heater to provide continuous, cyclic, gradually increasing or sudden increases in heating power.