In close cooperation with the Emerging Materials Group of John Mitchell from the Argonne National Laboratory (Illinois, USA), we just started a new development project.

The goal is to create a highly advanced version of the high-pressure oxygen annealing furnace HSO, accordingly abbreviated A-HSO. This instrument will for the first time combine the possibilities to treat the sample under high temperatures, rapidly quench the sample to conserve metastable phases, enable high gas pressures and have full control of gas flow and oxygen content in the process atmosphere between 0 and 100%.