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Dilatometry

Dilatometry. George Schmiedeshoff NHMFL Summer School May 2010. Dilation: Δ V (or Δ L). T: thermal expansion: β = dln(V)/dT H: magnetostriction: λ = Δ L(H)/L P: compressibility: κ = dln(V)/dP E: electrostriction: ξ = Δ L(E)/L etc.

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Dilatometry

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  1. Dilatometry George Schmiedeshoff NHMFL Summer School May 2010

  2. Dilation: ΔV (or ΔL) • T: thermal expansion: β = dln(V)/dT • H: magnetostriction: λ = ΔL(H)/L • P: compressibility: κ = dln(V)/dP • E: electrostriction: ξ = ΔL(E)/L • etc. Intensive Parameters (don’t scale with system size):

  3. A (very) Brief History • Heron of Alexandria (0±100): Fire heats air, air expands, opening temple doors (first practical application…). • Galileo (1600±7): Gas thermometer. • Fahrenheit (1714): Mercury-in-glass thermometer. • Mie (1903): First microscopic model. • Grüneisen (1908): β(T)/C(T) ~ constant.

  4. Sample warms up: T increases by ΔT: Start at T=0, add some heat ΔQ: “Heat Capacity” for a specific bit of stuff. Or: “Specific Heat” per mole, per gram, per whatever.

  5. …and the volume changes: Start at T=0, add some heat ΔQ: “Coefficient of volume thermal expansion.” The fractional change in volume per unit temperature change.

  6. Most dilatometers measure one axis at a time If V=LaLbLc then, one can show:

  7. Nomenclature (just gms?) thermal strain magnetic strain thermal expansion magnetostriction Add ‘volume’ or ‘linear’ as appropriate.

  8. C and β (and/or ) - closely related: • Features at phase transitions (both). • Shape (~both). • Sign change (). • Anisotropic (, C in field). TbNi2Ge2(Ising Antiferromagnet)after gms et al. AIP Conf. Proc. 850, 1297 (2006). (LT24)

  9. Classical vibration (phonon) mechanisms • > 0 Longitudinal modes Anharmonic potential kBT • < 0 Transverse modes Harmonic ok too After Barron & White (1999).

  10. Phase Transition: TN Aside: thermodynamics of phase transitions 2nd Order Phase Transition, Ehrenfest Relation(s): 1st Order Phase Transition, Clausius-Clapyeron Eq(s).: Uniaxial with  or L, hydrostatic with  or V.

  11. Phase Transition: TN Aside: more fun with Ehrenfest Relations Magnetostriction relations tend to be more complicated. Slope of phase boundary in T-B plane.

  12. Grüneisen Theory (one energy scale: Uo) e.g.: If Uo = EF (ideal ) then: Note: (T) const., so “Grüneisen ratio”, /Cp, is also used.

  13. Grüneisen Theory(multiple energy scales: Ui each with Ci and i) e.g.: phonon, electron, magnon, CEF, Kondo, RKKY, etc. Examples: Simple metals:~ 2

  14. Example (Noble Metals): After White & Collins, JLTP (1972). Also: Barron, Collins & White, Adv. Phys. (1980). (lattice shown.)

  15. Example (Heavy Fermions): HF(0) After deVisser et al. Physica B 163, 49 (1990)

  16. Aside: Magnetic Grüneisen Parameter Specific heat in field Magnetocaloric effect Not directly related to dilation… See, for example, Garst & Rosch PRB 72, 205129 (2005).

  17. Dilatometers • Mechanical (pushrod etc.) • Optical (interferometer etc.). • Electrical (Inductive, Capacitive, Strain Gauges). • Diffraction (X-ray, neutron). • Others (absolute & differential). • NHMFL: Capacitive – available for dc users. Piezocantilever – under development. Two months/days ago: optical technique for magnetostriction in pulse fields. Daou et al. Rev. Sci. Instrum. 81, 033909 (2010).

  18. Piezocantilever Dilatometer (cartoon) D Piezocantilever L Sample Substrate

  19. Piezocantilever (from AFM) Dilatometer After J. –H. Park et al. Rev. Sci. Instrum 80, 116101 (2009)

  20. Capacitive Dilatometer (cartoon) Capacitor Plates D Cell Body L Sample

  21. “D3” Rev. Sci. Instrum. 77, 123907 (2006) (cond-mat/0617396 has fewer typos…) • Cell body: OHFC Cu or titanium. • BeCu spring (c). • Stycast 2850FT (h) and Kapton or sapphire (i) insulation. • Sample (d).

  22. Capacitive Dilatometer 3He cold finger LuNi2B2C single crystal 1.6 mm high, 0.6 mm thick 15 mm to better than 1% After gms et al., Rev. Sci. Instrum. 77, 123907 (2006).

  23. Data Reduction I, the basic equations. (1) so (2) (3) (4) (5)

  24. Data Reduction II (gms generic approach) • Measure C(T,H) - I like the Andeen-Hagerling 2700a. • A from calibration or measure with micrometer. • Use appropriate dielectric constant. • Calculate D(T,H) from (1) and remove any dc jumps. • Measure sample L with micrometer or whatever. • Calculate thermal expansion using (2). • Integrate (4) and adjust constant offset for strain. • Submit to PRL…unless there is a cell effect (T > ~2 K dilatometer dependent).

  25. Data Reduction IIa: remove dc jumps • Jumps associated with strain relief in dilatometer are localized, they don’t affect nearby slopes. • Take a ‘simple’ numerical derivative, (5). • Delete δ-function-like features. • Integrate back to D(T). • Differentiate with polynomial smoothing, or fit function and differentiate function, or spline fit, or….

  26. Cell Effect After gms et al., Rev. Sci. Instrum. 77, 123907 (2006).

  27. State of the art (IMHO): RT to about 10K. Kapton bad Thermal cycle Yikes! fused quartz glass: very small thermal expansion compared to Cu above ~10K. Operates in low-pressure helium exchange gas: thermal contact. After Neumeier et al. Rev. Sci. Instrum. 79, 033903 (2008).

  28. Calibration Operating Region • Use sample platform to push against lower capacitor plate. • Rotate sample platform (θ), measure C. • Aeff from slope (edge effects). • Aeff = Ao to about 1%?! • “Ideal” capacitive geometry. • Consistent with estimates. • CMAX >> C: no tilt correction. CMAX  65 pF After gms et al., Rev. Sci. Instrum. 77, 123907 (2006).

  29. Tilt Correction • If the capacitor plates are truly parallel then C →  as D → 0. • More realistically, if there is an angular misalignment, one can show that C → CMAX as D → DSHORT (plates touch) and that after Pott & Schefzyk J. Phys. E 16, 444 (1983). • For our design, CMAX = 100 pF corresponds to an angular misalignment of about 0.1o. • Tilt is not always bad: enhanced sensitivity is exploited in the design of Rotter et al. Rev. Sci. Instrum 69, 2742 (1998).

  30. Kapton Bad (thanks to A. deVisser and Cy Opeil) • Replace Kapton washers with alumina. • New cell effect scale. • Investigating sapphire washers.

  31. Torque Bad • The dilatometer is sensitive to magnetic torque on the sample (induced moments, permanent moments, shape effects…). • Manifests as irreproducible magnetostriction (for example). • Best solution (so far…): glue sample to platform. • Duco cement, GE varnish, N-grease… • Low temperature only. Glue contributes above about 20 K.

  32. Hysteresis Bad • Cell is very sensitive to thermal gradients: thermal hysteresis. But slope is unaffected if T changes slowly. • Magnetic torque on induced eddy-currents: magnetic hysteresis. But symmetric hysteresis averages to “zero”: Field-dependent cell effect Cu dilatometer.

  33. Environmental effects • immersed in helium mixture (mash) of operating dilution refrigerator. • “cell effect” is ~1000 times larger than Cu in vacuum! • due to mixture ε(T).

  34. Thermal expansion of helium liquids

  35. Things to study: Fermi surfaces After Bud’ko et al. J. Phys. Cond. Matt. 18 8353 (2006). After gms et al., Rev. Sci. Instrum. 77, 123907 (2006).

  36. Phase Diagrams

  37. Quantum critical points After Garst & Rosch PRB 72, 205129 (2005). → sign change in 

  38. Structural transitions After Lashley et al., PRL 97, 235701 (2006).

  39. Novel superconductors After Correa et al., PRL 98 087001 (2007).

  40. Small (scale up or down). Open architecture. Rotate in-situ (NHMFL/TLH). Vacuum, gas, or liquid (magnetostriction only?). Sub-angstrom precision. Cell effect (T ≥ 2K). Magnetic torque effects. Thermal and magnetic hysteresis. Thermal contact to sample in vacuum (T ≤ 100mK ?). Capacitive Dilatometers: The Good & The Bad

  41. Avoid torque (non-magnetic sample, or zero field, or glue). Ensure good thermal contact (sample, dilatometer & thermometer). Well characterized, small cell effect, if necessary. Avoid kapton (or anything with glass/phase transitions in construction). Avoid bubbles (when running under liquid helium etc.). Use appropriate dielectric corrections (about 5% for liquid helium, but very temperature dependent), unless operating in vacuum. Mount dilatometer to minimize thermal and mechanical stresses. How to get good dilatometry data at NHMFL: Adapted from Lillian Zapf’s dilatometry lecture from last summer.

  42. Recommended: • Book: Heat Capacity and Thermal Expansion at Low Temperatures, Barron & White, 1999. • Collection of Review Articles: Thermal Expansion of Solids, v.I-4 of Cindas Data Series on Material Properties, ed. by C.Y. Ho, 1998. • Book (broad range of data on technical materials etc.): Experimental Techniques for Low Temperature Measurements, Ekin, 2006. • Book: Magnetostriction: Theory and Applications of Magnetoelasticity, Etienne du Trémolet de Lacheisserie, 1993. • Book: Thermal Expansion, Yates, 1972. • Review Article: Barron, Collins, and White; Adv. Phys. 29, 609 (1980). • Review Article: Chandrasekhar & Fawcett; Adv. Phys. 20, 775 (1971). • http://departments.oxy.edu/physics/gms/DilatometryInfo.htm

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