Progress Calorimetry on a Chip Alex Navrotsky and Frances Hellman

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Progress Calorimetry on a Chip Alex Navrotsky
and Frances Hellman

• New data on Fe2SiO4
• olivine and spinel

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Calorimeter on a Chip

• Specific heat of thin films
• 100nm 5µg
• 2K - 500K
• 0T - 8T
• Information gained
• Thermodynamics
• Decomposition
• Magnetic transitions
• Structural changes

2006 APS KeithleyInstrumentation Award
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Future Plans

• Workshop at Berkeley
• Finish measuring addenda and refining Fe2SiO4
  olivine and spinel data
• Accepting samples and collaborations
• Proposal submitted to NSF
• Hire postdoc