Two-Metal Heat-Pipe Oven: Operation, Dynamics, and Use in Spectroscopic Investigations

Abstract

Two different metals in a heat‐pipe oven will form separate metallic‐vapor zones. These zones can be moved so that in a crossed heat‐pipe oven, spectroscopic studies of intermetallic molecules can be made at the interface between the two zones. We describe the operation and construction of the two‐metal heat‐pipe oven as well as a laser technique that can be used to study some of the dynamics of the heat pipe.