Light metals · Banned

Anodized aluminum inside UHV

AlOxvalues describe: Type II anodise

Why it's out

The porous oxide is a water reservoir. Semiconductor tools tolerate it because they run warm and never truly bake; UHV systems cannot.

Where it hides

Chamber interiors specified by people mixing the two cultures.

Properties

The values below are candidate: compiled from the sources named, not yet individually validated. Provisional provenance: O'Hanlon, A User's Guide to Vacuum Technology; CERN Accelerator School, vacuum and materials proceedings.

Wet cleaning

Recipenot applicable: the sealing step is itself an aqueous process
Forbiddenthe process itself, in UHV
Limitthe pore structure, which is intrinsic to anodising

Vacuum and outgassing

Outgassing, unbaked (10 h)1e-6 mbar·L/s/cm²
Outgassing, baked1e-8 at best mbar·L/s/cm²

Temperature

Bake, assembled200 °C
Metallurgical limitTHE CONDEMNING MECHANISM: the anodic layer is a columnar porous oxide with an enormous internal area, sealed by hot water: you have engineered a water sponge onto the surface

Thermal

CTE23.6 ppm/K
Thermal conductivityreduced by the layer
Specific heat896 J/kg·K
Emissivity0.8

Mechanical

Hardness400–600 HV
Density2.7 g/cm3

Electrical and magnetic

Relative permeability1.000022
Resistivityinsulating layer

Engineering

Corrosionexcellent, which is why people want it
Process notesfine outside vacuum, fine on external surfaces
Availability and costa standard shop finish, which is the trap

Outgassing

1 sourced measurement for this card. A rate means nothing without the pumping time it was read at, so each one states it or declares it missing. The whole base, filters included, is at /tools/outgassing/.

Signature: 1e-6 unbaked to no baked reading baked.

Sourced outgassing measurements for this card
Material as publishedSpeciesStatePumping timeRate
Aluminium (anodised-2 um pores)totalunbakedthe abscissa of the curve below3.68e-7 at 1 h to 4.29e-8 at 10 h

Sources: S-ELSEY-1975-II. Full citations and conditions at the base and in /data/outgassing.json.

Sources · 1
  1. O Hanlon, A Users Guide to Vacuum Technology

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