PETRA - Experimental Platform for Radiative Tests
PETRA (Experimental Platform for Radiation Tests) brings together our lab’s irradiation and radiation testing equipment. It is built around three X-ray irradiation installations that enable in-operando testing of materials, components and systems, across a wide temperature range (-120 to +400 °C) and under controlled atmospheric conditions.
PETRA is a shared internal resource that is also open to external users from the public and private sectors.
Available equipment:
MOPERiX (160 kV) irradiator
- Tungsten target
- Average energy: Adjustable, typical value from 40 keV to 100 kV
- Dose rate: From 0.5 mGy(SiO2)/s to 60 Gy(SiO2)/s
- Beam size: From 2 cm in diameter at high dose rate to over 20 cm at low dose rate
- Irradiator equipped with baffles for cable passage
LabHiX (230 kV) irradiator
- Tungsten target
- Average energy: Adjustable, typical value from 40 keV to 100 kV
- Dose rate: From 0.5 mGy(SiO2)/s to 60 Gy(SiO2)/s
- Beam size: From 2 cm in diameter at high dose rate to +20 cm at low dose rate
- Irradiator equipped with baffles for cable passage
Dual-Flux X-Ray irradiator - I.D.FiX (160 kV)
Two tungsten target heads, arranged head-to-tail
- Average energy: Adjustable, typical value from 40 keV to 100 kV
- Dose rate: From 0.5 mGy(SiO2)/s to 100 Gy(SiO2)/s
- Beam size: From 2 cm in diameter at high dose rate to +20 cm at low dose rate
- Irradiator equipped with baffles for cable passage
3 temperature-controlled plates
- Temperatures from ambient to -80°C, -100°C, and -120°C with the possibility of atmosphere control through gas injection
- Surface areas of 10×10 cm² and 12×12 cm².
3 heating plates
- Temperatures from ambient to +300°C and +400°C
- Surface areas of 10×10 cm², 12×20 cm², and 30×30 cm².