Patent ID: 8593164

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a block defining a temperature control channel therethrough and a defining a sample chamber, the block being made of an electrically insulating material; and an electrode disposed inside of the block such that the sample chamber is fluidically isolated from the temperature control channel by the electrode, the electrode configured to receive a signal from an impedance analyzer during a dielectric spectroscopy experiment related to a sample included in the sample chamber, the electrode being made of an electrically conductive material, the block defining a probe channel configured to receive a probe of the impedance analyzer, the probe channel being disposed between the electrode and a back side of the block, the electrode being aligned along an axis such that a surface of the electrode that is exposed within the sample chamber is orthogonal to the axis, a distance between the axis and the back side of the block being shorter than a distance between the axis and a front side of the block.