You can use thick graphite crucible for Ni evaporation. We are using
it from long time.

On 5/28/05, X.P. Zhu  wrote:
> Dear members,
>   I am using E-beam to evaporate Ni. The crucible is
> made of tungsten. But it seemed that fused Ni could
> "eat" tungsten. I wonder whether they have formed some
> kind of alloys. Should I replace the tungsten crucible
> by other metals, such as molybdenum? Thank you very
> much.