Earlier this week, the Surface Lab got training on the use of the new Scanning Electron Microscope. Daniel McNeel is working on cataloging the electrodeposited metal thin film samples that were fabricated last summer and this summer. Here Daniel runs the SEM, while Emily Berger helps, and Nick Wozniak looks for a specific sample to …
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Surface Lab – Troubleshooting
At the beginning of week three of research, the Surface Lab discovered that the third of three existing reference electrodes has met an untimely end. What is supposed to establish a stable potential reference point is no longer doing so. (The other two have been broken for at least a week.) We borrowed the Fluke …
Microwave Lab
Cameron Recknagel and Annelle Eben set up a turbo pump for the microwave plasma chamber.
Surface Analysis Lab
Annelle Eben is the first researcher to use the brand new Hitachi TM 3000 scanning electron microscope (SEM). She is examining high temperature superconducting circuits and building a catalog of samples for the Microwave Laboratory and its collaborators.
Summer 2010 Research Underway
Summer Research in the Physics Department has started. The largest group of students will begin their summers of work next week, but there are a few who started this week or earlier. This afternoon, Kevin Krueger, who is working for Graham Peaslee (Chemistry) and Paul DeYoung, was running the accelerator at HIBAL in the basement …