…when you’ve got tungsten to recrystalize?
microscopy
All that glitters…
June 16, 2015Here’s an image of a gold calibration target. To give you an idea of the scale, that line representing 100…
Megapixel images from an analog SEM
June 2, 2015I recently posted my first batch of photos from Milly. While I am happy with her beam performance, I was…
Big SEM: online
May 31, 2015I recently got Milly the big SEM online. She had a ton off issues that I’ll chronicle in future posts.…
Tomorrow we bake
March 14, 2015Milly is coming along nicely. I believe we’re over the vacuum difficulties. She’s buzzing along at a nice deep vacuum in…
Milly’s computer is happy again
March 3, 2015After several days of looking, the cause of the trouble proved to be a broken lead on a thermocouple line.…
Happy New Year, Mr. Lincoln
December 30, 2014
SEM FTW: Meryl lives again
December 24, 2014Happy Holidays! Here is a 2mm stainless steel screw. It’s sitting on a standard, non-shrunken quarter for scale. Here it…
Resurrecting a roughing pump
November 25, 2014Meryl was a little disheveled when she arrived at the shop. She had been in storage for a few years,…
A tale of two microscopes
November 23, 2014I recently became the proud owner of a couple of discarded JEOL scanning electron microscopes. The big one (“Milly“) is…