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electricity, microscopy

Who needs overhead lights?

October 10, 2015

…when you’ve got tungsten to recrystalize?

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All that glitters…

June 16, 2015

Here’s an image of a gold calibration target. To give you an idea of the scale, that line representing 100…

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Megapixel images from an analog SEM

June 2, 2015

I recently posted my first batch of photos from Milly. While I am happy with her beam performance, I was…

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Big SEM: online

May 31, 2015

I recently got Milly the big SEM online. She had a ton off issues that I’ll chronicle in future posts.…

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Tomorrow we bake

March 14, 2015

Milly is coming along nicely. I believe we’re over the vacuum difficulties. She’s buzzing along at a nice deep vacuum in…

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Milly’s computer is happy again

March 3, 2015

After several days of looking, the cause of the trouble proved to be a broken lead on a thermocouple line.…

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Happy New Year, Mr. Lincoln

December 30, 2014

 

microscopy, physics

SEM FTW: Meryl lives again

December 24, 2014

Happy Holidays! Here is a 2mm stainless steel screw. It’s sitting on a standard, non-shrunken quarter for scale. Here it…

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Resurrecting a roughing pump

November 25, 2014

Meryl was a little disheveled when she arrived at the shop. She had been in storage for a few years,…

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A tale of two microscopes

November 23, 2014

I recently became the proud owner of a couple of discarded JEOL scanning electron microscopes. The big one (“Milly“) is…

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