Last semester I had a student working with me on building a sputter deposition chamber. We spent a lot of time waiting for parts, but we did manage to get some very necessary pieces together. Andy and I designed and fabricated a collar system for supporting the weight of the rather large 6-way cross we [...]
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Tags: aluminum oxide, high vacuum, semiconductor, sputter deposition
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I realize I haven’t written an update on the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) in a while. I had mentioned about a month ago that the STM was working; however, Donnie left for Old Dominion University via our 3/2 engineering program and I haven’t yet recruited a student to pick up the pieces. I’m working out [...]
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Tags: electronics, quantum, STM
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