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testing

Tescan engineer conducted his maintenance work, changing Pt GIS and maintaining pumps. He started from 10/12 and finished his work by noon of 10/13. I have fully checked and tuned the SEM/FIB/GIS. Everything is working. You may use it from now on.
Best,
Jian-Guo

2100 was down due to campus wide power outage at 8:30pm 10/4/21 and became opetional at 1:30pm 10/5/21.

Dear IMRI users:

Nanomill is down because of a vacuum problem. Contacting vendor engineering now. Please visit this blog for further updates.

Thanks!

Jian-Guo

 

Hello Kratos-Supra users,

The Supra has gone through a maintenance service by Kratos engineers and now is open for user operations. The following functionalities are working:

1. XPS and other advanced-XPS modes: Small, selective-area (SA-XPS), Angle-resolved (AR-XPS), Low intensity (LI-XPS), Valence band XPS
2. XPS parallel imaging (with spatial and chemical resolution ~ 1 um)
3. UPS, including AR-UPS
4. Monoatomic and cluster mode GCIS for sample cleaning and depth-profiling with other spectroscopic techniques
5. Glovebox sample preparation and transfer for air-sensitive samples
6. In-situ programmable heating/cooling, multi gas dosing in the SAC and in-vacuo in the SSS
7. Multi-layer, monolayer and sub-monolayer deposition with a programmable multi-pocket mini-e-beam in the SSS and transfer to the Supra for analysis.

In addition, the control PC has been upgraded to Windows 10. The ESCApe database has been fixed. An updated SOP is placed on the PC desktop.

If you want to get trained on either the basic or advanced operations of the instrument, please sign up to the waiting list below:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NjTpbhjuxc-oc1gqooHm_Vhg9rMTlH2dL78vdiEd8V0/edit#gid=20

For inquiry on the advanced capabilities (training, assistance and collaboration) of the Supra, please contact me at ictran@uci.edu

Thank you,
Ich Tran

Hi, All,

The Smartlab is down due to the Servo/encoder error. The service is called.

The Rigaku engineer came on June 2 and repaired the Smartlab.

Thanks,

 

Qiyin

 

Hello Kratos-Supra users,

The X-ray source needs a filament replacement. We have reported and been waiting for a service visit by a Kratos engineer to fix the source and other issues. I will cancel the sessions currently reserved for the instrument.
I will send out another update when the instrument is back up online.

Thank you,
Ich Tran

Hi, All,

The UltimaIII is up running.

The XG tube was replaced. The previous tube reached its lifetime.

The optical alignment and maintenance was done. The UltimaIII is up running!

 

Thanks,

 

Qiyin

Hi, All,

The UltimaIII was down due to an XG-related error on April 16. I am troubleshooting on this issue.

Will update the status once it is up running.

Qiyin

Hi, Tescan SEM users:

The SEM was just down. It was not recovered by a simple trouble shooting. I sent a message to Tescan engineer and may not receive any response till Monday. I will keep you posted. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Thanks!
Jian-Guo