The Kratos-Supra is down on March 6 due to a sample transfer failure. A service visit by Kratos engineer is planning.
The sample transfer has been fixed. The instrument is up at 3PM, 3/31/2021
Current news from IMRI facilities
The Kratos-Supra is down on March 6 due to a sample transfer failure. A service visit by Kratos engineer is planning.
The sample transfer has been fixed. The instrument is up at 3PM, 3/31/2021
The Nanomill mill was down because of the vacuum issue. Trouble shooting is in progress.
The SEM had a cooling problem at 9am. The problem was fixed at 12:00.
The temperature control board is broken so the OneView CCD can not be cool down. Gatan replaced the board on Monday 11/9/2020 and 2100F is back to operation at 1pm.
Total done time 228 hours (12 days).
Nanomill is down because software froze, contacting vendor
The Pt/Pd target is run out and ACE200 is not available for sputtering from 10/13/2020. This does not affect both carbon coating and glow discharge. We already ordered the replacement from Leica and will let you know once sputtering is available.
2800’s scroll pumps were replaced and the one of the TMP controllers got replaced as well.
The potentiometer on the vacuum board was properly adjusted to display vacuum accurately. Now the vacuum looks good. Since we opened the evacuation line, we started a bake on 9/30/20 (1pm). The bakeout will be done Friday.
X-ray gun filament needs to be replaced. An annual preemptive maintenance is being scheduled with Kratos, which would last about 2 weeks (including the x-ray gun filament replacement)
2800 is being baked right now. We are planning to bring it up on Friday 8/21.