Every year or so, we all suit up and run comprehensive maintenance on Deborah, our oxide MBE tool/spaceship. Various parts need inspection, scrubbing/etching, replacement, and source materials need to be refilled. Good fun in good company; also a nice workout
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- Low temperature effusion source with its heat shield and cooling jacket
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- Looking into a low temperature 40cc effusion source
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- Fresh pellets of source material loaded into an e-beam source
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- Removal of a 10cc W crucible from a single-filament high-temp effusion source
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- Setting up the bake
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- Starting up the baking of the system
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- Inspecting a low temperature source
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- Dramatic view of a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) before replacement
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- Aftermath: a bunch of used copper gaskets