Procedures and Guides
Our group lab procedures and guides are available to the public. Please feel free to modify and redistrbute any of the guides as you see fit. We ask only one thing in return; please give us feedback. We would be grateful if you would share your suggestions and experiences with us so that we can improve our procedures.
At present, some of the links are broken...fixing them is on the todo list.
- Annealing copper gaskets
- Connecting X-ray sources
- Creating scripts for the Kodak DC290 digital camera
- Electrical safety presentation
- Handling of liquid nitrogen
- Installation of HP 8230 portable CD-RW drive
- Ion gauge sensitivities
- Ion pump cleaning
- Mass spectrometer common ionization fragments
- Mass spectrometer isotope ratios
- Moving gas cylinders
- Polishing metal crystals
- Pumping/baking vacuum chambers
- Regenerating ion pump with oxygen purge
- Regenerating phosphor-coated screens of LEED optics
- Repairing VAT valve
- Soldering
- Spot-welding
- Sputtering with the Omicron ISE-10 ion gun
- Transfer and purification of chemicals
- Using machine tools
- Venting vacuum chambers