August 2013

As the building stage of the new Si lab chamber draws to a close, there is a final step - bakeout (info) - build an oven around your system and cook it for a few days. This process removes any...

Adrian Hooper kindly did his photographer bit yesterday and took some snaps of the group and the lab. Here they are. Be warned I have gone a wee bit OTT with some photo editing.

A combination of Trivial Transfer Graphene and a lot of work, here is Kristina's second image, lovely graphene!

After about a year of hard work we finally have the Omicron LT-Q+ working at 77 K with a Q+ tip (albeit in STM mode). Here are some raw examples of the first images we have taken.

You can now, if you so desire, find me on: Google scholar link and ResearcherID

Welcome to group TPV-200. May you work hard and keep the Q+ cold. Update: the vessel is full, and the Q+ is cold. Let's see if the microscope works on Monday. Update 2: The Q+ is at 77K.

BBC News - Carry on camping - can a week under canvas reset our body clocks?. Well I think I kind of knew this. The last time I had a week or more camping was before going to Polanyi's lab...