Week+of+January+11-15

=Week of January 11-15=

13th of January
I went into the lab for two hours, and I was getting poor images. My images appeared to be extremely drifty, while the feedback needle was showing minimal drift. I suspected that the fuzzy images were just a result of a poor tip so I changed the tip about 8 times and nothing changed. I saved 3 images one complete and two partials. I however forgot to bring my flashdrive to copy the images to flashdrive then upload them to the wiki. From now on I am going to try to remember to do this and will post my images that I took. The images I got were about the same as I have been getting for quite a while. I'm just not able to get clear images. 01131000AA- 2000 angstroms- partial 01131000AB- 2000 angstroms 01131000AC- 2000 angstroms- partial (when I upload the images I will link them here)

15th of January
It was finally discovered that in fact, the system is broken. Matt Jobbin, who shares the same hardware that I do is an engineering major and he discovered that one of the circuitboards in the hardward is fried. We don't know how long this has been broken for. I am currently without scope until this part is either replaced, or fixed, but today I spent my time in the lab getting reaquainted with COMSOL, because I had not used it for awhile. Because Matt is back I am now able to access comsol again. Luckily I now have copies of all of the papers that our lab has written and am able to use COMSOL so I will be able use my time productively while the scope is unable to be operated.

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