4.23.09

Since our wire is gone, Dr.L and I talked about the possibilities that I might can work with. I'm just going to jot down the things that are just crossing my mind off right now. It is not orderly and organized.

So, here goes my **brainstorming**

1. Make a presentation of what I have done so far. + specific insturction of various functions of STM 2. Send the nice images that I took to Easy Scan

To be specific, Making a presentation of what I have done so far would be basically the amalgam of my works through out the year.. For this there could be many possible audience. Besides of the accumulation of the works so far, I want to make a specific manual(?) about the functions of the STM. There are lots of information regarding how STM works and what STM is made of, but I don't think there are hardly any information of explaining or showing the specific functions of the STM. I think it would be very helpful to the people who first enter the STM and want to raelly handle the system. For myself even after I got used to run the STM, I had a hard time of controlling lots of functions which eventually will guide me into capturing better/specific images of the surface. Since I have some good images that show the clear difference due to the uses of the functions (z-range, i-gain, voltage gap etc), it would be very nice to put those imges and make good instruction. It is important to understand how STM works and make STM run, but I think it is also very crucial to grasp the role of the functions because it is the one that really makes the difference in acquiring good images and eventually leads us to explore the surface in the molecular level.
 * About # 1***

For the possible audience, it could be 1. Future students who want to research in STM 2. Any people who want to learn how to use the STM and explore the specific functions of the STM (z-range, i gain etc) 3. Easy Scan people (w/ my images)

In addition, for the possible medium of my thing, it could be the ones listed below. 1. Pictures (definitely, picture is needed. Not only the images of what I have got but the images of STMs and other miscell things). 2. Video - I suddenly thought about this. But I think I can make the STM instruction video start from cleaning the STM to taking images. - I could show the detailed steps that are needed to run STM. (for example, cleaning the scope, cut the tip, put the sample, check the electricity, clean the body of the thingy (I forgot the name), and approach). - As listed above, somewhat very specific steps in that way people can have an easier time of getting used to using the STM. -Not only those specific things, I think I might can also explain the function of STM with the video too. This would not be like video-video but it could be a moving presentation thingy with bunch of pictures. Pictures with the voice overwrapped can also make good videos. -When I talk about the video in General, I'm not saying that I have to videotape these things, but we can use the picture well to make the video. If the example is needed, please contact me. 3. Powerpoint -Powerpoint can be used too to give some brief information about the STM. Powerpoint is always nice since it gives some crucial point in relatively short amount of the time so that people can know the keypoints. -Definitely with some pictures, and some words. -If Powerpoint is needed, I don't think I'll put too many words in it. I'll try to put the keywords and key images and I'll mostly explain in speaking. In other words, I want to use the powerpoint as a tool or medium of my presentation, not making powerpoint the protagonist of the presentation because it gets boring.

-This plan mainly includes the idea of sending the images that I took using portable STM. -During the first semester, I got some nice images that resembles the image of the check board. I do not exactly recall which sample that I got the image from, but that image was quite nice so that I was able to use that to estimate the carbon distance. Using the Pythagoras Theorem, I was able to estimate the carbon distance. -I think I can send the raw images in addition to the work that I have done to figure out the carbon distance. -Second semester, it is very true that I struggled most of the time to get a nice scanning of oct sample. Different from the samples that I used during first semester, this octanethiol sample rather gave me some hard to time for scanning. Not only I did not have enough, dextrous skill of scanning a good image, but also the sample was unfamiliar with me. However, with countless trials, I was finally able to scan some nice images that really clearly shows the surface at a molecular level. It was magnificent! -When we were able to scan a good image that day, I tried many different functions of the Easyscan that I was not able to identify when I had crummy images. With the good images, applying many different functions of Easyscan system made clear differences and it was very clearly distinguishable. For that reason, I also want to send some images of After/before kinda thing with different functions applied for an image. -Definitely, some explanation would be needed along with the images.
 * About # 2***

__***Overall Summary***__ I'm not quite sure about this project yet, but I have some brief and identifiable idea of what should I do for this. It is for sure that I had some fascinating time scanning the samples, but I totally agree with the Dr. L's idea that I might also need a time to wrap up the stuffs that I have done so far and document nicely for future uses. Plus, after I just hastily brainstormed about this whole idea, it even seems very necessary right now. Not only it would be very helpful to the fellow student who might be doing the experiment on STM but also for the people who have interest in using STM but have a hard time accessing through it. Since I went through the times that I basically had NO clue about how to operate the STM at all, I think my documentation would be very helpful. I'm rather quite excited to do this! :)