| December 2002. In the beginning the room was empty and forlorn, Art was dreaming about the future, Junsoo was fitting 36 inch pump into 32 inch hole, and Sergei was figuring out what are those holes on the chamber for. |
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| Art is hoisting the chamber | What is this? | Prepare to fire (just few more month to wait...) | |
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March 2003. Things are shaping up, but still long way to go... |
| Looks like it is working.... | Rumors of UFO denied by DOE... | Light in the end of tunnell | |
| June 2003. First results - XPS, LEED and Auger on SrRuO3 thin fims. (Samples by H.N. Lee and H. Christen). |
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| Our first Low Energy Electron Diffraction pattern | X-ray Photoemission Spectroscopy (XPS) on SrRuO3 | Mysteries of the ruthenates. Why would SrO be volatile? | |
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October 2003. What happens to the ruthenates? We need HREELS, STM and thermodynamics.... |
| What happens to the ruthenates? We need help (HREELS by R.G. Moore) | Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) of the decomposition process. | P-T-x phase diagram of SrO-RuO2 system. | |
| November 2003. Scanning Probe rules! |
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| Junsoo discovers self-organized oxide nanowires on CaRuO3 surface | Cuts his teeth on the Si (111) 7x7 - UHV STM mastered! | and studies transport in carbon nantotube networks. | |
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January 2004. Getting closer! We have grown our first films (SrTiO3 on SrTiO3) |
| A year in construction. The system looks complete (though transfer is still missing). | System layout. Blue is what we have, magenta is what we don't have, but very much want to get. | Our first Spot Profile Analysis (SPALEED) pattern. A road to ordering! |