Oh the things that we do in lab....
A sample in the chamber, with a plasma cloud of methane glowing around it. Cool, eh?
Polishing a sample before depositing it into the chamber. I'm the supervisor... I make Courtney work.
(Kidding, of course. =)
This is what Kristin and Zibi do when I leave my camera laying around.
And sometimes we employ them as a human timer for the etching process.
A regular steel screw that became a pretty purple and blue screw because Courtney is so good at controlling the microwave frequency chemical vapor deposition parameters. That's a mouth full.
The equipment. 200,000 Euro.
A wood-cutting tool in a blue plasma cloud.
Us, initially, trying to understand the equipment, the method, and the science behind the entire apparatus. It took us exactly one day and one clearly defined set of directions.
See? We learn quickly. All we need is someone taking the time to explain it to us once.
Zibi with our freshly coated nanofiber paper. We analyzed it by SEM and the fibers were to small to be clearly defined at 5000x magnification.... which is excellent news!
And just for kicks, a photograph of Courtney and I with an infrared camera.
Dr. Dudek, from Poland, was trying to determine the surface temperature of a screw that he as coating, so he brought in the camera for a demonstration. While waiting for them to set up, we convinced the two (male) technicians to let us play around with the camera and take pictures of ourselves! And I think the professor who owned the camera was also quite impressed when I started spouting off on a tangent about black body radiation and the Wien Distribution.
Thank you PH352 and Dr. Camata for helping me on that one.
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