Around the Lab

 Why the bunny ears?
Test and development STM is up and running. And getting ready for its new 9 Tesla home in the new laboratory.
14 orders of magnitude!
Our UHV system has survived bakeouts, moves and a weak pump to deliver about 14 orders of magnitude in pressure reduction


Gone on fire.
Sometimes we learn how to blow up a piezo stack. Check out the blast marks.





STM as ART

 Charge Density wave in NbSe2
STM image of individual atoms on the NbSe2 surface 96Å x 96Å. The additional 3x3 triangular structure is a collective electronic state known as a charge density wave. 		UV #2 by Jamie Snyder
Ultraviolet ink on paper, 24" x 18" by artist Jaime Snyder.