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You should look under a microscope but these look like bubbles- either from poor adhesion or too much Hydrogen in the film (or both).
How did you clean your sample before deposition?
What is the underlying material, and is it possible it has changed?
Is possible that some part of the tool was changed recently?
Regards,
Jeremy Clark
Cornell Nanoscale Facility
On 7/24/23 13:12, Vibhor Kumar wrote:
Dear labnetwork community,
We are trying to deposit a-si (~100 nm) with plasmatherm PECVD. We are using 10% silane. Our recipe worked fine in the past. But this time we started looking some "sparkles" in the deposited film (image attached). We cleaned the chamber with freon gas, but still the situation is the same.
Any suggestion/s will be highly appreciated.
Sincerely,
-Vibhor Kumar-
Research Associate,
School of Engineering,
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, NJ
USA.
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From: Peter.Lomax at ed.ac.uk (Peter Lomax)
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2023 08:36:59 +0000
Subject: [labnetwork] Sparkles in the PECVD deposited amorphous silicon
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We add Argon to our recipe - can check the details if of interest.
Best
Peter
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Dear labnetwork community,
We are trying to deposit a-si (~100 nm) with plasmatherm PECVD. We are using 10% silane. Our recipe worked fine in the past. But this time we started looking some "sparkles" in the deposited film (image attached). We cleaned the chamber with freon gas, but still the situation is the same.
Any suggestion/s will be highly appreciated.
Sincerely,
-Vibhor Kumar-
Research Associate,
School of Engineering,
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, NJ
USA.
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 11:09:01 -0400
Subject: [labnetwork] JEOL JSM-5800LV Repair Help Needed
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I am an undergraduate research student at Anderson University in South Carolina US and I am working on repairing a JEOL JSM-5800LV. The SEM was donated from FUJI Films lab and was operational just a few years ago and was replaced with a new system. The guy that picked up the machine cut all of the wires between the control unit and the microscope unit instead of unplugging cords and now I am trying to wire it back together. Most cables were labeled but many lost their labels in the moving process. I also was never given the key to start the machine making it very difficult to troubleshoot. I have tried looking online to buy a replacement but the model is so old I can not find it anywhere. If anyone could help me find a replacement key or perhaps have an old key to the same machine that I could copy that would be enormously helpful. Also any suggestions on how to repair the wires would be helpful. If someone has experience with the machine I can send some pictures if that would be helpful. Any advice or suggestions would be very appreciated.
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From rober074 at umn.edu Thu Jul 27 10:54:09 2023
From: rober074 at umn.edu (Kevin Roberts)
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2023 09:54:09 -0500
Subject: [labnetwork] Frontier Semiconductor FSM laser replacement
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Hello,
We have a 1998 FSM 900tc-vac stress measurement system. Its 750 nm laser
diode died recently, and its 810 nm laser diode died years ago.
I'd very much like to repair it however, and keep using it, as it is very
versatile, and something of a Cadillac model.
I was told years ago that if the last laser died, then we'd have to
consider the machine's life over, but I don't recall the details as to
'why'.
Has anyone ever replaced their laser diodes on a vintage FSM, and were you
successful in getting it to work again?
Also, does anyone have a good service person's contact at FSM? It's been
like 20 years since I've talked to service there, and I'm not sure who to
run my question by.
Thanks so much.
Regards,
Kevin
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