Wednesday, September 14, 2021, 21:14

Boat is wrapped with 2 layers of Ta-heat shield

The samples consists of 15 discs of UCx of 14mm diameter

The chamber is currently pumping down.

TGHT will be ramped up to 450 A

Wednesday, September 15, 2021, 07:17

IGP1 = 6.75e-6 Torr

Tapped up manually to 40A.

TGHT = 60 A, 2.39 V

Vacuum stable IG1 = 7.25e-6 Torr

Initiating auto-ramp for TGHT at a rate of 0.2A/min to 445 A

Parameter setup: 5.0e-5 good vac, 8.0e-5 bad vac.

 Wednesday, September 15, 2021, 11:57

IGP1=2.24e-5 Torr

TGHT= 102.016 A, 1.275 V

Autoramp changed to 1A/min to 450 A

Wednesday, September 15, 2021, 12:53

IGP1 = 3.3e-5 torr

TGHT= 150 A,  V

Autoramp changed to 2A/30s to 450 A

 1e-1 good vac, 5e-1 bad vac

Wednesday, September 15, 2021, 12:59

Friday, September 17, 2021, 07:54

IGP1 = 3.81e-6 Torr

TGHT = 449.6 A, 4.31 V

Autoramp set to -2A/min to 0 A