Friday, March 20, 2020, 19:39

The target material is loaded in a graphite cartridge.

The graphite cartridge is placed in a new tantalum boat previously without TaC,

the Ta boat was wrapped with three new Ta heat shields.

The system is currently pumping down. 

Monday, March 23, 2020, 07:49

IGP1 = 2.2e-7 Torr

Good vacuum= 3.00 e-5 Torr

Bad vacuum = 5.00 e-5 Torr

Ramping TGHT to 40A at 0.5A/min 

Monday, March 23, 2020, 10:35

Due to the COVID-19, non-essential activities are wrapped up,

the conditioning of the carbon target will be postponed until further notice