Thursday, August 31, 2023, 07:07

The coated container was wrapped in 3 Ta foil heatshields.

Target temperature on OMEGA= 1850-1900 C

OMEGA slope:= 0.990

Target time at max temperature = 4 hours

Final Current TBHT= 230 A

Final TGHT current= ~500A (adjustable)

Heating autoramp starged at 1A/min on  TGHT  and TBHT to 120A

Then at 2 A/min  to =400 A TGHT and 230A TBHT

Good vacuum = 5.0 e-04 Torr

Bad vacuum = 5.0E-02 Torr

Initial IGP1= 7.7e-07 Torr

Thursday, August 31, 2023, 12:29

OMEGA=1238 C

IGP1=1.4e-06 Torr

Continue ramp

 ramp @ 4A/min (2A/30s)

Thursday, August 31, 2023, 12:50

IGP1= 2.23e-06 Torr

OMEGA=1392 C

Thursday, August 31, 2023, 13:04

IGP1=2.7e-06 Torr

OMEGA=1443 C

Thursday, August 31, 2023, 13:18

IGP1= 3.8e-06 Torr

OMEGA=1537 C

Thursday, August 31, 2023, 14:38

OMEGA=1852C

Tuesday, September 12, 2023, 09:51

The coated container was wrapped in 3 Ta foil heatshield and left in evap2 over night to attain vacuum.

Target temperature on OMEGA= 1850-1900 C

OMEGA slope:= 0.990

Target time at max temperature = 4 hours

Final Current TBHT= 230 A

Final TGHT current= ~700A (adjustable)

Heating autoramp starged at 1A/min on  TGHT  and TBHT to 120A

Then at 2 A/min  to =400 A TGHT and 230A TBHT

Good vacuum = 5.0 e-04 Torr

Bad vacuum = 5.0E-02 Torr

Initial IGP1= 2.7e-06 Torr

Tuesday, September 12, 2023, 7:00

Started autoramp @1A/min to 120A on both TGHT and TBHT

Tuesday, September 12, 2023, 09:53

Heating ramp set to 230A for both TGHT and TBHT.  Rate at 2A/min for both heaters.

Tuesday, September 12, 2023, 11:21

Continued ramp on TGHT at 2A/min to 335A and now setting to 3A/min (1.5A/30s)

Tuesday, September 12, 2023, 11:47

Continue ramping @3A/min on TGHT

 Tuesday, September 12, 2023, 13:33

Reached 1840 C at TGHT =677A and 10.5V

Will keep for 4 hours

Friday, October 20, 2023, 07:20

The coated container was wrapped in 4 Ta foil heatshields.

Vacuum IGP1 initial = 9.9 e-07 Torr

Target temperature on OMEGA= 1850-1900 C

OMEGA slope:= 0.990

Target time at max temperature = 4 hours

Final Current TBHT= 230 A

Final TGHT current= ~400A (adjustable)

Heating autoramp starged at 2A/min(1A/30s) on  TGHT  100A

Then at 4A/min  to =400 A TGHT and 230A TBHT

Good vacuum = 5.0 e-04 Torr

Bad vacuum = 5.0E-02 Torr

Friday, October 20, 2023, 07:24

Starting initial ramp

Vacuum IGP1 initial = 9.9 e-07 Torr

Friday, October 20, 2023, 08:55

After initial pressure bump continued heating at 1A/min to 120A to observe any other possible pressure bump.

Friday, October 20, 2023, 09:05

increased ramp to 4A/min to 400 TGHT and 230 TBHT

Friday, October 20, 2023, 09:35

OMEGA=1280 C

TGHT= 221.5 A, 3.24V 

TBHT=228.9, 3.9V

Friday, October 20, 2023, 10:22

OMEGA 1852 C at TGHT = 390A, 6.5 V ; TBHT = 232 A, 4.0 V

Will leave for 4 hours

Friday, October 20, 2023, 14:16

About to start rampdown

TGHT @ -2A/min

TBHT@ -1A/min

Final OMEGA = 1840 C

IGP1 = 1.83e-06 Torr

Monday, November 06, 2023, 09:59

The coated container was wrapped in 4 Ta foil heatshields.

Vacuum IGP1 initial =3.1 e-07 Torr

Target temperature on OMEGA= 1850-1900 C

OMEGA slope:= 0.990

Target time at max temperature = 4 hours

Final Current TBHT= 230 A

Final TGHT current= ~400A (adjustable)

Heating autoramp starged at 2A/min(1A/30s) on  TGHT  100A

Then at 2A/min  to =400 A TGHT and 230A TBHT

Good vacuum = 5.0 e-04 Torr

Bad vacuum = 5.0E-02 Torr

 Monday, November 06, 2023, 14:07

OMEGA =1852 C

IGP1= 3.14e-06 Torr

TGHT= 399A, 6.6V

TBHT= 233A, 4.1V

Tuesday, November 07, 2023, 12:28

Cooled down previous evening and took out today.

rampdown was @-2A/min for TGHT and -1A/min TBHT

Wednesday, December 06, 2023, 09:47

Target number of foils:370

Analysis discs 16 A and 16B interspersed on the end further from the laser

A are discs produced using new method and B are discs produced using milling.

Total length packed 16 cm (excluding the analysis discs)

container has 3 Ta heat shields (one inner around fins and center block, new type of 1st shield made up of three pieces)

No endcaps inserted to facilitate out-gassing

Ta coated spring at  front end

ramp to 120A @ 1A/min TGHT and to 120A on TBHT hold there until pressure drop, then ramp to 500A on TGHT and 230A TBHT.

max approx 700A on TGHT and 230A on TBHT (Omega slope set = 0.990)

Then temperature = 1800C

TBHT will be set fixed at 230 A (max).  TBHT heated manually and automatically to max.

Good vac at 5.00 e -4 Torr

Bad vac at 5.00 e-2 Torr

 IGP1= 1e-06 Torr at start of initial ramp.

Wednesday, December 06, 2023, 09:56

System left to drop pressure over previous night and now at 120A.  waiting for pressure drop.

Wednesday, December 06, 2023, 11:18

increased ramp rate to 2A/min

Wednesday, December 06, 2023, 14:41

increased ramp to 3A/min on TGHT and stopping to allow pressure to stabilize before taking temperature readings

Top temperature 1800C at 710 A but started dropping.  Increased current to 750A and left there for 4 hours.

Cool down at -2A/min TGHT and -1A/min TBHT

Thursday, December 14, 2023, 09:53

Target left pumping down in Evap2 overnight. 

Initial weight including protective jig = 1474.3 g

Total number of target foils:388 

 10 analysis discs: 5x 220727-2 labelled as A and 5x 231123-2 labelled as B on the right side (front) of container.  Order of discs ABABABABAB.

Total length packed 15.5 cm

container has 3 Ta heat shields including the inner made of three pieces as to cover the center block.

No endcaps inserted to facilitate out-gassing

Ta coated spring at  both ends

ramp to 500A @ 1A/min TGHT and to 230A on TBHT

max approx 700A on TGHT and 230A on TBHT (Omega slope set = 0.990)

Then temperature = 1800C

TBHT will be set fixed at 230 A (max).  TBHT heated manually and automatically to max.

Good vac at 5.00 e -4 Torr

Bad vac at 5.00 e-2 Torr

 IGP1= 9.3e-07 Torr at start of initial ramp.

Thursday, December 14, 2023, 09:56

Started initial ramp up 1A/min on both heaters

Thursday, December 14, 2023, 11:03

Pressure dropping.  Will increase ramp speed to 2A/min on both heaters (1A/30s)

Thursday, December 14, 2023, 11:17

pressure dropping.  Increase ramp to 4A/min (2A/30s)

Will stop and ramping for temperature measurements

Thursday, December 14, 2023, 13:28

Increased ramp to 5A/min (2.5A/30s)

 Will heat to 703A on TGHT and leave for 4 hours

Friday, January 26, 2024, 07:05

The coated container was wrapped in 4 Ta foil heatshield and left in evap2 over night to attain vacuum.

Target temperature on OMEGA= 1850-1900 C

OMEGA slope:= 0.990

Target time at max temperature = 4 hours

Final Current TBHT= 230 A

Final TGHT current= ~700A (adjustable)

Heating autoramp starged at 1A/min on  TGHT  and TBHT to 120A

Then at 2 A/min  to =400 A TGHT and 230A TBHT

Good vacuum = 5.0 e-04 Torr

Bad vacuum = 5.0E-02 Torr

Initial IGP1= 5.7e-05 Torr

Friday, January 26, 2024, 09:20

Pressure starts increasing at 125 A on TGHT and TBHT.  Leaving it to equilibrate then will start ramping at 3A/min (1.5A/30s) to 700A on TGHT and 230A on TBHT

Friday, January 26, 2024, 13:18

leave sintering at 1838C .  Will start rampdown at 5 pm.

IGP1= 6.10e-06 Torr

TGHT=680A, 10.14V

TBHT = 230A, 3.13V

Friday, January 26, 2024, 16:52

IGP1 = 3.0e10-6 Torr

OMEGA=1821 C

start rampdown @-2A/min TGHT and -1A/min TBHT

Monday, January 29, 2024, 16:36

LP FEBIAD

wrapped in 4 Ta heatshields.

Will heat at 2A/min to 95A on TGHT and TBHT

Then will heat at 3A/min to 1800 C ~400A on TGHT and 230A on TBHT

Monday, January 29, 2024, 16:45

Initial IGP1= 5e-05 Torr

Monday, January 29, 2024, 20:35

1800C was at TGHT 410A, 6.9V  RD and set current 418A

TBHT= 233 RD A, 3.2V

Wednesday, February 07, 2024, 22:36

Ta container tube TaC coated, wrapped in 4 Ta foil heat-shields, and loaded with 320 D shaped discs in a 12mm graphite cartridge with usable 11mm

Endcaps on the graphite cartridge have holes for outgassing

initial heating @ 2A/min to 90 A then 1A/min to 120A TGHT

OMEGA slope = 0.99

Vacuum limits up to 400A: 5.0e-04 Torr -- 1.0e-02 Torr

Thursday, February 08, 2024, 06:18

Starting heat ramp tght

initial pressure = 8.1e-07 Torr IGP1

Thursday, February 08, 2024, 06:54

start of gasoff observed. paused ramp and will continue at 1A/min

Thursday, February 08, 2024, 07:24

lowered TGHT current to 75 A as pressure increasing too rapidly.  will leave at this current until pressure drops

Thursday, February 08, 2024, 09:11

continuing ramp to 120A on TGHT

Thursday, February 08, 2024, 09:24

Increasing ramp to 2A/min to 250A on TGHT

Thursday, February 08, 2024, 10:52

Increased ramp to 3A/min to 250A on TGHT

Thursday, February 08, 2024, 11:10

Everything looks good will continue to 300 A at 3A/min TGHT

Thursday, February 08, 2024, 11:33

Pausing heating at 285A, 4.8V TGHT

OMEGA reads 1430C

Will let pressure drop and then proceed ramping slowly @ 0.2A/min

Thursday, February 08, 2024, 13:53

IGP1= 2.4e-06 Torr

OMEGA = 1432 C

ramp at 0.2A/min towards 1550C

Thursday, February 08, 2024, 14:07

pressure very stable.  will increase to 0.4 A/min

Thursday, February 08, 2024, 15:24

increasing ramp rate to 1A/min

IGP1 = 2.5e-06 Torr

Thursday, February 08, 2024, 18:05

1900 C on OMEGA

will leave 3-4 hours depending on pressure

Thursday, February 08, 2024, 21:10

No additional pressure peaks observed and pressure on IGP1=  1.9e-06 Torr

TGHT= 460 A, 8.1V

OMEGA= 1860 C

ramp down at -2A/min

Wednesday, February 21, 2024, 06:22

Ta container tube, wrapped in 4 Ta foil heat-shields, and loaded with 201 D shaped discs in a 12mm graphite cartridge with usable 11mm

conditioning tube WO = 44692-13

End-caps on the graphite cartridge have holes for outgassing.  One spring each end in the Ta container

initial heating @ 2A/min to 90 A then 1A/min to 120A TGHT

OMEGA slope = 0.99

Vacuum limits up to 400A: 5.0e-04 Torr -- 1.0e-02 Torr

Wednesday, February 21, 2024, 09:12

IGP1 initial = 9e-07 Torr

Starte at 3A/min to 90A

Wednesday, February 21, 2024, 09:21

increased autoramp to 4 A/min until pressure starts rising, then will slow down or pause

Wednesday, February 21, 2024, 09:32

At 74A, paused.  Will continue at 2A/min TGHT

Wednesday, February 21, 2024, 09:40

Pausing at 87A. 

Wednesday, February 21, 2024, 10:34

pressure dropping.  restarting ramp up to 120A at 2A/min

Wednesday, February 21, 2024, 10:37

From previous TiC 220206, will heat up fast until 250A and then at 1A/min until 300A to better resolve out-gassing profile

Wednesday, February 21, 2024, 12:05

Changed ramp to 1A/min to 300A

Wednesday, February 21, 2024, 13:10

Manually ramped up for a while

increased ramp speed to 2A/min

regression line started to match previous one after 1300C

Wednesday, February 21, 2024, 13:16

increased ramp rate to 4A/min to 420A

Wednesday, February 21, 2024, 13:37

Note: the temperature became unrealistic.  suspect window condensate.  Will use regression and to to 441A

Wednesday, February 21, 2024, 13:54

reached 441A, 7.6V

leaving for 3.5 hours or when pressure drops to 2-3 e-06 Torr

Wednesday, February 21, 2024, 18:56

IGP1=2.9e-06 Torr

starting rampdown at -2A/min

Thursday, February 29, 2024, 07:40

Ta container tube, wrapped in 4 Ta foil heat-shields, and loaded with _________ D shaped discs in a 12mm graphite cartridge with usable 11mm

conditioning tube WO = 44692-13

End-caps on the graphite cartridge have holes for outgassing.  One spring each end in the Ta container

initial heating @ 2A/min to 85 A then 2A/min to 120A TGHT

OMEGA slope = 0.99

Vacuum limits up to 400A: 5.0e-04 Torr -- 1.0e-02 Torr

Thursday, February 29, 2024, 07:43

Initial IGP1=  9.31e-7 Torr

Thursday, February 29, 2024, 17:43

Temperature profile suggests 1900 C at 400A.  Now at 400A.  Will keep at this current for 4 hours.

manually ramped the last few amps.

TGHT= 400A, 7.3 V OMEGA = 1901C

Thursday, February 29, 2024, 22:20

IGP1=2.1e-6 Torr

started ramping down at -2A/min

Wednesday, April 03, 2024, 06:46

Ta container tube, wrapped in 4 Ta foil heat-shields, and loaded with _________ D shaped discs in a 12mm graphite cartridge with usable 11mm

conditioning tube WO = 44692-13

End-caps on the graphite cartridge have holes for outgassing.  One spring each end in the Ta container

initial heating @ 2A/min to 85 A then 2A/min to 120A TGHT

OMEGA slope = 0.99

Vacuum limits up to 400A: 5.0e-04 Torr -- 1.0e-02 Torr

Wednesday, April 03, 2024, 06:49

initial IGP1= 1.28e-06 Torr

Wednesday, April 03, 2024, 09:26

IGP1= 2.3e-05 Torr

TGHT = 78 A, 1.3V

Will continue ramp as planned.

Wednesday, April 03, 2024, 11:37

Ramping at 2A./min to 400A

Wednesday, April 03, 2024, 14:01

expected 1900C at 401A

leaving at 402A for 4 hours.  Rampdown start at 4:10 pm at -2A/min

Thursday, April 04, 2024, 12:06

Ta container tube, wrapped in 4 Ta foil heat-shields, and loaded with _________ D shaped discs in a 12mm graphite cartridge with usable 11mm

conditioning tube WO = 44692-13 (4th conditioning with this tube)

End-caps on the graphite cartridge have holes for outgassing.  One spring each end in the Ta container

initial heating @ 2A/min to 85 A then 2A/min to 120A TGHT

OMEGA slope = 0.99

Vacuum limits up to 400A: 5.0e-04 Torr -- 1.0e-02 Torr

Mas current~400A (1900 C)

Friday, April 05, 2024, 09:04  

Ramping to 85A done and pressure trending down.  Will continue ramp to 120A

Friday, April 05, 2024, 16:01

Starting rampdown at -2A/min

IGP1= 3.2e-06 Torr

 Monday, April 29, 2024, 19:50

Started coating with coating stand.

The coated container was wrapped in 3 Ta foil heatshields.

Vacuum IGP1 initial =9.1 e-07 Torr

Target temperature on OMEGA= 1850-1900 C

OMEGA slope:= 0.990

Target time at max temperature = 4 hours

Final Current TBHT= 230 A

Final TGHT current= ~700A (adjustable)

Heating autoramp starged at 2A/min(1A/30s) on  TGHT  100A

Then at 2A/min  to =700 A TGHT and 230A TBHT

Good vacuum = 5.0 e-04 Torr

Bad vacuum = 5.0E-02 Torr

Monday, April 29, 2024, 20:25

Reached 1810 @700A

Will leave until 1230am

Wednesday, May 01, 2024, 11:53

The coated container was wrapped in 4 Ta foil heatshields.

Vacuum IGP1 initial =8.1 e-06 Torr

Target temperature on OMEGA= 1850-1900 C

OMEGA slope:= 0.990

Target time at max temperature = 4 hours

Final Current TBHT= 230 A

Final TGHT current= ~500A (adjustable)

Heating autoramp starged at 3A/min(1A/30s) on  TGHT  100A

Then at 2A/min  to =400 A TGHT and 230A TBHT

Good vacuum = 5.0 e-04 Torr

Bad vacuum = 5.0E-02 Torr

Wednesday, May 01, 2024, 22:19

1830C reached at 670A. 10.0V TGHT

Start cooling after 4 hours. 

Tuesday, May 07, 2024, 06:16

TP was swapped on previous day (May 6th)

protective screen installed.

Loaded 9 TaC coated end caps (groups of 4 and 5) and 2 TaC coated springs.

OMEGA Slope 0.99

Will heat to 1850-1900 C and hold for 4 hours

Good Vac = 5.0e-4 Torr

Bad Vac= 5.0 e-02 Torr

 Initial IGP1=6.7E-07 Torr

Monday, May 27, 2024, 07:09

Small graphite cartridge was loaded with SiC discs 240523-1 and 240523-2.  Discs produced without milling using PAA as a dispersant.

The coated container tube was wrapped in four Ta foil heatshields.

two Tac Coated springs at the ends in case plugs are pushed outwards.

Target temperature on OMEGA= 1850-1900 C

OMEGA slope:= 0.990

Target time at max temperature = 4 hours

Final TGHT current= ~400A (adjustable)

Heating autoramp 2A/min to 90 A

Then at 2A/min to 120A.

Good vacuum = 5.0 e-02 Torr

Bad vacuum = 5.0E-04 Torr

 IGP1 initial 4.8e-07 Torr

Monday, May 27, 2024, 09:13

Pressure started coming down.  Heat at 2A/min to 120A.

Monday, May 27, 2024, 10:21

Started ramp 2A/30s  to 400A will monitor temperature

stopped at 490A and will hold for 4  hours. 

Monday, May 27, 2024, 12:41

temperature started creeping up past 1870C so decreased current to 461A

Current temperature is 1842 C at 461A, 7.6V

Monday, May 27, 2024, 12:55

dropped current to 441 because temperature climbed to 1899 C

Monday, May 27, 2024, 15:08

final pressure IGP1 =9.9 e-07 Torr

OMEGA= 1830 C at 410 A (reduced as needed)

Start rampdown at -2A/min

Wednesday, May 29, 2024, 10:07

Final pressure is 2.7e-7 Torr

Wednesday, May 29, 2024, 14:42

Experiment failed.  Too hot probably.  Bad temperature readings.  Will repeat after redesigning experiment.

Wednesday, May 29, 2024, 22:52

Small graphite cartridge was loaded with SiC discs 240523-1 and 240523-2 and 220727-2 (baseline discs).  Test Discs produced without milling using PAA as a dispersant.

The coated container tube was wrapped in four Ta foil heatshields.

two Tac Coated springs at the ends in case plugs are pushed outwards.

Target temperature on OMEGA= 1850-1900 C

OMEGA slope:= 0.990

Target time at max temperature = 4 hours

Final TGHT current= ~400A (adjustable)

Heating autoramp 2A/min to 90 A

Then at 2A/min to 120A.

Good vacuum = 5.0 e-02 Torr

Bad vacuum = 5.0E-04 Torr

 IGP1 initial 4.8e-07 Torr

Wednesday, May 29, 2024, 22:54

Kept at 400 A for 4 hours. 

Starting autoramp down at -2A/min

Monday, March 10, 2025, 16:53

RD TGHT = 686A set to 700 A , 10.8V

TBHT = 230A, 3.2V

OMEGA reads 1700 but will keep here for 4 hours.

Wednesday, June 05, 2024, 07:14

SiC discs loaded into tantalum tube.  New mixing (two types) and old mixing.

The coated container tube was wrapped in four Ta foil heatshields.

Tac Coated springs at the ends in case plugs are pushed outwards.

Target temperature on OMEGA= 1850-1900 C

OMEGA slope:=* 0.980*

Target time at max temperature = 4 hours

Final TGHT current= ~400A (adjustable)

Heating autoramp 1A/min to 90 A

Then at 2A/min to 120A.

Good vacuum = 5.0 e-02 Torr

Bad vacuum = 5.0E-04 Torr

 IGP1 initia1.3e-06Torr

Wednesday, June 05, 2024, 11:04

Continuing to ramp at 2A/min to 350A

Wednesday, June 05, 2024, 12:22

Leaving at 369 A for 4 hours (until 4 pm).  Temperature readings do not appear good.

Wednesday, June 05, 2024, 16:01

Start rampdown at -2A/min

IGP1=2.0 e-6 Torr

 Thursday, July 25, 2024, 15:18

Target container consists of two np-Ta fibres disk samples. Both disks are made from heat stabilized np-Ta fibres (150 C for 17 hours) and were pressed at 8 tons / 300 MPa.

Sample 1 was made from np-Ta fibres spun using Dope solution #1. Sample 1 disk has an average thickness of 0.727 mm and a diameter of 17.113 mm. Mass of the green sample 1 disk is 0.1957 g. 

Sample 2 was made from np-Ta fibres spun using Dope solution #6. Sample 2 disk has an average thickness of 0.688 mm and a diameter of 17.123 mm. Mass of the heat stabilized fibres used to make the green sample 2 disk is 0.1860 g. Mass loss from pressing the heat stabilized fibres was virtually zero. Therefore, although the mass of the green sample 2 disk was not measured, it can be extrapolated to be 0.1860 g. 

Target container was wrapped with Ta foil. Each sample disk was wrapped in graphite foil and placed inside the target container horizontally near the center. 

Omega slope was initially set to 0.980. After reviewing previous logbook on np-Ti (e-log ID#633), changed the Omega slope to 0.990. 

Chamber is currently being pumped down. The current reading (as of 15:40) is 4.70e-05 Torr. 

Two heating schedules will be tested. Heating schedule 1 entails heating both sample disks at ~1000 C until the pressure reaches below 1.00e-06 Torr. Once heating schedule 1 is completed, sample 1 will be removed. Heating schedule 2 entails heating sample 2 to ~1800 C until the pressure reaches below 1.00e-06 Torr. TGHT is estimated to be approximately 440A/7.6V to reach 1875 C (348A/5.8V to hold temperature at 1600 C). Refer to e-log ID#605.