From edmyers at stanford.edu  Thu Sep  1 15:17:32 2005
From: edmyers at stanford.edu (Ed Myers)
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 15:17:32 -0700
Subject: Power Supply Has Arrived
Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.2.20050901151009.04f681b0@edmyers.pobox.stanford.edu>

AFM2 Users,

The white light power supply has arrived and I have hooked it up to the 
AFM.  Please help in protecting the lifetime of the bulb and power supply 
by only turning up the light as high as you need.  If you turn the power 
supply up all the way it generates a lot of heat and drastically shortens 
the bulb lifetime.

The system will remain yellow lighted until we have our scanner head 
installed in the system.

Regards,




From mdeal at stanford.edu  Mon Sep 26 08:32:40 2005
From: mdeal at stanford.edu (Michael Deal)
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 08:32:40 -0700
Subject: Request for AFM images
Message-ID: <6.1.1.1.2.20050926080820.01eaf088@mdeal.pobox.stanford.edu>

AFM users in SNF,
      As part of SNF's education program, we are doing a demo and workshop 
for some high school teachers about exploring the nano-world.  This 
includes talking about and showing them (via a high resolution webcamera) 
the AFM in SNF.   As part of this we would like to show them some AFM 
images taken by labmembers.
     So I'm asking if any of you can share some AFM images that you have 
taken in SNF  that we could use in the demo/workshop being held in early 
November.  We'd prefer if you could just send us (or otherwise get to us) 
the raw AFM images, since we will show them using the AFM software.  Any 
image(s) are fine, and they can be of nanostructures, devices, different 
types of surfaces, high resolution features,  comparisons  between 
different structures, etc.,  and in general are examples of what the AFM is 
used for in the lab.
     If you wish, you can send me an email describing what kinds of images 
you have that we might want to show,  and then we can make arrangements to 
get copies of the files.
     Thanks very much.  This is very important for our program.
			-Mike  Deal, SNF Director of Special Programs
		

p.s. let me know if you are also interested in helping with the 
demo/workshop, held Nov. 8, 9.    



From edmyers at stanford.edu  Tue Sep 27 11:19:09 2005
From: edmyers at stanford.edu (Ed Myers)
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:19:09 -0700
Subject: File Clean Up and Scanner Arrived
Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.2.20050927111241.0426c038@edmyers.pobox.stanford.edu>

AFM2 Users,

Our scanner has arrived.  I will install it this afternoon and clear the 
yellow light.  Please continue to take care of our scanner.

I have also seen a lot of poor shut downs of the system.  Many times I have 
found the monitors and light sources left on and more importantly the stage 
has not be moved to the Load Sample location.  This makes it difficult for 
the next user.  There has to be a Sum signal to move the stage.  Once the 
tip has been removed there is no Sum signal.  Please make sure you move the 
stage to the Load Sample location as part of the shut down.

There are also numerous files in the default image capture file.  This is 
not where you store your images.  You must move them to your personal 
folder on the D drive.  I will delete all files in the default folder.  You 
have two weeks to either move your images out of the default folder or 
download them to another location.

Regards,