RAITH STATUS MSG 2: Work completed on the system. New computer and file system. New SP 5.

[James Conway]

Greetings:

1. NEW RAITH Personal Computer:
Last week RAITH USA returned to SNF and we replaced the RAITH PC 
computer with an entirely new and loaded PC.
This is a better unit than we had before has full memory SIMS stuffed on 
it and should resolve the Blank Dialog Boxes problems we were having.

All system files were moved from the old hard drive to the new and an 
additional back up of these files is also on the drive.

All users were reverted to the default RAITH150.vbd and you may need to 
reestablish your user.vbd profiles the first time you come back onto the 
system.  Be sure to check your standard settings if different than the 
defaults.

2. Version 3.0 Service Package 5 was installed onto the system:  Many of 
the software request we have made in the last year have been included 
into this service package.  There are also new routines for stage and 
piezo leveling controls which hopefully will improve focus correcting 
using working distance for users using the Electrostatic wafer chuck.

3.  This morning I recalibrated the piezo leveling post using a 
reference wafer I have retained for this use. I was able to get through 
the calibration procedure successfully, but I am still not able to get 
the wafer samples to level as that the system reports that the desired 
leveling is out of range of the piezo motion.  Some mechanical 
adjustments may be required to get the Electrostatic chuck to allow 
leveling on our normal 4 and 6 inch wafer substrates.   I will be 
getting more information on appropriate next steps to perform from RAITH 
USA.

4. I have saved the setup files for the LEO settings for 10 keV and 10 
um aperture and 10 keV and 30 um aperture.
    I have saved the write field alignment values for 5 mm WD, 10 keV, 
100 um2 write fields.  Users can accept the prompt to accept these 
values at the beginning of their run and you should be able to get a 
suitable contamination dot just after you find your first focus and then 
easily align write field before writing.

ALL USERS ARE REQUESTED TO KEEP UP THE LOGBOOK ENTRIES FOR ALL WRITES 
AND TO REPORT YOUR RESULTS AS WELL IN THE RESULTS SECTION.  REMARKING 
"OK" JUST MEANS YOU SURVIVED YOUR WRITE SESSIONS AND GIVE US LITTLE ELSE 
TO GO ON.  PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT IS YOUR WORKING DISTANCE AND BEAM 
CURRENT VALUES.

Users are requested to note all errors encountered in RAITH Notebook No. 
2, now the current logbook so we can get these errors cleared up in the 
database and system settings.

Thank you,

James Conway





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