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July 11, 2003
i'm gonna clear my head / i'm gonna drink that sun
it's been a clumsy day in general.
i am very sad. i lost my FIB sample down the holes in the air table. it wasn't an important sample at all. it was just my pratice piece from this morning. i had burned some images into it - including 30 micrometer rose. it is very amusing to me. i brought it back here and was going to image it on the afm. i acaully had done what i thought was going to be the hardest part - finding the pattern spot on the wafer. i had gotten the sample back out to move it to the left so that it would line up and it came off the double sided tape. i thought, i should be careful that it doesn't drop down the holes. (the afm sits on an airtable to islated it from the vibrations of the world around it.) just as i was going to get up and get more sticky tape for it to stick to the puck, it jumped off and went down the air hole. oh well, i have my memories. and you'll just have to take my word for it. i was looking forward to imaging it. : (
here is a pretend picture, though. (it is the same pattern that i burned (though without the thank you), but burned by someone else. this is also just a image with the ion gun. ah, no i am even more annoyed, becuase i would going to do a surface plot to see the depth. oh well, another time.)
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Posted by christina at July 11, 2003 2:53 PM