New Electronic Materials Growth and Analysis Laboratory

Growth Chamber Bakeout

Analysis Chamber Bakeout

Sample Transfer Suitcase Bakeout

Sputter Coater in Clip. 353

AFM Tip Preparation



Growth Chamber Bake Out

 To bake the growth chamber you have to follow some steps in order, as following
1- Open the gate valve between the growth chamber and the cryopump
2- Open the valve between the load lock and the cryopump
3- Pump on the growth chamber using the rotary and the turbo pumps
4- Close the main water valves (*)(the incoming and the outgoing)
5- Disconnect the wires connected to the chamber
6- Disconnect the hoses from the chamber
a- effusion cells
b- main water hose
c- plasma source
d- thickness monitor
7- Take the actuators off the shutter feedthroughs
8- Take the RHEED gun’s cover off by unscrewing the three screws
9- Take the pyrometer off
10- Take the camera and the residual gas analyzer off
11- Cover all windows using foils
12- Wrap foils around all the bellows, beside that do not forget to wrap foils around the whole monochrometer feedthrough with the tube
13- Wrap foils around the RHEED gun
14- Wrap foils around the gate valve between the growth chamber and the cryopump
15- Wrap foils around the RHEED analyzer
16- Wrap foils around the effusion cells
17- Cover ( almost) the whole chamber body
 
 

Analysis Chamber Bake Out

 In order to bake out the analysis chamber you have to follow certain steps

1- Disconnect all the wires connected to the chamber
2- Take the magnet that controls the transporting receptacle off the transporter rod
3- Take the micrometer that controls the jaws in the rotary-linear feedthrough out by unscrewing the screws which fix the micrometer at the feedthrough
4- Set the feedthrough that raises and lowers the STM stage at  22 ( the indicator reading)
5- Cover the windows (Glasses) with foils
6- Wrap the body of analysis chamber with foils also
7- Cover the bellows ( including the controller it self) of the rotary-linear feedthrough with foils after setting the indicator at 8 inch( the scale reading)
8- Cover the bellows ( including the controller itself) of the rotary feedthrough that controls the sample receptacle in Auger-analyzer with foils
9-  Cover the transporter rod with foils
10- Wrap a sheet of foil around the gate valve between the Ionic pump and the analysis chamber and the gate valve between the analysis chamber and the growth chamber
 Those steps are the first things you do.  After doing them do the following instructions
11- Wind a 6 foot heating tape (HT) on the transporter rod stating from the farthest point from the analysis chamber till you cover the whole rod or so ( you may use a 2 or 4 foot HT to extend the length)
12- Wind a 4 foot HT around the bellows of the rotary-linear feedthrough   starting form the controller
13- Wind a 2 foot HT around the bellows of the Auger-analyzer starting form the controller
14- Wind a 4 foot HT around the tube, in where the STM sage is, starting from the flange on the top of the STM place ( not around the feedthrough)
15-  Wind a 2 or 4 foot HT around the tube in where the Auger-analyzer is starting from the topmost point
16- Wind a 4 foot HT around the gate valve between the ionic pump and the analysis chamber
17- Wind a 2 foot HT around the gate valve between the analysis chamber and the growth chamber ( because we do not want to heat it up too much)
18- Stick  a 4 or 6 foot HT under the flange which is located under the STM
19- Keep going with winding the HT’s around the analysis chamber body until you feel that they have covered the whole body uniformly
Now you have to repeat the steps 6-10 again. After covering the chamber again with foils, do the following instructions
20- Connect the 2 foot HT’s to the same power supply ( you may use more than one if needed)
21- Connect the 4 foot HT’s to the same power supply ( you possibly need more than one)
22- Connect the 6 foot HT’s ( including the one around the ionic pump) to the same power supply
23- Set the current through the 2 foot HT’s at 1 Amp
24- Set the current through the 4 foot HT’s at 2 Amp
25- Set the current through the 6 foot HT’s at 3 Amp
26- When the pressure reaches around 4X10-8 torr, close the gate valve between the load lock and the analysis chamber, and open the gate valve between the ionic pump and the analysis chamber
27- Make sure that the temperature dose not exceed 150 Co at any point on the chamber
28-  Let the chamber baked out for two days
29- Disconnect the HT at the ionic pump, and wait for one and a half hour
30- Disconnect the HT  wound around the main chamber, and flash the Tantalum Sublimation Pump (TSP), then wait for one and a half hour
31- Disconnect all the HT’s; wait for one hour
32- Flash the  TSP again, and wait for 4-5 hour then flash the TSP again
33- Take the foils and the HT’s off the chamber