Reviving an old electron microscope
Event details
| Date | 02.10.2018 |
| Hour | 19:15 › 20:15 |
| Speaker | Johannes Wüthrich |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Imagine finding an old and broken scanning electron microscope to be given away. And imagine an group of people around you who react with: "That sounds like an awesome opportunity, let's get it." This is what had happened in the beginning of this year. As a consequences we now have an older, 300kg heavy scientific instrument and we are trying to get it working again.
This talk will take you on the journey we lived so far, trying to get the microscope working again. We will start of with all the logistic that was necessary to get the instrument, have a small introduction into how a scanning electron microscope works and what it is useful for, look at all the steps we have taken so far to repair the instrument and of course have a look out into the future.
This project is very nice opportunity to learn and discover new things. The fields touched by this project are quite broad: electronics, physics, vacuum technology and even a bit chemistry and biology.
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Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Octanis Association