Some technical resources and pictures of our apparatus
Cluster beam apparatus. First built by Walter Knight.
Source, pre-col, chopper, and deflection chambers.
Magnetron sputtering source, aka cluster aggregation chamber
Some interesting theory problems on this subject, in Smirnov's plasma book (chapter 12.4)
Turbos and electric deflection chamber.
Another view.
Magnetron Sputtering ( glow discharge under Ar gas)
Quadrupole mass analyzer (on the right) and a detection chamber (middle) and an arc lamp (left).
Supersonic aggregation source.
An overview of the whole apparatus.
The 2nd stage detection chamber (the 'Daly' detector) with a UV lamp and home-made photomultiplier tube. PMT
Electron impact ionizer
2010 July Summer School in Italy
A fried turbo controller. :(
cluster deposit around an entrance hole, (before alingment, deposit ring is off centered)
An ancient ion gauge instruction.
Pressed powder of Ag and C60 alloy sample disk (also considering sintering method with powders)
after alignment, more centered
Hi T (1000 deg C ) lithium source, first designed by Prof. Walter deHeer
Temperature-controlled Thermalizing tube
some molecular beam exps
Li melting and loading vessel (with molten Li in pic, more pics)
Aluminum atomic clusters project
Linear TOF plates + ion steering lens
Apparatus schematics with some dimentions and a reflectron TOF (didn't buy eventually)
Laser rod and hv flashtubes