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Building of the Science Chamber

By Fall 1999, we had decided to build a new chamber in our lab.
This chamber was built with sweat and blood by the members of the old lab,
including Todd, Deep, Aaron, Axel, Shin and, of course, yours truly.

All of us had an important role in making it a success!

Here you can see some of the work in action:
(click on the picture for a better view)

The view of the chamber in its naked glory	(L-R) Shin, Todd, Axel, Ananth, Till, Aaron, Deep and Robert
The forest of 80/20s used to support the oven	The chamber in September 2000
Todd and I are giving it all to open the ion pump flanges	The RF coils
We are happy!!! The rf coils and the ion pumps are on!	The RF coils in place
A view of the bucket flanges to hold the magnetic trap	A close-up of the main chamber
Aaron designed and built the magnetic traps.	A close up of the clover-leafs
Deep and Todd testing how to mount the slower coils	I am tired!!! (just before the first bake-out)
Many variacs adorn our table for the bake-out	wow!!! The first dark spot MOT in the new chamber!

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