The user of the month

In our beamline (i.e. experimental station wich uses a synchrotron light source...ah, now it is really clear!!) we have a lot of users. In fact, everyone who has good ideas about experiments, can apply for beamtime (time for experiments) at our lab. After an evaluation process from an external scientific review committee, succesful users can come once or twice a year for 3-5 days to perfrorm their experiments. And with 3-5 days we intend FULL days: 24 hours over 24. In our case we decided to invent the prize for the "user of the month". How does it work? Well, users who make the craziest picture inside the beamline or our lab win the competition. The prize consists in....glory...(after all we are scientist, and should be used to it... :p ). It is unbelievable what people can do after at least 2 days of sleepless working......you will see....

the crazy thought of the day

Lithography is like porc, you never throw anything away..

back to work

First of all, happy 2008 to all!

I am here again, after a hard working pre Christmas and totally not working Christmas time.
And I have to say that it is REALLY difficult being back to work.
I am here in clean room listening to jazz and spinning my "odi et amo" SU8 2025, but I would like to be elsewhere, for example on the mountains! At least there would be white light!