On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 19:04:18 -0400 Bob Camp <li...@rtty.us> wrote: > > Thanks Bob for the extra insight. The way sweeping works, won't a number > of additional runs help to re-melt the crystal and help "ironing out" the > dislocations in the crystal? > > That's not the way it's done. One pass under bias, pull the ions to the > edges. Cut off the edges. If you re-melt and re-grow the crystal you get a > whole new batch of ions from the growing process.
I assumed that Magnus didn't actually mean melting the crystal, but an anealing process to fix the defects in the lattice. Attila Kinali -- The people on 4chan are like brilliant psychologists who also happen to be insane and gross. -- unknown _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.