Tip Heating

Mechanically transferred tips

Here you use a tweezer on a magnetically coupled wobble stick to transfer the tips into and out off the STM. You may use the tip transfer plate with the tip holder inside holding it with the wobble stick above the heater while touching the heater plate with the tip transfer plate. The heater should be negativly charged (-600V) and the heater plate needs to be grounded. This way you may heat a STM tip inside a heatable tip holder until it glows orange. The CCD camera in the video automatically adjusts the brightness all the time, so you see the filament in the beginning and the tip in the end. File:SpitzeHeizen_1000V+50mA.mp4