Contents

• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Introduction
• Vacuum procedures
  • Venting the cryo chamber
  • Pumping
  • Sample Transfer
  • Insertion of sample holder
  • Removal of the sample holder form the vacuum chamber
  • Baking the vacuum chamber
  • The cryo STXM interlock
  • X1A beamline interlock
• Alignment procedures
  • How to align the order sorting mirrors
  • Alignment of the STXM IV for cryo STXM operation
  • Alignment of the vacuum chamber to the beam
  • Alignment of the Optical System
• Photomultiplier setup
• Computer confusion
  • The cryo computer x1a-cryo
  • The VAX BNLX1L
• Running the microscope control software sm
  • Starting sm
  • Moving Motors
  • Custom Scans
  • Handling images
  • Quirks and software crashes
• Operation
  • Stopping motors
  • Lock nut and forces on the specimen holder
  • Shutter on cryo holder
  • Specimen warming
  • Tilting the specimen
• Spectroscopy
  • Spectral scans in sm
  • Spectral scans without moving the optics
  • Stacks
  • Analyzing point spectra
  • Gas-phase spectroscopy
• When leaving the beamline
• Troubleshooting
  • Control software crashes
  • DAC problems
  • One or both piezo(s) not working
  • Shutter not working
  • Clock interface
  • Error: no input for dig32
  • Problems with spectral scans and stacks.
  • Vibrations
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