 1.Programing stage, Dr. Abe Bidarian |
 2. Raw Chemicals for mixing to make YBCO Superconductors |
 3. Fusing the Superconductor powder |
 4. Forming the powder into pellets with different dies |
 5. Pressing the powder with a high precision press |
 6. Baking the pellet to 930 C, in an Oxygen atmosphere. |
 7. Storing the chemicals in a vacuum . |
 8. Drilling the corners of pellets for electrical connections. |
 9. Placing the pellet into the cold finger. and making the electrical connection to the switching system. |
 10. Closing the cold finger and evacuating the system. |
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 12. Helium Compressor for cooling the sample to 10 Kelvin |
 13. The instruments: Switching system, nanovoltmeter, current source, ammeter, heater, temperature controller, lockin-amplifier. |
 14. Seven Tesla Electro-Magnet to study the magnetic properties of the superconductors. Cold finger tilts between the poles of the magnet. |
 15. Power supply for running the electro-magnet. |
 16. LabVIEW program "Data Collector" to run the experiments. |
 17. Storage for keeping the samples dry. |
 Developing LabVIEW programs |
 Overview of the setup |
 High Temperature Oven available |
