Initally only the XPS spectrometer will be available.

In order to use the new XPS you will need to write to me (Bruce Brunschwig) a short note saying why you need the new system and what kind of samples you want to analyze. After this is approved you will need to have at least 4 one hour sessions with a current user watching how they use the instrument and becoming familiar with the software and hardware.

You should also download and read the manual. Please study the following chapters of the manual

• Chapter 3 Overvuew if the Axis Ultra DLD pages 37 - 47
• chapter 4 Basic Operation pages 62 - 124
• Chapter 7 Data Acquisitin pages 192 - 251
• Chapter 8 Vision Processing Software pages 257 - 318

After you have complete this initial "hands off" orientation to the instrument you can ask to be trained by Judy Lattimer, David Gleason-Rohrer, or Lesle O'Leary After tranning you will be allowed to use the instrument only during the day until you become experienced. Please be patient since with lots of uses this will definitely overload our GLAs initally.

Tnew Kratos Axis Ultra XPS is much more complicated then the old Surface Science M-probe. If you preferr to avoid all the reading and training you can continue to use the M-probe