Academy

Fourteen short modules, from the first collision to a working diagnosis. Start at 00; each is about ten minutes.

14 modules

1. 00 The Mean Free Path How far a molecule travels before it collides. Drag pressure and temperature, watch the path grow and shrink. operatortechengineerresearch ~12 min Open →
2. 01 Surface Science Physisorption, chemisorption, monolayers. What the walls are really doing. engineerresearch ~12 min Open →
3. 02 Outgassing & Temperature Why heat empties a wall, molecule by molecule. The exponential rules everything. techengineerresearch ~10 min Open →
4. 03 Why We Bake Heat drives gas off the walls. Why every clean vacuum starts hot. operatortech ~10 min Open →
5. 04 Vent Physics What really happens when you open a baked UHV system. The wall re-loads. techengineer ~10 min Open →
6. 05 Pumps & Conductance Why a bigger pump rarely solves the problem. techengineer ~12 min Open →
7. 06 Pressure Signatures Air, water, oil, a leak. Learn the shapes pressure makes. operatortech ~12 min Open →
8. 07 The RGA Machine Inside a residual gas analyzer, part by part. techengineer ~10 min Open →
9. 08 The Quadrupole How a mass filter sorts molecules. Tune the fields, see what passes. engineerresearch ~10 min Open →
10. 09 Reading a Spectrum What the peaks mean, on a real residual gas scan. operatortechengineer ~12 min Open →
11. 10 The HC Threshold A hydrocarbon contamination index, explained. engineerresearch ~10 min Open →
12. 11 Leak Trainer Tell a real leak from outgassing. Practice on signatures. operatortech ~8 min Open →
13. 12 Bake Race Race two bakeouts. See what temperature and time really do. operatortech ~10 min Open →
14. 13 Troubleshooting The pressure is too high. Walk the decision tree. operatortechengineer ~8 min Open →