IBM Progress Report 1979

	IBM Progress Report 1979
	I was a busy beaver, it seems. The report was delivered orally, that’s why the pictures have not captions. Real high quality pictures were passed around, the written version was just a kind of memory prop.
		I had to scan this report in a picture format (jpeg) so I could process the result and make the partially badly faded pages readable. I added a few comments where sensible.

They allowed 2 pages.
I presented 6 topics. No 4 was actually confidential. The big topic was the last one - silicides.

We know this topic.
It was presented under . 3.1 TEM Work at Cornell University / 3.4 Weak Beam Contrast of Stacking Faults in TEM
While the TEM work was done at Cornell, writing it all up (and come up with the theory) took time and the paper was
send out in Jna 1980, one year after me joining IBM

I actually did built the damned thing, and it worked!.
It just was never used by the people it was intended for. They were afraid of the rather dangerous chemistry involved.

That project was a beauty.
It came into being . because I was stupid but quite successful. It should change my (professiona) life forever.
I shall have much to say about this.

That "bubbling" was kind of embarrasing.
That's why it was kept confidential

Quite an interesting little project.
I do believe that I propduced another "firsts" here.

Rather tricky defects here.

That page goives an idea of what it menat ot prepare a TEM sample.

Illustrating problems

Definitely the first HRTEM picrture of a heterogeneous interface.

With frame