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INFICON STM-2 USB Thin Film Rate/Thickness Monitor User Manual

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STM-2 Operating Manual

Sycon STM Instrument Interface pane

Press to Halt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Click to exit STM-x_win32.VI application.

Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Deposition rate based on the frequency of

the crystal.

Film Thick/Film Mass . . . . . . . . . . . Thickness or Mass of Film being monitored.

Substrate Thick/Substrate Mass. . Accumulated Thickness or Mass of all layers.

Clear Graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clears Rate, Mass/Thick, and Frequency

graphs.

Xtal OK? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Illuminated light green when a good crystal is

connected; dark green when a crystal fail has
occurred (see

Figure 4-3

).

Figure 4-3 Xtal OK

RUNNING/PAUSED. . . . . . . . . . . . . Running changes to Paused if the process is

paused on the Operate tab (see

section

4.3.2 on page 4-10

).

h:mm:ss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Time that the current run number has been

running; resets with each new run.

Life/XTAL FAIL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Percentage of crystal life remaining,

decremented from 100%; changes to XTAL
FAIL upon a crystal failure.

RUN #. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Incremented when New run is clicked on the

Operate tab (see

section 4.3.2 on page

4-10

).

LOGGING OFF/LOGGING ON . . . . Logging off changes to logging on when data

logging is enabled by selecting OFF/ON in
the Datalog pane of the Setup tab (see

section 4.3.1

).

Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Name of film being monitored is displayed.

Good

Crystal

Crystal

Fail