Second Day on the Job!

Woke up at seven and got ready for my second day. Today, I skate boarded to the University of Oregon, which was a long ways from where I live. What the heck was I thinking? So this week will be the same format. I sit and learn stuff about thin films from nine to twelve, have lunch, and then head to the lab to do experiments. Today I learned/reviewed about thin films, unit cells, spin coating, properties of thin films, XRD, XRR, Ellipsometry, and of course, the almighty SEM. It was a lot of learning and they provided free coffee, so I kept drinking coffee during the whole thing. At the end of the lectures, I’m pretty sure I had too much coffee because I made it to Qdoba in two minutes. After lunch, my group started talking about thin films and what to do as an experiment. We decide to do something... (Sorry! Can't reveal experiments). Today we just finished the thin films and tomorrow we will decide what kind of characterization test we will use. But lastly, my team and I had to take a selfie! Trust me, it was for an experiment... ;)