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    <font face="Arial">Hi Ben <br>
      <font face="Arial">"Shiny plasma cleaners" have a reason to be
        this way. They act<font face="Arial">ually piece of high
          technology. The mai<font face="Arial">n</font> problem is
          uniformity of the plasma. When I was shopping for plasma
          cleaner, which can be used as <font face="Arial">a "glow
            discharge" unit also (dual purpose), I ordered demo from
            main manufacturers and placed aluma-foil with black marker
            lines into the chamber.  Results<font face="Arial"> vary
              from machine-to-machine. Most popular brand at the time
              had highest non-uniformity. <br>
              <br>
              <font face="Arial">As f<font face="Arial">or my "car<font
                    face="Arial">bon" - <font face="Arial">I tried to
                      measure conductivity, but it was difficult because
                      film is very thin (1.2-1.8 nm). I imagine, I need
                      to evaporate film over <font face="Arial">gold
                        electrodes or something like that for good re<font
                          face="Arial">adings. It is my understanding,
                          that carbon itself is quite hydroph<font
                            face="Arial">obic. What make<font
                              face="Arial">s</font> it hydrop<font
                              face="Arial">hilic is an uniform layer of
                              <font face="Arial">biological
                                water-soluble (hydrophilic) molecule<font
                                  face="Arial">s (protein, DNA etc) on
                                  top of carbon. This layer provides
                                  uniform distribution of liquid, which
                                  is critical in such techniques as
                                  negative staining, shadowing and
                                  cryo-EM. I mainly use my carbon for
                                  negative staining and high-resolution
                                  shadowing (in the past). I do not use
                                  "glow discharge". Most proteins and
                                  DNA stick very well to my carbon
                                  forming very uniform layers. In
                                  difficult cases, I am using
                                  "double-carbon" approach. <font
                                    face="Arial">In rare cases, when
                                    other approaches does not work, I am
                                    using poly-lysine treatment. I spent
                                    a lot of time optimizing
                                    "glow-discharge" in the past and
                                    find it non-scientific because
                                    results are vary greatly and success
                                    essentially depends how dirty your
                                    vacuum evaporator is... this is my
                                    personal experience. Sergey</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font><br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/20/2016 11:29 PM,
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            colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Many
            thanks for all your answers. I start to get a better picture
            of the situation. Sounds like antiques are called glow
            discharge, and new shiny machines with touchscreen and
            gimmicks are called plasma cleaners but fundamentally they
            are not different, provided one can inject a gas of choice.
            Possibly, necessary glowing times in antique machines are
            longer than in modern machines that generate plasma with
            microwaves.
            <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Sergey,
            have you measured or estimated the resistivity of your home
            made carbon ? And is it hydrophilic ? If not, do you make it
            hydrophilic by another mean than plasma treatment before
            applying a sample ? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
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                style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">De : </span>
            </b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">3dem
              <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:3dem-bounces@ncmir.ucsd.edu"><3dem-bounces@ncmir.ucsd.edu></a> au nom de Sergey
              Ryazantsev <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sryazant@ucla.edu"><sryazant@ucla.edu></a><br>
              <b>Date : </b>mardi, 20 septembre 2016 22:26<br>
              <b>À : </b><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:3dem@ncmir.ucsd.edu">"3dem@ncmir.ucsd.edu"</a>
              <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:3dem@ncmir.ucsd.edu"><3dem@ncmir.ucsd.edu></a><br>
              <b>Objet : </b>Re: [3dem] glow discharge vs plasma
              cleaning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
                  style="font-family:Arial">Dear Colleagues<br>
                  Plasma cleaning is self-explanatory - well, it is
                  cleaning by plasma, sometime using a dedicated device.
                  Plasma cleaning requires normally high energy plasma,
                  which produced using high-frequency generator
                  (microwave?). Most modern "plasma cleaners" do not use
                  high-voltage to generate plasma.<br>
                  <br>
                  "Glow discharge" is more tricky. Historically, glow
                  discharge was performed to mitigate hydrophobic
                  properties of carbon.Often, home-made "glow-discharge"
                  units were used. Such unit usually constructed using
                  mechanical pump, some sort of "bell-jar," high-voltage
                  power supply and discharge electrodes.  Residual air
                  was used to generate a plasma. Such units are simple,
                  but results sometime inconsistent. "Plasma cleaning"
                  units at low power settings can be used for more
                  reproducible "glow-discharge."
                  <br>
                  <br>
                  On philosophical note, speaking about "glow-discharge"
                  ... I never was able to understand how
                  electro-conductive carbon can hold a "charge"? My
                  personal theory is that common "carbon" is
                  contaminated by oil from dirty oil-based
                  vacuum-evaporators. "Glow discharge" essentially
                  ionizes residual oil. Oil within the carbon produces
                  many bad effects on carbon: oil can oxidize (carbon
                  aging); oil can decompose for different reasons; oil
                  destabilizes carbon under e-beam etc. From this (my
                  personal) prospective, "glow discharge" has limited
                  beneficial effect on pure, clean carbon. In fact, I am
                  using pure, clean (oil-free) ultrathin carbon for EM
                  for decades. This carbon is remarkable stable under
                  the beam and survived freezing etc. It also has very
                  low background noise because it is not "etched" by
                  "glow discharge."<br>
                  <br>
                  Sergey</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal">On 9/20/2016 11:46 AM, Mike Strauss
                  wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal">Hi Sergej, <o:p></o:p></p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal">Just a reminder, because I'm
                      sure you are aware, but there are other factors
                      besides the vacuum that affect the results of the
                      glow discharger (or plasma cleaner in your case). 
                      These include: distance between electrodes,
                      voltage applied across electrodes,  shape of
                      electrodes, nature of carrier (the thing your
                      grids are on), type of residual gas in chamber.<o:p></o:p></p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal">I have always assumed that the
                      name of the instrument depends on its intended
                      use.  So a glow discharger becomes a plasma
                      cleaner when you leave it on too long and burn off
                      all the carbon. <o:p></o:p></p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal">mike<o:p></o:p></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 7:03
                      PM, Sergej Masich <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                        href="mailto:Sergej.Masich@ki.se"
                        target="_blank">Sergej.Masich@ki.se</a>>
                      wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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                              lang="EN-GB">Dear List, dear
                            </span>Benoît,<o:p></o:p></p>
                          <p class="MsoNormal"
                            style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I
                            have some different experience that can be
                            wrong though. A colleague and a good friend
                            of mine from Albuquerque successfully used
                            his plasma cleaner to glow-discharge carbon
                            films. I decided to copy his settings in our
                            Lab and ordered the same model. However,
                            that model could not be sold to European
                            customers due to some regulations. I
                            purchased more expensive model from the same
                            supplier. It did not work! As the result of
                            “glow discharge”, I got empty grids, no
                            traces of carbon. To make a long story
                            short, we installed a needle valve and a
                            gauge to control the vacuum degree. We got
                            hydrophilic carbon at poorer vacuum and no
                            carbon at better vacuum. Since then, I used
                            the plasma cleaner for many years to prepare
                            hydrophilic carbon surface.<o:p></o:p></p>
                          <p class="MsoNormal"
                            style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">In
                            my opinion, this also makes sense. The ions
                            in plasma have longer free path at higher
                            vacuum. As the result, they have higher
                            energy that can result in more efficient
                            removal of the “dirt” from the surface.<o:p></o:p></p>
                          <p class="MsoNormal"
                            style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I
                            never read any confirmation of my “theory”
                            that can be completely wrong but I hope it
                            will contribute to the discussion.<o:p></o:p></p>
                          <p class="MsoNormal"
                            style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></p>
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                            <p class="MsoNormal">Sergej Masich<o:p></o:p></p>
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                            style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">=============================<br>
                            Dr. Sergej Masich<br>
                            Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology<br>
                            Karolinska Institutet<br>
                            Box 285<br>
                            171 77 Stockholm, Sweden<br>
                            tel: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                              href="tel:%28%2B%2946%20-%208%20-%20524%20873%2061"
                              target="_blank">(+)46 - 8 - 524 873 61</a><br>
                            mobile: (+)46 - 736 - 833 693<br>
                            e-mail: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                              href="mailto:Sergej.Masich@ki.se"
                              target="_blank">Sergej.Masich@ki.se</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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                                <p class="MsoNormal">On 20 Sep 2016, at
                                  18:33, <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                                    href="mailto:benoit.zuber@ana.unibe.ch"
                                    target="_blank">benoit.zuber@ana.unibe.ch</a>>
                                  <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                                    href="mailto:benoit.zuber@ana.unibe.ch"
                                    target="_blank">benoit.zuber@ana.unibe.ch</a>>
                                  wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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                                      style="font-size:9.0pt">Hi David,<br>
                                      <br>
                                      This could be right. However I
                                      doubt it. Within 20 to 30 minutes
                                      we can completely disintegrate the
                                      carbon of quantifoil grids with
                                      the glow discharge machine set so
                                      that it glows strongly without
                                      sparkling.<br>
                                      <br>
                                      Cheers<br>
                                      Ben<br>
                                      <br>
________________________________________<br>
                                      Von: Morgan, David Gene [<a
                                        moz-do-not-send="true"
                                        href="mailto:dagmorga@indiana.edu"
                                        target="_blank">dagmorga@indiana.edu</a>]<br>
                                      Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. September
                                      2016 18:12<br>
                                      An: Zuber, Benoît (ANA); <a
                                        moz-do-not-send="true"
                                        href="mailto:3dem@ncmir.ucsd.edu"
                                        target="_blank">3dem@ncmir.ucsd.edu</a><br>
                                      Betreff: Re: glow discharge vs
                                      plasma cleaning<br>
                                      <br>
                                      Ben,<br>
                                      <br>
                                      <br>
                                         Maybe someone else on the list
                                      can shed some light on this, but I
                                      don't know whether the strength of
                                      the plasma created in an EM "glow
                                      discharge device" is comparable to
                                      that of what is called a "plasma
                                      cleaner."  I suspect not, but
                                      could be wrong.<br>
                                      <br>
                                      <br>
                                         That said, over zealous use of
                                      a plasma cleaner can remove _all_
                                      the carbon from an EM grid (I have
                                      done this with a lacy carbon
                                      grid), so having too much power
                                      can be a bad thing...<br>
                                      <br>
                                      <br>
                                      --<br>
                                                 David Gene Morgan<br>
                                             Electron Microscopy Center<br>
                                                  047D Simon Hall<br>
                                                  IU Bloomington<br>
                                               <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                                        href="tel:812%20856%201457"
                                        target="_blank">812 856 1457</a>
                                      (office)<br>
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                                        target="_blank">812 856 3221</a>
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                                      Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2016
                                      12:06 PM<br>
                                      To: Morgan, David Gene; <a
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                                      Subject: Re: glow discharge vs
                                      plasma cleaning<br>
                                      <br>
                                      Hi David and Luiza,<br>
                                      <br>
                                      Many thanks for the explanations.
                                      OK this « makes sense ». But it is
                                      a shame that people use two
                                      different words for the same thing
                                      (good job from the marketing team
                                      though ! ). It would be much
                                      better to use only one term and
                                      then give specific gaz conditions.
                                      So many people are convinced that
                                      glow discharge and plasma cleaning
                                      are two different things and that
                                      you need two different machines.<br>
                                      We have a so-called glow discharge
                                      machine from defunct Balzers. It
                                      still functions perfectly well, it
                                      looks like what people describe as
                                      a glow discharge machine : a glass
                                      cylinder with two metal plates
                                      below and on top, and it has an
                                      needle-valve inlet. We typically
                                      let the inlet in contact with the
                                      air and let a tiny bit of air flow
                                      in to get a constant pressure in
                                      the chamber and thereby have a
                                      reproducible procedure. We can
                                      quite precisely control the
                                      pressure that we want inside.
                                      However if we want to use whatever
                                      gas mixture instead of good old
                                      nitrogen and oxygen, we can just
                                      buy and connect the relevant gas
                                      bottle(s). No need to purchase a
                                      new machine.<br>
                                      If I listened to what so many
                                      people told me, I would have long
                                      bought another machine, which
                                      would probably have been a waste
                                      of money and lab space. I think
                                      people should be more aware of
                                      this before spending their (tax
                                      payer ?) money.<br>
                                      <br>
                                      Cheers<br>
                                      Benoît</span><span
                                      style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:PMingLiU"><br>
                                      <br>
                                      <br>
                                    </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt">De
                                      : "Morgan, David Gene" <<a
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                                      Date : mardi, 20 septembre 2016
                                      17:51<br>
                                      À : Benoit Zuber <<a
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                                        href="mailto:benoit.zuber@ana.unibe.ch"
                                        target="_blank">benoit.zuber@ana.unibe.ch</a>><br>
                                      Objet : Re: glow discharge vs
                                      plasma cleaning<br>
                                      <br>
                                      <br>
                                      Ben,<br>
                                      <br>
                                      <br>
                                      <br>
                                         They are technically the same
                                      thing _except_ that in common EM
                                      usage, "glow discharge" is done
                                      using ambient gases (i.e., you
                                      just pull a modest vacuum and
                                      create a plasma) while "plasma
                                      cleaning" is done using a specific
                                      mix of gases (Ar, O and with the
                                      Gatan device H) instead of ambient
                                      gases (i.e., you flush the chamber
                                      with specific gases, then pull the
                                      vacuum and create the plasma).<br>
                                      <br>
                                      <br>
                                      <br>
                                         With more O in the plasma, the
                                      cleaning tends to be stronger
                                      (burns more material in the
                                      sample) and the Ar/O mix prevents
                                      side reactions that can be caused
                                      by the abundant N in the
                                      atmosphere.<br>
                                      <br>
                                      <br>
                                      --<br>
                                                 David Gene Morgan<br>
                                             Electron Microscopy Center<br>
                                                  047D Simon Hall<br>
                                                  IU Bloomington<br>
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                                      From: 3dem <<a
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                                      Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2016
                                      11:28 AM<br>
                                      To: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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                                      Subject: [3dem] glow discharge vs
                                      plasma cleaning<br>
                                      <br>
                                      Dear colleagues,<br>
                                      <br>
                                      I often hear people saying: „Did
                                      you treat your grid with glow
                                      discharge or with plasma cleaner?”
                                      Or : ”It is absolutely essential
                                      for application XY to pretreat the
                                      grid with a plasma cleaner and not
                                      by glow discharge!”.</span><span
                                      style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:PMingLiU"><br>
                                      <br>
                                    </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Can
                                      anyone explain what the difference
                                      between glow discharge and a
                                      plasma cleaning is?</span><span
                                      style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:PMingLiU"><br>
                                      <br>
                                    </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt">According
                                      to Wikipedia, this is the same
                                      thing (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                                        href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glow_discharge"
                                        target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glow_discharge</a>).
                                      The page starts with this
                                      sentence:<br>
                                      “A glow discharge is a plasma<<a
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                                      formed by the passage of electric
                                      current<<a
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                                        href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_current"
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                                      through a low-pressure gas”</span><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:PMingLiU"><br>
                                      <br>
                                    </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt">I
                                      look forward to an interesting
                                      debate.</span><span
                                      style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:PMingLiU"><br>
                                    </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Ben</span><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:PMingLiU"><br>
                                      <br>
                                    </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Prof.
                                      Benoît Zuber</span><span
                                      style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:PMingLiU"><br>
                                    </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Institute
                                      of Anatomy<br>
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