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Hi Daniel,</div>
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the stripes you have shown are familiar to me, if you made the gain reference at a different intensity than the actual images. </div>
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I.e. Your gain reference count was 8 e-/px/s and the beam intensity after your sample in thin/normal ice is around 8 e-/px/s you will not see them, but if you are then in thick ice and the intensity may only be 5 e/px/s, the stripes are obviously.</div>
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Our Gatan engineer told us that it is a scaling artefact error in Digital micrograph and that newer version would supposedly fix it. Therefore, you may want to check how old your DM version is, especially if you have an older K3.</div>
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Cheers</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, December 17, 2021 12:30 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 3dem@ncmir.ucsd.edu <3dem@ncmir.ucsd.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [3dem] K3 CDS mode issue</font>
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<div dir="auto">Hello Everyone,
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<div dir="auto">We have been having an issue with one of our older K3 cameras since last year. Namely, in CDS mode we are getting stripes in our images that do not get removed by gain correction and become worse as the dose goes further from 7.5 e-/pixel/sec.,
which will occur quite often in thicker ice. See attached image for an example.</div>
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<div dir="auto">We tried having Gatan (Ametek) fix the issue but they do not have a solution beyond buying a new sensor.</div>
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<div dir="auto">I was wondering if this is a widespread issue. Also, if there is any solution besides no longer imaging in CDS mode. We have heard that it is also seen at UCSF. Any advice would be appreciated.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Thanks very much!</div>
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<div dir="auto">Best regards,</div>
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