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TEM 101 · how a transmission electron microscope works

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Beam Time!

A game from the (EM)² Lab

Beam Time!

A game from the(EM)² LabElectron Microscopy for Extreme Materials
Curious how a real one works?TEM 101a 3D film and 15 lessons · optional

Beam Time!

Five years. Ten chapters. One thesis.
TEM 101How a transmission electron microscope works, and why the jokes are funny

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Beam Time!

You are a new PhD student with one microscope and one single-tilt holder. Ten chapters later there is a thesis to defend.

A game from the (EM)² Lab · by Yang Yang

1Pick your microscope

2Pick a difficulty

3Survive your PhD, chapter by chapter

    A short training room comes first: one control at a time, and you try each one.

    Settings · sound
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    TEM 101

    If you want to learn more about the science behind this game: a two-minute 3D film, or fifteen short, interactive lessons on how a transmission electron microscope works. No background needed, and the game plays fine without them.

    Made by (EM)² Lab Electron Microscopy for Extreme Materials Lab Yang Yang
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    Disclaimer. Beam Time is a work of fiction and parody. The makers and microscopes in it are invented, and every perk, flaw, stat and comment about a microscope, holder, technique or sample was made up for gameplay and humour and assigned arbitrarily. None of it describes the real performance, strengths or weaknesses of any real instrument or product, and none of it is the author's or the lab's opinion or evaluation of any hardware or manufacturer. Not affiliated with or endorsed by any manufacturer.

    Acknowledgements. Thank you to Steven Spurgeon, Vincent Meunier, Ian MacLaren, Khalid Hattar and Chuliang Fu for their comments and suggestions.

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    Level 2

    New equipment has arrived

    Click a card, or press 1, 2 or 3

    Year 1

    Microscope Training

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    Six slots on the bar · the rest in reserve

    Skills

    On the bar: click the key to change it
    In reserve
    Beam blanked

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    Want the science behind this? TEM 101: a two-minute film, or fifteen short, interactive lessons. Your run is saved first, and Continue in the lobby brings you back to your last checkpoint.

    Controls
    A D · ← →Run W · ↑ · SpaceJump. Press again in the air for a second jump. A pit or a pool vents the column. Hold S or ↓ and jump to drop through a thin platform. no keyThe holder fires by itself at the nearest sample. Jump on samples to stomp them; chain stomps without landing for a streak. Shift · KBeam shift: a short dash that passes through samples and bullets H · TabSwap to the next holder: insert, turn, pump the airlock, turn, slide in. Some vacuum leaks, then pumps back. 1 – 6 · Shift+1 – 6Pick a specific holder straight from the rack skill keysCast a skill on your bar, with or without a target. T switches AUTO on and off: with AUTO on, the skills cast themselves too. G · gear buttonChoose the six skills on your bar and change their keys P · MPause · mute
    Holders: what each one leaves behind
    Field notes: what hurts what

    Disclaimer. Beam Time is a work of fiction and parody. The makers and microscopes in it are invented, and every perk, flaw, stat and comment about a microscope, holder, technique or sample was made up for gameplay and humour and assigned arbitrarily. None of it describes the real performance, strengths or weaknesses of any real instrument or product, and none of it is the author's or the lab's opinion or evaluation of any hardware or manufacturer. Not affiliated with or endorsed by any manufacturer.

    Session over

    Column vented

    Awarded by the graduate school

    Best Thesis Award

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