[time-nuts] Quartz crystal aging and applied voltage

[Attila Kinali]

On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 19:04:18 -0400
Bob Camp <lists at rtty.us> wrote:

> > Thanks Bob for the extra insight. The way sweeping works, won't a number
> of additional runs help to re-melt the crystal and help "ironing out" the
> dislocations in the crystal?
> 
> That's not the way it's done. One pass under bias, pull the ions to the
> edges. Cut off the edges. If you re-melt and re-grow the crystal you get a
> whole new batch of ions from the growing process.

I assumed that Magnus didn't actually mean melting the crystal, but
an anealing process to fix the defects in the lattice.

			Attila Kinali

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