To date we have created mirror MOTs, compressed MOTs and loaded atoms into the magnetic trap formed by the Z-wires on our atom chip.  Below are the pictures...

Fluorescence image of atoms in a reflection MOT formed 4 mm below the surface of the atom chip.  Our MOTs usually contain between 1-2 x10^8 atoms at a temperature of 90 microKelvin.

The atoms are then loaded into a compressed (C)MOT in which the magnetic fields are produced by a U-shaped wire (underneath the chip surface) and a bias field. The laser detuning is increased to ~8\Gamma and the cloud is compressed radially.  This is now an absorption image of the atoms immediately after the CMOT is turned off.

Absorption image of atoms loaded into the magnetic trap formed by the atom chip.  At the moment we only collect about 4 X 10^6 atoms from our compressed MOT (which also has > 10^8 atoms).  Because our absorption images are taken with light incident at an angle to the chip, a mirror image of the cloud is visible in the top of the picture.

This is too few atoms to implement efficient evaporative cooling.  We are currently fighting the battle all BEC experimentalists know all too well... Trying to cram as many atoms as possible from the MOT into the magnetic trap... Once we optimise the spatial overlap of the MOT and magnetic trap and implement optical pumping we hope these numbers will be at least an order of magnitude higher.