From dan at engr.wisc.edu Tue Aug 5 09:57:50 2008 From: dan at engr.wisc.edu (Daniel Christensen) Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:57:50 -0500 Subject: [labnetwork] Spare boards for PlasmTherm70 Available Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.2.20080805085616.02baa1e0@engr.wisc.edu> Hi, We have recently upgraded the controller to our vintage 1990 PlasmaTherm70 dual chamber RIE/PECVD system. I have the circuit boards from the original controller and would be willing to ship them to anyone that still uses this controller for their use as spare parts. (saves a little space in the local landfill .) Advanced Energy Systems originally manufactured the controller and PlasmaTherm called it a ?PC5000?. Please contact me if you are interested. Dan Christensen dan at engr.wisc.edu Laboratory Manager Wisconsin Center for Applied Microelectronics University of Wisconsin-Madison From rfmcdermott at wisc.edu Tue Aug 5 13:27:13 2008 From: rfmcdermott at wisc.edu (Robert McDermott) Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:27:13 -0500 Subject: [labnetwork] budget data Message-ID: Hi, I am on the Executive Committee at the Wisconsin Center for Applied Microelectronics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Recently the Dean of the College of Engineering has decided to cut all support to this facility, so that we are required to support ourselves entirely through user fees. As a result, the rates have gone through the roof, usage has dropped, and the facility is struggling. The Executive Committee wants to make a case to the Dean that we need some amount of internal support to grow the facility (or even to survive). I am interested in learning whether a totally self-supporting university cleanroom is the norm, or whether this is an anomaly. If university cleanroom managers out there are willing to help, could you please provide the following information: 1. Approximate total yearly budget for your cleanroom. 2. Approx. yearly user fee income (broken out into internal and external users, if possible). 3. Approx. funding from within the university (including staff salaries and support for facilities). 4. Approx. funding from external grants. Any information you can provide is helpful. Thanks in advance, Robert Robert McDermott Department of Physics University of Wisconsin-Madison Chamberlin Hall 1150 University Ave. Madison, WI 53706 608-263-4476 From mberman at ece.arizona.edu Tue Aug 5 16:53:08 2008 From: mberman at ece.arizona.edu (Michael J. Berman) Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 13:53:08 -0700 (MST) Subject: [labnetwork] budget data In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <3033.150.135.217.48.1217969588.squirrel@secure.ece.arizona.edu> Hello, This is Michael Berman, I am the Manager of the Micro/Nano Fab COE University of Arizona. We have had the same problem. We are on the last year of a 5 year program to pay our own way. It has not worked out very well. With the latest cuts, the four staff members are now: An Administrative Assistant: Got a 30 notice and is now out The lab manager got 90 days notice and will be out The staff engineer got a 6 month contact with ?and then we will see? The Maintenance Technician got the ?normal? 12 month The plan to charge faculty for use that was put into plan about one year into the 5 year program only worked on ?new? users, the older users who are >60% will not pay in full, therefore the model did not work, in year #5, the college support is at $35,000 for the year. So the lab is in major difficulty, and with the state being $2 Billion in the hole, there is now not any extra help from State/University/College This year the ballpark numbers look like this: Income: Outside Users $50,000 Inside Users $35,000 College $35,000 (this year only) Inside Un-paid $60,000 (money they will not pay) Spending: Expenses $50,000 (LN2, Gases, Chemicals small repairs) $10,000 (two major repairs TBD) Maintenance Tech $45K (with ERE) Eng. $85K (with ERE) Savings going forward: Manager $90K (with ERE) Adm Asst. $30K (with ERE) The lab?s director has not gotten any grants in 3 years. I do not think any ?small clean room? can support its users, and can pay its way unless there is some major financial support, from the College, Grant, Endowment or the outside (private sector). Good luck to all of us Michael Berman Manager of the Micro/Nano Fabrication Center (Till Aug. 29, 2008) > Hi, > > I am on the Executive Committee at the Wisconsin Center for Applied > Microelectronics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Recently the Dean > of the College of Engineering has decided to cut all support to this > facility, so that we are required to support ourselves entirely through > user fees. As a result, the rates have gone through the roof, usage has > dropped, and the facility is struggling. > > The Executive Committee wants to make a case to the Dean that we need some > amount of internal support to grow the facility (or even to survive). I am > interested in learning whether a totally self-supporting university > cleanroom is the norm, or whether this is an anomaly. > > If university cleanroom managers out there are willing to help, could you > please provide the following information: > > 1. Approximate total yearly budget for your cleanroom. > 2. Approx. yearly user fee income (broken out into internal and external > users, if possible). > 3. Approx. funding from within the university (including staff salaries > and support for facilities). > 4. Approx. funding from external grants. > > Any information you can provide is helpful. > > Thanks in advance, > > Robert > > Robert McDermott > Department of Physics > University of Wisconsin-Madison > Chamberlin Hall > 1150 University Ave. > Madison, WI 53706 > 608-263-4476 > > _______________________________________________ > labnetwork mailing list > labnetwork at mtl.mit.edu > https://www-mtl.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/labnetwork > -- Michael J. Berman Manager of the Micro/Nano Fabrication Center University of Arizona 1230 E. Speedway Blvd. Room 201 Tucson, AZ 85721--0104 mberman at ece.arizona.edu (520)626-1223--Office (520)626-7877--Fax From walsh at louisville.edu Tue Aug 5 18:02:17 2008 From: walsh at louisville.edu (Kevin M Walsh) Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 18:02:17 -0400 Subject: [labnetwork] budget data In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <489895C3.F2A4.0054.0@gwise.louisville.edu> Robert, I did a survey 3 years ago and published it in IEEE UGIM Symposium 2006. It may be helpful (attached or online at IEEE) Rob Pearson of RIT was considering doing a similar survey this year. We all need to work together to keep the University Cleanrooms open and operational! Good Luck and keep in touch. Kevin Dr. Kevin M. Walsh Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Director of the Lutz and BRB Micro/Nanotechnology Cleanroom University of Louisville BRB Building, Room 234 2210 S. Brook St Louisville, KY 40292 (502) 852-0826 office (502) 852-8128 fax walsh at louisville.edu or walsh at ieee.org www.mems.louisville.edu >>> Robert McDermott 8/5/2008 1:27 PM >>> Hi, I am on the Executive Committee at the Wisconsin Center for Applied Microelectronics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Recently the Dean of the College of Engineering has decided to cut all support to this facility, so that we are required to support ourselves entirely through user fees. As a result, the rates have gone through the roof, usage has dropped, and the facility is struggling. The Executive Committee wants to make a case to the Dean that we need some amount of internal support to grow the facility (or even to survive). I am interested in learning whether a totally self-supporting university cleanroom is the norm, or whether this is an anomaly. If university cleanroom managers out there are willing to help, could you please provide the following information: 1. Approximate total yearly budget for your cleanroom. 2. Approx. yearly user fee income (broken out into internal and external users, if possible). 3. Approx. funding from within the university (including staff salaries and support for facilities). 4. Approx. funding from external grants. Any information you can provide is helpful. Thanks in advance, Robert Robert McDermott Department of Physics University of Wisconsin-Madison Chamberlin Hall 1150 University Ave. Madison, WI 53706 608-263-4476 _______________________________________________ labnetwork mailing list labnetwork at mtl.mit.edu https://www-mtl.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/labnetwork -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 2006 UGIM Paper Walsh April 10.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 641968 bytes Desc: not available URL: From dparent at email.sjsu.edu Tue Aug 5 18:42:37 2008 From: dparent at email.sjsu.edu (David W. Parent) Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:42:37 -0700 Subject: [labnetwork] budget data In-Reply-To: <3033.150.135.217.48.1217969588.squirrel@secure.ece.arizona .edu> References: <3033.150.135.217.48.1217969588.squirrel@secure.ece.arizona.edu> Message-ID: <200808052242.m75MgccW019199@mail.sjsu.edu> Hi All, At SJSU we did not really have the problem of the Dean pulling the funding because we never received much money from the College. We were able to generate enough money to refurbish our "dirty fab" from local industry. When we realized how much the upkeep was, we really scaled back. (Some of you have visited the lab during UGIM 2006.) We have had some good fortune lately, in that the current lab director (Stacy Gleixner) was able to secure about $20K from the Dean for operations. We sold the Dean on the lab being a showcase for the college. It was an easy sell given that it is available for open house and community college outreach activities. (70% of our students transfer from the jc.) We share one lab technician among the ic lab with the faculty of the chemical and materials engineering department. He is paid for out of the department's budget. The six people involved do a lot of "sweat equity", but have also been successful with grants. We never went over to the center model because we did not think we could support it. I think our outlay is about $40K a year. Interestingly enough, this was a topic at this year's excellent UGIM conference in Louisville, when some of the attendees wondered if all the nano-fabs being built could be supported by NSF. I think our outlay is about $40K a year. John S. from SNF keeps the fees low so people will use the facility, by putting a limit on the number of hours any one project is charged per month. Good Luck, -Dave Parent At 01:53 PM 8/5/2008, Michael J. Berman wrote: >Hello, > >This is Michael Berman, I am the Manager of the Micro/Nano Fab COE >University of Arizona. > >We have had the same problem. We are on the last year of a 5 year program >to pay our own way. It has not worked out very well. With the latest cuts, >the four staff members are now: > >An Administrative Assistant: Got a 30 notice and is now out >The lab manager got 90 days notice and will be out >The staff engineer got a 6 month contact with "and then we will see" >The Maintenance Technician got the "normal" 12 month > >The plan to charge faculty for use that was put into plan about one year >into the 5 year program only worked on "new" users, the older users who >are >60% will not pay in full, therefore the model did not work, in year >#5, the college support is at $35,000 for the year. > >So the lab is in major difficulty, and with the state being $2 Billion in >the hole, there is now not any extra help from State/University/College > >This year the ballpark numbers look like this: > >Income: >Outside Users $50,000 >Inside Users $35,000 >College $35,000 (this year only) >Inside Un-paid $60,000 (money they will not pay) > >Spending: >Expenses $50,000 (LN2, Gases, Chemicals small repairs) > $10,000 (two major repairs TBD) >Maintenance Tech $45K (with ERE) >Eng. $85K (with ERE) > >Savings going forward: >Manager $90K (with ERE) >Adm Asst. $30K (with ERE) > >The lab's director has not gotten any grants in 3 years. > >I do not think any "small clean room" can support its users, and can pay >its way unless there is some major financial support, from the College, >Grant, Endowment or the outside (private sector). > > > Good luck to all of us > >Michael Berman >Manager of the Micro/Nano Fabrication Center (Till Aug. 29, 2008) > > > Hi, > > > > I am on the Executive Committee at the Wisconsin Center for Applied > > Microelectronics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Recently the Dean > > of the College of Engineering has decided to cut all support to this > > facility, so that we are required to support ourselves entirely through > > user fees. As a result, the rates have gone through the roof, usage has > > dropped, and the facility is struggling. > > > > The Executive Committee wants to make a case to the Dean that we need some > > amount of internal support to grow the facility (or even to survive). I am > > interested in learning whether a totally self-supporting university > > cleanroom is the norm, or whether this is an anomaly. > > > > If university cleanroom managers out there are willing to help, could you > > please provide the following information: > > > > 1. Approximate total yearly budget for your cleanroom. > > 2. Approx. yearly user fee income (broken out into internal and external > > users, if possible). > > 3. Approx. funding from within the university (including staff salaries > > and support for facilities). > > 4. Approx. funding from external grants. > > > > Any information you can provide is helpful. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Robert > > > > Robert McDermott > > Department of Physics > > University of Wisconsin-Madison > > Chamberlin Hall > > 1150 University Ave. > > Madison, WI 53706 > > 608-263-4476 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > labnetwork mailing list > > labnetwork at mtl.mit.edu > > https://www-mtl.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/labnetwork > > > > >-- >Michael J. Berman >Manager of the Micro/Nano Fabrication Center >University of Arizona >1230 E. Speedway Blvd. Room 201 >Tucson, AZ 85721--0104 >mberman at ece.arizona.edu >(520)626-1223--Office >(520)626-7877--Fax > > >_______________________________________________ >labnetwork mailing list >labnetwork at mtl.mit.edu >https://www-mtl.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/labnetwork From jrweaver at purdue.edu Wed Aug 6 08:53:49 2008 From: jrweaver at purdue.edu (Weaver, John R) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 08:53:49 -0400 Subject: [labnetwork] Like to join Message-ID: I met several of you at the UGIM in Louisville in July, and heard about this e-mail group. I would like to join, if possible. I am the Facility Manager of the Birck Nanotechnology Center at Purdue. I'm new to academia, having joined Purdue in the concept, design, and construction of the BNC. While I have 35 years of industrial experience in designing, building, and operating cleanrooms, I have found this is a whole new world! Any help that I can get from those of you who have more experience in the academic setting would be GREATLY appreciated. We have been open since October 2005, but spent approximately one year installing the equipment in the facility. It was near the end of 2006 that we became "fully operational." That said, we are installing a new major piece of equipment approximately once/two months. In response to the budget question, we operate on an annual budget of approximately six million dollars. Half of that is provided by the university, another million is a utility stipend provided by the state, and two million is generated through recharge. Most of the recharge is from internal users. I don't have the hard numbers handy, but I would estimate about $60k is from outside users. We are working very hard in an attempt to grow that number. I have a staff of 25 who keep the facility operating. The breakdown is as follows: 1 Building Manager - Infrastructure 1 Facility Engineer - Infrastructure 1 Building Logistics Coordinator - general building issues, building training 1 Building Logistics Assistant - general building issues 1 Process and Equipment Manager - Operations 10 Process and Equipment Owners (engineers) - Operations 1 Operations Logistics Coordinator - supplies purchasing, stocking, control 1 Safety Manager - safety engineer, industrial hygienist 1 Biosafety Officer - biologist 3 Lab Attendants - off-shift monitoring and first-response 3 Staff Scientists - Ph.D.'s with strong technical expertise in key areas (half-time research, half-time staff) 1 Part-time wire-bonding staff member Additionally, Purdue University Physical Facilities have three full-time trades assigned to the building, an Indoor-Air-Quality Technician, an electrician, and a plumber. A supervisor is shared with other buildings within our zone. Other trades can be called upon from the zone and from Purdue Shops. All of this activity is coordinated through the Building Manager. This is a quite large, but very new, organization. We have received a long-term commitment from the university to sustain the operation at this level for an indefinite period. The justification is based on the income to the university through overhead on research grants. The sustainability plan was put together prior to the construction of the facility, and we are walking down the original path that was conceived several years ago. I hope this information was helpful. My contact information is: John Weaver Facility Manager Birck Nanotechnology Center 1205 West State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907 jrweaver at purdue.edu 765 494-5494 nano.purdue.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ph87 at mail.gatech.edu Thu Aug 7 20:46:04 2008 From: ph87 at mail.gatech.edu (ph87 at mail.gatech.edu) Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:46:04 -0400 Subject: [labnetwork] Postdoctoral Opening Fall 2008 at Georgia Tech Message-ID: <1218156364.489b974c1c389@webmail.mail.gatech.edu> Dear Colleagues, Would you be kind enough to post this notice for an immediate opening for a post-doctoral researcher in the area of MEMS and Sensors. Many thanks for your assistance: Positions Available - Postdoctoral Researcher Georgia Tech, MEMS Laboratory Overview Prof. Peter Hesketh?s MEMS laboratory is inviting applications for postdoctoral research position beginning in Fall 2008 in the area of microfabrication and sensors. Requirements Applicants must have earned a doctoral degree in Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Chemistry, Physics, or related engineering disciplines in 2007 or later. Expertise in microfabrication, knowledge of microsensors, and clean room microfabrication experience are required. Also experience with COMSOL or ANSYS FEA CAD systems, strong communication skills, good problem solving skills, independent thinking, and willingness to travel are required. Knowledge of surface characterization tools are also strongly desired. Responsibilities Design, build and test various microcantilever based sensors and integrate with microfluidic devices for use in next-generation of chemical or biochemical analyzers. Analytical modeling of micromechanical sensors. Writing of scientific publications and grant proposals. Mentoring of graduate and undergraduate students. Application Interested individuals should send their CV, one representative publication, and a list of three references (with e-mail addresses and phone numbers) to Prof. Peter Hesketh, peter.hesketh at me.gatech.edu. Peter J. Hesketh, Professor School of Mechanical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology 801 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332 phone: 404-385-1358, fax 404-894-8496 -- From kcherena at Princeton.EDU Thu Aug 7 22:04:15 2008 From: kcherena at Princeton.EDU (Kunigunde Cherenack) Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:04:15 -0400 Subject: [labnetwork] Pore size for scrubber Message-ID: <489BA99F.7030900@princeton.edu> Hello everyone I have a question regarding the scrubber filter in our PECVD-system: specifically, we are trying to find out what grade of filter we should purchase for our re-circulating scrubber. Our current system set-up is as follows: the gases in the processing chambers are pumped out and passed through a cracking oven and exhausted into a re-circulating scrubber. We're currently using a filter with 150 micron diameter pores in the scrubber, mainly to filter out SiO2 particles that end up in the water. However, it seems as if the filter is not really doing it's job and most of the residual particles end up in the water and are not caught by the filter. For this reason we were considering replacing the current filter with a filter that has smaller pores. The supplier can make filters with pores all the way down to 1 micron in diameter......however, we're concerned that using a filter with such a fine grading would put too much strain on the pump in the scrubber. Do any of you have an opinion/recommendation on how fine the pores of a scrubber filter should be? I'd welcome any advice you could give me....thanks in advance! sincerely Kuni Cherenack kcherena at princeton.edu graduate student, Prof Wagner's group, Princeton U. From info at fabsurplus.com Fri Aug 8 09:25:53 2008 From: info at fabsurplus.com (Stephen Howe) Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:25:53 +0200 Subject: [labnetwork] Cameca 7F SIMS mass spectrometer wanted Message-ID: <1218201953.24397.13.camel@samsung-x65> Hello, list members. I am a used equipment reseller. My client just asked me for a Cameca 7F SIMS mass spectrometer. Knowing this is typically an object found in R and D labs, I was wondering if any list members might be able to sell me one. Thanks a lot for your kind replies. Yours sincerely, Stephen Howe CEO SDI Semiconductor Instruments Srl Via Rocco Galdieri, 6 Napoli 80123 Italy Office: (Naples) Italy (39) 081 575 0506 Tech Center: (Avezzano) Italy (39) 0863 50 90 50 Mobile: Italy (39) 335 710 7756 Fax: Italy (39) 066 051 3344 showe at fabsurplus.com Skype: Stephencshowe http://www.fabsurplus.com A MEMBER OF SEMI From voros at silicon.EECS.Berkeley.EDU Wed Aug 13 20:32:12 2008 From: voros at silicon.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Katalin Voros) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:32:12 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [labnetwork] UGIM update Message-ID: <200808140032.m7E0WChs018846@silicon2.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> Dear Colleagues: Last month we had a very interesting and successful UGIM; those of you who were there can testify. We had great discussions on all aspects of university labs management, funding, and future directions. I found it amazing and encouraging how well university labs developed over the last ten years, how hard involved faculty and their lab staff (if any) work to match the ever broading research and/or educational needs of their departments and institutions, and how aware we all are of long-term financial needs and ramifications. Besides our informal discussions, the above was eminently proved by the excellent quality of papers presented. http://louisville.edu/conference/ugim2008/ I would like to thank again Prof. Kevin Walsh and his team at the U. of Louisville, KY for the excellent organization and a great venue. As a member of the UGIM Steering Committee, I would like to inform you that representatives from Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN), Prof. Tim Sands, Director of the Birck Nanotechnology Center, and John Weaver, Facility Manager, accepted to organize the next symposium, UGIM 2010. Look for further information and call for papers in about a year here on the labnetwork list. Until then, we will communicate, as we have been for the past 13 years, through labnetwork at mtl.mit.edu. Do not hesitate sending questions to the community, people involved in running university labs, and offering your assistance if you know the answer. We all deal with similar problems; why not help each other? Pls encourage others who are in the same boat, to sign up. Thank you, Prof. Duane Boning of MIT, for maintaining the labnetwork list. Automatic sign up is at https://www-mtl.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/labnetwork or by sending mail to majordomo at mtl.mit.edu with "subscribe labnetwork" as the body, or simply mail labnetwork at mit.edu. The old "Laboratories Subway" list of labs, is at http://www-mtl.mit.edu/semisubway/fabs_subway.html. It is somewhat dated; however, if you do not see your lab on it pls write to labnetwork at mit.edu and, time permitting, your facility will appear on it. Finally, here is the updated list of the UGIM Steering Committee: Dr. Greg Cibuzar, Chair (cibuzar at umn.edu) Dr. Kevin Walsh, Past Conference Chair (walsh at louisville.edu) Dr. Tim Sands, 2010 Conference Chair (tsands at purdue.edu) Dr. Lynn Fuller, Honorary At Large (lffeee at rit.edu) Dr. Rob Pierce, At Large (repemc at rit.edu) Katalin Voros, At Large (voros at eecs.berkeley.edu) John Wood, At Large (wood at me.unm.edu) Sincerely Katalin Voros -------------------------------------------- KATALIN VOROS Principal Development Engineer Microlab Operations Manager Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California at Berkeley 406 Cory Hall #1770 Berkeley, CA 94720-1770 phone: (510) 642-2716 fax: (510) 642-2916 voros at eecs.berkeley.edu http://microlab.berkeley.edu -------------------------------------------- From jrweaver at purdue.edu Thu Aug 14 09:05:08 2008 From: jrweaver at purdue.edu (Weaver, John R) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:05:08 -0400 Subject: [labnetwork] UGIM update In-Reply-To: <200808140032.m7E0WChs018846@silicon2.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> References: <200808140032.m7E0WChs018846@silicon2.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> Message-ID: I would like to echo Katalin's praise for the UGIM. I did not know about this meeting until this year, and was very impressed. I had to miss the Sunday sessions due to a prior commitment, and feel that I missed a lot. Fortunately, Tim Sands was there and filled me in on several key topics. I'm excited to be the host of the next meeting. I hope that we can live up to the standard set by the UofL team! I have a question for the group. As I'm beginning the planning for the 2010 conference, I have received input that we might want to expand the Lab Managers' Preconference to a full-day conference session. This full-day session would include two presentation/roundtable sessions, one on lab management and one on lab financing/recharge. These would be followed by in-depth tours of the Birck Nanotechnology Center and its infrastructure. If we expanded this to an all-day session, it would seem logical to begin it Monday morning, thus pushing the rest of the conference back one day. While this is a decision for the UGIM Steering Committee, I think it would be good to hear the thoughts of the rest of the group on this issue. Thanks in advance for your thoughts and opinions, John Weaver -----Original Message----- From: labnetwork-bounces at mtl.mit.edu [mailto:labnetwork-bounces at mtl.mit.edu] On Behalf Of Katalin Voros Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 8:32 PM To: labnetwork at mtl.mit.edu Subject: [labnetwork] UGIM update Dear Colleagues: Last month we had a very interesting and successful UGIM; those of you who were there can testify. We had great discussions on all aspects of university labs management, funding, and future directions. I found it amazing and encouraging how well university labs developed over the last ten years, how hard involved faculty and their lab staff (if any) work to match the ever broading research and/or educational needs of their departments and institutions, and how aware we all are of long-term financial needs and ramifications. Besides our informal discussions, the above was eminently proved by the excellent quality of papers presented. http://louisville.edu/conference/ugim2008/ I would like to thank again Prof. Kevin Walsh and his team at the U. of Louisville, KY for the excellent organization and a great venue. As a member of the UGIM Steering Committee, I would like to inform you that representatives from Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN), Prof. Tim Sands, Director of the Birck Nanotechnology Center, and John Weaver, Facility Manager, accepted to organize the next symposium, UGIM 2010. Look for further information and call for papers in about a year here on the labnetwork list. Until then, we will communicate, as we have been for the past 13 years, through labnetwork at mtl.mit.edu. Do not hesitate sending questions to the community, people involved in running university labs, and offering your assistance if you know the answer. We all deal with similar problems; why not help each other? Pls encourage others who are in the same boat, to sign up. Thank you, Prof. Duane Boning of MIT, for maintaining the labnetwork list. Automatic sign up is at https://www-mtl.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/labnetwork or by sending mail to majordomo at mtl.mit.edu with "subscribe labnetwork" as the body, or simply mail labnetwork at mit.edu. The old "Laboratories Subway" list of labs, is at http://www-mtl.mit.edu/semisubway/fabs_subway.html. It is somewhat dated; however, if you do not see your lab on it pls write to labnetwork at mit.edu and, time permitting, your facility will appear on it. Finally, here is the updated list of the UGIM Steering Committee: Dr. Greg Cibuzar, Chair (cibuzar at umn.edu) Dr. Kevin Walsh, Past Conference Chair (walsh at louisville.edu) Dr. Tim Sands, 2010 Conference Chair (tsands at purdue.edu) Dr. Lynn Fuller, Honorary At Large (lffeee at rit.edu) Dr. Rob Pierce, At Large (repemc at rit.edu) Katalin Voros, At Large (voros at eecs.berkeley.edu) John Wood, At Large (wood at me.unm.edu) Sincerely Katalin Voros -------------------------------------------- KATALIN VOROS Principal Development Engineer Microlab Operations Manager Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California at Berkeley 406 Cory Hall #1770 Berkeley, CA 94720-1770 phone: (510) 642-2716 fax: (510) 642-2916 voros at eecs.berkeley.edu http://microlab.berkeley.edu -------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ labnetwork mailing list labnetwork at mtl.mit.edu https://www-mtl.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/labnetwork From prnelson at csupomona.edu Mon Aug 18 13:53:05 2008 From: prnelson at csupomona.edu (Dr. Phyllis R. Nelson) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:53:05 -0700 Subject: [labnetwork] Help with Dektak 6M Problem Message-ID: <12A3F9827C9A0244B13F90CDF45EBC4904656D9D@EX01.win.csupomona.edu> Hi all, We have a problem with our Dektak 6M and would appreciate any suggestions. When we try to do a scan, we get a Galil velocity error. We have been unable to get any horizontal motion, and the Galil error light comes on as soon as we start the Dektak control program. We have cleaned and reinstalled the stage per the directions in the manual. This failure happened at the first attempt to use the instrument after a recent earthquake, but we have no idea if it is actually related since the instrument itself did not move and there was no evidence of severe motion in the lab. Thanks! -Phyllis Phyllis R. Nelson, PhD Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Co-Director, Center for Macromolecular Modeling and Materials Design California State Polytechnic University Pomona email: prnelson at csupomona dot edu voice: (909) 869-2649 (email preferred) office: building 9 room 131 lab: building 9 room 102 From mike.young at nd.edu Mon Aug 25 15:29:53 2008 From: mike.young at nd.edu (michael young) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:29:53 -0400 Subject: [labnetwork] SEM of PDMS? Message-ID: <45F0BB3D-3D65-41E9-B89A-55526941FA8F@nd.edu> Greetings, all. I'm looking today for helpful hints - a client wishes to image a sample which is primarily composed of PDMS. Anyone done this successfully? Any concerns with regard to SEM chamber contamination resulting from beam interaction with the PDMS? Thanks! -- Michael P. Young (574) 631-3268 (office) Nanofabrication Specialist (574) 631-4393 (fax) Department of Electrical Engineering (765) 412-6728 (cell) University of Notre Dame mike.young at nd.edu 275 Fitzpatrick Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556-5637 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From frankel at maine.edu Tue Aug 26 10:14:31 2008 From: frankel at maine.edu (David Frankel) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:14:31 -0400 Subject: [labnetwork] Compressed Air?? Message-ID: <002e01c90786$0efa5a30$10db6f82@FRANKEL> I have a compressed air problem and am looking for suggestions: We have a 7.5hp dry piston air compressor supplying our modest (around 3000 sq. ft.) clean room and a number of other non-clean room research labs. Presently our average steady usage is around 8 cfm of compressed air. Our air compressor has become unreliable and I am looking into alternatives. Previously we had a smaller dry scroll compressor which did not stand up to heavy use. 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URL: From jrweaver at purdue.edu Thu Aug 28 08:39:17 2008 From: jrweaver at purdue.edu (Weaver, John R) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:39:17 -0400 Subject: [labnetwork] FW: Compressed Air?? Message-ID: This is the response from my Facility Engineer, Jeff Kuhn. I hope it is helpful. John From: Kuhn, Jeffrey G Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 4:11 PM To: Weaver, John R; Voorhis, Mark L. Subject: RE: [labnetwork] Compressed Air?? John, Our Kobelco compressor is oil free, but Kobelco's smallest model is a bit large for his needs. I've not been wild about Kobelco reliability either. I'm told that our compressor failed shortly after installation here at Birck. There are oil vapor filters available that can produce medical grade CDA using carbon filtration. They would probably reduce hydrocarbon carryover to acceptable levels, but I think it is better to use an oil free compressor. An oil vapor filter adds a potential failure mode and additional maintenance to the system. The ramifications of filter failure could be severe. I don't have a recommendation for a specific model, but Ingersoll-Rand manufactures several versions of oil-free rotary screw compressors. I used them in the past with good success. They also offer smaller units in the capacity range Dave is seeking. The downside is that they can be expensive. Jeff From: Weaver, John R Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 3:32 PM To: Voorhis, Mark L.; Kuhn, Jeffrey G Subject: FW: [labnetwork] Compressed Air?? Any thoughts for Dave Frankel? His e-mail is below. From: labnetwork-bounces at mtl.mit.edu [mailto:labnetwork-bounces at mtl.mit.edu] On Behalf Of David Frankel Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 10:15 AM To: labnetwork at mtl.mit.edu Subject: [labnetwork] Compressed Air?? I have a compressed air problem and am looking for suggestions: We have a 7.5hp dry piston air compressor supplying our modest (around 3000 sq. ft.) clean room and a number of other non-clean room research labs. Presently our average steady usage is around 8 cfm of compressed air. Our air compressor has become unreliable and I am looking into alternatives. Previously we had a smaller dry scroll compressor which did not stand up to heavy use. Does anyone have experience with using an oil-lubricated air compressor with filters to reduce hydrocarbon carryover? Does that work or is an oil-lubricated compressor a bad idea? Any recommendations on reliable oil-less air compressors in the 7.5-10 hp (around 30 cfm ) range? Thanks, David David J. Frankel, Senior Research Scientist Laboratory for Surface Science & Technology University of Maine 5708 Barrows/ESRB Orono, ME 04469 207-581-2256 207-581-2255 fax frankel at maine.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: