Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility

HF Bench is still down. We have done all we can do and it is now in Facilities and EH&S’s court. We were hoping it would be done Monday but that looks like it wont happen. We’ll post once we find out more info.

Dicing Saw is back up.

The pump for the Nano imprinter has been sent out for repair and we should be getting that back shortly.

The power supply for the MA-56 is back in but due to various other projects it will be a little while longer before Jake can get that hooked up.

 

On Friday, June 13 the INRF front office staff will be participating in an important all-day training workshop for the Kuali Financial System. The office will remain open during that time but remaining staff will not have access to INRF Store or Equipment approvals. Please come by today if you need anything.

The new pump was installed successfully however we needed to order some replacement filters and expect them by mid next week.

A new training video has been posted to the INRF website. This is an introduction video to photolithography.

You can view the video by visiting the videos page at:

https://www.inrf.uci.edu/facility/videos/

You can also view the video directly on YouTube:

Introduction to Photolithography
http://youtu.be/IF2pDoPBv10

To skip to any portion of the video, refer to the following chapters:

  1. Introduction
  2. Laurel Spinner: Logging in & pre-use examination
  3. Laurel Spinner: Loading a sample
  4. Laurel Spinner: Programming the spin speeds & running
  5. Laurel Spinner: Unloading & baking
  6. Laurel Spinner: Clean up after processing
  7. Post spinning procedures
  8. Development of Su-8
  9. Disposal of waste

You may also visit the INRF  Youtube Channel for additional training videos.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Inrfucirvine/

INRF Staff

We ordered a new pump and we are hoping to have it back up sometime late Thursday.

The INRF & BION will be closed tomorrow (Saturday 05/24) due to facilities work being performed on the air handlers.

The initial problem seems to be that the cooling water recirculating pump seems to be not functioning properly. Until Jake gets a chance to take it apart and give a better look the STS will remain down. We will update the Blog once we have word. Please do not ask him as he is very busy.

The SEM is back up.

We experienced a small power outage this morning so the STS & SEM will be down until Jake can take a look at them. I should have an update this afternoon.