Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility

Jake will be off August 19th, 23rd & 26th. Like before, the acid/wet etch rooms will be closed those days so plan accordingly.

Thanks,
INRF/BION Staff

500ml poly container back in stock.

$10

The FM Plumbers are implementing a fix to the BiON humidifiers this Thursday morning 8/8/2013. In order to do so the Industrial water which currently feeds those humidifiers, and the lab hoods and general taps needs to be shutoff. The humidifiers themselves will be offline for several hours as the reroute the soft water. We anticipate it will be back online approximately 10:00am.

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INRF/BION Staff

Please come claim your personal etch containers located under the benches in the INRF rm. 2325 & 2320. We are cleaning house and these will be picked up by EH&S for disposal on the 15th of this month.

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INRF/BION Staff

The upgrade for the STS is going to start on August 5th and should take approximately 2 weeks to complete.

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INRF/BION Staff

The e-beam evaporator is somewhat functional but the cylinoid valve assembly that operates the high vac is only operating correctly in one direction (the opening direction).

Users are required to have staff help them close the high vac valve so please check with staff before operating the tool.

Thanks,
INRF/BION Staff

Jake will be off tomorrow and Monday (7/26 – 7/29) therefor there will be no access to the HF / inorganic benches.

Note: Jake noticed yesterday again people are using the HF wet bench and not recording it on the white board in the gowning area. Until this gets resolved, the HF benches will continue to be closed when Jake is not around.

Thanks,
INRF/BION Staff

We are now accepting applications for our Super User Program, for more information see the documents below.

Please submit the application via e-mail to Alana Valencia at anvalenc@uci.edu. The deadline to submit is this Friday, 7/26/13.

• Super User Program
• Super User Application

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INRF/BION Staff

As a reminder the Vacuum and Nitrogen must be turned off after using the Laurell Spinners as posted and the acetone waste containers must be emptied after each usage.

Due to the reduction in lab staff hours, equipment training will be held regularly on a weekly basis on Wednesday’s. Please see Ryan to sign up for the next equipment training on July 24th. Please keep in mind that we are not able to provide training on equipment that is currently offline. You may check the status of equipment by visiting https://www.inrf.uci.edu/facility/equipment/status/.