[BNC-all] BNC E-news for the week of September 15th

[Anthrop, Heather L]

Demonstration
Preventive Maintenance
Survey Results

Demonstration
EVOS(r) imaging systems Demo
Please join us to see and learn about the latest innovations in imaging with EVOS(r)
Birck Nanotechnology Center
BRK 1001 Conference Room
Tuesday, Sept 23rd
10:00am - 2:00pm
Featuring EVOS Brightfield and Fluorescent Imaging Microscopes
Feel free to bring samples and USB memory sticks to take images back to your lab!
Andrew Fritts (andrew.fritts at thermofisher.com<mailto:andrew.fritts at thermofisher.com>) and Angie Keiser (angela.keiser at thermofisher.com<mailto:angela.keiser at thermofisher.com>)

Preventive Maintenance

Preventive Maintenance
Shut Down Notice
October 13 - October 17



The Brick Nanotechnology Center will be undergoing a semi-annual preventive maintenance and service shutdown October 13 through October 17, 2014.  Air handling systems, exhaust systems, hazardous toxic gas delivery, and monitoring systems will be down beginning at 7 a.m. Monday, October 13 through 4 p.m. Friday, October 17.  The BNC staff will be performing appropriate preventive maintenance on the process equipment at this time as well.



All CLEANROOM research work will be suspended until the maintenance activities are completed and all systems are returned to normal.  No one will be allowed to enter the cleanroom during this time period.



In addition, the laboratory areas will also be affected by this systems maintenance.  As such, all LABORATORY activities that involve exhausted hoods, vacuum systems, and/or toxic gas systems will be down beginning 9 a.m. Monday, October 13 through 4 p.m. Friday, October 17.  However, work that involves taking standard electrical measurements may be carried out in the LABS provided that fluctuating air temperature and humidity do not affect the readings.  No chemical work will be allowed during this period.



It is anticipated that the building and process tool maintenance will be completed by the end of the day on Friday, October 17.  Please check Coral for equipment status and availability.



For long term research planning please refer the following future dates for our future preventive maintenance shutdowns.

?  Week of May 4, 2015

?  Week of October 12, 2015

?  Week of May 2, 2016

?  Week of Oct 10, 2016



Thank you for your cooperation and understanding during these important preventive maintenance shutdowns.



BNC Management

Survey Results


One survey respondent this week was very complimentary of our lithography and mask-making capabilities.  Thank you very much for your kind words.  To that end, we would like to invite all research groups to use our internal, improved mask-making facilities.  We have a Heidelberg laser-writer system that is extremely capable of producing excellent masks, with the ability to go down to 1 micron feature sizes.  We've gone through a learning curve bringing this instrument online . . . we had a software upgrade from Heidelberg to address some intrinsic anomalies within the system software, we have successfully developed our Genisys Beamer software platform to perform translations to .gds, and we have created the ability to remotely render Heidelberg layouts on Mike Courtney's office computer in the engineering staff area.  Thus the user can approve final layouts/designs in the office without having to go into the cleanroom to seem them on the Heidelberg computer.  So with these improvements we now have an outstanding mask-making resource for our internal users to take advantage of.  Give us a try!

Cleanroom Microscopes

Both computers on our microscopes in N-Bay are no longer supported by ECN because their OS was Windows XP.  Additionally they have been infected with a virus so they are both offline per ECN's direction, and photos cannot be stored as files.  We have acquired two new computers that ECN will support, and we're in the process of updating our Spot Imaging software because the current version of the software is not compatible with the new operating systems on the new computers.  We're also replacing one of the cameras due to its incompatible interface to the computer.  We are trying to expedite this upgrade as quickly as possible through our procurement system.

Thanks for your inputs, keep your ideas and suggestions coming!

Ron

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