Facility Updates

This week, IS&T upgraded the server hardware and the card readers in Building 12. The new system is similar to all other buildings on campus.

MIT will be closed on Thursday, 11/26 and Friday, 11/27 for the Thanksgiving Day holiday. As usual during Institute holidays, the fabs in building 39 and building 12 will not be staffed, so they will be only open to qualified 24hr users who must follow the buddy policies in each fab.

Mechanical week in Building 39 is November 16 – 20, 2020

There will be no access to the fabs in Bldg. 39 during this time. The fabs in Bldg. 12 will be open as usual.

Next week, we will start training users for the EBL (HSQ and PMMA) spinner in Fab-12 (B-12 / Litho / Spinner-EBL in Coral). We configured and tested the system this week with a beta-user, which helped us identify a few final improvements.

The NanoScribe installation was successfully completed this week!  Over the next 3 weeks, ramp-up runs will be done by Prof. Portela’s lab and an SOP is under development. Read more in this update.

MIT.nano staff will provide updates on new Characterization.nano tools installed this fall, and on photoresists and litho processes in Fab-12, as well as the Phase-2 construction outlook at the next user meeting on December 2.

With MIT now in research ramp-up phase 3, the need to convey gowning storage has been reduced and the addition of Akrobins in TRL as a “storage overflow” has helped us ease storage constraints. With these changes and based on the user feedback, MIT.nano staff have decided that we can simplify our procedures significantly to reduce concerns, user stress, and confusion.

FAB.nano will be operating on holiday/weekend mode for Indigenous Peoples' Day on Monday, October 12 and will recommence regular operations on Tuesday, October 13 at 8 AM. 

This user meeting update focused on tool moves, gowning and locker reservation protocols, and new user orientations. Watch the video in this update.