Nano Explorations Webinars, Week of June 22

Tuesday, June 23Bandwidth-scalable integrated-fluxgate magnetometers for contactless current sensing by Preet Garcha, PhD candidate, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Thursday, June 25Miniaturizing power electronics through piezoelectric energy storage by Jessica Boles, PhD candidate, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

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June user update: New procedures during COVID-19 operations

MIT.nano staff held a user meeting on June 17, 2020 to provide updates on facility operations during COVID-19. The purpose of the meeting was to review procedures, timelines, and paths for getting back into the lab; and how those fit within the broader ramp-up logistics of MIT.

HMDS oven arrives at MIT.nano

The new HMDS oven, for preparing samples prior to photoresist coating, has arrived at MIT.nano and, after we put it on a table, will be ready for installation later this summer.

Nano Explorations Webinars, Week of June 15

Tuesday, June 16Low-frequency energy harvesting at the MEMS scale by Haluk Akay, PhD candidate, Mechanical Engineering

Thursday, June 18Electronic cells: Autonomous micromachines from 2D materials by Volodymyr Koman, Postdoctoral Associate, Chemical Engineering

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2020 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits

The 2020 VLSI Symposia will focus around the theme of "The Next 40 Years of VLSI for Ubiquitous Intelligence." This week-long virtual conference will push the state-of-the-art in Technology and Circuits with more than 200 contributed technical presentations, technology and circuit demonstrations, 3 short courses, a “Friday” Forum and a “Luncheon” talk.

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First users return to MIT.nano

We’re excited that today, June 15, we officially reopened MIT.nano for users in Buildings 12 and 39! As we continue to bring tools online this week, the first users are resuming their research in the fabs, such as the ALD in Fab-12 seen in this photo.