From rcrane at stanford.edu Thu Feb 2 13:42:19 2006 From: rcrane at stanford.edu (Dick Crane) Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:42:19 -0800 Subject: Staff changes Message-ID: <43E27CBB.5080300@stanford.edu> Dear litho users, We want to let you know that Mike Martinez has resigned, effective Wednesday, February 1. As many of you may already know, Mike has been planning to leave for some time now, in order to spend more time to develop his videography business. Opportunities and circumstances have worked together such that he is leaving a few months earlier than anticipated. Unfortunately, Mike?s mother suffered a fall and he is taking time to be with her this week. We had hoped to offer him a proper ?farewell?, but it appears he won?t be able to leave her soon. Please join me in wishing the best to Mike and good wishes in his venture. I am sure Mike would want to let everyone know that he has appreciated his time here and that if anyone has a need for videographer services (weddings, bar mitzvahs, birthday, etc.), that his company is ready and available. Please also bear with us as we attempt to cover the lithography area in Mike?s absence. Mario is holding up magnificently, but he is still the sole maintenance staff in this area. (Please do be conscientious in your use of equipment and clean up after yourself.) And if you happen to know of anyone with experience in equipment engineering in the photolithography area, ideally with an emphasis on electronics, please do send them our way (a job posting is due out very soon!) 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From mtang at stanford.edu Mon Feb 13 18:00:50 2006 From: mtang at stanford.edu (Mary Tang) Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:00:50 -0800 Subject: Q-tips w/resist in the regular trash??!!!?! Message-ID: <43F139D2.6010408@stanford.edu> Hey! Who put resist-contaminated Q-tips in the regular trash this weekend? Do you realize what chemicals are in the resists? Haven't you read the MSDS for the resists in the lab? Don't you know that: 1. Most resists are based on ethyl lactate as solvent? Although this is considered in the industry to be a "safe" solvent, it's only because the previous ones were nastier. The PEL (Permissable Exposure Limit) for ethyl lactate is actually the same (5 ppm over an 8 hour period) as that of chlorobenzene and the glycol ethers -- the "not-safe" solvents (and do you know why?) 2. How to get rid of resist-contaminated waste? It should be placed in air-tight bags and then placed in the designated resist and solvent waste container. Leaving them in the regular trash means that everyone in the lab has to breath the vapors -- and since cleanroom air is mostly recycled, we are all breathing it and rebreathing it for a loooong time. Now, STOP IT!!! Mad-eye Mary -- Mary X. Tang, Ph.D. Stanford Nanofabrication Facility CIS Room 136, Mail Code 4070 Stanford, CA 94305 (650)723-9980 mtang at stanford.edu http://snf.stanford.edu From tura at ucla.edu Wed Feb 15 15:59:18 2006 From: tura at ucla.edu (Ahmet Tura) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:59:18 -0800 Subject: planarizing film Message-ID: <20060215155918.kqiwlz2lc0sog40g@mail.ucla.edu> I need a spin-on planarizing film (organic, dielectric, or otherwise) to planarize pillars that are ~0.5um tall and ~0.2um wide. I found out that the standard photoresists used at SNF are not quite suitable for this type of application. I was wondering if anyone has used anything similar at SNF, or could guide me on what to use. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you, -- Ahmet Tura tura at ucla.edu From mtang at stanford.edu Wed Feb 22 11:59:13 2006 From: mtang at stanford.edu (Mary Tang) Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:59:13 -0800 Subject: A plea, on behalf of Mahnaz Message-ID: <43FCC291.2090002@stanford.edu> Hello all, Please immediately bring all my quartz ware that belongs to Bluem oven back. In future, any one needs to borrow anything should ask permission first. This is a shared facility, please people ...what is going on???? mahnaz From mahnaz at stanford.edu Mon Feb 27 16:42:45 2006 From: mahnaz at stanford.edu (Mahnaz Mansourpour) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:42:45 -0800 Subject: missing chuck Message-ID: <44039C85.4040405@stanford.edu> Hello out there, We are missing the small white teflon chuck, the one used for pieces. Please return it if you have it. Check your bin, you might have accidentally put it away. mahnaz From jwc at snf.stanford.edu Tue Feb 28 11:05:26 2006 From: jwc at snf.stanford.edu (James Conway) Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:05:26 -0800 Subject: Please return my 5 mm headway chuck. Message-ID: <44049EF6.5070701@snf.stanford.edu> Greetings Headway Users, About two to three weeks ago a labmember came by my office and asked me about both MaN-2403 resist and to use my 5 mm headway chuck we use for pieces. I had asked that user to please return that chuck to me after he utilized it. Sadly it never came back to me and I cannot locate it. I checked the headway bin where we keep the lab available chucks, my dry box and my desk. Will that user, and all users whom have checked out chucks from me in the recent past, please check with me and let me know where my chuck is. It is the only one like it we have and many people working in pieces have been sharing it. RSVP poste haste, James Conway SNF