From mtang at stanford.edu  Sun Nov  2 09:36:17 2008
From: mtang at stanford.edu (Mary Tang)
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 09:36:17 -0800
Subject: Lab Evacuation Sunday morning...
Message-ID: <490DE511.7040702@stanford.edu>

Dear labmembers --

Some of you more industrious labmembers may have experienced this 
morning's lab evacuation.  At about 7:05 am, there was an evacuation for 
a toxic gas alarm.  Shortly thereafter, the Fire Department showed up.  
(For those of you who were here, we appreciate you leaving the lab in a 
timely manner.)  The problem was a toxic gas sensor in one of the labs 
in the other building (CISX), but since we share the same toxic gas 
vaults, the response affects the entire building.  Alarms were reset at 
about 7:25 am.  The building and lab are OK to re-occupy now.

If you were operating any equipment using any toxic gases (including H2) 
during this time, please double-check your measurements.  Please also 
get in touch with a process staff member about adjusting your equipment 
time, as appropriate.

Your SNF staff


From ccchao1 at stanford.edu  Sun Nov  2 15:27:17 2008
From: ccchao1 at stanford.edu (Cheng-Chieh Chao)
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 15:27:17 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Fwd: Stanford Univ-Vacuum Training Seminar-November 10th, 3-6pm
In-Reply-To: <820301203.3160061225668217420.JavaMail.root@zm03.stanford.edu>
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Hello all,

The RPL is hosting a vacuum training seminar on the afternoon of Nov. 10th, sponsored by Kurt Lesker.  The seminar is free and open to anyone.  The topics covered are listed in the enclosed attachment.  It will be worth it for all users of vacuum systems to attend, and people who more involved in design, maintenance, and troubleshooting of vacuum systems will especially get a lot out of it.

Thanks,
James

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: "Shawn Jones" <shawnj at lesker.com>
To: ccchao1 at stanford.edu
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 7:12:39 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Stanford Univ-Vacuum Training Seminar-November 10th, 3-6pm




Cheng-Chieh, 

? 

Kurt J Lesker Company will be conducting a free vacuum training seminar on November 10 th from 3-6pm at Stanford University, Building 300, Room 300. We are being hosted by the Fritz Prinz Group of the Rapid Prototyping Lab in Mechanical Engineering. I have attached two word documents with all the details of the vacuum training and the background of Mike McKeown, who is our chief vacuum scientist, and will be conducting the training. I would appreciate it if you could post this flyer in your area, email it to others in your group or otherwise share this information on to others who may be interested in attending. It is not necessary to RSVP to attend but I would appreciate it if any interested parties could let me know in advance as we will be having it catered with drinks/snacks. 

? 

Please visit our website at www.lesker.com 

? 

Shawn U. Jones 

Regional Sales Manager 

Kurt J. Lesker Co. 

3983 First St. 

Livermore, CA 94551-4909 

209-401-6453 direct 

800-245-1656 sales only 

925-449-5227 fax 

shawnj at lesker.com 

? 

The Kurt J. Lesker Company was founded in 1954 as a manufacturers' representative for vacuum products in Pittsburgh PA, USA. Today, we are an international manufacturer and distributor of vacuum components and vacuum systems for research and industrial applications. We have three manufacturing locations, two in Pittsburgh and one in the UK; sales offices and warehouses across North America; KJLC offices in England and Hungary; and a network of agents around the world. 

?
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From mtang at stanford.edu  Sun Nov  2 19:38:18 2008
From: mtang at stanford.edu (Mary Tang)
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:38:18 -0800
Subject: Process Clinic, Monday, Nov. 3, 2-4 pm
Message-ID: <490E722A.1070607@stanford.edu>

Dear labmembers --

The next Process Clinic is Monday, Nov. 3, from 2-4 pm in the CIS 
cubicle area (near Maureen's office.)  Bring your process flow 
questions, layouts, and new material requests.  (Experienced labmembers 
are especially welcome to help with suggestions and advice!)

Your SNF staff


From mtang at stanford.edu  Sun Nov  2 19:42:59 2008
From: mtang at stanford.edu (Mary Tang)
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:42:59 -0800
Subject: Venture Clinic, Thursday, Nov. 6, 4:30 pm, CIS 101
Message-ID: <490E7343.4050700@stanford.edu>

Are you thinking about the possibility of building a startup?  

Shahin Farshchi, an Associate from Lux Capital, will be moderating the Venture Clinic,
which aims to provide an informal forum for researchers interested in brainstorming
with a venture capitalist on avenues for commercializing technology, and what to expect
when starting a new venture.  [Particularly in this economic climate!]

Technical discussions should be limited to what has been already disclosed or published.
 
This will take place on Thursday, Nov. 6 at 4:30 pm in CIS 101. 

For more information, contact:

Shahin Farshchi, Ph.D.
Phone: 925.323.2784
Email: shahin.farshchi at luxcapital.com





From mtang at stanford.edu  Mon Nov  3 08:27:56 2008
From: mtang at stanford.edu (Mary Tang)
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:27:56 -0800
Subject: MEMS Packaging Seminar, Today, 11 am, CIS 101
Message-ID: <490F268C.6010501@stanford.edu>

*/WaFER LEVEL Vacuum/Hermetic Packaging of MEMS Devices/**//*

The purpose of this talk is to give an overview of MEMS packaging 
technologies developed at the Wireless Integrated Microsystems (WIMS) 
center at the University of Michigan. ePack, Inc. is a spin out of the 
University of Michigan?a short description of this company will be given 
at the end of the talk. ePack helps companies and researchers implement 
packaging technologies in order to encourage the commercialization of 
their MEMS devices.

Two sets of packaging technologies will be discussed. I) Low temperature 
wafer-level packaging processes for vacuum/hermeticity will be presented 
including various solder bonding and localized heating technologies. 
Vacuum pressures lower than 10 mTorr were achieved with yields as high 
as high as 90% and 3 years of package reliability data. II) A harsh 
environment robust micromechanical technology (HERMIT) for vibration, 
shock and thermal isolation as well as vacuum packaging. This technology 
involves flip chipping MEMS devices onto another wafer which has 
specially designed vibration/shock/thermal isolation structures where 
another substrate is then used for batch encapsulation of the devices. 
This technology was a DARPA funded project was specially developed for 
high performance gyroscopes, but can be applied to any type of MEMS device.

These technologies are a culmination of several bonding processes, 
feed-through technologies and various special materials.

*Jay Mitchell* is president and co-founder of ePack Corp., a company 
providing packaging services and expertise to companies and researchers 
in order to bring MEMS devices to market. He finished his doctorate in 
January of 2008. In the fall of 2002, he began the Ph.D. program at the 
University of Michigan in mechanical engineering. In his research he 
developed a Au-Si eutectic wafer-level packaging process and a low 
temperature localized heating technique for the hermetic/vacuum 
packaging of MEMS and microsystems. In 2000 and 2001, he worked for 
Movaz Networks in the testing and design of micromirrors for 
telecommunications applications. He received his B.S. and M.S. from Case 
Western Reserve University in 1999 and 2000, respectively. His research 
interests include: MEMS, micromachining technologies, micromachined 
sensors, actuators, and micropackaging.



From rparsa at stanford.edu  Tue Nov  4 11:00:08 2008
From: rparsa at stanford.edu (Roozbeh Parsa)
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 11:00:08 -0800 (PST)
Subject: MEMS Seminar This Wednesday: Revolutionary MEMS-based Display
 Technology. Nov. 5th, 3-4pm in CISX-101
Message-ID: <88096959.2952911225825208225.JavaMail.root@zm06.stanford.edu>


MEMS Seminar Announcement:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

E342 SEMINAR
(MEMS Lab2)

Wednesday, Nov. 5th, 2008
3:00 ? 4:00 pm
CISX-101

Title:
Revolutionary MEMS-based Display Technology.

Speaker:
Dr. Ana Londergan
QUALCOMM MEMS Technologies, Inc.

Abstract:

Qualcomm MEMS Technologies, Inc. has developed the industry's first MEMS display, mirasol? displays, for mobile devices - a true technological innovation that offers low power consumption and superb viewing quality in a wide range of environmental conditions, including bright sunlight. Mirasol displays work by using a reflective technology called Interferometric Modulation (IMOD) so that specific wavelengths of light interfere with each other to create color. The phenomenon that makes a butterfly's wings shimmer is the same process used in Qualcomm's mirasol displays.  The MEMS functionality provides color selection, modulation and memory that supports multimedia applications, enables superb viewing quality, and extends time between charging. The manufacture of mirasol displays leverages existing LCD manufacturing infrastructure as well as commonly used materials and tools at display foundries.  Qualcomm MEMS Technologies, Inc support Qualcomm's overall strategy of increasing the capabilities of mobile devices while minimizing power consumption. Qualcomm MEMS Technologies, Inc. is headquartered in San Diego, Calif., with offices in San Jose, Calif., and Hsinchu, Taiwan.

This presentation will introduce Qualcomm MEMS Technologies, Inc. and will discuss the need for mirasol display technology.  An overview of IMOD technology fundamentals and manufacturing will be presented, followed by an introduction of the QMT market focus and products.


From rparsa at stanford.edu  Tue Nov  4 12:17:46 2008
From: rparsa at stanford.edu (Roozbeh Parsa)
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 12:17:46 -0800 (PST)
Subject: 2nd MEMS Seminar This Wednesday: Diversity of MEMS Inertial Sensor
 Technologies. Nov. 5th, 4-5pm in CISX-101
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MEMS Seminar Announcement:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

E342 SEMINAR
(MEMS Lab2)

Wednesday, Nov. 5th, 2008
4:00 ? 5:00 pm
CISX-101

Title:
Diversity of MEMS Inertial Sensor Technologies.

Speaker:
Dr. St.J. Dixon-Warren
QUALCOMM MEMS Technologies, Inc.

Abstract:
We will present recent MEMS reverse engineering results which illustrate the diversity of technologies currently used in the commercial manufacturing of MEMS inertial sensors. In comparison to CMOS, which is highly converged across the industry, a surprising range of technologies are used to fabricate accelerometers and gyroscopes, including surface micro-machined polysilicon, surface micro-machine silicon, and bulk micro-machined silicon. More recently, a thermal device has appeared on the market, which is fabricated with a CMOS process and involves no moving parts. Most inertial sensor manufacturers have adopted a two-chip solution, while a few provide integrated single chip solution. The latter provides lower cost packaging at the price of higher chip cost. The MEMS industry is poise for dramatic growth over the new few years, as inertial sensors are widely incorporated into consumer electronics and achieve greater penetration into the automotive sector. Currently, MEMS inertial sensors are manufactured by both large and small independent device manufacturers (IDM?s) and by fabless design houses. A question of interest to the industry is whether we will see dramatic convergence and consolidation. This process may be accelerated by the entrance of large Asian foundries in to the MEMS manufacturing sector.

Bio.:
St.J. Dixon-Warren (Sinjin) is the manager of Chipworks Technical Intelligence Process Engineering team. He is also Chipworks leading analyst covering devices in the MEMS industry and, most recently spoke on MEMS devices. Dr. Dixon-Warren earned his PhD in Chemical Physics from the University of Toronto and spent two years as NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge and in the faculty at Washington State University. Dr. Dixon-Warren made the switch to industry with Nortel Networks Optical Components division before moving on to Chipworks as a technical analyst. Dr. Dixon-Warren is an author on more than forty research publications. He is married and has three children.


From yspark at nano-liquid.com  Tue Nov  4 16:51:34 2008
From: yspark at nano-liquid.com (Paul Park)
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 16:51:34 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Low Pressure Mercury Lamp
Message-ID: <602197.78434.qm@web802.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hello, Lab Members,

Does anyone has a mercury lamp (with power supply) that I can borrow briefly or know where to buy?
I need a light source for my photoelectric test with wavelength below 280nm (LP Hg peak at 254nm, I guess).

Thanks in advance,
Paul


From mtang at stanford.edu  Wed Nov  5 09:02:20 2008
From: mtang at stanford.edu (Mary Tang)
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:02:20 -0800
Subject: Venture Clinic, Thursday, 11/6, 4 pm CIS115 (note time and room change)
Message-ID: <4911D19C.60002@stanford.edu>

Are you thinking about the possibility of building a startup?  

Shahin Farshchi, an Associate from Lux Capital, will be moderating the Venture Clinic,
which aims to provide an informal forum for researchers interested in brainstorming
with a venture capitalist on avenues for commercializing technology, and what to expect
when starting a new venture.  [Particularly in this economic climate!]

Technical discussions should be limited to what has been already disclosed or published.
 
This will take place on Thursday, Nov. 6 at 4:00 pm in CIS 115. 

For more information, contact:

Shahin Farshchi, Ph.D.
Phone: 925.323.2784
Email: shahin.farshchi at luxcapital.com



From linyouc at stanford.edu  Wed Nov  5 15:26:06 2008
From: linyouc at stanford.edu (Linyou Cao)
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 15:26:06 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Stanford Nanosociety Seminar] Friday 11/07, 12pm McCullough 105
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Stanford Nanoscience &Nanotechnology Society Seminar 




Microwave Imaging at the Nanoscale -- Principles and Applications 



Dr. Keji Lai (Z. X. Shen group) 


When: Friday Nov . 7 th 12pm 


Where: McCullough Rm 115 

Free Food (pizza) served at 11:45am 





For more information please visit http://nanosociety.stanford.edu 

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From linyouc at stanford.edu  Wed Nov  5 16:23:57 2008
From: linyouc at stanford.edu (Linyou Cao)
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 16:23:57 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Stanford Nanosociety Seminar] Friday 11/07, 12pm McCullough 115
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Sorry for?any confusion in the previous email. --Linyou 




Stanford Nanoscience &Nanotechnology Society Seminar 






Microwave Imaging at the Nanoscale -- Principles and Applications 



Dr. Keji Lai (Z. X. Shen group) 


When: Friday Nov . 7 th ? 12pm 


Where: McCullough Rm 115 

Free Food (pizza) served at 11:45am 





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From mtang at stanford.edu  Thu Nov  6 07:06:52 2008
From: mtang at stanford.edu (Mary Tang)
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:06:52 -0800
Subject: Cleanliness & Contamination Mtg - Friday, Nov. 7, 3 pm, CIS 101
Message-ID: <4913080C.5050100@stanford.edu>

Hi all --

You are invited to another exciting installment of the "Cleantamination" 
meeting, this Friday (tomorrow) at 3 pm in CIS 101.  On the agenda:

- Ed will present a review of the criteria and rationale for SpecMat 
policies.  Our objective is to integrate this structures into the 
decision-making of this forum.
- Update from working groups (ALD, stsetch/2, testing, RTA.)

Next meeting will be in two weeks in which Jim McVittie will review 
methods for quantifying contamination.

About this group:  "Cleantamination" is a working group on Cleanliness 
and Contamination. It is comprised of labmembers, PI's, and staff 
working to facilitate process flow sequences for novel materials while 
protecting against cross-contamination which affect device performance.  
All members of the lab community are welcome to attend and contribute.

For summaries of the last meeting:
https://spf.stanford.edu/SNF/processes/cleantamination-group


From dasgupta at stanford.edu  Mon Nov 10 10:04:28 2008
From: dasgupta at stanford.edu (Neil Dasgupta)
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:04:28 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Lesker Vacuum Training Seminar today
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This afternoon:

VACUUM TRAINING SEMINAR 

at Stanford University 

Hosted by Fritz Prinz Group?Rapid Prototyping Lab 

Sponsored by the Kurt J Lesker Company 

Monday, November 10 th 3?6pm 

Building 300, Room 300 

Room 300 is on the first floor of the building, and there is an entrance to the room on each side of the building. 

This is FREE to attend. Drinks and snacks will be provided. Here is an outline of the vacuum training seminar. 

Topic: Vacuum Technology 2 - Mike McKeown -KJLC Chief Vacuum Scientist 

I. GAS-SURFACE INTERACTIONS 

Large Scale 

Adsorption-Desorption 

Diffusion-Permeation 

Micro Scale 

Specular Reflection 

Diffuse Reflection 

Cos Distribution 

Sticking (Sorption) 

Outgassing 

Sources 

Composition 

II. BASIC PUMPING CONCEPTS 

Conductance 

Pumping Speed 

Combining Conductance with Pumping Speed 

Effective Pumping Speeds 

Calculating EPS 

Measuring EPS 

III. GAS LOAD 

Meaning of Gas Load 

Units of Gas Load 

Sources of Gas Load 

Tests for Gas Load 

Reducing Gas Load 

IV. THROUGHPUT 

Meaning of Pump Throughput 

Units of Pump Throughput 

Increasing Pump Throughput 

V. EQUATING GAS LOAD AND THROUGHPUT 

Calculating Base Pressures 

Calculating Working Pressures 

VI. VacTran? VACUUM MODELING PROGRAM 

Vacuum System's Performance 

Making 'What If?' Change 

Contact SHAWN JONES shawnj at lesker.com (209) 401?6453 with any questions/comments. 

Sponsored by the KURT J LESKER COMPANY 

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From mdr at stanford.edu  Tue Nov 11 09:42:41 2008
From: mdr at stanford.edu (Matthew D. Robbins)
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:42:41 -0800
Subject: Optical Pyrometer
Message-ID: <003c01c94424$e5e06690$b1a133b0$@edu>

Does anyone have an optical pyrometer that I can borrow briefly.  I would
like to check the temperature of a filament.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Matt

 

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From shott at stanford.edu  Thu Nov 13 18:58:06 2008
From: shott at stanford.edu (John Shott)
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:58:06 -0800
Subject: Problems with Mozilla hanging?
Message-ID: <491CE93E.5000104@stanford.edu>

SNF Lab Members:

We have been experiencing a number of "runaway" browser sessions .... 
mostly mozilla but sometimes firefox.  When we get several of them, 
everything else (including Coral) pays the price .... so we are trying 
to resolve these issues.

If you think that you are experiencing this, I'd appreciate hearing from 
you if it happens when you go to a particular site.  For example, 
gmail.google.com used to crash Mozilla browsers ..... and it still may 
happen.  If a browser crashes when you go to a web site, I'd like to 
hear about it because I'd like to learn if these crashes sessions become 
the runaway processes that we see.

Note: in a number of cases, a plug-in like Flash can cause a browser to 
crash .... although I've recently updated the Flash plug-in for both 
Mozilla and Firefox to the most recent release in hopes of reducing 
these problems.

In any event, if you consistently experience browser crashes .... 
particularly when visiting particular sites, I'd like to hear from you.

Thanks for your help,

John





From mtang at stanford.edu  Fri Nov 14 08:20:15 2008
From: mtang at stanford.edu (Mary Tang)
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:20:15 -0800
Subject: Process Clinic/SpecMat - Monday, Nov. 17, 2-4 pm
Message-ID: <491DA53F.70800@stanford.edu>

Dear labmembers --

The next Process Clinic is Monday, Nov. 17, from 2-4 pm in the CIS 
cubicle area (near Maureen's office.)  Bring your process flow 
questions, layouts, and new material requests.  (Experienced labmembers 
are especially welcome to help with suggestions and advice!)

Your SNF staff



From rschaevitz at stanford.edu  Sun Nov 16 11:28:00 2008
From: rschaevitz at stanford.edu (Rebecca Schaevitz)
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:28:00 -0800
Subject: OSA/SPIE Seminar: OSA Traveling Lecturer Yannick Lize / Stratalight - Thurs. 11/20, 4pm, Ginzton AP 200
Message-ID: <975904830811161128n3f7158c1ueea4569d3dd9c44a@mail.gmail.com>

The Optical Society of America/SPIE Stanford Student Chapter presents:

"Optical Fibers: From next generation telecom networks and enabling devices,
to high power fiber lasers for industrial applications."
Speaker: Yannick Lize

Thursday, November 20
4:15pm, Ginzton Building, AP200
Refreshments at 4:00pm

Abstract: The most common application of optical fibers is in telecom
systems. From transoceanic and transcontinental to metropolitan
communications, fiber optic systems deliver voice and data content with at
high speed with unprecedented quality. Nowadays fiber optics usage is even
getting economical enough to be a serious contender to copper wires and
cable in intra-office communication and fiber to the home delivery. In this
presentation, we discuss next generation ultra high speed 40Gb/s and 100Gb/s
optical fiber communication systems and the devices that enable them from
the point of view of an optical sub-system company. We'll also discuss
alternative uses of optical fibers, such as high power fiber laser for laser
cutting and welding in industrial applications.

About our speaker: Dr Yannick Keith Lize obtained the BSc in Applied Physics
from Concordia University in Montreal and the M.Sc. in physics from ?cole
Polytechnique. His PhD thesis on optical differential phase shift keying
(DPSK) generation, transmission and demodulation was done at ?cole
Polytechnique de Montreal under Prof. Nicolas Godbout and Prof. Alan E.
Willner.
As a recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, Yannick has 20
peer-reviewed publications to his credit (15 as first author), 40 papers at
international conferences including 3 invited papers, as well as 5 patents.
He is currently Senior Optical Designer at Stratalight Communications in Los
Gatos, CA, developing 40Gb/s optical subsystems and transponders. He is a
member of the OSA, IEEE LEOS, IEEE ComSoc and SPIE. Yannick is a member of
the OSA Membership and Education Services (MES) council, the OSA Esther
Hoffman Beller Medal Committee, the OSA Young Professional Advisory Board
and an OSA travelling lecturer. He is on the technical program committees of
the IEEE 7th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks
(ICOCN 2008) and the IEEE LEOS Summer Topicals 2009.
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From wistey at snow.stanford.edu  Mon Nov 17 15:43:00 2008
From: wistey at snow.stanford.edu (Mark Wistey)
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:43:00 -0800
Subject: Cleanroom fire article?
Message-ID: <p0611040cc544f06b943d@[192.168.1.106]>

Back when I was at Stanford, there used to be a newspaper clipping 
posted outside the SNF gowning room about a cleanroom fire which 
burned a whole building to the ground.  As I recall, the fire was 
caused by pouring solvents into a beaker with traces of nitric acid 
left in it.  Does anyone know if the clipping is still around, or 
where I could find a reference to the fire?  I'm training young 
generations of grad students who could benefit from basic safety 
rules of acids and organics.

Thanks!
					 - Mark


From mtang at stanford.edu  Tue Nov 18 07:55:16 2008
From: mtang at stanford.edu (Mary Tang)
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:55:16 -0800
Subject: "Cleantamination" Mtg, Friday, Nov. 21, 3 pm
Message-ID: <4922E564.3010600@stanford.edu>

Hi all --

The next Cleantamination meeting will be this Friday, Nov. 21 at 3 pm in 
CIS 101.  Jim McVittie will discuss quantitative methods for measurement 
of contamination; we'll get an update from the various working groups; 
and if supporting info is provided, we hope to review a couple of 
proposals for formalizing contamination rules on amtetcher and sts dep.  
For summaries of previous meetings, see:  
https://spf.stanford.edu/SNF/processes/cleantamination-group

All labmembers are welcome to participate/contribute.

Your SNF Staff


From mtang at stanford.edu  Tue Nov 18 09:54:14 2008
From: mtang at stanford.edu (Mary Tang)
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:54:14 -0800
Subject: Annual Lab Cleanup!
Message-ID: <49230146.4050008@stanford.edu>

Dear labmembers --

It's that time of year again.  And this is just the first of several 
reminders you'll receive about the annual lab cleanup.  Staff will 
commence cleaning up on Monday, Dec. 15 as per the following:

1.  In the lab:  All personal items must be stored inside assigned lab 
bins.  No personal items on WIP racks or on top of lab bins.  Anything 
found outside of lab bins will be removed from the lab.

2.  Lab Bins:  All assigned bins in the lab must be labeled with the 
current owner's Coral login.  Bins which are assigned to labmembers who 
have not been very active in the lab will be tagged for reassignment to 
active labmembers in the new year.

3.  In the CAD room:  All personal storage bins in the CAD room (CIS 
151) must be labeled with the Coral login and the current date. No 
chemicals inside storage bins.  Staff may choose move bins around to 
make better use of available space.

4.  In the cubicle area:  As an evacuation path for cubicle and office 
occupants, aisleways must be clear to 36" across and no unsecured items 
stored above (to prevent blocking paths in case of earthquake, as per 
code.)  Desk space may be subject to reassignment to active labmembers, 
SNF student helpers and guests.

Any questions, ask a staff member --

Thanks,

Mary


From rissman at stanford.edu  Tue Nov 18 10:49:32 2008
From: rissman at stanford.edu (Paul Rissman)
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:49:32 -0800
Subject: Nano for N^3 workshop announcement
Message-ID: <200811181849.mAIInixI006356@smtp-roam.Stanford.EDU>

Workshop Title  - Nanotechnology as an Enabler 
for Neuroscience, Neuroengineering and Neural Prostheses (Nano for N^3)
When - Thursday, December 11, 2008 (8 AM - 6 PM), 
Friday, December 12, 2008 (8 AM - 1 PM)
Where - Stanford University, Allen Center for 
Integrated Systems, Cypress conference room (CISX 101)
Local hotels - Westin Palo Alto - 
http://www.starwoodhotels.com/westin/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=1198
                    alternatives - http://www.paloaltoonline.com/lodging/
Workshop organizers - Professor Krishna Shenoy 
(shenoy at stanford.edu) and Professor Yoshio Nishi (nishi at ee.stanford.edu)

Registration - 
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=ELU8fQDmb2NyfkLhDhjIwQ_3d_3d

Goals of the workshop

Neural prostheses aim to help improve the quality 
of life for patients suffering from neurological 
disease and injury. They function by translating 
electrical signals from the brain (e.g., action 
potentials, local field potentials, ECoGs,EEGs) 
into control signals for guiding assistive 
devices. Despite considerable progress in recent 
years, the field actively continues to pursue

(1) increased sensor lifetime and
(2) increased system performance so that the 
anticipated quality-of-life improvements will 
clearly outweigh potential surgical risks.

Despite ongoing efforts in recent years, neither 
sensor lifetime nor system performance have grown 
at a rate necessary to dramatically enable the 
widespread clinical translation of these systems. 
MEMS-based electrode arrays have had functional 
lifetimes of approximately one year without 
substantial improvement. While flexible substrate 
and pharmacological agent delivery through 
micro-fluidic channels appears promising, there 
is considerable interest in understanding what 
nano-structured electrical and/or optical sensors 
which reside at the size scale of neurons (< 1 
um) may enable. Similarly, system performance 
relies on massively parallel measurement of 
neural signals and MEMS based measurement has 
remained at roughly 100-200 neurons for the past 
decade. There is considerable interest in 
understanding what massively parallel, 
nano-structured electrical and/or optical sensors 
? which could provide both the high-density 
measurements within one brain/neural area, and 
measurement from multiple brain areas separated 
by many centimeters ? may provide.  Advances in 
both of these areas are crucial for the sustained 
advancement of both basic systems neuroscience ? 
which aims to provide fundamental scientific 
understanding of complex nervous systems, and may 
generate biologically-inspired computational 
principles for next generation electronic 
computational architectures - as well as more 
applied neuroengineering, which aims to build core technology.

The major goals of the workshop are:
- To build bridges and promote collaborations 
between the neuroscience, neuroengineering, 
neural prosthesis and nanotechnology/sensor communities.
- To identify limitations in current 
neural-measurement technologies and critical 
needs for basic neuroscience, neuroengineering, and clinical neural prostheses.
- To identify potential solutions to these needs 
based on recent progress in nano- and micro-technology.
- To identify how NNIN can best leverage its 
tools, user base and staff expertise to enable these goals.

Tentative agenda

Thursday, December 11, 2008

8:30 AM - opening remarks, Professor Yoshio 
Nishi, Stanford, Professor Krishna Shenoy, Stanford
9:00 AM - Professor William Newsome, Stanford 
University - "The Need for Measuring/Perturbing 
Neural Activity for Basic Neuroscience and Prostheses"
9:30 AM - Professor Jose Carmena, UC Berkeley - title TBD
10:00 AM - Professor Daryl Kipke, University of Michigan - title TBD
10:30 AM - break
11:00 AM - Professor Florian Solzbacher, 
University of Utah - "Next Generation Neural 
Interfaces - Bridging the Gap Between Engineering and Healthcare"
11:30 AM - Professor Wentai Liu, UC Santa Cruz - title TBD
12 noon - lunch
1:00 PM - Professor Mark Wrightman, UNC - 
"Monitoring Chemical Neurotransmission and Single Unit Activity Simultaneously"
1:30 PM - Professor Paul Garris, Illinois State 
University - "Toward a Smart Deep Brain 
Stimulator with Chemical Sensing Feedback for Control"
2:00 PM -  Professor Daniel Palanker, Stanford 
University - "Optoelectronic Retinal Prosthesis 
for Restoring Sight to the Blind"
2:30 PM - Professor Ellis Meng, USC - "Hybrid 
Neural Interfaces and Implantable Drug Delivery Systems Enabled by BioMEMS"
3:00 PM - Professor Edward Keefer, UT Southwestern - title TBD
3:30 PM - break
4:00 PM - Professor Bruce Wheeler, University 
Illinois, Urbana Champaign - "Brain on a Chip: 
Progress in its Design and Construction"
4:30 PM - Dr. Vijendra Sahi, Nanosys Inc. - title TBD
5:00 PM - Professor Mark Schnitzer, Stanford University - title TBD
5:30 PM - Professor Karl Deisseroth, Stanford 
University - "Optogenetics: Development and Application"

Friday December 12, 2008

8:30 AM - Breakout group discussion - "Neuro-Nano Needs and Opportunities"
10:30 AM - break
11:00 AM - Breakout group overview - "Neuro-Nano Needs and Opportunities"
12 noon - closing remarks








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From gthareja at gmail.com  Tue Nov 18 23:22:44 2008
From: gthareja at gmail.com (gaurav thareja)
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:22:44 -0800
Subject: [Stanford Nanosociety Seminar] Friday 11/21, 12pm McCullough 115. Photonic Crystal Devices for Classical and Quantum Information
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Please plan to attend this interesting seminar.


Stanford Nanoscience &Nanotechnology Society* **Seminar *
>
>
> ***Photonic Crystal Devices for Classical and Quantum Information**
> **
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> *
> Andrei Faraon (Jelena Vuckovic group* )
>
> **
> When: **Friday Nov. 21**th** 12pm *
> *
> Where: **McCullough Rm 115*
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> Free Food **(pizza) **served at 11:45am
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> For more information please visit http://nanosociety.stanford.edu
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From rschaevitz at stanford.edu  Wed Nov 19 13:46:29 2008
From: rschaevitz at stanford.edu (Rebecca Schaevitz)
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:46:29 -0800
Subject: Reminder: OSA/SPIE Seminar (TOMORROW): OSA Traveling Lecturer Yannick Lize / Stratalight - Thurs. 11/20, 4pm, Ginzton AP 200
Message-ID: <975904830811191346u4ee701b8g91ed1c34da843aa0@mail.gmail.com>

Reminder for upcoming talk by an OSA Traveling Lecturer tomorrow (Thursday),
at 4:15pm (refreshments at 4pm) in AP200.


The Optical Society of America/SPIE Stanford Student Chapter presents:
>
> "Optical Fibers: From next generation telecom networks and enabling
> devices, to high power fiber lasers for industrial applications."
> Speaker: Yannick Lize
>
> Thursday, November 20
> 4:15pm, Ginzton Building, AP200
> Refreshments at 4:00pm
>
> Abstract: The most common application of optical fibers is in telecom
> systems. From transoceanic and transcontinental to metropolitan
> communications, fiber optic systems deliver voice and data content with at
> high speed with unprecedented quality. Nowadays fiber optics usage is even
> getting economical enough to be a serious contender to copper wires and
> cable in intra-office communication and fiber to the home delivery. In this
> presentation, we discuss next generation ultra high speed 40Gb/s and 100Gb/s
> optical fiber communication systems and the devices that enable them from
> the point of view of an optical sub-system company. We'll also discuss
> alternative uses of optical fibers, such as high power fiber laser for laser
> cutting and welding in industrial applications.
>
> About our speaker: Dr Yannick Keith Lize obtained the BSc in Applied
> Physics from Concordia University in Montreal and the M.Sc. in physics from
> ?cole Polytechnique. His PhD thesis on optical differential phase shift
> keying (DPSK) generation, transmission and demodulation was done at ?cole
> Polytechnique de Montreal under Prof. Nicolas Godbout and Prof. Alan E.
> Willner.
> As a recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, Yannick has 20
> peer-reviewed publications to his credit (15 as first author), 40 papers at
> international conferences including 3 invited papers, as well as 5 patents.
> He is currently Senior Optical Designer at Stratalight Communications in Los
> Gatos, CA, developing 40Gb/s optical subsystems and transponders. He is a
> member of the OSA, IEEE LEOS, IEEE ComSoc and SPIE. Yannick is a member of
> the OSA Membership and Education Services (MES) council, the OSA Esther
> Hoffman Beller Medal Committee, the OSA Young Professional Advisory Board
> and an OSA travelling lecturer. He is on the technical program committees of
> the IEEE 7th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks
> (ICOCN 2008) and the IEEE LEOS Summer Topicals 2009.
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From gthareja at stanford.edu  Wed Nov 19 13:46:17 2008
From: gthareja at stanford.edu (Gaurav Thareja)
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:46:17 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Friday 11/21, 12pm McCullough 115. Photonic Crystal Devices for
 Classical and Quantum Information
Message-ID: <1412914253.335361227131177753.JavaMail.root@zm06.stanford.edu>

Please plan to attend this interesting seminar.

Stanford Nanoscience &Nanotechnology Society Seminar
Photonic Crystal Devices for Classical and Quantum Information

Andrei Faraon (Jelena Vuckovic group )


When: Friday Nov. 21th 12pm
Where: McCullough Rm 115
Free Food (pizza) served at 11:45am

For more information please visit http://nanosociety.stanford.edu


From kcrabb at stanford.edu  Wed Nov 19 17:48:21 2008
From: kcrabb at stanford.edu (Kevin Crabb)
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:48:21 -0800
Subject: Lost Wafer...
Message-ID: <7AFF1453D48941D8AA748A8A0D640A5E@delllaptop>

Hi All,

I was processing several wafers at the litho svgcoat area today from
1:45-2:30pm or so, and seem to have lost one wafer.  If you happened to grab
an extra wafer with a 1cm x 1.5cm piece of nickel foil kapton-taped to it,
please let me know.  Thanks,

Kevin

kcrabb at stanford.edu

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From shott at stanford.edu  Wed Nov 19 17:49:46 2008
From: shott at stanford.edu (John Shott)
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:49:46 -0800
Subject: Coral "issues" .....
Message-ID: <4924C23A.5030305@stanford.edu>

SNF Lab Members:

Sigh .... we've had some Coral outages this week .... and for that I 
apologize.  Let me explain the set of thing that has happened and their 
status:

Recently (well, for the past few days) a number of you have noticed that 
Coral clients in the lab will occasionally fail to indicate that a tool 
has been enabled or disabled.  In other words, the clients occasionally 
fail to update.  For about a week, the part of Coral that sends out 
these notifications to all of the local clients has been getting hung up 
during times of high activity.  Once this has gotten hung up, we need to 
restart the Coral servers.  As a result, the Coral servers have been 
restarting 3 to 4 times per day.  Note: if we aren't around to restart 
the servers, there is an automatic means of determining that the servers 
are hung so that even if Bill or I are not around, the servers will 
restart themselves after a while.

Interestingly, the part of Coral that has been getting hung up is code 
that has not been changed in probably 5 years.  Also, the version of 
Java that we are running has not been updated in a number of months.  It 
seems as if this must be related to some underlying networking problem 
at the socket level .... but the cause has certainly been perplexing.

Earlier this afternoon, however, we heard reports that people couldn't 
get in on Remote Coral.  This turned out to be a hardware failure of our 
4-channel network card.  To replace the card we had to take the Coral 
servers down which, of course, prevented local Coral sessions from running.

But at this point (5:35 p.m. on Wednesday) the Coral servers are back 
up, the network card has been replaced, and both local and remote Coral 
sessions seem to be functioning properly.

Were our problems with the event server that caused the server restarts 
and the client update problems earlier this week due to some early 
problems with the network card that completely failed this afternoon?  
We don't yet know .... but we are monitoring closely.

If the Event Manager continues to hang this week, however, we are 
prepared to move the Coral servers onto a new platform.  To do this will 
require a planned outage of Coral early Saturday morning with a planned 
outage extending from about 4 a.m. to 7 a.m.  We will send out another 
announcement, however, if we need to follow through on that this weekend.

We apologize for these inconveniences .... Team Coral tries hard to 
deliver good availability and we know that access has been less reliable 
than normal this week.

Thank you for your continued support,

John





From shott at stanford.edu  Thu Nov 20 06:16:31 2008
From: shott at stanford.edu (John Shott)
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:16:31 -0800
Subject: Firefox 3 ...
Message-ID: <4925713F.2000606@stanford.edu>

SNF Lab Members:

When I recently asked about problems with Mozilla hanging, I heard from 
a number of you about problems with Firefox crashing frequently ... 
particularly when visiting sites such a gmail.google.com.

A bit of study indicated that Firefox 3 has resolved a number of these 
issues.  As a result, I've now installed Firefox 3 on the Sunrays in the 
lab and it will be the browser that you get either if you issue the 
command "firefox" at the command prompt or if you click the Firefox icon 
in the menus.  (Note: if you still want/need to run the old version, you 
can issue the command "firefox2".)  The first time that you fire up the 
new Firefox 3, it will show you a License Acceptance window and then 
likely ask if you'd like that to be your default browser.

I'd like to thank Tom O'Sullivan, Kelley Riviore, Joey Doll, Albert Lin 
and Nahid Harjee for doing some advance testing of Firefox 3 for me.

Let me know if you encounter any problems but I'm hopeful that this will 
improve the Firefox experience for many of you.

Happy browsing,

John



From pruitt at stanford.edu  Thu Nov 20 11:33:15 2008
From: pruitt at stanford.edu (Beth Pruitt)
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:33:15 -0800
Subject: Mechanics of Surface Effects in Nanoscale Device-Making and
 Manufacturing
Message-ID: <p06230966c54b6b700549@[171.66.41.208]>

ME395 seminar today in Gates B12 at 4:15  (11/20)

K. Jimmy Hsia
Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL 61801, USA
kjhsia at illinois.edu

Mechanics of Surface Effects in Nanoscale Device-Making and Manufacturing
Nanoscale science and technology has been an important frontier in 
research and development in the past decade. Miniaturization is the 
major driving force behind these research activities. As the 
characteristic dimensions of devices and MEMS/NEMS components become 
smaller, however, the surface to volume ratio of these components 
increases significantly. Consequently, many surface phenomena, such 
as capillary interactions and surface adhesion, become increasingly 
important. Many scientific issues of these phenomena can be best 
understood using a mechanics approach. In this talk, I will use two 
particular case studies to demonstrate that mechanics can indeed be a 
powerful tool to help understand these phenomena and provide guidance 
for nanomanufacturing and device-making. One case study considers the 
self-assembling process of a 3-D photovoltaic device made of thin 
silicon foil. The other studies the collapse of PDMS contact printing 
stamps. In both cases, models were developed to help understand the 
mechanisms controlling the behavior of these processes. Critical 
parameters emerge naturally from these analyses which can be used to 
guide the device formation and manufacturing of nanoscale components.

About the Speaker: Dr. K. Jimmy Hsia is Professor of Mechanical 
Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at 
Urbana-Champaign where he has been on the engineering faculty for the 
past 16 years. He received his B.S. in Engineering Mechanics from 
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and his Ph.D. in Mechanical 
Engineering from MIT. He has been a Visiting Scientist at the 
Max-Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart, Germany, a 
Visiting Professor at Nagoya University in Japan, and a Visiting 
Professor at Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Research in 
China. His research interests include deformation and failure 
mechanisms of materials at ambient and elevated temperatures, 
nano/micromechanics of materials, and nanoscale phenomena in 
biomaterials. He has served as Guest Editor/Co-Editor for several 
special issues of Materials Science and Engineering. He is recipient 
of an NSF Research Initiation Award, a Max-Planck Society 
Scholarship, and a Japan Society for Promotion of Science Fellowship. 
 From 2005-2007, Jimmy Hsia served as the Founding Director of Nano 
and Bio Mechanics & Materials Program in the Directorate for 
Engineering at the National Science Foundation (NSF). At NSF, he was 
actively involved in establishing the initiative of "Cellular and 
Biomolecular Engineering" for the new Office of Emerging Frontiers in 
Research and Innovation. He also participated in the Interagency 
Modeling and Analysis Group (IMAG) involving NSF, NIH, NASA, and DoE 
programs, and other multi-agency activities. Jimmy Hsia returned to 
teaching at the University of Illinois in Fall of 2007. He has been 
named an Associate of Center for Advanced Study at UIUC since August 
of 2008.
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From xhlim at stanford.edu  Thu Nov 20 17:03:59 2008
From: xhlim at stanford.edu (Xiao Hann Lim)
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:03:59 -0800 (PST)
Subject: thick oxide on silicon
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Hi Labmembers,

Does anyone have any recommendations of vendors or companies that might be able to provide 5 microns of thermal oxide on silicon wafers at a good price? 

The other question I have is would anyone be interested in purchasing thick thermal oxide on silicon with me? I have contacted a company, but their minimum order is 25. I don't need so many, so if someone is interested in perhaps a few of the wafers, please do let me know, and we can try to work something out. 

Thanks,
Xiao Hann


From mtang at stanford.edu  Fri Nov 21 11:54:38 2008
From: mtang at stanford.edu (Mary Tang)
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:54:38 -0800
Subject: Cleantamination Meeting Reminder:  Today, Friday, 3 pm
Message-ID: <492711FE.4020500@stanford.edu>

Hi all --

A reminder of the Contamination/Cleanliness (Cleantamination) meeting 
today at 3 pm in CIS 101.  The topics will be:
- quantitative methods of contamination analysis
- cleanliness policies on amtetcher and sts dep
- update from working groups

Your SNF Staff

-- 
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 mahnaz at stanford.edu  Fri Nov 21 14:57:01 2008
From: mahnaz at stanford.edu (Mahnaz Mansourpour)
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:57:01 -0800
Subject: LDD26W developer change
Message-ID: <49273CBD.8020102@stanford.edu>


Hello all,

Here is the work we have done  for  switching from LDD26W to new developer.
I have done more experiment for Post exposer bake and few other things 
which I will publish later.

Please if you need help or like to discuss your process come by and lets 
talk.

mahnaz
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From sanazm at stanford.edu  Thu Nov 27 09:47:23 2008
From: sanazm at stanford.edu (Sanaz Motahari)
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:47:23 -0800
Subject: Panel Discussion - "Perspectives in High-Tech Electronics Industry"
Message-ID: <10d873c90811270947x30161ac6l6cb3cf9373e469a3@mail.gmail.com>

Dear all,


PSA-BA would like to cordially invite you to its first event of the
year - "Perspectives
in High-Tech Electronics Industry". This event will be a panel discussion
with two successful entrepreneurs, Ramin Farjad and Shahriar Rabii, followed
by an extended Q&A and reception. Come to hear about the challenges they
have faced and their vision for the electronics industry in the next decade.


When: Thursday December 4th, 6pm

Where: CIS-X 101


Speakers:

Ramin Farjad co-founded Aquantia where he serves as the company's Chief
Architect. He is also a founding member of Velio communications which was
later acquired by Rambus. Dr. Farjad has established himself as a leading
architect of high performance, high bandwidth communications circuits. He
holds Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford
University.


Shahariar Rabii co-founded Arda Technologies in October 2006 and serves as
the company's CEO. Dr. Rabii has 20 years of experience in design, research,
manufacturing and marketing of electronics. Most recently, he was a founder
of Aeluros (now part of NetLogic), where he had responsibility for
engineering and business development on multiple products. Before
co-founding Aeluros, he led the group at Atheros Communications. Dr. Rabii
holds a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He
was a visiting lecturer at Stanford University from 1999 to 2001 and holds 8
patents.


Hope to see you there,


The PSA-BA board

http://psa.stanford.edu/ba
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