PQuest Preventive Maintenance

[Nickolai Belov]

Ed,

Thank you for bringing up the issue.

Preventive maintenance is a set of procedures.
I would suggest to e-mail a detailed description of your approach to the
preventive maintenance to PQuest users and to ask for a feedback.

In general, it is clear to me that regular maintenance is absolutely
necessary.

With respect

Nickolai Belov
Nanochip, Inc.
SNF labmember

-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Myers [mailto:edmyers at stanford.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 1:51 PM
To: pquest at snf.stanford.edu
Cc: mtang at stanford.edu; rissman at stanford.edu
Subject: PQuest Preventive Maintenance

PQuest Users,

Does the PQuest community want the SNF staff to schedule regular
preventive 
maintenance on the PQuest chamber?

A month ago Ceser cleaned the PQuest chamber after we received some 
complaints on repeatability of an etch process.  Apparently, this had a 
very positive effect on the user's etch.  The SNF staff would like to
take 
on more responsibility in maintaining the chamber condition, if it is 
agreeable with the PQuest community.  I'm told that manual cleaning of
the 
chamber is very unpleasant.  The proposed approach would mix in manual 
chamber cleans along with evaluation of a shutdown-chamber clean recipe 
similar to what Elmer added to the AMT etcher.

We will plan on implementing a preventive maintenance program unless we 
hear objections from the PQuest user community.  We are also looking for
a 
champion to help us design and evaluate the effects of any preventive 
maintenance.

Regards,
Ed