Facility Updates

MIT.nano staff have implemented changes to the gowning protocols that should help avoid pre-emptive reservations, which reduce availability and frustrate those coming to the lab. Read the revised procedures in this post.

The Fab-39 mechanical week will be November 16–20, 2020. Tools may start to get shut down on Friday, November 13, for tools with no reservations.

The September MIT.nano user meeting is scheduled for Thursday, September 30, at 2 p.m. Read more and see the tentative agenda in this post.

On Friday October 1, 2020, MIT facilities is scheduled to do maintenance on the soft-lithography (24U) recirculating air handler.

MIT.nano staff are increasing TRL gowning capacity by adding “Akrobins” to allow users to store garments in plastic bags. Learn how it works in this post.

MIT.nano has single and double storage bins in bay U12 in Fab-12. These can fit small sample carriers, user-tools, 6” wafer boxes, and (with some light maneuvering) even 8” wafer boxes. How do you use them? Read more in this update.

Starting Tuesday, September 8, we will launch the option to use blue lab frocks for the class 1,000/10,000 spaces in Fab-12. More information on gowning options can be found in this post.

Some of the MIT.nano staff and users talked to Heidelberg on ways to make the MLA150 in TRL more resilient and reduce problems. Heidelberg will help us make some software changes/updates in the next two weeks or so, which should reduce certain slowdown issues recently observed.