Tuesday, December 23, 2008

synthetic single crystal quartz

Dear labmembers, does anyone have used synthetic single crystal quartz
before, either as wafers or for other functionality? I am hoping to find
very tiny amount (~mg) of quartz for use in high-pressure measurements.
I was wondering if you happen to have old samples that you'll never use
again containing quartz? Or if you know where to get synthetic single
crystal quartz. I'd really appreciate any kind of help.

Thanks and happy holidays!
Shibing Wang
shibingw@stanford.edu

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Missing storage box - EHE

Greetings labmembers,

I'm having trouble locating a brown box labelled on at least two sides
"Elizabeth Edwards/ehe@stanford.edu 12/2008" that was in the storage
racks in the CAD room. I last saw it around 12/17/08 and could not
find it anywhere in the CAD room or hallway. If you see it anywhere
please send me an email.

Thanks,
Liz Edwards
ehe@stanford.edu

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Reminder: MEMS Seminar Today: Guided Self-Assembly & Artificial Structural Colors for Smart Scalable Systems, 2-3pm CISX-101

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

Thursday, December 18th, 2008
2:00 – 3:00 pm
CISX-101

Title:
Guided Self-Assembly & Artificial Structural Colors for Smart Scalable Systems

Speaker:
Prof. Sunghoon Kwon
Seoul National University, Korea


Abstract:
There are two different fabrication methods for building complex micro devices: top-down and bottom-up. The top-down approach, based on conventional photolithography, has given us amazing CMOS manufacturing capabilities but it's facing a fundamental limit in it's downward scalability. Recently, various bottom-up manufacturing technologies have gained notice for their ability to overcome limits of top-down manufacturing. Breakthroughs will result from marrying top-down technique such as lithography and bottom-up technique such as self-assembly.
Moving past the mundane introduction, what I really want to talk about is 'Smart Scalable Systems', a radical bottom-up point of view for building complex systems. It seeks to construct a complex system by self-assembly of many simpler components, like a mosaic or a collage in art. Instead of building a system monolithically, it scalably assembles lots of small parts that are manufactured separately in large quantity to build up complex systems such as biosensors, energy sources, and displays. In this seminar optofluidic maskless lithography will be presented as a first step for smart particle generation. Secondly, various fluidic self-assembly technologies such as railed microfluidics will be discussed as a smart particle assembly method. Then I will give a road map of application examples such as encoded particle based scalable biosensors, LED chip packaging, scalable energy sources and scalable displays. Finally, I will end with an innovative method of artificially mimicking nature's various structural colors as a first step to scalable display. By creatively combining OFML and magnetic self-assembly, we demonstrated full color printing of artificial structural color using a single material.

Bio.:
Sunghoon Kwon was born and raised in Seoul, Korea. He received his BS from Seoul National University in Electrical Engineering in 1998. Fascinated by MRI and CT, he decided to study biomedical engineering and got his MS in BME from SNU. His passion for sailing motivated him to move to the Bay area for his advanced degree. In 2004, he got his Ph.D in Bioengineering at UC Berkeley completing his thesis work on MEMS confocal microscopes with Professor Luke Lee. He then worked on various nanofabrication and nanoscience problems with Professor Jeff Bokor at the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He also founded SPS Microsystems, a company working on commercialization of a MEMS projector for cell phone. In 2006 he arrived back to Korea and joined SNU EE as a faculty member. His research group, the Biophotonics and Nano Engineering Laboratory (BINEL), is now working on various topics such as guided self assembly, scalable biosensors, and artificial structural colors.

Seminar today 2-3 in CISX-101

Everyone (who's still around),

This seminar is worth attending -- Prof. Sunghoon Kwon from SNU.

Roger

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

Thursday, December 18th, 2008
2:00 – 3:00 pm
CISX-101

Title:
Guided Self-Assembly & Artificial Structural Colors for Smart Scalable Systems

Speaker:
Prof. Sunghoon Kwon
Seoul National University, Korea


Abstract:
There are two different fabrication methods for building complex micro devices: top-down and bottom-up. The top-down approach, based on conventional photolithography, has given us amazing CMOS manufacturing capabilities but it's facing a fundamental limit in it's downward scalability. Recently, various bottom-up manufacturing technologies have gained notice for their ability to overcome limits of top-down manufacturing. Breakthroughs will result from marrying top-down technique such as lithography and bottom-up technique such as self-assembly.
Moving past the mundane introduction, what I really want to talk about is 'Smart Scalable Systems', a radical bottom-up point of view for building complex systems. It seeks to construct a complex system by self-assembly of many simpler components, like a mosaic or a collage in art. Instead of building a system monolithically, it scalably assembles lots of small parts that are manufactured separately in large quantity to build up complex systems such as biosensors, energy sources, and displays. In this seminar optofluidic maskless lithography will be presented as a first step for smart particle generation. Secondly, various fluidic self-assembly technologies such as railed microfluidics will be discussed as a smart particle assembly method. Then I will give a road map of application examples such as encoded particle based scalable biosensors, LED chip packaging, scalable energy sources and scalable displays. Finally, I will end with an innovative method of artificially mimicking nature's various structural colors as a first step to scalable display. By creatively combining OFML and magnetic self-assembly, we demonstrated full color printing of artificial structural color using a single material.

Bio.:
Sunghoon Kwon was born and raised in Seoul, Korea. He received his BS from Seoul National University in Electrical Engineering in 1998. Fascinated by MRI and CT, he decided to study biomedical engineering and got his MS in BME from SNU. His passion for sailing motivated him to move to the Bay area for his advanced degree. In 2004, he got his Ph.D in Bioengineering at UC Berkeley completing his thesis work on MEMS confocal microscopes with Professor Luke Lee. He then worked on various nanofabrication and nanoscience problems with Professor Jeff Bokor at the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He also founded SPS Microsystems, a company working on commercialization of a MEMS projector for cell phone. In 2006 he arrived back to Korea and joined SNU EE as a faculty member. His research group, the Biophotonics and Nano Engineering Laboratory (BINEL), is now working on various topics such as guided self assembly, scalable biosensors, and artificial structural colors.

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borrow Pt paste?

Is anyone willing to let me borrow 2 drops of Pt paste? I'd like to test it before asking my advisor to plop down $1000 on a new jar.

Thanks,
Tim

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

SNF Lab is now in Annual Shutdown

Dear Labmembers:

The SNF Lab is now officially closed for business. We will reopen on
Tuesday, Jan. 6, at 7 am.

During the shutdown, only SNF staff, Facilities, and contractors are
allowed into the cleanroom. There will be many "non-clean" and even
potentially hazardous activities being performed (to make the lab a
cleaner, brighter place when you return) so labmembers are not allowed
inside the lab until 1/6.

Limited access to equipment outside the lab (wafersaw, semhitachi) is
allowed: please check with Staff before using as there will be
Facilities and maintenance work planned which will affect access or use
of these tools.

Until startup -- Happy holidays-- and see you next year!

Your SNF Staff

--
Mary X. Tang, Ph.D.
Stanford Nanofabrication Facility
CIS Room 136, Mail Code 4070
Stanford, CA 94305
(650)723-9980
mtang@stanford.edu
http://snf.stanford.edu

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Annual Alarm Testing: Wed. Dec. 17, 9 am - noon

Dear Building Occupants:

The annual testing of the Toxic Gas Alarm system will begin Wednesday
morning, Dec. 17. There will be a brief activation of the fire alarm
system in the morning which is part of the testing. There is no need to
evacuate for this test. (In the case of an emergency situation, the
alarm will continue for more than a few seconds.)

Your SNF Staff

--
Mary X. Tang, Ph.D.
Stanford Nanofabrication Facility
CIS Room 136, Mail Code 4070
Stanford, CA 94305
(650)723-9980
mtang@stanford.edu
http://snf.stanford.edu

Problem p5000etch SNF 2008-12-16 04:13:26: wafer stuck in Chamber C

Robot extension position not known error: got my wafers out in the exchange chamber but 1 dummy is stuck in Ch. C.

Monday, December 15, 2008

MEMS Seminar: Thursday, December 18th, Guided Self-Assembly & Artificial Structural Colors for Smart Scalable Systems, 2-3pm CISX-101

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

Thursday, December 18th, 2008
2:00 – 3:00 pm
CISX-101

Title:
Guided Self-Assembly & Artificial Structural Colors for Smart Scalable Systems

Speaker:
Prof. Sunghoon Kwon
Seoul National University, Korea


Abstract:
There are two different fabrication methods for building complex micro devices: top-down and bottom-up. The top-down approach, based on conventional photolithography, has given us amazing CMOS manufacturing capabilities but it's facing a fundamental limit in it's downward scalability. Recently, various bottom-up manufacturing technologies have gained notice for their ability to overcome limits of top-down manufacturing. Breakthroughs will result from marrying top-down technique such as lithography and bottom-up technique such as self-assembly.
Moving past the mundane introduction, what I really want to talk about is 'Smart Scalable Systems', a radical bottom-up point of view for building complex systems. It seeks to construct a complex system by self-assembly of many simpler components, like a mosaic or a collage in art. Instead of building a system monolithically, it scalably assembles lots of small parts that are manufactured separately in large quantity to build up complex systems such as biosensors, energy sources, and displays. In this seminar optofluidic maskless lithography will be presented as a first step for smart particle generation. Secondly, various fluidic self-assembly technologies such as railed microfluidics will be discussed as a smart particle assembly method. Then I will give a road map of application examples such as encoded particle based scalable biosensors, LED chip packaging, scalable energy sources and scalable displays. Finally, I will end with an innovative method of artificially mimicking nature's various structural colors as a first step to scalable display. By creatively combining OFML and magnetic self-assembly, we demonstrated full color printing of artificial structural color using a single material.

Bio.:
Sunghoon Kwon was born and raised in Seoul, Korea. He received his BS from Seoul National University in Electrical Engineering in 1998. Fascinated by MRI and CT, he decided to study biomedical engineering and got his MS in BME from SNU. His passion for sailing motivated him to move to the Bay area for his advanced degree. In 2004, he got his Ph.D in Bioengineering at UC Berkeley completing his thesis work on MEMS confocal microscopes with Professor Luke Lee. He then worked on various nanofabrication and nanoscience problems with Professor Jeff Bokor at the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He also founded SPS Microsystems, a company working on commercialization of a MEMS projector for cell phone. In 2006 he arrived back to Korea and joined SNU EE as a faculty member. His research group, the Biophotonics and Nano Engineering Laboratory (BINEL), is now working on various topics such as guided self assembly, scalable biosensors, and artificial structural colors.

Anyone used BCB (benzocyclobutene) before?

Hello, labmember.

Is there anyone who used BCB (benzocyclobutene) in the lab before? I
plan to use it for a dielectric between metal interconnect lines. I
would appreciate getting your advice about BCB process. Thank you.

Regards,
Yoonyoung


--
Yoonyoung Chung
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Electrical Engineering
Stanford University

Email: yoonyoung.chung@stanford.edu
---------------------------------------------------------
Final judge is by Nature itself

Saturday, December 13, 2008

Problem p5000etch SNF 2008-12-13 20:11:32: Particles in Chamber A

I ran CH A METAL and saw a lot of particles.
Chamber cleaning is needed.

warning from p5000etch-pcs@snf.stanford.edu

Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing the
p5000etch-pcs@snf.stanford.edu mailing list.

I'm working for my owner, who can be reached
at p5000etch-pcs-owner@snf.stanford.edu.


Messages to you from the p5000etch-pcs mailing list seem to
have been bouncing. I've attached a copy of the first bounce
message I received.

If this message bounces too, I will send you a probe. If the probe bounces,
I will remove your address from the p5000etch-pcs mailing list,
without further notice.


I've kept a list of which messages from the p5000etch-pcs mailing list have
bounced from your address.

Copies of these messages may be in the archive.

To retrieve a set of messages 123-145 (a maximum of 100 per request),
send an empty message to:
<p5000etch-pcs-get.123_145@snf.stanford.edu>

To receive a subject and author list for the last 100 or so messages,
send an empty message to:
<p5000etch-pcs-index@snf.stanford.edu>

Here are the message numbers:

2375
2376

--- Enclosed is a copy of the bounce message I received.

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Friday, December 12, 2008

IMPORTANT! EVACUATION DRILL MONDAY DECEMBER 15TH 9:30 AM

//

Labmembers:

Please be aware that the annual building evacuation drill will take
place on Monday, December 15, at 9:30 am. What does this mean for the
lab? This means that at that time, the fire alarm will go off.
Everyone must evacuate both buildings, including the lab, and report to
the Emergency Assembly Point. The Fire department will perform a sweep
of the building and lab to make sure everyone has left. The evacuation
drill ends when the Fire Marshal gives the "all clear". We don't
anticipate it will take long; perhaps 30 minutes at most.

Although alarms will sound, no other building systems should be affected
(in the case of a real fire alarm, toxic gases will shut off). Long
furnace runs and other operations that can normally be run safely
unattended for this period of time should be unaffected. However,
attended operations should be avoided during this time. Please plan
your processing Monday morning accordingly.

Thanks for your attention --

Your SNF Staff

--
Mary X. Tang, Ph.D.
Stanford Nanofabrication Facility
CIS Room 136, Mail Code 4070
Stanford, CA 94305
(650)723-9980
mtang@stanford.edu
http://snf.stanford.edu

Kevin Huang Ph.D. Defense (Mon Dec. 15, 2pm, CIS-X 101)

Come for some food if still around next Monday!

--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Title: Expandable Monolithic Silicon Network For Cost-Effective Large Area Electronics

University Oral Examination
Kevin Huang
Department of Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
Advisor: Peter Peumans


Date: Monday, December 15, 2008
Time: 2pm (Refreshments served at 1:45pm)
Location: CIS-X 101 (Auditorium)

Abstract:

CMOS technology has progressed substantially over the past decades in terms of cost per function and energy required per unit of computation due to advances in microelectronic manufacturing.  Unfortunately, these advances have not been shared by the field of large area electronics because a different set of constraints exists in this field, for example, cost per unit area is an important factor when evaluating the applicability of technologies.  Therefore, entirely different technologies such as inkjet printing or other pattern transfer methods are used. One method, fluidic self-assembly, uses small chiplets of monolithic silicon electronics that self-assemble at specific sites in a large-area system to realize large-area electronics. This approach does benefit from advances in CMOS technology and allows one to build large-area and high-performance electronic systems, but it has proven challenging to ensure high yields and throughput. 

Our approach to construct large-area electronic systems from monolithic silicon substrates expands a functional silicon die by several orders of magnitude in area by structuring the silicon die as a two-dimensional network of silicon islands and springs.  Each island houses electronics and connects mechanically and electrically via springs to neighboring islands in a 2D network topology. Electrical interconnects on top of the spiral springs provide electrical connectivity between the islands. Since all the strain induced by the expansion process is contained in the spiral springs, the active device area remains strain free.  Silicon networks with built-in 2D expandability can also conform to curved surfaces.  The fabrication process required to realize such networks can be performed on a wafer that has been fully processed in a foundry as a post-CMOS process.

Expandable silicon is a platform technology that enables the use of microelectronic manufacturing, with its exponential reduction in cost per electronic function and exponential increase in performance, in large-area systems. This preserves the benefits of foundry processing while reducing cost per unit area to levels compatible with many application domains.  This technology can be used for the cost-effective manufacturing of microconcentrator solar cells, RFID tags, sensor networks, curved imagers, retinal prostheses, and displays. In my talk, I will discuss the design constraints of expandable silicon, the processes that were developed and illustrate the use of expandable silicon.

Cleantamination Meeting Canceled - Meet again in Jan09!

Dear Labmembers --

Today's scheduled Cleantamination meeting has been canceled since many
people are out or otherwise committed (I, for example, am on jury duty
call.) The summary of the last meeting is posted on the wiki at:
https://spf.stanford.edu/SNF/processes/cleantamination-group/mtg-3

Comments on this and suggestions for topics for the next meeting are
welcome. We will meet again the first Friday in January. Topics for
discussion will include:

Update on projects
1. Measuring contamination
2. RTA's for gold
3. STS etch policies
4. "Semi-Clean" chrome processing
5. ALD
6. STS dep cleaning and contamination

If you have a contamination or cleanliness process concern which entails
a policy or equipment change beyond the scope of SpecMat, please let me
know and we'll add it to the agenda.

See you next year!

Mary

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Nano for N^3 workshop announcement

Reminder - Today and Tomorrow

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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@stanford.edu) and Professor Yoshio Nishi (nishi@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 - "Technology constraints for bidirectional brain-machine interfaces"
10:00 AM - Professor Daryl Kipke, University of Michigan - "Micro- and nano-scaled implantable devices for high-fidelity, chronic neural interfaces in neuroprosthetic and scientific applications"
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 - "Integration and Miniaturization of Neural Implants"
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 - "Characteristics of carbon nanotube neural interfaces"
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 - "Of Mice, Men, and Microscopes: Imaging cellular dyamics of motor control in behaving subjects"
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








Wednesday, December 10, 2008

missing bonded piece

Dear labusers,

a 50x50mm square bonded Si piece was taken from the EVBond501 table this morning (~10am). I know it looked aesthetically pleasing, but I need it back.

Please let me know if you have mistakenly taken it, or place it back inside my box that is on the table.

Thanks,

Filip

--------------------------------------
Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford University
Department of Electrical Engineering
Center for Integrated Systems
B-103, 420 Via Palou
Stanford, CA 94305

Woollam Training Course

Fellow Lab Members,

The JA Woollam company, the manufacture of our Spectral Ellipsometer,
is proposing a condensed two day training course covering their
WVASE32 modeling software. Since this is a customized course for our
ellipsometer users we want to gauge the interest in the course before
we start making the arrangements.

The course would be in the April time frame and the cost would be
approximately $500 per person, paid directly to JA Woollam.

Please let me know if this is a course you would plan on attending,
or under what circumstances you would attend. Please don't say free
because there are real costs to holding this course.

Thanks,
Ed

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Make sure to properly use Hazardous Waste Tags!

Dear labmembers --

Please make sure to properly fill out hazardous waste tags when
disposing of chemical waste.

1. Use complete, proper chemical names. DO NOT use acronyms or trade
names ("Cr14 etch") but list all the chemicals in the mix. Stanford EH&S
(Environmental Health & Safety) department needs to know what the
chemicals are in order to properly sort and dispose of them (and they
are not going to know what "Gold Etch" or "AL12" means.)

2. Examples are posted at the Chemicals Passthrough. Chemical
compositions for the most chemical mixtures are now posted there too.
(And if your favorite chemical mixture isn't listed, let Uli know.)

3. For hazardous waste tags that are not properly filled out: you will
be called back into the lab to fill out a proper tag. Second offense,
you'll be expected to help staff label, bag and sort general lab waste.

We realize that many labmembers are electrical engineers with a year of
undergraduate general chemistry a distant memory... But it is important
that everyone one of us is diligent in managing our chemical waste in a
way that makes it safe for us, for the people who have to take care of
it, and our environment. If you have any questions about these
procedures, the documentation, or other chemical safety concerns, please
bring them up with your favorite staff member.

Thanks for your attention --

Your Lab Staff

--
Mary X. Tang, Ph.D.
Stanford Nanofabrication Facility
CIS Room 136, Mail Code 4070
Stanford, CA 94305
(650)723-9980
mtang@stanford.edu
http://snf.stanford.edu

Monday, December 8, 2008

Maryam Ziaei-Moayyed's Defense: This Thursday at 1pm

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
University PhD Dissertation Defense

"Internal Electrostatic Transduction of RF MEMS Resonators"

Maryam Ziaei-Moayyed

Advisor: Professor Roger Howe

Department of Electrical Engineering
Stanford University

Date: Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Time: 1:00 pm
Location: Packard Building, Room 101

Abstract:

Radio Frequency (RF) Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) resonators offer advantages in terms of power, bandwidth, quality factor, and compatibility with CMOS technology. These resonators have many applications in wireless communications such as frequency references, filters and mixers. One of the major challenges of RF MEMS resonators is the high motional impedance. This work describes design, fabrication, and testing of internal electrostatic transduction of MEMS resonators. By replacing the air gap in resonators with high-k dielectrics, higher transduction efficiencies resulting in lower motional impedance and higher quality factor are achievable. Internal electrostatic transduction allows for efficient coupling to a specific resonance mode, while achieving high quality factors. The devices were fabricated in a novel and manufacturable double-nanogap process tailored toward high frequency resonators. Internal electrostatic transduction of a bulk-mode GHz ring resonator on a quartz substrate is demonstrated. By integrating the transducing electrode within the same vibrating structures, a Lamé-mode resonator with inherent differential drive, sense transduction and high quality factor is demonstrated. This work demonstrates the valuable potential of internal electrostatic transduction in extending MEMS resonators toward higher frequencies.

Nano for N^3 workshop announcement

Reminder - This is Thursday and Friday of this week.  Please register if you are interested in attending.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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@stanford.edu) and Professor Yoshio Nishi (nishi@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 - "Technology constraints for bidirectional brain-machine interfaces"
10:00 AM - Professor Daryl Kipke, University of Michigan - "Micro- and nano-scaled implantable devices for high-fidelity, chronic neural interfaces in neuroprosthetic and scientific applications"
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 - "Integration and Miniaturization of Neural Implants"
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 - "Characteristics of carbon nanotube neural interfaces"
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 - "Of Mice, Men, and Microscopes: Imaging cellular dyamics of motor control in behaving subjects"
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








Friday, December 5, 2008

CIS/SNF/CISX Building Party - NOW!

Hey all --

Come, take a break, and join your work and lab mates for some fun and
food -- the Building party is starting NOW!

Your Building party planners

--
Mary X. Tang, Ph.D.
Stanford Nanofabrication Facility
CIS Room 136, Mail Code 4070
Stanford, CA 94305
(650)723-9980
mtang@stanford.edu
http://snf.stanford.edu

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Thursday, December 4, 2008

IMPORTANT! EVACUATION DRILL MONDAY DECEMBER 15TH 9:30 AM

Labmembers:

Please be aware that the annual building evacuation drill will take
place on Monday, December 15, at 9:30 am. What does this mean for the
lab? This means that at that time, the fire alarm will go off.
Everyone must evacuate both buildings, including the lab, and report to
the Emergency Assembly Point. The Fire department will perform a sweep
of the building and lab to make sure everyone has left. The evacuation
drill ends when the Fire Marshal gives the "all clear". We don't
anticipate it will take long; perhaps 30 minutes at most.

Although alarms will sound, no other building systems should be affected
(in the case of a real fire alarm, toxic gases will shut off). Long
furnace runs and other operations that can normally be run safely
unattended for this period of time should be unaffected. However,
attended operations should be avoided during this time. Please plan
your processing Monday morning accordingly.

Thanks for your attention --

Your SNF Staff

--
Mary X. Tang, Ph.D.
Stanford Nanofabrication Facility
CIS Room 136, Mail Code 4070
Stanford, CA 94305
(650)723-9980
mtang@stanford.edu
http://snf.stanford.edu

Re: Comment p5000etch SNF 2008-10-07 20:02:38: Wafer transfer

archived

Re: Problem p5000etch SNF 2008-10-29 14:11:56: Ch C RF Power error

Calibrated the RF generator and ran 4 wafers using Ch.C Jim DP Trnch recipe with no problems

Re: Problem p5000etch SNF 2008-11-27 11:49:26: process stopped in ch.c

Calibrated the RF generator and ran 4 wafers using Ch.C Jim DP Trnch recipe with no problems

Re: Problem p5000etch SNF 2008-11-28 11:16:50: RF forward power error in ch. C

Calibrated the RF generator and ran 4 wafers using Ch.C Jim DP Trnch recipe with no problems

Re: Comment p5000etch SNF 2008-11-30 13:28:06: Re: RF power error in Ch C

Calibrated the RF generator and ran 4 wafers using Ch.C Jim DP Trnch recipe with no problems.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

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Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Raymond Woo Ph.D. Defense (Mon Dec. 8, 1pm, Packard 202)

Come for the food, stay for the free live entertainment.

-------------------------------------------------------
Band-to-Band Tunneling Transistors for Low Power Logic Applications

University Oral Examination
Raymond Woo
Department of Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
Advisor: James D. Plummer

Date: Monday, December 8, 2008
Time: 1pm (Refreshments served at 12:45pm)
Location: Packard Room 202

Abstract:

As MOSFET gate lengths are scaled below 45nm, fundamental physical
limitations are for the first time presenting barriers to further
scaling. Among the most important of these barriers is the 'kT/q'
limitation which, due to the thermal distribution of carriers, limits
the rate at which a MOSFET can be turned on or off with respect to
applied gate voltage. This means that as supply voltages are reduced,
leakage power is increasing exponentially.

This presentation first provides a review of the MOSFET leakage power
problem as well as a systematic study of all of the possible ways to
overcome the 'kT/q' limitation. Next, I focus on a specific novel
device, the Band-to-Band Tunneling (BTBT) transistor, which has the
potential to beat the 'kT/q' limit. Simulation and experimental studies
will be presented that provide a thorough understanding of BTBT devices
and their scaling properties. The use of different channel materials and
device structures are examined to explore the design space of BTBT
transistors and to gain insight into the practical prospects for these
devices to outperform MOSFETs.

Reminder: Annual SNF Lab Cleanup!!

Dear labmembers --

Remember, the lab shuts down for annual cleaning and maintenance starting
at 7 am sharp on WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17.

However, staff will begin cleanup on MONDAY, DECEMBER 15 according to
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 will be subject to reassignment to active labmembers,
SNF student helpers and guests. In addition, carpets will be cleaned
at 6 pm on Friday, December 5. All boxes and other personal items
should picked up off the floor.

Any questions, ask a staff member --

Thanks,

Mary

--
Mary X. Tang, Ph.D.
Stanford Nanofabrication Facility
CIS Room 136, Mail Code 4070
Stanford, CA 94305
(650)723-9980
mtang@stanford.edu
http://snf.stanford.edu

Monday, December 1, 2008

Process Clinic today, 2-4 pm

Labmembers --

Just a reminder of the Process Clinic today (Monday), from 2-4 pm in the
cubicle area near Maureen's office. Bring your process runsheets (or
learn how to make one), your processing questions, mask layouts, etc.
Staff will be on hand to help out where we can. Senior labmembers are
especially welcome to offer advice. We'll be there!

Your SNF staff

--
Mary X. Tang, Ph.D.
Stanford Nanofabrication Facility
CIS Room 136, Mail Code 4070
Stanford, CA 94305
(650)723-9980
mtang@stanford.edu
http://snf.stanford.edu