John Bumgarner started today as the Operations Director of the SNF. We
are looking forward to his leadership as the SNF goes through a major
overhaul and upgrade over the next year -- and beyond. His experience
in start-ups, at Intel, in starting and running a university fab, and
most recently as Director of Microfabrication at SRI are going to be a
great foundation for his making the SNF a more effective research lab.
Please join me in welcoming John to the SNF! (His Stanford email isn't
set up yet, so he's not cc'ed.)
Thanks,
Roger
* A couple of overdue updates:
The NSF ARI-R2 + Stanford-funded renovation project is in the design
phase, with the general contractor and critical subs selected a couple
of weeks ago. Helena Cipres-Palacin is the new project manager. A
preliminary meeting was held last Wednesday in San Jose between the
project team (with contractors) and the Santa Clara County fire,
building, and health & safety officials, to present the plan for a
six-week long shut down from Dec. 15, 2011 - Jan. 31, 2012. This
meeting wasn't to ask for formal approval, but the general strategy was
given a verbal OK. Unfortunately, we will not know for sure whether the
shutdown will happen as planned until the permits are granted by the
County. I am assuming that all or a major part of the work (the new
TGO, power, gas distribution, new process chilled water, replacement of
the HEPA filters, ...) will occur during this period.
Four new dry etchers are being ordered this week or next, with
contributions for many faculty, dept. chairs, and deans here ... Plasma
Therm silicon DRIE, dielectric DRIE, and metal ICP etcher and an Oxford
III-V etcher. Grace Wu has spent a huge amount of time pushing this
large and complex order through the accounting and purchasing systems.
These etchers will be brought into the lab during the shutdown and
installed early in 2012. Needless to say, these new tools will have a
major impact on our dry etch capabilities.
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