NTW is pleased to announce the arrival of a new technical staff member. Mr. Keith Ramsey joined NTW this week as a Research Associate. You will see Keith spending most of his time in the NTW Cleanroom and the MOCVD Lab where he will serve as the Lab Supervisor in addition to providing tool and process support. As you see …
Database Scheduled Maintenance
Nanotech West Lab (NTW) will be performing scheduled maintenance on the database on Thursday, August 2nd. The database will be down for approximately 24 hours. Services impacted include the website, scheduling system, interlocks, lab logins, and the displays. Please see the Listserve email for more details.
NTW Enhances Device Packaging Capability with Installation of Ball Bonder
Nanotech West is pleased to announce that a new ball bonder (tool code BND05) is now available for use. The system, a WestBond 7700-E-79 Ball-Wedge Bonder, is located in the Metrology Lab, Room 119. Although the system has both wedge and ball bonding capability, the bonder will be primarily configured to perform ball bonding and compliments the wedge bonding capability …
New NTW User Rates Effective July 1, 2018
The following is a list of rates that will go in effect on July 1, 2018. Description OSU Academic Non-OSU Aademic Non-Academic Direct Staff Time $100.00 $100.00 $100.00 Cleanroom Access $60.00 $93.60 $115.00 MICA Lab Access $50.00 $78.00 $100.00 ALN01/ALN02/ALN03 $23.10 $36.04 $46.20 BND01 – EV 520 Bonder $15.00 $23.40 $28.00 EVP01 – Denton 502A Evaporator $35.00 $54.60 $70.00 ETC01 …
NTW Cleanroom Adds Thermal Evaporator for Depositing Indium
Nanotech West is pleased to announce that a new thermal evaporator (tool code EVP05) is now available for use in the NTW Cleanroom. The system, located in the labs core space next to Bay 4, is a Denton 502A thermal evaporator (the same layout and chamber design as EVP01) and has a carousel sized to deposit on three 100mm wafers …
NTW Researcher Heads to COSI to Meet the Next Generation of Nanotechnology Scientists
Earlier this spring Nanotech West Senior Research Associate Dave Hollingshead visited COSI in downtown Columbus to talk with some of the next generation of great scientists and engineers. The COSI Academy program consists of local high school students who are interested in exploring careers in engineering and technology. The group investigated real-world examples based on recent research at NTW and …
IMR Executive Director Steven Ringel Honored as 2018 Distinguished University Professor
Institute for Materials and Manufacturing Research’s executive director, Steven Ringel, was named a 2018 Distinguished University Professor in recognition of his record in teaching, research and scholarly work. It is the highest honor awarded to faculty members, said Bruce McPheron, Ohio State executive vice president and provost, who presented the award on April 9. Ringel is the Neal A. Smith …
MICA Lab Adds New Optical Test Station (PRB08)
Nanotech West is pleased to announced that a new Infrared Single Element Test Station (tool code PRB08) is now available for use in the Mid-Infrared Characterization and Application (MICA) lab (located in Room 117). This flexible setup is capable of a performing a variety of characterization tasks for opto-electronic devices including Dark Current, Spectral Response, and Quantum Efficiency. The backbone …
ICP-RIE System Receives Deep Si (Bosch) Etch Upgrade
Earlier this year NTW acquired and installed a PlasmaTherm 770 ICP-RIE system (tool code ETC05) through collaboration with the AFRL Sensors Directorate at Wright Patterson AFB. Thanks in part to support from the Ohio Sensor and Semiconductor Innovation Platform (OSSIP) program, funded by Ohio Third Frontier and the Ohio Development Services Agency, that system has now been upgraded to provide …
Room 200 Renovation to Install New Nitride MOCVD System Begins
Renovation began this week in NTW’s Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) Lab located in Room 200 to prepare for the installation of a new dual-chamber Nitride MOCVD system which was moved into NTW on September 21, 2017. The Agilis MOCVD system manufactured by Agnitron has been enabled by Professor Hongping Zhao (ECE), a Materials and Manufacturing for Sustainability (M&Ms) Discovery …