Fab Blog

PECVD and RIE tool install
Thu, 07/18/2019


Completed installation of the PECVD (left) and fluorine-based RIE (right), ready for gas delivery and startup in August.

Liquid Nitrogen
Wed, 07/17/2019


The new pad outside of building 38 is ready to receive our second liquid nitrogen tank in mid-August.

Packaging Lab
Mon, 07/15/2019


Utility column for air, electric, exhaust is being prepared in the level 5 prototyping and packaging bay.
 

Bay vs. Chase
Fri, 07/12/2019

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Looking in...
Thu, 07/11/2019


Looking into MIT.nano from the outside, standing on the Improbability Walk.  The orange...

Cleanroom Elevator
Wed, 07/10/2019


A view from inside the cleanroom elevator, connecting the level 1 and 3 cleanrooms - so that users don't have...

An unusual "entrance" ?
Tue, 07/09/2019


MIT.nano's "Main Entrance" for air:  this may look like a dark hallway, but is...

Exhaust Lines
Mon, 07/08/2019


A stainless steel exhaust line has been prepared and is ready to receive equipment, scheduled to be moved in later this summer. (for...

Looking out
Wed, 07/03/2019


Standing inside the Level 1 cleanroom, watching a campus tour pass by...

Inside level 3, looking south
Mon, 07/01/2019


A look down the long aisle of gas distribution boxes (VMBs). Process gas cylinders are in a special storage room, which houses all...