Nanofab News
Interim Microfab Substantial Completion You have been very patient, dear labmembers, as we have worked to upgrade the interim microfab. On June 1, we will hold a substantial completion party, feed you pizza and invite you to come assist with our grand summer cleaning, to rid the facility of construction dust and initiate new cleanroom protocols…
New Cleanroom Protocols In preparation for moving to the new building (described below) we are tossing––perhaps ceremonially burning––our old lab smocks in favor of real cleanroom bunny suits, as part of our June 1 grand re-opening. When you graduate, you will be well experienced in protocols used by industrial manufacturing operations for cleanroom gowning, wafer handling, and instrument use and datalogging in log books…
Groundbreaking for the Sorenson Molecular Biotechnology Building The Sorenson USTAR Building contains a ~6,000 square foot, purpose-built, class-1000 cleanroom nanofab, an enlarged microscopy core with full analysis, characterization, sample preparation and imaging of both solid-state and biological materials. It will play host to many new research collaboration opportunities, due to the confluence of research spaces, common-use labs, and supporting facilities used by researchers and industry from the mountain west region and all over campus (medical sciences, engineering, and the hard sciences). The 200,000-square-foot building will support 25 new senior faculty researchers, plus new junior faculty, administrative and laboratory personnel. Environmentally, the building is planned for LEED-gold certification, the second on campus to date, after the Sutton Geology and Geophysics Building.
New Faculty in the Microfab We welcome USTAR Professor Carlos Mastrangelo and Professor Massood Tabib-Azar to Utah and to the microfab executive steering committee.
New equipment installed and more planned New equipment installed in the MEB interim microfab and surface analysis lab.
New Look! The Nanofab has a new website.
New pending proposal NIH proposal submitted for High-resolution TEM and supporting sample preparation tools.