This week’s production included wafers of antimony (Sb) and phosphorus (P) doping. Process parameters The deposition heater was re-brazed prior to this deposition. We were concerned with the original brazing job because there were areas with “globs” of material and cracks in the solder. The new braze covers most of the surface, and although is…
I oxidized 2 intact chips from w639 using the following protocol: 10min with secondary generator, 15min with both primary and secondary generators. This protocol is slightly different than my normal protocol (10min 2nd, 5min 1st+2nd, 10min 2nd) because I messed up the settings, although the current protocol is arbitrary anyhow since we haven’t tested it…
Last week I attempted to use the ozone cleaner and RTP to grow an oxide on bare 4″ wafers. I used the spectroscopic ellipsometer to measure the film thickness. I found that ~4 min. in the RTP @ 1150 C with 3 LPM of O2 grew nearly 50 nm of silicon dioxide. Using Tom’s standard…
As discussed in a previous post of mine, I am currently working on a project to develop an in vitro mimetic of the osteocyte lacuna-canicular network (OLCN) to improve the ability to predict Staphylococcus Aureus invasion and colonization of the OLCN during osteomyelitis. The purpose of this post is to provide more background behind Aim…
Michael and I have been working to create cell channels of varying widths and heights to test out a concept used in a paper we recently read as a group. This work claims to see cell cords in 12 hours, so no media renewal is necessary. The channels were made by layering and bonding…
I couldn’t really make sense of what was happening in this post, and in particular this figure threw me for a loop: So to help myself understand the relationship I whipped up a little matlab app to show the relationship a little clearer: Moving the sliding bar on the bottom changes the y-position…