New metal coated wafer#502

This post serves as a summary of the work done during my rotation in the McGrath lab this summer. Over the course of six weeks, I shadowed projects covered in the lab along with the specializations of microfluidic devices and porous membranes. I worked closely with Tejas, who gave me a glimpse of his work…

I mixed made solutions of PBS and Rhodamine with varying Rhodamine concentrations and ran them through the spectrometer. Below is the concentration vs absorption curve I made from it. I blanked the spec with PBS instead of ddH2O since the solution is in PBS. The slope is almost double for Rhodamine in ddH2O compared to…

One of the other suggestions from Angela Glading at lab meeting a while ago was to quantify the vacuoles on different culture areas.  So, I selected images from 3 different experiments (all at day14 of growth) and counted the number of cells which expressed vacuoles on different areas.  I then used my mask code in…

This week, we explored the possible differences a thermal oxide making layer had versus a TEOS on membrane morphology. Here’s what we found: The top image shows wafer 410 @ (1,0) and the bottom wafer 503 @ (1,0). Both wafers were annealed, cleaned, sputtered using the same conditions. The only difference was the masking material….