Lab Specific Training

In the last production cycle, there were several wafers annealed for longer than our standard 1 minute RTP soak time.  Recall in my earlier post, I observed a significant change in pore morphology in a 30 nm thick silicon membrane annealed at 1050 C for 1 min/5 min. In this series of experiments, we observe…

Previously we have studied protein adsorption to pnc-Si membranes by TEM and fluorescence. Neither of these methods will work with polymer membranes. Polymer membranes are too thick to view using TEM. Polymer membranes also autofluoresce creating a lot of noise while using our fluorescence method. Here I outline a new method of studying adsorption to…

One question we recently had was what does it look like when we perform a separation experiment when a membrane has a pinhole. I selected two membranes off 621 that appeared to have pinholes on both slits. I applied 1:2 standards to the top and allowed to diffuse for 24 hours. I collected the retentate…

Dr. Webb is very interested in the thin nanomembranes that our group experiments with. To date, he has been trying to get cells to grow on SiN microporous material and image them with a few different types of microscopy (Phase, Confocal, Scanning Conductance Ion Microscopy). The cells have not grown well natively on the nitride…

SiMPore has been collaborating with the Infotonics Center to scale our SepCon production to a 6-inch wafer.  The wafers are patterned and deposited at their facility and then brought back to UR where we anneal and etch.  This week, we etched several wafers and the initial results look promising.  The big news is that we…