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Summer Schedule
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Spring Schedule

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Summer 2006 Seminar Schedule

Location: 530-127, 440 Escondido Mall

Thursdays 4:30

 Weekly ME342 team project updates 3:45-4:30pm
Happy hour with speaker immediately following seminar

DATE

SPEAKER

COMPANY/TITLE

Group Updates

6 July

Aaron Partridge

SiTime

A, B, C

13 July

Alissa Fitzgerald

A.M. Fitzgerald & Associates, LLC

Technical Consulting Services

MEMS | Materials | Sensor Systems

D, E, F

20 July

Tony Flannery

Axept

"Building a Startup from the Ashes of a Startup"

A, B, C

27 July

Jeff Sampsell

Qualcomm MEMS

D, E, F

3 August

Pete Hartwell

HP Labs

A, B, C

10 August

TBD

 

D, E, F

 

Friday

18 August

 

Final presentations

4-6 pm

 

 

Location MERL back patio, 418 Panama Mall

Poster session with refreshments

Reminder: MEMS2007 deadline is 8 August 2006

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Group Meetings (Summer projects only)

 

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Students

Coach and TA Meetings Jul 5-Aug 9

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vertical force sensing posts

 

Miriam Goodman

Sung-Jin Park

Beth Pruitt

team_me342a@lists.stanford.edu

 

Sarah Coulthard, ME

Nahid Harjee, EE

Nathan Klejwa, EE

Ron Kwon, ME

 

Dr. Aaron Partridge

ap@SiTime.net

Sung-Jin

Every other Wed 2-3

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Electromechanical Cell Interface

 

Oscar Abilez

Feng Cao

Beth Pruitt

team_me342b@lists.stanford.edu

Jennifer Blundo, ME

Gretchen Chua, BME

Yong-Lae Park, ME

Ali Rastegar, EE

Dr. Eugene Chow

Eugene.Chow@parc.com

Joe

Every other Wed 4-5

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On chip polymer testing

 

Vikram Mukundan

Jeff Li

Beth Pruitt

team_me342c@lists.stanford.edu

Sujay Bangalore Ramachandra , ME

Ranadeep Bhowmick, Matl Sci

Maryam Ziaei-Moayyed, EE

Cheng-Chieh Chao, ME

Dr. Pete Hartwell

peter_hartwell@hp.com

Vikram

Every other Wed 3-4

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Micro 2 phase heat exchangers

 

Ken Goodson

Juan Santiago

team_me342d@lists.stanford.edu

Milnes David, ME

Topher Anderson, EE

Tarun Khurana, ME

Dr. Brian Stark

Brian.Stark@rtc.bosch.com

Sung-Jin

Every other Wed 2-3

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Gratings

 

Jay Provine

Roger Howe

team_me342e@lists.stanford.edu

Rishi Kant, EE

Shrestha Basu Mallick, AP

Haneesh Kesari, ME

Roozbeh Parsa, EE

Dr. Eric Perozziello ericp@snf.stanford.edu

Joe

Every other Wed 4-5

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Magnetic nanofluidics

Roger Howe

team_me342f@lists.stanford.edu

Katherine Tsai, EE

Abishek Dhanda, ME

Kwan-Kyu Park, ME

Michael Pihulic, CEE

Dr. Rob Candler

rcandler@stanfordalumni.org

Vikram

Every other Wed 3-4

 

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Spring 2006 Schedule

Week Lab Tues Thurs Due

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Prep

Lab 1 F 4/7 SNF Safety Training Tour. You must complete this training to take this course . 4/4 Introduction to course pdf 4/6 Cleanliness pdf, wetbenches. SNF clean room behavior video (Dr. Mary Tang) 4/7 Completed safety test
Vid 1 Wed or Thur 7-9pm Durand 267, safety wmv1 wmv2 and gowning video wmv viewing Review fabrication process and structures to be fabricated. Read ch. 10, pp 615-630

Read and understand SNF Safety procedures. Signup for lab tour for Friday 9,10,or 11am.

Must attend video viewing and pass the safety test. This test is due BEFORE your safety tour on Friday. Retake over the weekend if you fail

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Lab 2 Wetbench processing, clean and oxidized wafers-- wbdiff. pdf Lithography intro: svgcoat/svgdev/align, oxidation parameters xls different for each lab! SNF qualifies wetbench approx. 11am.

4/11 Piezoresistors and Ion implant pdf pps Properties of silicon pdf1, pdf2

4/13 Etching (RIE/DRIE/Wet etching) pdf 4/14 Homework #1
Review procedures for cleanliness at: WBDIFF, WBNONMETAL, WBMETAL, WBLITHO (see SNF website) Reading pp. 123-134 and pp. 183-206 Skim rest of ch. 4 and all of ch. 2. Skim ch. 7 pp 379-423  

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Lab 3 Lithography + intro to KarlSuss. Alignment of “Oxide open” mask. Wet etch oxide – WBNONMETAL. Strip and clean for metal deposition. pdf 4/18 Lithography-soft, contact, projection pdf

4/20 Film deposition, and materials selection pdf

 

Watch training videos for SVGCOAT wmv and YESoven wmv. (Please download to watch)

Read Ch 1 pp 1-32, skim pp 33-71

Read Ch 3 pp134-143, skim to p175

Read Ch 5 & skim 344-357

Skim Petersen’s “Silicon as a mechanical material” pdf

Optional additional articles:

-MEMS force sensors for in-situ SEM/TEM mechanical characterization pdf
-Material testing using MEMS actuators pdf
-Micromechanical characterization of silicon and polysilicon films pdf
4/21 Homework #2

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Lab 4 Lithography - Alignment of “Metal etch” mask. qualify contact aligner (svgcoat, KS, svgdev) WBMETAL Al etch. Strip and clean wafers. pdf SNF qualify litho ~10 a.m. 4/25 SUPREM simulation, Noise pdf 4/27 Cantilevers and AFM. Beam Equations pdf  
Read Senturia Microsystems Design Ch. 16 & selected reading    

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Lab 5 STS training - DRIE frontside etch. Strip/clean & litho. pdf SNF qualify STS & Gasonic ~10:30 5/2 Transduction methods (sensors and actuators) pdf 5/4 Innovation & Team Dynamics. Needsfinding & Brainstorming pdf

5/5 Homework #3

Complete litho of Cantilever etch before your Lab session this week   Collect project preference data  

6

 

Prep

Lab 6 STS/Matrix training - DRIE backside pdf

5/9 Signal conditioning & Measurements 5/11 Microfluidics 5/12 Homework #4
Complete litho of Backside etch before your Lab session this week Skim Ch 9

Read pp 1-15: Microfluidics: Fluid Physics at the nanoliter scale pdf

Additional readings in Microfluidics section of Library

 

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Prep

Lab 7 Measurement Overview. Signal conditioning circuitry, instruments. 5/16 Design Methodologies. QFD for MEMS pdf 5/18 Concept selection pdf

5/19 Homework #5

These labs occur in MERL220! Selected readings

Scan Ishii QFD Primer pdf

Work on Part I of QFD Assignment as a team

 

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Prep

Lab 8 Cantilever Measurements. Intro to Noise and Analyzer 5/23 Patents and IP, Linda Chao OTL pdf

5/25 MEMS Packaging Issues pdf

MEMS design: Introduction to L-Edit
 
These labs occur in MERL220! Setup Test System. Take measurements over next 2 weeks

Laboratory Notebook Suggestions pdf

Cleanliness Review pdf

Skim Ch 8 sections on packaging and substrates, modeling pdf

and Selected Readings

 

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Lab 9 Measurements on Released Structures

5/30 “Quick and Dirty” MEMS Processing pdf

6/1 Biomedical Design Issues pdf

6/1 Homework #6
(1 per team)

 

Soft Lithography pdf

Selected readings found on library page under "Quick and Dirty" Processing

Skim selected readings found on the library page under Issues in Biomedical Design

Skim Ch 7 pp 423-458

 
10 6/5-9 Office hours Friday 6/9 1-5 MERL 220 for pre-review. 6/6 No class 6/8 No class 6/9 Homework #7: Process cartoons, process steps, calculations related to design and sample L-Edit device layouts
Final

M 6/12 7-10 pm

Cantilever Analysis and Project Presentations during exam period.
    Presentations on cantilever data and analysis, project design reviews. Turn in .ppt slides and all measurement data by email.
    Paper due 6/14(Wed) Design project reports due. Due by 12:00 to Doreen Wood in Durand 262 or Prof. Pruitt in Durand 281.

 

 

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