Last week, I deposited silicon nitride/ amorphous silicon/ silicon nitride stack and then annealed the free standing stack after etching the substrate. The nitride film was deposited with 25W bias and the silicon film with 5W bias. The thickness for…

On the 13th of September we reviewed our recent progress on EO. Maryna and Jirachai (Borkholder group) gave presentations. I’ve uploaded PDF files of each of their presentations. Maryna’s presentation: MarynaEO Jarachai’s presentation: EO_Testing_Report (PPT) EO_Testing_Report (PDF) Bubble formation in…

Hi All, This is my first blog on the NRG group. I am working on testing the biocompatibility and of PEGylated pncSi surfaces. To start with, I and Nakul began with checking the activation status of neutrophils on PEG treated…

I tried putting Ag/AgCl electrodes on the surfaces of the membrane for EO pumping. The experiments were done in RIT with Jirachai. In these experiments the goal was to observe the change in liquid droplet volume on the front side…

A few weeks ago, professor Mike Aziz in Harvard University helped to annealed two samples and in-situ imaged the early stage of pore formation using their Jeol2010-hot-stage-TEM. The oxide seemed intact during the process. The sample was unannealed 20(bottom)/15(a-si)/10(top) three…

Two high school students, Nick and Nikita, were supervised to study the effects our Sepcon membranes had on potential charge based separations. Using standard 30 nm cutoff Sepcons and the pressure cell, they performed a set of experiments with high…

To this point, I have shown that our membranes are stable with the use of INT’s developer over time. I have also shown that their developer has statistically similar flow properties to that of water, and is a viable option…

The thickness of bottom oxide in the ‘sandwich structure’ is also a key factor to affect the pore morphology. In last few weeks I deposited five wafers with different bottom oxide thicknesses and they were 05/15/20, 10/15/20, 20/15/20, 40/15/20 and…

Last few weeks, I deposited a couples of wafers to test the effect of oxide thickness on pores. In addition to previous data, I deposited another two wafers, one with 1nm top oxide and the other with 100nm top oxide.…

This experiment compares the metal developer used in Integrated Nano Technologies’ device to to the flow properties of water. Using the pressure cell at 3 psi, with no allyl treatment, for 10 minutes, and 200 microliters of liquid, I pushed…