WEEKLY REPORT
Name: Mary Tang
Date: 12/9/02
Weekly Report for: December 6, 2002
1. Accomplishments:
Sadly, too few this past couple of weeks... But there is very good news... Gladys will be
returning to us on Monday, 12/16! She will be back for light duty only, but will also be
managing the EE410 class (for which we all rely on her experience and expertise and are
eternally appreciative for!)
2. Problems:
CAD room PC's: These were taken offline because of some problems with control over
usage. Labmembers (other than the ones with files on the network) have generally
preferred these PC's NOT to be networked, as others won't use them for surfing. It makes
sense to have these dedicated to chip design. John has been working on upgrading these
PC's. The plan is to give them more memory and upgrade to Win2000, so that people can
use the USB ports for transferring data. We will also have to figure out how to limit
access to networking -- people using the Ebeam systems will need to have a way to
upload their files to Kaprox.
3. Projects:
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Training charges: Thanks everyone, for providing this info. Hopefully, we'll have
some good numbers for November, which will show whether or not we can generate
more income by changing our charging method.
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Daily Area Meetings: This will be extended to the Litho area, daily at 9 am.
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Shutdown: Still need to work out the equipment and process details on this schedule.
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Cleanup? As part of Yoshio's "better service for labmembers" promise, we should
start thinking of small ways in which we can make things more convenient/easy to
find/easy to use/better organized for labmembers. For example, Jeannie's glove and
lab wipe holders. We will discuss this in our next process staff meeting.
4. Plans:
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Wafersaw: Still rewriting the operating procedures...
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Chemicals: Rishabh (student helper) is helping out with MSDS's.
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Safety Manual: Part I is done and Janine did an absolutely beautiful job of
reformatting it (it actually looks like a pro-job now!) Part II is still in the works, but
should be done shortly.
5. Equipment Issues:
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NNUN Supplement: No progress on this. The CPD will be installed in January -need to work on managing transfer of chemicals between benches, both for the shortand long-term. Uli is working on the new cassette-compatible wbgeneral. And we
need to find a home for the electrostatic-free workbench.
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Furnace: Lilliputian Systems' new furnace is in place, and is being used! A latch has
been installed. It seems that there is a lot of interest in this system; it would be good
to have a Coral name so that we can start taking reservations on this system
(processing times are typically quite long....)
6. Other:
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Meetings:
- Gave a tour to a group of ME's from San Jose State. One of them, it turns out, was
so captivated by the lab that he will be returning as a labmember, working under John
Lee.
- Beam tool meetings. This is part of an effort to focus and prioritize issues in the
beam tool area. James has been holding meetings with key SNF staff, faculty, and
students to get an idea of everyone's concerns. This was followed up last week in a
meeting that included Yoshio and David Goldhaber-Gordon. James will be sending
out a memo to everyone concerned, which will list the agreed-upon strategies,
priorities and deliverables, by the end of this year.
- NNUN Annual Review. This was held on Friday. Jane, John, and Yoshio had been
preparing for weeks for this visit. Overall, it went quite well -- the Board of Directors
had what is now fairly routine praise for our efforts. We also got a sneak preview of
what is expected for the next round of proposals. More at the process staff meeting...