2024 CNF REU WEEK TWO SCHEDULE
REMINDER: UNDERGRADUATE CNF USER CLEANROOM RESTRICTIONS
Undergraduate CNF User restrictions will start with Monday-Friday 8am-6pm cleanroom access with mentor only. After 50 hours of lab time, reasonable tool usage, and demonstration of safe lab practices, undergrads will be granted “extended access” -- Monday-Friday 8am-11pm. After 100 hours of lab usage and reasonable tool usage, undergraduate users will be granted full access privileges. Talk to Phil Infante, CNF Lab Safety Manager, when you feel you are close to the 50 hour / 100 hour lab time marks. He will determine if your next access level is appropriate.
MONDAY, JUNE 10, 2024
These are mandatory events for all twelve CNF REUs who are also CNF Users!
(Cathy, Daniel, Elizabeth, Fabiana, Gannon, Hajo, Hunter, Imrie, Richard, River, Sarah, and Tim.)
Welcome to CNF with Stacy Clementson, User Program Coordinator & Melanie-Claire
9:00 a.m., 340 Duffield Hall
Stacy will pass out safety glasses and check to make sure you are dressed to the Dress Code. Melanie-Claire will be there to make sure you all show up! (And pass out donuts.)
PART ONE: Introduction to the CNF Cleanroom with Christopher Alpha
9:15 - 11:00 a.m., 340 Duffield Hall
Chris will take you on an in-person tour of the lab — and if there is time, the 2nd floor lab spaces as well. You will discuss basics of lab operations and see tool and interior lab spaces, with relevance towards the subject matter covered in the following Part II and III.
SEI DISCUSSION: Introduction to the Societal & Ethical Issues of Nanotechnology
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., 340 Duffield Hall
Dan McCollister and/or Michael Skvarla will lead a discussion on laboratory ethics with special regard to our work in nanotechnology.
NEW USER LUNCHEON
12:00 – 1:00 p.m., 340 Duffield Hall (ALL 16 CNF REUs ARE INVITED!)
The lunch will include New User & Staff Introductions
PART TWO: Chemical Safety Training with Phil Infante
1:00 - 5:00 p.m., 340 Duffield Hall
Part II covers the formal statement of lab policy and procedures with special regard to safety and proper lab etiquette. This will take up a large portion of the afternoon.
TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2024
PART THREE IS MANDATORY FOR ALL 12 CNF REUs!
Follow the Part III Schedule sent to you by Stacy Clementson, User Program Coordinator!
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2024
These are mandatory events for all 12 CNF REUs who are also CNF Users!
(Cathy, Daniel, Elizabeth, Fabiana, Gannon, Hajo, Hunter, Imrie, Richard, River, Sarah, and Tim.)
COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN (CAD) TRAINING with Alan Bleier
9:30 - 11:00 a.m., CAD Room, Phillips Hall (dress any way you want!)
GENERAL LITHOGRAPHY TRAINING with Giovanni Sartorello and Michael Skvarla
1:00 - 2:30 p.m.; Cathy, Daniel, Elizabeth, Fabiana, Gannon, Hajo
2:45 - 4:15 p.m.; Hunter, Imrie, Joyce, Richard, River, Sarah, Tim
ABM CONTACT ALIGNER & HEIDELBERG TRAINING with Garry Bordonaro
1:00 - 2:30 p.m.; Hunter, Imrie, Joyce, Richard, River, Sarah, Tim
2:45 - 4:15 p.m.; Cathy, Daniel, Elizabeth, Fabiana, Gannon, Hajo
You will come out of these trainings with the ability to login and use the following tools; ABM contact aligner, Heidelberg mask writer, resist spinners, hot solvent bath, YES and image reversal oven, and all Hamatechs. RTA TOO??
THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2024
For all the morning tool trainings, please tog up and meet the staff person IN the cleanroom IN the tool room. You will learn all about this process during the three-part New User Training! ALSO! CNF REUs may not be the only trainees for these sessions so be respectful and be on time!
9:45 - 10:45 a.m., Oxford ALD FlexAl Training with Jeremy Clark;
SARAH LEVINE, RICHARD REMIAS
11:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m. Oxford 81 Training with Aaron Windsor; CATHY CHEN
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., Woollam Spectroscopic Ellipsometer with Alan Bleier;
SARAH LEVINE, RICHARD REMIAS, DANIEL TELESHEVSKY, TIMOTHY WALSH, HAJO WISE
LIBRARY SCIENCE & LITERATURE SEARCH WITH HENRIK SPOON
Mandatory for all 16 CNF REUs
2:00 - 3:00 p.m., 340 Duffield Hall
- Join the PARADIM REUs as Henrik Spoon, Mann Library Engineering Librarian, discusses the top tools and databases useful to students seeking scholarly information on a variety of subjects. Going beyond Google, he will show subscribed resources that lead to journal articles, patents, standards, materials property data, and ebooks. Learn how to recognize popular vs. peer-review work and deceptive journals. We will also discuss citation managers that can organize your citations and bibliographies.
THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2024, continued
CORNELL SUMMER 2024 ICE CREAM SOCIAL
Mandatory for all 16 CNF REUs
3:30 - 4:30 p.m., 146 Stocking Hall
- Over free Cornell Dairy Bar ice cream, learn all about Cornell University! Speakers currently include representatives from; Cornell Health, Cornell Police, Cornell Statistical Consulting Unit, Fitness & Recreation, Libraries, Office of Institutional Equity and Title IX, and Ombuds Office.
FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2024
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. NanoScribe Training with Giovanni Sartorello;
ELIZABETH QUANSAH, HUNTER SAYLOR
1:00 - 1:30 p.m., PT 770 Etcher (Left Side) Training with Tom Pennell;
RIVER CHEN, JOYCE CHRISTIANSEN-SALAMEH
1:30 - 2:30 p.m. AJA Sputtering Training with Tom Pennell;
RIVER CHEN, JOYCE CHRISTIANSEN-SALAMEH, GANNON LEMASTER, HUNTER SAYLOR