OTHER ELECTRONICS & NANOTECHNOLOGY
INDUSTRY UPDATE
January 2018
McIlvaine Company
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Facility Profile: Pritzker Nanofabrication Facility — University of Chicago
Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact, University of Oregon, Eugene,
OR
Science Research and Innovation Facility, University of Windsor
Kinpo to Add 2 Factories in Philippines
Engineering Education and Research Center, University of Texas at Austin
UL Sets Up Laser/LED Optical Radiation Lab in Taiwan
Columbia University Nano Initiative Cleanroom Renovation
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Facility
Profile: Pritzker Nanofabrication Facility — University of Chicago
The University of Chicago’s Pritzker Nanofabrication Facility, completed in
2015, has an ISO Class 5 cleanroom which specializes in advanced lithographic
processing of hard and soft materials. Its cleanroom components are part of the
nearly unlimited range of scale and focus in research space found within the
University of Chicago’s Eckhardt Research Center (ERC). The Pritzker facility
hosts a 13,000 sq. ft., Class 100 cleanroom. It was envisioned to serve as a
core facility with highly specialized tools to enable chemists, engineers, and
physical scientists to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges at the
molecular level.
The cleanroom was originally designed for a generic “straw man” program by Abbie
Gregg Inc., which worked with HOK to obtain approvals for the facility. Jacobs
Engineering was selected as the final designer of the cleanroom build-out.
The designers sought to create a high-performance, vibration-free space for the
cleanroom, imaging area, and other high performance laboratories on a tight
urban site next to high-traffic streets. Working with Colin Gordon and Abbie
Gregg Inc., HOK determined that these spaces must be located well away from the
street traffic. This resulted in the creation of two deep basement levels that
extend beyond the building to the west under the landscaped quadrangle to
achieve the area requirements. The cleanroom and imaging areas are in the area
on each basement level that is furthest from the street.
Electromagnetic interference was also mitigated using epoxy-coated reinforcing
bars, tested and used for their ability to conduct electric current,
in foundations. In addition, moving metal elements such as steel doors were
eliminated.
The cleanroom offers a unique view corridor, with large expanses of glass, which
enables visitors to easily observe the cleanroom scientists in action while also
visually connecting the cleanroom users to building activity.
The Pritzker Nanofabrication Facility has partnered with Northwestern University
in the NSF-supported Soft and Hybrid Nanotechnology Experimental (SHyNE)
resource. It is open to all properly trained users through a fee for use
structure.
Equipment includes advanced electron beam lithography systems; I-line optical
stepper; direct write lithography capable of handling piece parts to 150 mm
wafers; physical vapor deposition tools including sputtering systems, electron
beam evaporators, and a thermal evaporator; plasma etching systems configured
for both chlorine- and fluorine-based etching; inspection tools
including scanning electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, and high
performance optical microscope; profilometry, ellipsometry, thin film
interferomety, and stress; a probe station; and a 150 mm capable dicing saw.
The University of Chicago’s William Eckhardt Research Center provides a link to
transformative, interdisciplinary discovery. The facility’s laboratories,
collaborative spaces, and precision instrumentation support the Department
of Astronomy and Astrophysics, the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, the
new Institute for Molecular Engineering (IME), the Dean’s Office of Physical
Sciences, and their partners in their collective work toward scientific
discovery.
Finite Element Analysis of LL1: Colin Gordon Associates provided finite element
analysis to predict the vibration characteristics of the ERC lower levels in
design. Highest performance zones are revealed in the blue areas.
The facility provides a home for the Pritzker Nanofabrication Facility
cleanroom’s work at the molecular level, as well as flexible physics
laboratories where the origins of the universe are studied and Chem-Bio
laboratories where researchers explore the efficacy of new molecules in
curing disease.
Knight
Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Cost: $1 billion
Size: 160,000 sq. ft. (first phase)
Project team: Ennead Architects, Bora Architects
The Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact is poised to
transform the University of Oregon with an ambitious new effort to rethink
science education and innovation. The ambitious effort aspires to dramatically
shorten the timeline between discovery and societal impact through world-class
research, training and entrepreneurship in a nimble scientific enterprise.
The design for the first phase of the Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific
Impact reflects and enhances the university’s forward-thinking mission,
establishing an iconic identity for the new endeavor meant to inspire the next
generation of innovators. The design features two L-shaped towers that face each
other to cradle an elevated terrace and courtyard and are joined above by a
transparent connector. On the southern façade, a skin of folded glass panels
emulates water cascading over rock formations and provides shading for the
building’s interior. Counterbalancing the activity of the public facing façade,
the northern sides of the two towers, which fold into the courtyard and terrace,
embrace simplicity in an unadorned glass curtain wall system that reveals the
building structure. The design emphasizes transparency—exposing the impact of
science to the community.
The exterior terrace is protected from rainfall by a lightweight, translucent
canopy whose pattern hints at the triangulated cascading façade. At the ground
floor level, glass storefronts under deep overhangs invite passers-by to
approach, while at each of the main entry points, embossed stainless steel walls
reflect light from adjacent water features, referencing the nearby Willamette
River.
On each floor there are four research neighborhoods organized around a central
courtyard. Double height research floors allow for a floating faculty office
mezzanine, offering an opportunity for greater interdisciplinary exchange.
Inviting spaces will encourage collaboration among researchers from a wide
variety of scientific fields. The building program is intended to be
hyper-flexible so that research groups can shift focus depending on where
discoveries lead, and will include innovation spaces, collaborative spaces, core
labs, research labs and work areas.
Situated between busy Franklin Boulevard and Eugene’s historic Millrace, this
expansion creates strong ties with the existing campus through geometric
alignment with the campus grid, while establishing a progressive aesthetic
sensibility for the new precinct.
Central to the Knight Campus design is an enclosed pedestrian bridge across
Franklin Boulevard, connecting the core campus to the new district, making an
elegantly impactful announcement of the campus to those passing by. An arched
butterfly design, the bridge is a self-supporting spanning element that is
simple, light and symmetrical. It features two splayed arches springing from a
common support point on each side of the boulevard and uses tension cables to
support the bridge enclosure at its floor structure.
Completion date: Early 2020 (groundbreaking: Feb. 2018)
Science
Research and Innovation Facility, University of Windsor
The University of Windsor is building a new science research and innovation
facility (SRIF) at its campus in Ontario, Canada.
Located near Essex Hall and the Jackman Dramatic Art Centre, the new facility
will be used to carry out research on various areas including cancer and nano
materials.
The university is investing $30.3m in the development of the research facility.
Construction is ongoing and is expected to be completed by April 2018.
The SRIF is expected to benefit the Ontario region by generating new jobs,
fostering innovation, and driving economic growth.
The SRIF will be a three-story building with a built up area of 46,000ft². It
will feature classrooms, state-of-the-art laboratory equipment, teaching labs,
and wet and dry lab spaces.
The design of the facility is based on an open-lab concept with all the spaces
being completely transparent and made of glass, which also allows for entry of
natural light.
The entrance of the facility will include an atrium with a lounge
interconnecting all three floors.
The interior space is designed to create a collaborative environment for both
university staff, as well as graduate and undergraduate students. It is also
adaptable and can be altered according to changing needs of the users.
The facility will be energy-efficient and will meet Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design (LEED) standards for environmental sustainability.
The project was announced in January 2017 and site work commenced in February.
The topping off ceremony was held in November 2017.
The project has received $14.95m in funding from the Government of Canada
through the Post-Secondary Institutions Strategic Investment Fund.
The Provincial Government of Ontario is providing $2.56m towards construction,
while the University of Windsor is contributing $12.8m.
The first floor of the facility will be dedicated to medical physics, including
imaging and diagnostic technologies. It will house laboratories for X-ray
diffraction, microscopy and instrumentation.
Currently located in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, the nuclear
magnetic resonance (NMR) facility will be moved to the first floor, while
research on transitional health will be carried out on the second floor. This
floor is designed to support advancement of cancer research.
The third floor will house the advanced materials research lab, which will carry
out research on nano materials and biometrics.
Amico Design Build has been contracted to build the new facility, while Colliers
Project Leaders is providing project management services.
Established in 1857, the University of Windsor currently 15,000 students
studying a variety of undergraduate and graduate programs in the fields of law,
business, engineering, education, nursing, human kinetics, and social work.
The university unveiled Phase I of its downtown campus in September 2015. Phase
II is currently under construction and will help increase the university’s
offerings.
Kinpo
to Add 2 Factories in Philippines
Consumer electronics maker Kinpo Electronics, viewing that production capacities
for smart home appliances at two factories in the Philippines will be fully
utilized in first-half 2018, will set up two more factories there in
third-quarter 2018, with one for injection molding and the other for assembly,
according to company president Simon Shen.
The existing factories and the ones to be built in the Philippines belong to
Kinpo Electronics (Philippines) in which Kinpo and its Thailand-based affiliate
Cal-Comp Electronics hold a 81% and 19% stake respectively, Shen said, adding
the Philippines-based subsidiary is expected to be listed on the local stock
market in third-quarter 2018.
Kinpo stepped into production of consumer 3D printers in 2017 and currently has
a global market share of 23-24% Shen said, adding it will extend production to
business-use 3D printers in 2018.
Kinpo expects to globally ship 73,000 3D printers, including 500 for color
printing, in 2017, and 100,000 units in 2018, consisting of 2,500-3,000 color
models, Shen noted. A color 3D printer sells for US$35,000.
Kinpo has also begun production of service robots for hospitals, hotels, retail
stores and airports, with unit prices ranging from US$15,000-30,000, and 2018
target shipments are set at 300-500 units, Shen indicated.
Kinpo expects to ship 10,000 units of HiMirror, a smart device for medical care
of facial skin, in 2017 and will offer a second-generation model with target
shipments of 50,000-100,000 units in 2018.
Engineering
Education and Research Center, University of Texas at Austin
Cost: $310 million
Project team: Ennead Architects, Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., Jacobs
Consultancy Inc. (lab consultant)
The Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin has
opened a new 432,500 sq. ft. multidisciplinary teaching and research facility,
the Engineering Education and Research Center (EERC). The EERC creates a dynamic
and unifying new hub for engineering innovation on the UT Austin campus, one
that matches the global reputation and ambition of the Cockrell School.
Over seven years in the making, the EERC defines a new approach to engineering
education through the integration of undergraduate project-based learning and
interdisciplinary graduate research, with state-of-the-art classrooms,
large-scale labs and makerspaces. It includes the 23,000 sq. ft.
National Instruments Student Project
Center, designed to place the most advanced tools in engineering research into
the hands of undergraduates; the James J. and Miriam B. Mulva Auditorium and
Conference Center, the Cockrell School’s largest event space; the Texas
Instruments teaching and project labs; and the Center for Innovation, the
school’s first space dedicated to entrepreneurship and moving revolutionary
ideas to market at a faster rate.
Given the school’s strategic and programmatic needs, the building is organized
into two nine-story limestone and glass towers, acknowledging the substantially
different requirements for labs, offices and work spaces of the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering and interdisciplinary graduate research. The
two towers, with inwardly-oriented glass curtain wall facades, are connected by
an enclosed three-story atrium with a folded glass and steel roof, creating a
vibrant, light-filled public space, which is the social heart of the building
meant to facilitate “productive collisions” between faculty, staff, students and
campus visitors. Bridges and staircases create circulation paths throughout and
join the different research environments. Prominently visible through
floor-to-ceiling glass along the north wall of the atrium is the National
Instruments Student Project Center, dedicated to project-based interdisciplinary
learning. Its honest expression of raw concrete, fully exposed mechanical
systems, and glass walls from room to room puts engineering, and engineering
education, on full display. Architectural gestures throughout the building were
designed to elevate and celebrate engineering principles—from the steel truss
systems spanning the towers to the intricate spiral staircase, from the delicate
“V” column underneath the staircase to the sky bridges connecting the floors.
The EERC provides a centralized new home for the Cockrell School and defines the
engineering precinct at UT Austin, activating that edge of campus and mediating
between the contemporary buildings in the area and the core campus. With a
comfortably-scaled sequence of spaces, the EERC mitigates a 30-foot grade change
across the site to Waller Creek while creating new campus connections and routes
of access. The integrated building and landscape design, including shaded
walkways and landscaped open spaces and a height setback for the entry,
reference the historic campus using modern idioms. The building materials
likewise hearken to the traditional campus with the use of local Texas limestone
and ornamental metal work in stainless steel and zinc.
A high-performance, LEED Silver building, the EERC employs many sustainable
design strategies, including optimized solar orientation and a sophisticated,
customized sun shading system based on sustainability analytics that maximizes
natural light and comfort while minimizing heat gain in the high-intensity solar
environment of Austin sun. The building has automated air quality sensors that
adjust the rate of air changes in the labs, storm water management systems and
planted roofscapes.
Completion date: Sept. 28, 2017
UL
Sets Up Laser/LED Optical Radiation Lab in Taiwan
Underwriters Laboratories (UL) has unveiled its Laser/LED Optical Radiation
Laboratory in Taiwan to undertake testing and certification for laser and LED
products for photobiological safety.
This is the fourth UL laboratory of its kind around the world, following the
ones in the US, Japan, and China. The new lab provides photobiological safety
testing and certification services in compliance with IEC (international
Electrotechnical Commission) 60825-1 editions 1 and 2 as well as IEC 62471 and
62471-5, UL Taiwan noted.
Equipment at the laboratory is able to measure intensity and pulse frequency of
optical power and simulate hazards of optical radiation to human retinas, UL
Taiwan indicated.
Laser and LED devices have been widely used in electronic products such as
face-recognition devices, laser projectors, laser automotive lights, optical
sensors for autonomous driving, UL Taiwan said, adding such applications have
risks of radiation hazards to the human eyes and skin.
The lab provides testing and certification services to enable laser products to
conform to US CDRH (Center for Devices and Radiological Health) 21 CFR (Code of
Federal Regulations Title 21) for the US market, and IEC 60825-1 for other
markets, UL Taiwan said. For LED products, testing and certification services
are to ensure fulfillment of photobiological safety requirements by ANSI
(American National Standards Institute)/IESNA (Illuminating Engineering Society
of North America) RP-27 and IEC 62471.
Columbia
University Nano Initiative Cleanroom Renovation
Size: 5,000 sq. ft.
Project team: Protecs (construction management)
Columbia University recently completed the renovation and expansion of its
existing clean micro and nano fabrication and characterization research
laboratories. Replacing and improving lab utilities, such as air filters, gas
piping, water cooling systems, and air handling units to allow for tight control
on temperature, humidity, and particles in the new lab, almost doubled the
previous space.
The cleanroom (Class 1,000 to Class 10,000) is open to researchers from inside
Columbia University as well as from other academic and industrial institutes.
The laboratory supports materials and device studies in physics, electrical
engineering, applied physics, mechanical engineering, biology, chemistry,
medicine, and more. A significant portion of the research done in the CNI
cleanroom is interdisciplinary in its nature and involves collaboration between
researchers from various fields on and off campus.
The new CNI Cleanroom is divided into 7 separate bays, each dedicated to a set
of related fabrication processes consisting of many new and advanced micro and
nanofabrication pieces of equipment:
Optical lithography bay consisting of dedicated fume hoods and spinners, two
mask aligners (one for DUV applications), two mask fabrication systems: a manual
Laser Writing and Mask Fabrication system (3µm resolution), and an automatic
Laser Writer system with submicron resolution.
Wet chemical bay with an automatic RCA bench, Spring Rinse Dry (SRD) system for
4" wafers, general acid hood, and general base hood for wet chemical processes.
Plasma bay with Reactive Ion Etching (RIE) plasma processing based on chlorine
and fluorine chemistries, as well as Deep RIE for silicon etching, and Plasma
Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD) for Oxide and Nitride deposition.
Deposition bay including two sputtering systems (dedicated to metals and
dielectrics respectively), an e-beam evaporator, Atomic Layer Deposition, and a
thermal evaporator, all designed to grow high quality thin films.
Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) bay (with e-beam writing capabilities) with
nanometric imaging capabilities.
Furnace bay with Low Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition (LPCVD) to grow: silicon
oxide, nitride, carbide, and for thermal treatments.
Backend room consisting of a Dicing saw, Chemical Mechanical Polishing system
for planarizing device surfaces, Wire bonders (Al and Au) for electrical
connections to the device, a Parylene coater, and a Critical Point Dryer.
Completion date: Q3 2017
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