The following photos were taken during summer 1999.

This was our research group in the cleanroom:

Group Photo in the cleanroom. Left to right back row: John Hesse (High School teacher doing summer project with us), Jorge Quijada (undergraduate student), myself, and Steve Picone (undergraduate student). Front+center: Elisa Flores (undergraduate student), and sitting: Dylan Haas Graduate student.

We have been using a spin-coater provided by Specialty Coating Systems. It looks like this:

The optics bench on the right held the laser, detector, and computer for performing data acquisition. We have since made many improvements to our optics setup.

The individual group members are shown below -- caught in action in the cleanroom.

Dylan Haas is the graduate student who holds this group together.
Here he is intently squirting solvent onto a wafer:

 

Jorge Quijada has been responsible for networking our computers and detectors for real-time data acquisition of laser interferograms and other data. Here he is driving the lab computer:

 

Steve Picone, an MSE undergraduate, is shown here cleaning a glass substrate:

John Hesse joined our research group that summer as part of a NSF supported program to provide Research Experiences for Teachers. John is a high school chemistry teacher at a local school. He is shown here examining a coating made onto a silicon wafer:

 

This photo shows Elisa Flores programming our spin coater.

 

Finally, this is a picture of me placing a glass substrate onto the coater. The nice part of the cleanroom garb is that it hides my grey hair!

Dunbar P. Birnie, III
Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey   
607 Taylor Rd.
Piscataway, New Jersey, 08854-8065

Major revisions installed in December 2004

Based on earlier version from July 2000
Updated in February 2005.
Page started 1 May 1998
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