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02/18/2025
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UMass Lowell’s NanoFabrication Core lately got 2 PlasmaLab inductively combined plasma (ICP) systems from Oxford Instruments, showing the decades-long connection in between the college and the production and research study business, that will certainly progress the capacities of the laboratory, increasing its target market and client base.
The NanoFabrication Core is a vital laboratory amongst 12 that compose UMass Lowell’s Core Research Facilities.
Known as an ICP for brief, an electromagnetic field and electrical present within the system fire up plasma, which consequently imitates a tiny sandblaster to engrave via a layer of product, described UMass Lowell’s Justin Moreau, supervisor of the NanoFabrication Core.
“The ICP is a key component of any nanofabrication lab or nanofabrication manufacturing environment. It allows for a critical step in the creation of devices measuring only a few nanometers wide,” statedMoreau “For comparison, a human hair is 60,000 to 100,000 nanometers wide.”
The Nanofabrication Core is geared up with greater than 40 tools made use of to expand, form, engrave and layer products in the development of complicated, high-performance parts made use of in innovation, medication and ecological surveillance. These parts or tools vary from little sensing units to electric circuits, mini mechanical systems or micro-fluid circuits made use of in a variety of applications.
Anne Maglia, UMass Lowell’s vice chancellor for research study and financial advancement, praised the purchase.
“Expanding the capabilities of the NanoFabrication Core will not only benefit UMass Lowell faculty and staff researchers but will attract users from a broad range of industries,” she stated. “My colleagues across the university and I are grateful for our strong partnership with Oxford Instruments and look forward to continued collaborations.”
“The NanoFabrication Core at UMass Lowell has been a long-term customer and partner of Oxford Instruments. We work closely with Justin and his customers to develop highly advanced technology solutions on our plasma etch and deposition systems at the Core. This often means that when new commercial cleanroom facilities are built following development work originated at UMass Lowell, Oxford Instruments has the solutions and personal relationship networks to support the whole technology ecosystem in this region,” stated Marco Notarianni,Ph D., vital account supervisor at Oxford Instruments.
The college’s purchase from Oxford Instruments includes 2 ICP equipments the same to the one presently at UMass Lowell, a considerable financial investment in top-tier devices.
“This puts our etch capabilities in a great position to limit operating costs and downtime,” stated Moreau.
For years, Oxford Instruments has actually visited prospective clients at UMass Lowell’s NanoFabrication Core to sneak peek their devices’s capacities. During these gos to, Moreau and fellow college scientists area concerns regarding possession, setup and upkeep.
Visits like these, he stated, likewise have actually the included advantage of bring in brand-new customers to the UMass Lowell laboratory.
Having increased the variety of energetic ICP equipments at the UMass Lowell NanoFabrication Core, Moreau anticipates the brand-new schedule to last for the following years.
“UMass Lowell students and faculty, as well as outside users, will have full access to the new equipment by January 2025,” he stated.
Further info regarding the college’s Core Research Facilities can be discovered on the college’s Core Research Facilities web site.
About Oxford Instruments
Oxford Instruments supplies scholastic and business organisations worldwide with market-leading clinical innovation and know-how throughout its vital market sections: Materials Analysis, Healthcare and Life Science and Semiconductors.
Innovation is the driving pressure behind Oxford Instruments’ development and success, sustaining its core function to increase the innovations that produce a brighter future for our globe. The energetic look for brand-new means to make our globe greener, healthier and a lot more efficient is driving unmatched degrees of r & d (R&D) financial investment in brand-new products and methods to sustain performance and decarbonisation worldwide, producing a considerable possibility for Oxford Instruments to expand.
Oxford Instruments holds a distinct placement to expect international chauffeurs and attach scholastic scientists with business applications designers, working as a driver that powers real life development.
Founded in 1959 as the very first innovation organization to be drawn out from Oxford University, Oxford Instruments is currently a worldwide business detailed on the Financial Times Stock Exchange (FTSE) 250 index of the London Stock Exchange (OXIG).
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