myfab – the swedish open access research infrastructure
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Realize your nano vision
Myfab – the Swedish Open Access Research Infrastructure
Industrial Advantages of Research Infrastructures
Näringslivets hus,Stockholm 14 June, 2012
Thomas Swahn Director Myfab
Myfab is the first choice, world‐class infrastructure
for
micro‐ and nanoscale fabrication and
characterization,
enabling researchers and innovators to solve the
grand challenges of the future.
Myfab vision
Myfab geography
Chalmers NFL, Gothenburg
KTH Electrumlab, Stockholm,
Ångström MSL, Uppsala
The Swedish Research Infrastructure for Micro-/ Nano-fabrication, and Characterization
Numbers and facts•4 800 m² clean room space
•Highly trained personnel
•Open access
•600 instruments
•622 active users 2011 (i.e. some 1500
researchers supported!)
•> 80 active companies 2010 – 2011, 130 companies (last 5 y)
•All time high usage 2011! (annual increase 7 – 8 %/y since 2008)
KTH Electrum Lab, Stockholm
Ångström Microstructure Lab, Uppsala
Chalmers MC2Nanofabrication Lab, Gothenburg
Myfab – usage statistics 2008 – Q1 2012
2008 2009 2010 20110
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Active Myfab Users – annually 2008 - 2011
2008 2009 2010 20110
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Myfab Booked Hours – annually 2008 - 2011
2008 2009 2010 2011 20120
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Active Myfab Users – Quarterly 2008 – Q1 2012
2008 2009 2010 2011 20120
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Myfab Booked Hours – Quarterly 2008 – Q1 2012
Who is using Myfab? And for what?
For Nobel-prize level physics experiments? YES!
For exploitation of research results and startof new companies?
YES!3 x 5 examples, with ”commercial bias” on next pages!
Five Myfab Success Stories @ KTH
• Silex Microsystems – worlds largest “pure play” MEMS foundry
• IR Nova – new sensor for SF6 detection
• SiC companies TransIC, Ascatron, AMDS
• High-sensitivity AFM – Intermodulation products
• Photonic compon.res. – Intel and DARPA contacts
Five Myfab Success Stories @ UU
•Ångström Space Technology Centre – MEMS for
space and extreme environments
•Solibro – solar cell modules
•Åmic / Fiomi – biochips
•Rolling Optics – holographic images (3D images)
•Uppsala Berzelii Technology Centre for
Neurodiagnostics - biotechnological analysis
Five Myfab Success Stories @ Chalmers
•Light from Vacuum – dyn. Casimir effect
•Terahertz mixer in Herschel space observatory
•InP HEMT/InP MMIC/Low noise factory
•Smoltek (Graphene) and Nanofactory
Instruments (TEM-instr.)
•40 Gbit/s VCSEL – ultrabroadband low-cost
fiberoptical communication
Do we have typical users?
Flexibility is key!• Often academic users
(approx. 80%)• wants state of the art
performance • goal: publications• Flexibility rather than restricted
process lines
Repeatability is key!• Often industrial users
(approx. 20%)• Repetability• Established ”process lines”• Goal: products• Non-disclosure• Time schedule
Myfab supports everyone!
Myfab promotes quality:KTH: ISO 9001-certified in 2012Chalmers and Uppsala Univ. in next step!
One-stop-shopping
• One-stop-shop to all
processing needs
• Myfab LIMS – a joint system
for booking, logging, resource
planning and evaluation
• One distributed cleanroom
facility
• Homepage for information and
interaction: http://myfab.se
Myfab LIMS
•Booking systemBooking of equipment, booking rules,
licenses
•ToolsTool info, documents, tool responsible instructors, process log, service log,
•UsersMessage functions,
•AdministrationStatistics, invoice data, newsletter,
•Altogether an efficient management systemFor the operation of a university
cleanroom facility
Myfab LIMS
Used by• All Myfab nodes, and about 10 other Swedish academic labs: Lund
Nano Lab, Greenhouse Labs at KTH, Linköping Univ., …..• Three other national research infrastructures
Ireland: Tyndall National Institute http://www.tyndall.ie/
Finland: Micronova, http://www.micronova.fi/
Norway: NorFab (four nodes)http://norbab.no
International Myfab LIMS users
History and Operations Today
Three Swedish cleanroom facilities but no coordination:
1987 KTH, Electrum Laboratory
1997 UU, Ångström Microstructure Laboratory
2000 Chalmers, MC2 Nanofabrication Laboratory
A decade to set up today’s Myfab
2000 Swedish Microtechnology Process Integration Network
– the “SPIN document”
2004 – 2006 The first Myfab period (mFab, MyFab).
Financial support from VR, SSF, KAW and VINNOVA.
2007 – 2009 Second financing period – transformation period –
today’s Myfab is being formed. (VR, SSF, KAW, VINNOVA)
2010 – 2014 Myfab a VR National Research Infrastructure
Progress Graph
Separate research group labs
Common research labs at universities
National coordination:
Myfab
National facility, distributed and
open access
Internationalvisibility and
attraction
Agreement on shared responsibility
Common support systems
Common SME programs
Common investment strategy for profile equipment
Active collaboration
Local support, formal and active
Acting as Myfab, providing open Myfab access
Steering group, Management and Owner group
“We give and take – for a larger cake!”
Motto for success:
Challenges
• A distributed infrastructure
• Legal structure – differences between the nodes
• Not a single owner, matrix organisation,
• Economics not always a driving force strong enough (compare with
industry) – i.e. a mixed agenda
How to cope with this?
• Win-win situations is a must!
• Everyone must feel the common strengths – don’t try to measure
too much
• A living network – (infrastructure itself is dead …). People must
meet face to face (-in positive isolation)
• True commitment to common agreements, planning etc. Signed
contracts are not enough – shared responsibilities helps a lot!
• Build trust within the network: represent each others –common
structures, educations etc. supports this
• A transparent infrastructure – at Myfab represented by Myfab LIMS
Core values
Sharing
We share common resources, knowledge and opportunities. We
pass new knowledge on to others for continuous improvements.
Supporting
We have an open and generous environment supporting each
other for constant enhancement of our results.
Responsibility for quality
In everything we do, we take individual responsibility and action
for quality.
New Users and User Groups Wanted!
• The Myfab Access call will be announced during the autumn 2012
• For academic and SME groups in Sweden with no previous experience
• Aiming to establish long term relations/cooperation with new users
• Professional training and fabrication/processing free of charge
• travel and accommodation costs can also be supported
• Simple application process, simple reporting requirements
• Inspired by former very successful FP6 program MC2 Access
• Details to be specified
WELCOME! – and watch the news on: http://myfab.se
Said about Myfab
“Myfab is one of Sweden's most important technological platforms where new ideas are born, new methods and materials tested and new devices invented.
It is also an invaluable meeting place for exchange of ideas, knowledge and scientific experience among researchers in their daily efforts to make new scientific breakthroughs.”
Karin Markides,
Vice Chancellor, Chalmers
Thomas SwahnDirector Myfab
Chalmers University of TechnologyDepartment of Microtechnology and Nanoscience - MC2SE-412 96 GOTHENBURG, SwedenPhone: +46 31 772 46 76
E-mail: thomas.swahn@chalmers .se http://myfab.se
Myfab
an Open Swedish Research Infrastructure
Realize your nano vision
Laboratory profiling
• Each laboratory has its own profile and expensive tools
• Efficient use of investments
• Myfab road-map: investment and development plan
Benefits of coordination, networking and open access
Benefits
• Local access to the whole network
• Harmonized user fees and instrument classes
• Backup for standard processes
• Cross-disciplinary synergies
• Access to a broad range of expertise
• Efficient investments – common strategy with local profiles for
expensive equipment
• Size-benefits, open doors internationally
Exploitation
• More than 130 companies
have been using
Myfab during the last five
years!
• 30 spin-off companies have
started from the Myfab
laboratories
• MC2 Access, FP7, Myfab SME
Access, VINNOVA, concluded
Process linesMicrowave and Photonic
Nano and Quantum Tech.
Two e-beam systems:• Jeol JBX 9300 FS
300 mm substrate, ≈ 10 nm feature size
• Jeol JBX 5DII125 mm substrate, ≈ 20 nm feature size
Profile tools
Nanofabrication Lab
Profile lines
Process: 350 keV High Current Implanter
Analysis: 5 MV Tandem AcceleratorSpectroscopic methods
Profile tools
Life ScienceMaterials/thin film CharacterizationIon Beam Technology
ISO 9001 certified / controlled processes and calibrated characterization tools:
Silicon TechnologyIC, Microsystems
Compound SemiconductorsIII-V, wide-bandgap sc.Optical & electronic applications
Nanomaterials synthesisDie Mounting and packaging Characterization of materials and devices
Process lines
Stepper Lithography
Precision Etching
Epitaxial Growth
Profile tools
– sister organisation in Norway!
Started in June, 2011
http://www.norfab.no/
NorFab + Myfab geography
Chalmers NFL, Gothenburg
KTH Electrumlab, Stockholm,
Ångström MSL, Uppsala
Scandinavian Research Infrastructure for Micro-/ Nano-fabrication, and Characterization
SINTEF MiNaLab, Oslo
NanoLab NTNU, Trondheim
MSTLab, Horten
UiO MiNaLab, Oslo
Ireland: Tyndall National Institute http://www.tyndall.ie/
Finland: Micronova, http://www.micronova.fi/
Norway: NorFabhttp://norbab.no
International Myfab LIMS users
Strategic plan for Myfab 2012 – 2016The Myfab model and realization of open user access Goals:•The new Myfab portal to be opened during 2012.•Launch routines for remote processing by 2012.•At least three task groups with lab personnel to be established by 2013.•Myfab will develop a common PhD course in fabrication techniques by 2013.
Adoption to a dynamic research environment Goals:•Broadening the utilization by at least four new research user groups and at least six new companies per year.
Paths to meet societal needs Goals:•Myfab will propose a long term Myfab access program for Swedish SMEs, similarly to the VINNOVA program from 2010 but valid for several years and fully operative by 2015 or before.
Strategic plan for Myfab 2012 – 2016Myfab makes Swedish nanoscience visible in Europe Goals:•Myfab should, through one or more nodes, be partner in at least two infrastructure programs financed by EU, typically according to the I3 model (integrated Infrastructures Initiative), by 2014. •Myfab should, through its present EU connections, co‐develop input to EU to establish one new call in the next framework program.
Tools and technologies - Investment plan Goals:•Myfab will improve its success rate for funding applications for infrastructure investments from 55% (2007‐2010) to 75% in 2014.•Myfab should form alliances with at least two process equipment manufacturers•for development of state‐of‐the‐art tools.
Strategic plan for Myfab 2012 – 2016
Connecting users and tools - Myfab LIMS and the Myfab web portalGoals:•At least 35% of all active users should visit the web portal every month from 2013.•Myfab LIMS should be used by at least 10 cleanroom infrastructures by 2013.•Myfab LIMS should be used by at least 6 external paying customers by 2014.•A possibility to simplify following‐up on new research groups, new companies, and new application areas within LIMS will be introduced.
Quality system for superior performanceMyfab grows better through communication and visibility International Science and Technology Advisory Board Goals: • The advisory board should come in operation during 2012
The role of Myfab within Sweden will be further developed
Thomas SwahnDirector Myfab
Chalmers University of TechnologyDepartment of Microtechnology and Nanoscience - MC2SE-412 96 Göteborg, SwedenPhone: +46 31 772 46 76 E-mail: thomas.swahn@cit.chalmers .se www.myfab.se
Myfab
an Open Swedish Research Infrastructure
Realize your nano vision
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