December 30, 2025 UMD Home FabLab AIM Lab
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Description The Metra Thermal Evaporator is used to deposit a variety of metals and dielectrics using resistance heating. Some, but not all, of the materials include: Cr, Au, Ag, Cu and Al. It has two thermal sources but only one can be run at a time. Buy switching the power leads, a user can evaporate up to two different materials in the same pump down cycle. The Metra will accommodate up to 4" diameter substrates. Precious metals surcharge Au: $110 per 1000A
Location FabLab | DEP Tunnel
Manufacturer Metra
Staff Contact ThomasThomas Loughran
tcl@umd.edu
301-405-3642
Rates
No Charge
$0/hr
Large Commercial
$242/hr
Small Commercial / MTECH
$166/hr
External Non-profit / University
$126/hr
UMD
$81/hr
Reservations No upcoming reservations at this time.
Logs
Mon, Dec 22, 2025
10:00 pm - 11:30 pm
Yixiao Wang
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Deleted by: Yixiao Wang

5nm Cr + 50nm Au = $100
Sun, Dec 21, 2025
10:15 pm - 11:45 pm
Shuhan Liu
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Pump down overnight Au 50 nm $100
Sun, Dec 21, 2025
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Linfeng Ai
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2nm Cr+5nm Au ($10)
Fri, Dec 19, 2025
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Konstantin Davydov
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Training with Daniel Lewis. Evaporated Cr/Au 6nm/120nm Gold charge=$140
Thu, Dec 18, 2025
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Shuhan Liu
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Au 20nm $40
Records to show:
SOPs
dep-02_sop_metra_thermal_evap.pdf (131 KB)
index.php (38 B)
Manuals

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Recipes

Evaporation Recipes

evapguide.pdf (180.42 KB)

Colleges A. James Clark School of Engineering
The College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences

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