Director's Foreword

Welcome, the NFF Newsletter!

The Nanosystem Fabrication Facility (NFF) will be celebrating its 27th year in 2018. As a Central Research Facility of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), the NFF has over the past nearly three decades trained thousands of research students in the interdisciplinary research areas of micro- and nano-devices and systems. Many alumni of the “NFF School” are now making impact in the research and development of high technologies in Mainland China and globally. Going forward, the NFF will continue to evolve and upgrade our services and process capabilities to suit the ever changing and expanding research needs concerning nanofabrication and system integration.

Prof. Andrew POON

We are most pleased to introduce the NFF Newsletter to serve as a periodical to keep our stakeholders abreast with the latest development of the NFF and achievements of our users and alumni.

This Inaugural issue highlights many recent news and attainments related to the NFF and our users. On the equipment and process capability front, the NFF has recently installed a new Laser Direct Writer and a state-of-the-art three-dimensional (3-D) laser nano-printer. Readers will be amused to see the 3-D micro-sized “Red Bird” (the HKUST Sundial) featured in this issue. We also celebrated the completion of a reactive ion etching (RIE) system designed and built in collaboration with the Design & Manufacturing Services Facility (DMSF). On the staff achievements front, we celebrated the President’s Outstanding Service Award 2017 (Merit Award) awarded to Mr. Preason Man Wai LEE, NFF Chief Technical Officer, as well as the annual NFF Outstanding Staff Awards 2017. This issue also includes snapshots of seminars and major visitors who laid their footsteps in the NFF in 2017.

I would like to extend my heartfelt congratulations to the NFF Management Team for launching this Inaugural issue. I look forward to sharing with all of you many development news of the NFF, as well as achievements from our users and alumni, in the future issues of the NFF Newsletter.

 

Prof. Andrew POON
Director of the Nanosystem Fabrication Facility

Prof. Andrew POON, Director of the NFF, Prof. Yi-Kuen LEE, Associate Director and all NFF staff
Prof. Andrew POON, Director of the NFF, Prof. Yi-Kuen LEE, Associate Director and all NFF staff
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