<div dir="ltr">Dear colleagues, <div><br></div><div>Thank-you all for the excellent discussion and suggestions—this has been incredibly helpful. Beyond allaying the fears of the user who raised the concern, going forward, we will be sure to incorporate an explanation of these considerations when training users on our evaporators.</div><div><br></div><div>Stay safe and healthy.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers, </div><div><br></div><div> – Aaron</div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><u style="font-size:x-small"> </u><span style="font-size:x-small"> </span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><font size="1"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.38;background-color:transparent">Aaron Hryciw, PhD, PEng</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.38;background-color:transparent">Fabrication Group Manager</span><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">University of Alberta - nanoFAB</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">W1-060 ECERF Building</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">9107 - 116 Street</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Edmonton, Alberta</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Canada T6G 2V4 </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Ph: 780-940-7938</span></p><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><a href="http://www.nanofab.ualberta.ca/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.nanofab.ualberta.ca</a></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span></font></span><font color="#000000"><br></font><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 4:38 AM Stephen Howe <<a href="mailto:info@fabsurplus.com">info@fabsurplus.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-CA" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr"><div>Dear Aaron,</div><div><br></div><div>I used to work on Mass Spectrometers for VG Analytical, which became part of Thermo Instruments eventually.</div><div>They had a low accelerating voltage of 8KV, but we had some tools with a FIB option installed (Fast Ion Bombardment), and that operated at up to 16 KV.</div><div>We had a viewport above the source area, so as to have a reality check on what was really going as one poked around inside the vacuum chamber. The viewport had leaded glass. This might be erring on the side of excessive caution, but such view port glasses are readily available for purchase in the market place, so that's what I'd suggest.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span><pre>-- <br></pre><p style="font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><img style="border: none;" src="https://WWW.fabsurplus.com/graphics/logo20.gif" alt="SDI Fabsurplus 20 years"><br><span style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(4,125,21)">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Back in 2015 we had similar concerns with our Balzers BA 510 thermal/ebeam evaporator. We had reintroduced thermal capability to our system and had modified our internal SS shielding to allow us
to have a direct line of sight to the thermal melt through a glass slide mounted on the shield and through one of the window viewports. Prior to this we only used ebeam evaporation and the shielding blocked the viewport. As you have found, I was unable
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>I contacted our Health and Safety department who helped conduct x-ray testing during ebeam evaporations of a few different materials. They found no measurable x-rays coming through the viewport
or elsewhere on the chamber. This satisfied our safety concerns. However since the system was now identified as an potential x-ray producing source we had to get an Ontario ministry of labor x-ray permit and post it at the room doors and on the system.
It basically requires us to get a new assessment if we make any changes or modifications to the system that could result in increased exposure.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>So we have piece of mind, but now a lot more questions when users see the x-ray signage. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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One of the users in our open-access facility recently expressed concern about x-ray production in electron-beam evaporation systems. Since the typical acceleration voltage in our e-beam systems is 7–10 kV, he was concerned that bremsstrahlung and characteristic
x-rays would be generated during deposition, with a maximum energy of 7–10 keV (soft to hard x-rays), and that these x-rays would pose a health and safety hazard to an operator standing next to the viewport for ~30 minutes.<br>
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produced, presumably there are reasons why they are not hazardous to an operator (e.g., perhaps total x-ray output is very small, majority of x-ray spectrum is low energy, x-rays do not penetrate stainless steel chamber walls or viewport windows, etc.). I
would like to answer this user with specific physical arguments as to why the hazard is insignificant, however, so any advice you could offer to this end would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks.<br>
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