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    Hello,<br>
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    Like other facilities, here at UF we have a monthly soft cap.  Once
    the monthly soft cap threshold is reached, an additional 80% subsidy
    is applied to the tool rates, meaning the customer pays 20% of the
    user fee.  This applies only to fabrication tools, not
    characterization instruments like FIB, TEM, SEM, Raman,..... 
    Microfabrication metrology tools are included under our soft cap.<br>
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    Our soft cap is only offered to our internal UF users and is per
    funding project per PI, regardless of the number of users on that
    project.  The soft cap does not apply to staff labor, consumables,
    and daily cleanroom entry fee.<br>
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    Best Regards,<br>
    Brent<br>
     -- <br>
    Brent P. Gila, PhD.<br>
    Associate Director, Research Service Centers<br>
    University of Florida<br>
    1041 Center Drive<br>
    Gainesville, Florida 32611<br>
    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="Tel:352-273-2245">Tel:352-273-2245</a>,  Fax:352-846-2877<br>
    email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bgila@ufl.edu">bgila@ufl.edu</a><br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/18/2024 4:36 PM, Fubo Rao wrote:<br>
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          <div>I totally understand if it is something you don't want to
            share. But, if you can, I wonder if you have a soft cap
            number for your internal research groups, aka, professors.
            Is that a monthly cap, yearly cap, and what is your cap
            number?  Do you charge a different percentage to the amount
            above the cap number, or it is free of charge after reaching
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                  <div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px">Thanks
                    in advance!</div>
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                  <div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px">Fubo Rao,
                    Ph.D.,</div>
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                    Technical Director,<br>
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                  <div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px">Qualcomm
                    Institute/Atkinson Hall,</div>
                  <div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px">UC San
                    Diego<br>
                    9500 Gilman Drive #0436<br>
                    La Jolla, CA 92093-0436</div>
                  <div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px">Tel.
                    (858)534-4518</div>
                  <div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px">E-mail: <a href="mailto:furao@ucsd.edu" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">furao@ucsd.edu</a></div>
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