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Hey All,</div>
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Happy Summer!</div>
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A question has come up here about relative expenditures and subsidy levels between fabrication labs and imaging/characterization labs, in core centers where such functionality is combined. Here at Harvard we have all three under one roof at CNS.</div>
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I did a <a href="https://nanobot.chat/" id="OWA1f8547c0-a6cd-ab7b-b06c-f4120009aaa1" class="OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable">
https://nanobot.chat/</a>search around this topic but didn't find much. (nanobot.chat is an AI enabled search of Labnetwork, for those who may not have heard about it).</div>
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I seem to remember this or a similar topic being addressed at a previous UGIM meeting, but my recollection is hazy...</div>
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Thus, a few questions:</div>
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How many core centers combine Imaging and Characterization and Fabrication (cleanroom) under one umbrella?</div>
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For those that do combine them, do you generally find that each section is able to "pull its own weight" financially? Does either one ever "break even"?</div>
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Is income from the nanofab used to subsidize imaging/characterization efforts, or vice versa?</div>
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Is each unit financially independent and, as such, survives on partial subsidies from the university that are not considered collectively?</div>
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And lastly, what sort of expense/income breakdown (percentage-wise) have you seen between such units, if they are treated collectively as one big core center.</div>
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Apologies if this delves too deeply into sensitive fiscal areas.</div>
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This might be a good topic for some sub-group at the upcoming UGIM, if it is not already on the agenda.</div>
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Mac Hathaway</div>
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Systems, Process, and Characterization Engineer</div>
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