March 11, 2026 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 JonathanJonathan Hummel
jhummel1@umd.edu
301 405-5017
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
Tue, Mar 03, 2026
4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Joshua Wang
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Cr: 5 nm Au: 25 nm Gold charge=$60
Sat, Feb 21, 2026
5:45 pm - 7:15 pm
Shuhan Liu
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Au 20 nm $48
Wed, Feb 18, 2026
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Yuwei Sun
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Cr, Au Gold charge=$60
Sun, Feb 15, 2026
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Shuhan Liu
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Au 20 nm $48
Fri, Feb 13, 2026
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Liuxin Gu
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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)

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