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Safety at DTU Nanolab

At DTU Nanolab, we are interested in the safety of both, our employees and our users. As we are a multiuser facility, we need to establish working procedures to provide the best possible safety for our working environment. These are based on general safety procedures, EU regulations, and procedures we identified to be important for our working environment. Each user of our facility is expected to comply to these rules.

Before any user gets granted access to the labs, she/he needs to go through an introductory program. These programs will equip you with all the prerequisites required for accessing and engaging in safe practical work at DTU Nanolab.Please find more detailed information about the content, schedule, and how to sign up below or on https://www.nanolab.dtu.dk/access

For your own safety and the safety of other cleanroom users, we cannot admit anybody to the cleanroom who has insufficient English proficiency. Please contact adm@nanolab.dtu.dk or +45 25 57 43 in case of questions.

Introductory Courses to Facilities at DTU Nanolab

The extent of the training program depends on which facilities (and equipment) you would like to access. There are generally two main tracks you can follow to access equipment at DTU Nanolab. One track allows you to enter the cleanroomin building 346. The other track provides you with an introduction to facilities outside of the cleanroom in building 346, 347, 314, or 307.

For accessing equipment located in our cleanroom (building 346), please sign up here:

https://www.nanolab.dtu.dk/access/cleanroom-access

Please note that this course gives you access to the cleanroom and the all other accessible facilities in 346. For special labs, f.ex. the Wet Lab, you need to follow the other track to gain access.

For accessing equipment or facilities outside the cleanroom (building 307, 314, 346,or 347), a general lab-introduction course for the labs outside the cleanroom, followed by a location-specific course is required.

For accessing equipment located in building 346 or 347, but outside the cleanroom, please sign up here:

https://www.nanolab.dtu.dk/access/other-facilities

For accessing our electron beam microscopy equipment located in building 314 or 307, please sign up here (refer to “characterization labadviser page”):

https://www.nanolab.dtu.dk/access/characterization

After registration for either program, you will be registered in our system by our administration. You should receive an automatically generated email from DTU Nanolab with information regarding

Log-in data to DTU Learn and labmanger.dtu.dk
Access card: A guest card can be issued immediately. A permanent card will be issued after completing the relevant introductionary course.
Link to the respective introductory course on DTU Learn
- “DTU Nanolab Introductory Course: Cleanroom in B346"
- “DTU Nanolab - Introduction course for Nanolab facility (Not Cleanroom in B346)”

You can find more information on what Labmanager and Labadviser are and how they work on Labadviser and in the introductory course on DTU Learn.

If you signed up for access to our cleanroom, you will also be registered on the cleanroom mailing list. All information regarding the cleanroom and its equipement will be send to this email list. If you would like to be removed (cleanroom mailing list), please contact adm@nanolab.dtu.dk

Please contact nanolabsupport@nanolab.dtu.dk, if you did not receive an email upon registration, or if you have issues logging into DTU Learn.

"DTU Nanolab Introductory Course: Cleanroom in B346"

This introductionary course is mandatory for all users that want to access our cleanroom facilities on their own. The course consists of an online part, a hands-on training and a final examination. The online course contains information regarding

Safety
Cleanroom behavior
Intorduction to Labmanager (equipment management system)
Intorduction to Labadviser (equipment and process information Wiki)
Access agreement

After completing the online course (including the access agreement), you can proceed to the hands-on training with one of our safety team members. You can sign up for the practical part on the last page of the online course in DTU Learn. The course is held on a weekly basis. There is an attendee limit of 3 persons per date. The course takes place in the cleanroom and takes about 2.5 hours, commonly from 9.00 - 11:30. In the course you will get a tour through our cleanroom, learn how to dress-up, and get an introduction to chemical handling. The meeting point is by the main entrance to building 347 (by the seminar room).

Please note that you will not receive a confirmation for the registration for the hands-on course (only if the course is canceled).

The safety course concludes with a browser-based examination which you get access to directly after the hands-on training. This will take about 15-30 min. It is commonly done immediately after the hands-on training. Once you passed the online exam, you will receive your course certificate and you are ready to go into the cleanroom.

Launch Meeting

As part of the onboarding process, we want to ensure that new users have all the necessary information for a smooth and successful start in our cleanroom. To support this, we require all new users to participate in a mandatory launch meeting.

This meeting will be held with you—and ideally your supervisor—and will cover key topics such as your material choices, fabrication plans, intended processes, and the tools you plan to use. We will also discuss any required tool training and the matter of cross-contamination between equipment. The goal is to better understand your project and provide the best possible support for your future work in the cleanroom.

This meeting can be held at any point, but before you start requesting training on our equipment. If you already have a fabrication plan or a preliminary process flow, please share it with us in advance so we can prepare accordingly.

If you have any questions or need further clarification, feel free to reach out at training@nanolab.dtu.dk.

Request Training on Equipment

After you passed the safety course and had the launch meeting with us, you can start to request training for equipment by sending a request to training@nanolab.dtu.dk. For some of the equipment, we require you to take some online "Tool PackageTraining" (TPT) before proceeding to hands-on training on the machines. You can find more information about those TPTs on Labadviser, or on our homepage at https://www.nanolab.dtu.dk/access/cleanroom-access/equipment-training.

"DTU Nanolab - Introduction course for Nanolab facility (Not Cleanroom in B346)"

This course is mandatory for all users that want to access any equipment located outside of the cleanroom on their own, f.ex. equipment in the basement of building 346 or in the PolyFabLab in 347, or any of the electron microscopes in building 314 or 307.

Please note that the course "DTU Nanolab Introductory Course: Cleanroom in B346" gives you access to some facilities in building 346, e.g. equipment in the basement, or the dicing saw or tabletop SEM on the first floor, while special labs, e.g. the Wet Lab, requires this course to gain access.

“Mandatory study material and quiz”

This online introductory course is divided into several parts. All facilities have a common part dealing with

General lab safety
Intorduction to Labmanager (equipment management system)
Intorduction to Labadviser (equipment and process information Wiki)
Access agreement

After completing the mandatory part (including the access agreement), you can proceed to the location-specific parts of the introduction. There is no hands-on training connected to this first part. To register for specific facitilities, please click on “Open the Checklist” (opens a new webpage). On this webpage you can select several locations. Please read the information on the check list carefully to be able to select the correct courses.

Once you selected all required parts, pleas return to the course on DTU Learn ("Introduction course for Nanolab facility (Not Cleanroom in B346)"). You will now find additional modules for the selected facilities. Following locations are available:

Building B314/B307

General access to B314/B307
Access to the Prep-lab2 B314 R040
Access to the Softmatter lab B307 R903
Access to Research-lab Optical Microscopy lab B307 R109/R113

Please note that you need to finish the “General access to B314/B307” before you get access to the other three parts.

Building 346 (all facilities outside of the cleanroom)

Access to building 346 (not wet lab)
Access to the wet lab building 346

The course "Access to building 346" is required to gain access to building 346 for labs outside of the cleanroom, f.ex the Laser Micromachining Tool, the Hot Embosser 1, the XRD RotAnode, the dicing saws, or the SEM Tabletop 1. After completion of the online course, you are ready to request training for the respective equipment. There is no hands-on safety training required.

The course "Access to the wetlab" is required to access the Wet Lab (chemical lab) in building 346. It concludes with a short practical introduction to the lab. You can request the an appointment for the practical part by contacting the Safety trainers.

Building 347 (PolyFabLab, PackLab and Basement labs)

General access to B347
Access to PolyFabLab cleanroom
Access to PolySupLab (Not available yet)
Access to PDMS Lab (Not available yet)

Please note that you need to finish the "General access to B347" before you get access to the other three parts.

If you have any question or issues regarding the safety courses offered at DTU Nanolab, please do not hesitate to contact nanolabsupport@nanolab.dtu.dk.