Lab Fees - New Rates Effective April 2026

Updated or New Policies

• According to federal guidelines, we are not allowed to use caps. Therefore, we cannot have a monthly hard cap for academic usage or a monthly soft cap for industrial users. We also are not allowed to cap the daily usage fees to a monthly max maximum. 
  • Academic access fee: $29/day.
  • Commercial access fee: $132/day.
• We are now charging a small fee for optical microscopes.
• We now charge training fees based on hours rather than a fixed charge.
• * - If you are trained on one of these three tools, the training on the remaining two reduces to 1 hr each.

Unchanged Policies

• Use of the evaporation and sputter systems may include a setup charge if a target change is required.
• Material usage fees apply for Au and Pt.
• Time usage is billed in ¼ hour increments. Round your time fairly. For example, if you work for 20 minutes, recording ¼ hour is acceptable. If you work for 25 minutes, record the time in the logbook as ½ hour.
• We will assess a one-time fee for our two-hour in-person safety training. You will not be charged a daily access fee on your training day.
• Training fees will be assessed after the first training.

Daily Use Fee

• The daily usage fee is charged to the user for each calendar day on which the lab is entered. You are not charged by amount of times entered, only each day.
  
  • Academic access fee: $29/day.
  • Commercial access fee: $132/day.

Lithography

Equipment	Internal	External Academic	External Industrial	~Training time
ABM Contact Aligner	$55/hr	$82.50/hr	$110/hr	4 hrs
YES III Vapor Prime Oven	$41/hr	$61.50/hr	$82/hr	4 hrs
Solvent/Headway Spinner Bench	$61/hr	$91.50/hr	$122/hr	1 hr
Laurell Spin Coater	$61/hr	$91.50/hr	$122/hr	1 hr

Thermal Processing

Equipment	Internal	External Academic	External Industrial	~Training Time
ATV PEO 603 Oxidation Furnace	$84/hr	$126/hr	$168/hr	4 hrs
Modulab Oxidation Furnace	$84/hr	$126/hr	$168/hr	4 hrs
Modulab Phosphorus Diffusion Furnace	$84/hr	$126/hr	$168/hr	4 hrs
Lindberg/Blue Boron Diffusion Furnace	$84/hr	$126/hr	$168/hr	4 hrs
Allwin21 AccuTermo AW 610M	$84/hr	$126/hr	$168/hr	4 hrs