AggieFab Fee Structure
Fees for using AggieFab are currently per month, per user and are listed below. Please be aware that this is an introductory fee structure during the transitional period to an open user facility. We will reevaluate every 6 months with an eye toward eventually introducing a per hour fee structure.
Last Updated: 1/6/2021
Fees for Monthly Access
Per Student (TAMU):
$350 per month ($50 per usage- cap @ $350)
Outside Academic Users/Industry:
$525/1,050 per month ($75/$150 per usage- cap @ 1 month cost)
Fees for Hourly Use of Equipment for TAMU Users
Bruker/Veeco Profilometer
$5 per hour*
Ocean Optics Thin Film Measurements
$5 per hour*
MTI/Minibrute Furnaces
$8 per hour
Lesker Instruments
$17 per hour
Overnight Pump down (5 pm – 8 am) on Lesker Instruments
$3 per hour
Dicing Saw
$12 per hour
Wet Bench
$12 per hour
Oxford RIE
$30 per hour
Tegal Plasmaline 421 Asher
$10 per hour
Nordson March CS-1701 RIE
$10 per hour
Oxford PECVD
$30 per hour
Tescan EBL
$39 per hour
EVG 501 Wafer Bonder
$40 per hour
EVG 610 Mask Aligner
$6 per hour
Karl Suss MA-6 Mask Aligner
$6 per hour
FEI Helios DualBeam Focused Ion Beam
$55 per hour
Zeiss Orion HIM
$60 per hour
EnvisiontTech Perfactory Mini
$25 per hour
Envision One cDLM Mechanical
$25 per hour
Roland MDX-50 Benchtop CNC Milling Machine
$11 per hour
PLS 6.120D Universal Laser System
$10 per hour
K&S Wire Bonder
$10 per hour
Tystar LPCVD
$40 per hour
Clustex 100sp Sputter
$40 per hour
ALD (precursor cost may be added)
$45 per hour
Nanoscribe Photonics
$20 per hour
Veeco four-point probe
$5 per hour
PDS 2010 Labcoater 2 Parylene Deposition System
$16 per hour
Minimum 1-hour charge per use. Use over one hour will be rounded to the nearest 15-minute increment
Fees for hourly use of equipment is in addition to monthly access fees
Additional charges for supplies such as crucibles and wafers at will be added to the PI’s monthly statement
*User fees/Membership access fees will be charged for individual users at $50 per reservation until the ceiling of $350/month is reached. There is no additional hourly rate for use of wet bench, Ocean Optics thin film measurement tool, Nikon optical microscope, Bruker profilometer, and Veeco profilometer. All other tools will have an additional hourly rate.
Fees for Staff Operation/Training of Equipment
TAMU Users
- Instrument usage: rates listed above
- Training: instrument rate + $40/hr (staff time)
- Staff time for assisted work: $60/hr
Outside Academic Users
- Instrument rates: 150% of rates listed above
- Training: instrument rate + $60/hr (staff time)
- Staff time: $90/hr
*Non-TAMU users pay instrument rate + staff time for analysis.
Industry Users
- Instrument rates: 300% of rates listed above
- Training: instrument rate + $120/hr (staff time)
- Staff time: $180/hr
*Non-TAMU users pay instrument rate + staff time for analysis
