nano@stanford is currently in the process of merging.

Some areas of the site may be incomplete or undergoing updates. We appreciate your patience and understanding. 
The Stanford Nanofabrication Facility (SNF/Fab@Allen) and the Stanford Nano Shared Facilities (SNSF) websites are available as needed during this transition.

Detailed Explanation of Rates & Fees for SNF

Fee Schedules

Organization Category

The fees and overhead applied are determined by how your organization is classified. Direct costs are reported on NEMO and applied to organization categories as described below. (Direct costs do not include F&A; see explanation below for additional overhead charges) :

  • Academic:  Stanford or SLAC, other university, higher-educational institutions, government research organizations, research partners, and other not-for-profits.
  • Industry: Companies, foreign non-academic institutions.

Equipment Use

Equipment fees are used to recover operating costs (general supplies, gases, spare parts, etc.) There is no charge for time spent in the labs, only for the time-based use of charged equipment. Additional charges for certain precious materials may be incurred in the normal operation of equipment.  These charges are detailed on the fee pages.

Soft Cap System

The Soft Cap system is a volume discount that may apply to Cleanroom equipment use, with exceptions as noted on the rate sheets. Cleanroom equipment is charged at the base hourly rate up to the Soft Cap, above which equipment use is charged at 25% of this base rate. The equipment use fees are cumulative for the calendar month and reset to zero on the first day of every month. The Soft Cap is a dollar amount; use of no-charge equipment does not qualify.

Different labmembers on the same account will each have their own soft cap. One labmember working on different accounts will have a soft cap for each account. In summary: one soft cap per person, per project, per calendar month.

Staff Support

Staff charges are incurred for staff supported lab activities, such as training and processing requests. Training recharge rates are listed on the current fees page; recharge time for tool training is detailed in Equipment Summary. Staffers are generally available to help without charge. However, projects requiring major technical assistance might be subject to charges at the Staff Recharge rates indicated.

Overhead

The University charges Facilities & Administrative (F&A) costs in the form of overhead on as a percentage of lab fees. While labmembers can see current charges on NEMO, these are direct costs and do not include overhead charges. Invoices issued by the University will list overhead as "Facilities and Administrative Charges" for each line item. F&A rates are available on the DoResearch site. 

  • Stanford University and Affiliates: The applicable overhead depends on the type of account; the University does not issue invoices for internal accounts and automatically applies the appropriate overhead.
  • Non-Stanford, US University academic institutions. As shown on the "Other Rates Table", the rates for "Infrastructure" apply.
  • All other organizations (For-profit organizations, non-US academic and government research organizations). As shown on the "F&A Cost Rates Table", the rates for "Organized Research", "On" campus apply.