April 2007 - BNC-all - ecn.purdue.edu

Blood Pathogen Training
by MaryJo Totten 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

Hello Everyone, This is a reminder that there will be BBP training: 3-4 PM in BRK 1001. If you need this training, please email me to schedule your time slot. Thank you, Mary Jo Totten Operations Clerk Birck Nanotechnology Center Discovery Park/Purdue University (765) 496-1173

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MONDAY MEMO, April 30, 2007
by Deborah Starewich 28 Apr '07

28 Apr '07

**************** 1. Announcements **************** 1.1: Monday Memo items to appear on-line Visit http://nano.purdue.edu/ where you¹ll be directed to the Discovery Park home page, select ³Nanotechnology² from the DP Centers drop-down menu. Several pieces of this weekly memo have migrated to the Birck website. As additional pages are created, all items will soon appear there, which will decrease the amount of BNC-all messages being sent. 1.2: Cleanroom Preventive Maintenance scheduled for May 1-2, 2007 Per Mark Voorhis, a 48-hour shut down of cleanroom operations has been scheduled to complete a six-month preventive maintenance procedure. The shutdown of cleanroom operations will begin on Tuesday (1-May-07) at 7:00 AM and will be completed by Wednesday (2-May-07) at 5:00 PM. Maintenance is required for BNC cleanroom makeup air handlers and chemical exhaust. During this time, the BNC Staff will also complete cleanroom troubleshooting to improve temperature repeatability. Toxic gases will be shutdown to the entire building for the duration of this procedure. Since the chemical exhaust system for the cleanroom will be shut down please remove chemicals from all hoods in the cleanroom prior to the shutdown. If not removed by 9PM Monday evening, the lab staff will dispose of them for you. **NOTE**: Contrary to our earlier notices released on behalf of the lab staff, the Ultra Pure Water (UPW) System will not be shut down for maintenance. All Laboratory Hoods and Laboratory UPW are UNAFFECTED by this shutdown. Thank you for your understanding and patience during this necessary procedure. If you have any questions or concerns please Mark Voorhis (mvoorhis(a)purdue.edu) 1.3: Birck will NOT be sponsoring a volleyball team for this year¹s Spring Fling, as previously announced. 1.4: New Call for Research in Patterning White Papers due Friday, May 18, 2007 http://www.src.org/fr/S200704_NMS_Call.asp#needs OVERVIEW: GRC¹s Nanomanufacturing area is soliciting white papers in the Patterning, Emerging Research Materials, and Nanocharacterization/Metrology areas for work to begin January 1, 2008 for an expected three-year period. This call for research is issued to universities worldwide. Successful white paper authors will be invited to submit a full proposal, and a limited number of contracts will be awarded based on these proposals according to the schedule below. GRC may elect to negotiate a project¹s research scope or composition to meet funding or distribution needs. RESEARCH NEEDS: Member needs in Patterning, Emerging Research Materials, and Nanocharacterization/Metrology, developed by a task force of SRC industry members, are outlined in a new needs document. WHITE PAPER GUIDELINES: Responses are limited to four pages, using at least a 10-point font, and MUST BE SUBMITTED VIA THE SRC WEB SITE by FRIDAY, MAY 18, 3 PM EDT/12 PM PDT. White papers not meeting these requirements will be discarded. Please include the following identifying information in your white paper: Project title; Needs category/sub-categories addressed by your submission; Investigator(s); University; Telephone number and e-mail address. Please address the following topics in your white paper: Context: emphasis area and problem to be addressed; Rationale: value in terms of semiconductor industry needs; Novelty: role of this research in advancing knowledge beyond the state-of-the-art; Approach: strategy for addressing the problem; Results: anticipated output of a successful effort; Engagement: how you now or will plan to interact with SRC member companies; Funding: a per-year approximation of overall funding requirements (university approval and official budgets are not required at this time); Students: involvement and education of graduate students is a key SRC goal; typical funded proposals will support 1-2 full time students. The extent, if any, that this research requires the use of Background Intellectual Property. Awardees will be expected to: Resolve any blocking Background Intellectual Property issues before award of contract; Update information about participating students; Submit publications resulting from sponsored research; Participate in annual research reviews; Provide annual reports and pre-defined deliverables. TIMETABLE AND DEADLINES: Deadline to Submit White Papers: Friday, May 18, 2007 - 3 PM EDT/12 PM PDT; Proposals Requested: Monday, June 25, 2007; Deadline to Submit Proposals: Monday, July 23, 2007 - 3 PM EDT/12 PM PDT; Funding Decisions Announced: Monday, November 12, 2007; Program/Funding Start: Tuesday, January 1, 2008. Please direct all technical questions to Daniel Herr (919) 941-9400. All other questions and responses should be directed to nms(a)src.org Deborah S. Starewich Administrative Assistant to Timothy D. Sands, Director Birck Nanotechnology Center Purdue University 765-494-3509 dstarewi(a)ecn.purdue.edu http://www.nano.purdue.edu/

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Liquid Nitrogen Update
by Kenny Schwartz 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Hi to All, The liquid nitrogen system is still down and unfortunately I do not know for how long but I do know it will be for an extended period of time before we will be operational. I do expect to have an answer by early next week and will keep you updated. In the mean time I will have supplies for the evaporators and some small quantities as needed to keep everyone going. Please contact me for specific needs or you can order your own if you wish from a vendor or at Physics they have a supply on hand Thanks for your patience, Kenny Kenny Schwartz Birck Nanotechnology Center Purdue University PH 765-496-1174

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Shut down of Ammonia process gas
by Willison, Sheryl L 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

Everyone, Per Mark Voorhis and Dave Lubleski Due to defective valve all ammonia gas will be shut down until further notice. Thank you for your patience for this time of shut down. Sheryl L. Willison Secretary Purdue University Birck Nanotechnology Center 1205 West State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 (765)494-7053 Fax: (765) 496-8383 http://www.nano.purdue.edu <http://www.nano.purdue.edu/>

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MONDAY MEMO; submit items for inclusion by Fridays at 5:00
by Starewich, Deborah S. 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

MONDAY MEMO, APRIL 23, 2007 CONTENTS 1. Announcements 1.1: REMINDER: Cleanroom Preventive Maintenance, May 1-2, 2007 1.2: New Course: ME 597R Intellectual Property, offered Fall 2007 2. Faculty/Staff/Student Awards and Honors 2.1 3. Seminar Announcements 3.1: Monday, April 23, 2007 9:30am: Technology Challenges of the 21st Century, by Dr. Eugene S. Meieran 3.2: Monday, April 23, 2007, 10:30am: PlasmonicsBuilding Nanophotonics with Metals, Alexandra (Sasha) Boltasseva, BRK 1001 3.3: 2nd Annual Lovell Leadership Lecture: Monday, April 23, 10:30 am Stewart Center, Room 302: TRUST: The Foundation of Leadership, Haydn Shaw, Leadership and Team Productivity Guru 3.4: Discovery Lecture Series: Monday, April 23, 1:30 pm North Ballroom, Purdue Memorial Union: Marriage of Medicine and Management: Sustaining Improvements in Delivery, Quality, Cost, and Outcomes, by Stephen Shortell, PhD, Dean of the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley 3.5: Discovery Lecture Series: Monday, April 23, 3:00 pm (reception follows) North Ballroom, Purdue Memorial Union: The Road to Improving National Performance of Healthcare Delivery, by Karen Davis, PhD, President of the Commonwealth Fund 3.6: Discovery Lecture Series: Tuesday, April 24, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, Stewart Center and Purdue Memorial Union: Speakers and Panel Discussions on Basic Healthcare Advancing Solutions for Equitable Access, Consumer Choice and Responsibility Expanding Models for Consumer-Directed Healthcare, and Continuum of Care Evaluating New Provider Models. 3.7: Wednesday, April 25, 12:30pm: Quantum Computation for Quantum Chemistry and Statistical Mechanics, by Prof. Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Harvard University, WTHR 201 3.8: Wednesday, April 25, 2:00pm: Modeling and Analysis of VLSI Interconnects, by Cheng-Kok Koh, Purdue University, EE 317 3.9: Thursday, April 26, 9:30am: Microscale Platforms for Applications in Global Health Diagnostics, by Dr. William Rodriguez, Harvard University, MRGN 121 3.10: Friday, April 27, 3:30pm, refreshments served: Introduction to X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and to XPS Applications, by Dmitry Zemlyanov, MRGN 121 4. Workshops/Conferences 4.1: Advancing the Future of Healthcare Delivery: Regenstrief Center Annual Conference, April 23-24, 2007 4.2: 2nd Annual Lovell Leadership Lecture Workshop: Influence of the Ages, Monday, April 23, Stewart Center, Room 302, 1:30-3:00 pm 4.3: National Instruments Academic Events, Tuesday, April 24, BRK 1001, 9:00am3:30pm; FREE PIZZA LUNCH 4.4: Workplace Violence Awareness Training, June 28, 8:0-11:30am, Physical Facilities Service Building Room 1179 A-B, 775 Ahlers Road; pre-registration now open 5. Job/Fellowship opportunities 5.1: Eta Kappu Nu presentation; Monday, April 23; 6-7pm, EE170 **************** 1. Announcements **************** 1.1: REMINDER: Cleanroom Preventive Maintenance, May 1-2, 2007 Per Mark Voorhis, a shut down of cleanroom operations has been scheduled for 48 hours to complete a six-month preventive maintenance procedure. A shutdown of cleanroom operations will begin on Tuesday (1-May-07) at 7:00 AM and will be completed by Wednesday (2-May-07) at 5:00 PM. Maintenance is required for our cleanroom makeup air handlers, chemical exhaust, and ultra pure water systems. Please note that the ultra pure water will be shut down for the entire building. We will also complete cleanroom troubleshooting to improve temperature repeatability during this time. Since the chemical exhaust system will be shut down please remove chemicals from all hoods in the cleanroom prior to the shutdown. If not removed, the lab staff will dispose of them for you. Thank you for your understanding and patience during this necessary procedure. If you have any questions or concerns please Mark Voorhis (mvoorhis(a)purdue.edu) 1.2: New Course: ME 597R Intellectual Property, offered Fall 2007 A one-credit class that historically has been a spring semester course will be offered in Fall 2007 instead. It is currently scheduled for Mondays 2:30-3:20pm. If you are interested in patent law, entrepreneurship, or just have an interest in intellectual property, this course is highly recommended by Prof. James D. Jones, Associate Professor and Associate Head, School of Mechanical Engineering. Fpr additional information, visit http://meweb.ecn.purdue.edu/~me597r/ **************** 2. Awards/Honors **************** ************************ 3. Seminar Announcements ************************ 3.1: Monday, April 23, 2007 9:30am: Technology Challenges of the 21st Century, by Dr. Eugene S. Meieran ABSTRACT: The 20th century was a century of remarkable scientific and technical achievement, as recorded in the National Academy of Engineering book, "A Century of Innovation". Three forces ("a perfect storm") combined to make this possible; almost universal availability of electric power to enable many of the other achievements, the breakthroughs in fundamental understanding in physics, mathematics and engineering that provided the intellectual impetus, and the huge amount of capital expenditures that went into ships, railroads, factories, power stations, equipment and so forth, that allowed these engineering accomplishments to be made available to a vast audience at affordable costs. The airplane, telephone, computer, automobile, refrigeration, nuclear power plants, clean water supplies, etc., were all enabled by these three forces. In order to make the 21st century as productive in terms of benefiting human society, similar but different forces are at play. Instead of providing power, in this century, we will be fueled by providing information and knowledge. Instead of leveraging huge physical capital expenditures, we will invest in intellectual assets; what people know rather than what they own. And perhaps not replacing mathematics and science, we will augment this with information science, biological science and medical science. So again we have the capability of harnessing a "perfect storm" to make the 21st century as beneficial to human society and quality of life as was the 20th century. In this talk I will discuss these factors and how we as a society need to embrace the concept of innovation in order to take advantage of what's being offered. We need to understand the roles of industry, government and academia in enabling the harnessing of these forces to take place. BIO: Dr. Eugene Meieran has served on several government and industry panels dealing with manufacturing technology and policy issues, such as the Coalition for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems and the Next Generation Manufacturing Systems Advanced Manufacturing Systems board. He has made extensive contributions in the areas of materials analysis techniques, semiconductor processing, semiconductor device reliability, statistical quality control and industrial leadership. Dr. Meieran has been at Intel since 1973 and has been responsible for introducing advanced technologies and applications into Intels component manufacturing facilities to help improve manufacturing performance. Additionally, Dr. Meieran has been heavily involved in numerous external manufacturing technology and policy programs. He received a B.S. from Purdue University and an M.S. and Sc.D. from MIT, all in materials science. He was elected as Distinguished Engineering Alumnus in 1987 and an Honorary Doctorate in 2004, Purdue University, he served on the NRC Committee for Visionary Manufacturing Challenges in 1996-1998, and he has been on the Scientific and Education Advisory Board for Lawrence Berkeley Labs. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He was Director of Research for MIT's Leaders for Manufacturing Program from 1996 to 2000. 3.2: Monday, April 23, 2007, 10:30am: PlasmonicsBuilding Nanophotonics with Metals, Alexandra (Sasha) Boltasseva, BRK 1001 ABSTRACT: Today, surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) that represent two-dimensional electromagnetic waves propagating along a dielectric-metal interface are being explored for their potential in subwavelength optics, photonic integrated circuits, data storage, light generation, microscopy and bio-sensing. One of the most attractive features of SPPs is that they can help to concentrate and channel light using subwavelength structures. This could lead to miniaturized photonic circuits with length scales much smaller than those currently achieved. Giving the possibility of using the same metal circuitry for guiding light and transmitting electrical signals, plasmonics paves the way to efficient control of optical signals in integrated optical circuits. In this talk, different metal-dielectric geometries are considered for efficient excitation and guiding of SPPs. Planar plasmonic waveguides based on nm-thin and µm-wide metal strips embedded in a polymer that support propagation of long-range SPPs are shown to constitute an alternative for integrated optical circuits. For applications where polarization is random or changing, metal nanowire waveguides are considered to be suitable candidates for efficient guiding of arbitrary polarized light. Plasmonic waveguides based on metal v-grooves that were recently shown to have superior features for subwavelength guiding, such as relatively low propagation loss and strong confinement, are also considered. For different waveguide geometries issues like main loss contributions, propagation loss vs. confinement and fabrication challenges are discussed. In this presentation, recent advances in manufacturing of nanostructured metal surfaces for plasmonic structures are also discussed. BIO: Dr. Alexandra (Sasha) Boltasseva received M. Sc. degree in Physics, with highest honors, from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 2000 and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in 2004. After industrial experience with companies Micro Managed Photons A/S and Alight Technologies A/S, she joined as a postdoc the Department of Communications, Optics & Materials at DTU, where she is currently an Assistant Professor. Her main research activities are within nanophotonics, plasmonics, metamaterials and advanced nanotechnology. 3.3: 2nd Annual Lovell Leadership Lecture: Monday, April 23, 10:30 am Stewart Center, Room 302: TRUST: The Foundation of Leadership, Haydn Shaw, Leadership and Team Productivity Guru The source of highest value is the creative engagement of the whole person: body, heart, mind, and spirit. Learn how to unleash the full potential in your organization based on the timeless principles of Franklin Covey. 3.4: Discovery Lecture Series: Monday, April 23, 1:30 pm North Ballroom, Purdue Memorial Union: Marriage of Medicine and Management: Sustaining Improvements in Delivery, Quality, Cost, and Outcomes, by Stephen Shortell, PhD, Dean of the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley Shortell is known as a leading academic voice advocating reform of the nations healthcare system. His research has helped establish determinants of health outcomes and quality of care for health care organizations. He has received the Baxter-Allegiance Prize, considered the highest honor worldwide in the field of health services research. He is an elected member of the prestigious Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, where he serves on the executive committee of the Governing Council. 3.5: Discovery Lecture Series: Monday, April 23, 3:00 pm (reception follows) North Ballroom, Purdue Memorial Union: The Road to Improving National Performance of Healthcare Delivery, by Karen Davis, PhD, President of the Commonwealth Fund Davis is a nationally recognized economist, with a distinguished career in public policy and research. She assumed her position as president in 1995, having previously served as deputy assistant secretary for health policy in the Department of Health and Human Services from 1977-1980, making her the first woman to head a US public health service agency. Elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 1975, she has served two terms on its governing council (1986-90 and 1997-2000). She also has been a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, a visiting lecturer at Harvard University, and an assistant professor of economics at Rice University. 3.6: Discovery Lecture Series: Tuesday, April 24, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, Stewart Center and Purdue Memorial Union: Speakers and Panel Discussions on Basic Healthcare Advancing Solutions for Equitable Access, Consumer Choice and Responsibility Expanding Models for Consumer-Directed Healthcare, and Continuum of Care Evaluating New Provider Models. Join healthcare experts from industry and academia in the national dialogue about the roles of state-of-the-art engineering, science, and business principles in transforming healthcare delivery. View complete agenda and register at www.purdue.edu/dp/dls/rche. 3.7: Wednesday, April 25, 12:30pm: Quantum Computation for Quantum Chemistry and Statistical Mechanics, by Prof. Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Harvard University, WTHR 201 ABSTRACT: In this talk, we introduce two algorithms for the use of quantum computers for chemical applications. First, we describe a quantum algorithm for the calculation of molecular energies. The calculation time for the energy of atoms and molecules scales exponentially with system size on a classical computer, but polynomially using quantum algorithms. We demonstrate that such algorithms can be applied to problems of chemical interest using modest numbers of quantum bits. In the second part of the talk, we introduce an algorithm for finding protein low-energy conformations using a quantum computer. The algorithm uses the adiabatic model of quantum computation to anneal the system to solutions of the problem. BIO: Professor Aspuru-Guzik obtained his B.Sc. from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He studied his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. He is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University since 2006. His research interests are in the intersection of theoretical physical chemistry and quantum information. In particular, the development of quantum algorithms for the simulation of physical systems. He is also interested in algorithms for many-body physics (density functional theory and quantum Monte Carlo) and the understanding of the fundamental processes of charge and energy transfer in photovoltaic materials. 3.8: Wednesday, April 25, 2:00pm: Modeling and Analysis of VLSI Interconnects, by Cheng-Kok Koh, Purdue University, EE 317 ABSTRACT: With continual technology scaling, the accurate and efficient modeling and simulation of interconnect effects have become problems of central importance. In order to accurately model the distributive effects of interconnects, it is necessary to divide a long wire into several segments, with each regarded as a lumped RLC element. In this tutorial, two fundamental problems in the modeling and analysis of VLSI interconnects will be covered: (i) capacitance extraction and (ii) simulation of interconnects with inductive coupling. For capacitance extraction, one approach is to use a boundary element technique for solving the integral form of Laplace equations. Such an approach usually involves an iterative solver whose most expensive operation is matrix-vector multiply. The tutorial will include a fast multi-pole method that relies on a hierarchical data structure to perform matrix-vector multiply in linear time complexity. The second part of the tutorial will introduce a fast simulation technique for inductively coupled interconnects based on the notion of wire-duplication. The technique exploits the sparsity resident in the inverse of a inductance matrix to construct a small-sized equivalent RLC circuit. The wire-duplication technique improves simulation efficiency significantly while preserving simulation accuracy. BIO: Prof. Koh received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from University of California at Los Angeles. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. His research interests include physical design of high-performance low-power VLSI circuits, with an emphasis on VLSI interconnect layout optimization. He received the ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA) Meritorious Service Award in 1998 and the SIGDA Distinguished Service Award in 2002, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2000, and the Semiconductor Research Corporation Inventor Recognition Award in 2005. 3.9: Thursday, April 26, 9:30am, reception follows: Microscale Platforms for Applications in Global Health Diagnostics, by Dr. William Rodriguez, Harvard University, MRGN 121 ABSTRACT: Of the 40 million people living with HIV infection worldwide, fewer than 10% are aware that theyre infected. Fewer than 500,000 have access to the blood tests (CD4 cell counts and HIV RNA levels) essential for effective treatment. Of the 5,000 people dying each day from tuberculosis, half are undiagnosed; the best available test for diagnosing TB the light microscope was invented 350 years ago. Diagnostic tests for other major global diseases dengue, malaria, typhoid fever, diarrhea are equally unusable in resource-limited settings, like sub-Saharan Africa, where the global burden of disease rests. Can advances in microfabrication, microfluidics, MEMS, and biosensing be applied to the development of diagnostics for these diseases? Can they be made into truly point-of-care diagnostic products, against unforgiving specifications? We have applied these technologies to global health, and made progress in point-of-care devices for CD4 cell counting, HIV RNA measurement, and TB diagnosis. To be reviewed will be the biological, technical, product development, intellectual property, funding, and commercialization challenges to unleashing the potential of bioengineering methods to have a major impact on global health. Dr. Bill Rodriguez is an honors graduate of Brown University and the Yale University School of Medicine. He completed training in internal medicine and infectious disease at Harvards Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston, where he also served as Chief Medical Resident in 199899. Since 2001, he has led a research program in global health at Harvards Partners AIDS Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He is the co-inventor of several microtechnologies for HIV diagnostics, including low-cost methods for HIV RNA and CD4 cell counting. He has served as the Director of the Office forInternational Programs at the Harvard Medical School Division of AIDS, and has worked on scale-up of HIV clinical and laboratory programs in the eastern Caribbean, throughout Africa, and in Vietnam, India, and China. Since 2002, he has worked with the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative, as Senior HIV Advisor, as director of the Foundations HIV operations research initiative, and as Chief Medical Officer. He serves as an expert consultant on HIV care, treatment, laboratory diagnostics and research in resource-poor settings for several national governments, for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and for the National Institutes of Health and the World Health Organization. He has been a member of the Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School since 1997, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is also the recipient the Class of 2005 First-Year Teaching Award at Harvard Medical School for excellence in teaching. 3.10: Friday, April 27, 3:30pm, refreshments served: Introduction to X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and to XPS Applications, by Dmitry Zemlyanov, MRGN 121 ABSTRACT: X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), which is known as Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis (ESCA), is a powerful research tool for the study of the surface of solids. The technique is widely used for studies of the properties of atoms, molecules, solids, and surfaces. The main success of the XPS technique is associated with studies of the physical and chemical phenomena on the surface of solids. These investigations were limited by relatively simple inorganic reactions and not many biologically related objects were approached by XPS. There are impartial reasons for low involvement of XPS into investigations of biologically related objects. In this presentation successful examples of XPS studies of bio-related specimens will be presented. In particular, the systematic XPS investigation of four peptide-silane and peptide-silane hybrid sol-gel thin films prepared under biologically benign conditions will be reported. This work demonstrates a use for XPS to characterized biologically inspired surfaces, providing critical information on peptide coverage on the surface of the materials. The self-assembling layer characterization will be considered on the examples of thiols on Au and aryl diazonium molecules on Si(111). BIO: Dmitry Zemlyanov received his PhD in Physics and Mathematics from the Novosibirsk State University, Russia. He is currently a Surface Science Application Scientist at the Birck Nanotechnology Center and he is in charge for the Surface Analysis Facility at Birck. Earlier, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Fritz-Haber-Institute, Berlin, at Worchester Polytechnic Institute, MA; an adjunct assistant professor at the Physics Department, Worchester Polytechnic Institute, MA, and a research fellow at Material and Surface Science Institute, University of Limerick, Ireland. His research interests include surface science, heterogeneous catalysis, surface phenomena, and material science. ************************ 4. Workshops/Conferences ************************ 4.1: Advancing the Future of Healthcare Delivery: Regenstrief Center Annual Conference, April 23-24, 2007 Steven M. Witz, Director, Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering, personally invites you to join us for the Regenstrief Center Annual Conference on April 23-24, 2007. The conference, titled Advancing the Future of Healthcare Delivery: Access, Quality and Responsibility features recognized healthcare experts in industry and academia exploring the innovations necessary to transform healthcare delivery for the future. All sessions are free and open to the public. Registration and additional information are available at www.purdue.edu/dp/dls/rche. The conference presents a unique opportunity to explore the emerging field of healthcare engineering while connecting with healthcare colleagues from across the region and Purdue leadership and faculty. 4.2: 2nd Annual Lovell Leadership Lecture Workshop: Influence of the Ages, Monday, April 23, Stewart Center, Room 302, 1:30-3:00 pm. The knowledge and experience in most organizations is almost as varied the ages represented. Experience this powerful workshop based on understanding and embracing the diversity of the generations. 4.3: National Instruments Academic Events, Tuesday, April 24, BRK 1001, 9:00am3:30pm; WITH FREE PIZZA LUNCH National Instruments, invites you to gain experience in modeling, designing, and building powerful, custom measurement and control applications. Research faculty, professors and graduate students are invited to presentations and technology demonstrations on Nanotechnology and RF/Communications andSignal Processing Solutions for Teaching and Research. Reserve your seat today at ni.com/seminars 9:00am 12:00 pm: NI LabVIEW Hands-On Workshop for Students and Graduate Students. Gain hands-on experience in modeling, designing, and building powerful, custom measurement and control applications with intuitive graphical programming during this three-hour workshop. Learn about NI LabVIEW, the graphical development environment used by thousands of companies, students, researchers, and faculty members in virtually every industry. 1:00pm 2:00 pm: Empowering Nanotechnology Research with Virtual Instrumentation for Research Faculty, Professors, and Graduate Students: Learn about NI's hardware and software platform for modeling, simulation, measurement, and automation; Review successful nano applications including: automation, nanofabrication and nanocharacterization; See demonstrations using LabVIEW for data acquisition, image acquisition, and instrument development; Explore ways to add functionality, increase flexibility and deploy cost-effective approaches for nanotechnology research. 2:30pm 3:30pm: RF/Communications and Signal Processing Solutions for Teaching and Research for Research Faculty, Professors, and Graduate Students: Discuss research projects and applications to meet a variety of RF engineering needs; Learn about the NI PXI platform, which contains a software-defined vector signal analyzer, avector signal generator, switching, an amplifier, an attenuator, and hardware-programmable (FPGA) onboard signal processing; Examine how data acquisition and other types of hardware integration facilitate an integrated approach that bridges simulation and practice; View teaching demonstrations and research materials including in-depth. 4.4: Workplace Violence Awareness Training, June 28, 8:0-11:30am, Physical Facilities Service Building Room 1179 A-B, 775 Ahlers Road; pre-registration now open www.itap.purdue.edu/apps/training/physicalfacilities/training/; contact Dan Larson: dalarson(a)purdue.edu; 49-61064 Workplace Violence: Awareness, Prevention, and Survival Develop awareness for the potential of violence in the workplace Recognize the early warning signs of a potentially violent person, or situation. Handling confrontational individuals Evaluating workspace areas and establishing individual shelter in place locations Taking chances vs. compliance Identify non-verbal communication skills. 86% of past attendees report they will change their actions in the workplace as a result of attending this important training ******************************** 5. Fellowship/Job Opportunities ******************************** 5.1: Lexmark Industry Presentation; Monday, April 23; 6-7pm, EE170 Eta Kappa Nu Presents: Lexmark Industry Presentation (http://www.lexmark.com) Speaker: Brian Jacobs; Monday, April 23 6-7PM, EE170; FREE Fu Lam Chinese food; Bring an updated resume!

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Liquid Nitrogen system is down at Birck
by Kenny Schwartz 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

Hi to all, We have encountered a problem with the Liquid Nitrogen system at BNC, this effects liquid only . This means there is no LN2 available for filling of dewars or any equipment that requires LN2. However you can place an order to a vendor or contact me at 6-1174 and I can order them for you. We do not know at this time how long the system will be inoperable. Kenny Schwartz Birck Nanotechnology Center Purdue University PH 765-496-1174

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FW: Gas orders
by Kenny Schwartz 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

From: Kenny Schwartz [mailto:kfschwar@purdue.edu] Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 1:01 PM To: 'bnc-cleanroom(a)ecn.purdue.edu' Subject: Gas orders Effective today (4/16/07) any gases to be used in BNC can be ordered by the user using OnePurdue purchasing system. This means you obtain quotes and submit orders on the OnePurdue system. Please make a note on the attachment portion of the order that the product you order is a gas and not a liquid or dry chemical. This will help speed up the processing of your order by the business office. Thanks Kenny Kenny Schwartz Birck Nanotechnology Center Purdue University PH 765-496-1174

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Monday Memo for April 9, 2007
by Willison, Sheryl L 09 Apr '07

09 Apr '07

MONDAY MEMO, APRIL 9, 2007 CONTENTS 1. Announcements 1.1: Blood Borne Pathogen Training: Friday, April 13th from 3-4 PM in BRK 1099. 1.2: REMINDER: Cleanroom Preventive Maintenance, May 1-2, 2007 1.3 : Spring Fling: May 16; plan now to join the volleyball tournament 2. Faculty/Staff/Student Awards and Honors 2.1 3. Seminar Announcements 3.1: Tuesday, April 10, 1:00 pm, Lawson 3102AB: "ChemXSeer: A Digitial Library for Chemical Kinetics Data and Scientific Literature," by Prasenjit Mitra, Assistant Professor, College of Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University 3.2: Wednesday, April 11, 2:00 pm, EE 317: "Sugar: The Spice for MEMS," by Jason Clark, Assistant Professor, Schools of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Network for Computational Nanotechnology, Purdue University 3.3: Thursday, April 12,10:30 am, BRK 1001: "Selecting Your Career," presented by NSAC 4. Workshops/Conferences 4.1 5. Job/Fellowship opportunities 5.1 6. Life on the Outside 6.1: Baertsch Kovalchick family expands by one J 6.2: March of Dimes bake sale: Wednesday, April 11 **************** 1. Announcements **************** 1.1: Blood Borne Pathogen Training: Friday, April 13th from 3-4 PM in BRK 1099. This session is limited to 10 participants; alternate training can be coordinated with Paula Vitello at REM. 1.2: REMINDER: Cleanroom Preventive Maintenance, May 1-2, 2007 Per Mark Voorhis, a shut down of cleanroom operations has been scheduled for 48 hours to complete a six-month preventive maintenance procedure. A shutdown of cleanroom operations will begin on Tuesday (1-May-07) at 7:00 AM and will be completed by Wednesday (2-May-07) at 5:00 PM. Maintenance is required for our cleanroom makeup air handlers, chemical exhaust, and ultra pure water systems. Please note that the ultra pure water will be shut down for the entire building. We will also complete cleanroom troubleshooting to improve temperature repeatability during this time. Since the chemical exhaust system will be shut down please remove chemicals from all hoods in the cleanroom prior to the shutdown. If not removed, the lab staff will dispose of them for you. Thank you for your understanding and patience during this necessary procedure. If you have any questions or concerns please Mark Voorhis (mvoorhis(a)purdue.edu) 1.3: Spring Fling: May 16; plan now to join the volleyball tournament. Spring Fling is on May 16th this year. We will be putting together a team again to play in the volleyball tournament. Please respond and let me know if you would be interested in playing on the team. This year graduate students are able to play. So if we have enough interest we can put a couple of teams together. We will possibly have a few practices after work at Riehle Bros!! Volleyball and beer!! How can you say no???? CONTACT Janessa Drake for additional information (drake1(a)purdue.edu) **************** 2. Awards/Honors **************** ************************ 3. Seminar Announcements ************************ 3.1: Tuesday, April 10, 1:00 pm, Lawson 3102AB: "ChemXSeer: A Digitial Library for Chemical Kinetics Data and Scientific Literature," by Prasenjit Mitra, Assistant Professor, College of Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University ABSTRACT: Scientists have digital documents and experimental data that they want to publish, link, and share. ChemXSeer is an ongoing project that aims to establish a digital library for documents and data related to chemical kinetics. This talk will introduce the architecture and algorithms deployed for the following components: (a) Chemical Entity Search: The tool identifies chemical formulae and chemical names, disambiguates the terms from other general terms using hierarchical Conditional Random Fields, and tags them. Novel similarity scores, ranking functions and search methods are introduced to enable searching for chemical entities; (b) TableSeer: This tool automatically identifies tables in digital documents and extracts the contents in the cells of the tables. The contents are stored in a queryable table in a database. TableSeer extracts table metadata, and uses a novel ranking function to search for tables relevant to user queries; (c) Databases: Our data repository contains experimental data obtained from various sources. Our tools can process, store and link data in multiple formats, e.g., Excel, XML, Gaussian, and Charmm. A metadata ad-on can help annotate the data and link multiple datasets. The metadata is then used to link the data to published articles allow the end-user to search for relevant data. The talk will briefly cover our efforts on novel focused crawling algorithms and query expansion to enhance search and rewriting techniques to utilize the limited resources available at hand and to enhance the quality of the search respectively. BIO: Prasenjit Mitra is an assistant professor at the College of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the database group at Stanford University in 2004. Prior to that, he had received a Master of Science degree in Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin in December 1994. His Bachelor of Technology (with Honors) degree in Computer Science and Engineering was received from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in May, 1993. From 1995, he was a senior member of the technical staff at the Server Technologies division at Oracle Corporation in Redwood Shores, CA for five years developing database management systems software. He also held a position as a senior engineer at Narus, Inc. and DBWizards working on database applications. Dr. Mitra's research interests are in database systems, digital libraries, information retrieval, and web information systems. He is especially interested in scalable information integration from large data sources in distributed settings and making data and information on the world-wide-web easily processable by machines. 3.2: Wednesday, April 11, 2:00 pm, EE 317: "Sugar: The Spice for MEMS," by Jason Clark, Assistant Professor, Schools of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Network for Computational Nanotechnology, Purdue University ABSTRACT: In this seminar, I present some design, modeling, and simulation features of a computer aided engineering tool for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) called SUGAR. For experimental verification, I use a microdevice that is difficult to simulate with conventional MEMS software. I show that the relative errors of the lumped models are less than 3% of finite element analysis; that the computational costs are much less than 1% of finite element analysis; and that simulation fairly agrees with experiment. Features of SUGAR include: a flexible SPICE-like netlist language for MEMS design; a simple modeling framework for computationally efficient lumped models; an extensible architecture to which users can add features; and the ability to display 3D circuits together with deflected electromechanical structures. Since SUGAR is programmed in MATLAB, a multitude of commonly used functions and 3rd-party toolboxes may be used with SUGAR at once. Such attributes facilitate the exploration of design spaces and feature modifications. BIO: Jason Clark is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and of Mechanical Engineering, at Purdue University. He is a faculty member of the Birck Nanotechnology Center, and of the Network for Computational Nanotechnology. Dr. Clark received his Ph.D. in Applied Science from the University of California at Berkeley, fall 2005. His CAD/E efforts lead to one of the first nodal analysis software packages for MEMS, called SUGAR. And his micro-metrology efforts lead to the first comprehensive on-chip methods for measuring micro-scale geometry and material properties, called electro micro-metrology (EMM). Prior to professorship, he held positions at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley Biomedical Microdevices Center, Berkeley. 3.3: Thursday, April 12,10:30 am, BRK 1001: "Selecting Your Career," presented by NSAC Come consider whether you'd like to work in industry, a government lab, or academia. Each graduate student will need to decide what type of career is most appealing as full-time employment is pursued upon graduation. A panel discussion with faculty whom have experience in industry and government labs in addition to academia will be available to answer questions on this very valuable topic. Included will be an introduction to the panel members; faculty from several different disciplines; a brief overview of the career fields to be discussed (industry, government labs, and academia); plenty of open question time to address important issues. If you would like a specific topic/question included in the dialogue, you may bring it with you to the seminar, or send it to Brian Iverson ( biverson(a)purdue.edu <mailto:biverson@purdue.edu> ). ************************ 4. Workshops/Conferences ************************ 4.1 ******************************** 5. Fellowship/Job Opportunities ******************************** 5.1 ******************************** 6. Life on the Outside ******************************** 6.1: Baertsch Kovalchick family expands by one J Our Chelsey Baertsch announces the birth of her daughter, Scarlet Dru Baertsch Kovalchick on March 22. 6.2: March of Dimes bake sale: Wednesday, April 11. The business office will have a bake sale to raise funds for the March of Dimes. Buy and eat goodies and support a worthy cause at the same time.

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