June 2014 - BNC-all - ecn.purdue.edu

EVOS Imaging Systems Demo cancelled for today
by Turner, Jaime J 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

CANCELLED: Demonstration EVOS imaging Systems Monday, June 30th 10:00 am - 3:00 pm Birck 2001 Featuring EVOS Brightfield and Fluorescent Imaging Microscopes. Feel free to bring samples and USB memory sticks to take images back to your lab! Please contact Bill Rowe (wrowe(a)purdue.edu<mailto:wrowe@purdue.edu>) for more information. This will be rescheduled at a later date and time.

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NSAC Coffee hour - reminder
by Anthrop, Heather L 27 Jun '14

27 Jun '14

NSAC Coffee hour Please join us at 3:30 pm on Friday, June 27th (TODAY) in the atrium for coffee. Presentation by Ramon Salazar entitled current Transport and Capacitance Aspects on 1D and 2D Tunneling Devices: Fabrication, Characterization and Modeling Thank you, Heather L Anthrop Purdue University Birck Nanotechnology Center 1205 West State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907 (765) 494-7053

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BNC E-news for the week of 6.30.14
by Anthrop, Heather L 27 Jun '14

27 Jun '14

Ariba Demonstration Holiday Survey Ariba New Office Supply Vendor Beginning July 1st Our current contract with Guy Brown expires on June 30th. Effective July 1st, the new supplier for office supplies will be OfficeMax. The Guy Brown catalog will not be available within Ariba after Monday June 30th at 3:00 pm. The new punch-out catalog has been scheduled to be available in Ariba Tuesday morning, July 1st. For additional details on creating requisitions, please visit the business@purdue website under Procurement/Ariba<https://spa.itap.purdue.edu/Business/businessatpurdue/Pages/ariba.aspx>. A quick reference guide<http://www.purdue.edu/business/procurement/doc/OfficeMaxquickrefguide.doc> is available with contact information and frequently asked questions. OfficeMax has a delivery schedule of Monday-Friday, this expanded from the Tuesday-Friday schedule with Guy Brown. Any questions please contact the Procure-to-Pay Helpdesk<mailto:pshelpdesk@purdue.edu> at (765) 494-7279. Demonstration EVOS imaging Systems Monday, June 30th 10:00 am - 3:00 pm Birck 2001 Featuring EVOS Brightfield and Fluorescent Imaging Microscopes. Feel free to bring samples and USB memory sticks to take images back to your lab! Please contact Bill Rowe (wrowe(a)purdue.edu<mailto:wrowe@purdue.edu>) for more information. Holiday Purdue University will be closed Friday, July 4th in observance of Independence day. Survey Aligners Based on earlier survey input asking for aligner service, we scheduled a field service engineer to come this week to service our optical alignment systems. He did general preventive maintenance on all systems on their manipulators, and improved focus. Additionally he replaced the air cylinders on the MJB3-1 and MJB3-2 mirror housings, tightened the wafer alignment theta micrometer and chuck holder for smoother operation on the MJB3-2, and cleaned and improved the travel mechanisms. On the MA24 he adjusted the proximity sensor on the wafer unload transfer arm. They should be tuned-up and ready to go. Panasonic, Leybold We have repaired both the Panasonic etcher and the Leybold e-beam evaporator, and they have been returned to service. Both had difficult issues that required several days to diagnose and fix. Thank you for your patience during this time. Waste Reminder We've had two instances this week where sharps and/or hazardous materials were found by the custodians in office trash. Please remember to use proper disposal receptacles for this type of waste. These waste bins are located throughout the facility . . . never dispose of this type of waste in normal trash cans, and never have this material in offices. Thanks, Ron

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Low flying plane
by Totten, Mary J 26 Jun '14

26 Jun '14

Everyone, I just spoke to the police and the plane that is flying low over Birck is spraying for Gypsy Moths. It was too foggy to do it this morning. I just wanted to let you know. The spray is not harmful to humans. Thank you, Mary Jo Totten Birck Nanotechnology Center Discovery Park/Purdue University 1205 West State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 (765) 496-1173 "Don't count the things you do. Do the things that count."<http://www.ziglar.com/quotes/zig-ziglar/things-you-do> -Zig Ziglar<http://www.ziglar.com/profile/zig-ziglar>

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NSAC Coffee Hour - reminder
by Anthrop, Heather L 20 Jun '14

20 Jun '14

NSAC Coffee Hour Today Friday, June 20th at 3:30 pm in the Birck atrium Presenter: Fee Ding Unidirectional Surface Plasmon Polari ton Coupler in the Visible Using Met surfaces Thank you, Heather L Anthrop Purdue University Birck Nanotechnology Center 1205 West State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907 (765) 494-7053

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BNC E-news for the week of 6.23.14
by Anthrop, Heather L 20 Jun '14

20 Jun '14

Floor Cleaning NSAC Coffee hour Parking Survey Feedback Tours Floor Cleaning New Floor Machine: The custodial staff has purchased a new riding machine to clean the floors in the hallways and Atrium. Please be careful opening doors and entering the hallway, and we will watch out for you too. Thank you, Miguel Flores Crew Chief NSAC Coffee hour Please join us at 3:30 pm on Friday, June 27th in the atrium for coffee. Presentation by Ramon Salazar entitled current Transport and Capacitance Aspects on 1D and 2D Tunneling Devices: Fabrication, Characterization and Modeling Parking 20 parking spaces will be reserved in the west lot for the Duke Energy Center Academy held June 23 - 27th. Survey Feedback Equipment Downtime We are pleased to report that both the Lesker e-beam evaporator and the Panasonic etcher are back online. The Lesker power supply was repaired at the factory and has been reinstalled and checked out. The Panasonic was also repaired with a new o-ring set and other components. Thanks for your patience. New Working Groups We are in the beginning stages of forming working groups for some of the major process areas, such as PVD, Thermal, etc. These working groups will be a team comprised of the engineering staff member(s) within that area and a number of student and/or post-doc users. The goal of these groups will be to address issues that may be inhibiting equipment uptime, performance, and availability. Please consider contributing to these groups as they are being formed. Thanks again for your constructive suggestions. Ron Tours Monday, June 23rd at 10:15 am - 18 guests Tuesday, June 24th at 8:30 am - 50 guests Wednesday, June 25th at 3:00 pm - 3 gueests Thursday, June 26th at 3:30 pm - 50 guests

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BNC E-news for the week of 6.16.14
by Anthrop, Heather L 13 Jun '14

13 Jun '14

NSAC Coffee Hour Office Notes Survey Feedback Travel NSAC Coffee Hour Friday, June 20th at 3:30 pm in the Birck atrium Presenter: Fei Ding Unidirectional Surface Plasmon Polariton Coupler in the Visible Using Metasurfaces Office Notes Respect for other people's work areas - We are in the process of placing 4 computers on the study desks in the back of the Atrium. These are for student use. Please remember that the desks that are located at the front desk and 2nd floor are work spaces for our full time employees and are not open desk spaces. Please do not use the secretarial desks. We should respect their work space. Lock your offices! Please make sure you lock your office before leaving. We want to make sure that all your personal items are safe. Re-cycling: If you have empty boxes that need re-cycling, please place them outside your office door in the hallway and mark trash. We are not allowed to remove them if they are still in the office. Thank you, Mary Jo Totten Survey Feedback Equipment Downtime Recent comments on the surveys have expressed obvious frustration by our user community that broken/down equipment is not being addressed in a timely manner. Please know that the staff does everything possible to diagnose problems and provide corrective actions in a timely manner. Specific mention was made of the extended downtime of the Lesker e-beam evaporator. It turns out that the high voltage power supply failed. The supply was shipped back to the factory for repair and we have now received the repaired unit back at Birck. Dave is installing it and the Lesker should be back online for research on Friday. Sometimes users ask when the down systems will be back online, and many times we don't exactly know because the root cause of the problem has not yet been determined. In the case of the Lesker we did extensive trouble-shooting of several components before we determined the HV power supply was the issue. Then the time to ship the unit to the factory, and the factory repair time, adds to the delay in getting the system back online. We thank you for your patience, and in the case of the Lesker we tried to provide alternatives for thin film deposition. The Panasonic etcher is another case in point. Geoff has spent a considerable number of hours diagnosing the issue, and now a new vacuum pump and valves are being ordered. In the meantime we are offering a manual intervention to run critically needed processes on the Panasonic. Please see Geoff for your process needs. We certainly understand the frustration many researchers have of not knowing when a broken research tool will be fixed. In the future we will attempt to provide a bracketed timeline on when equipment might be repaired and returned to service. This may not always be possible due to uncertainties in the troubleshooting, but we will attempt to provide a time window based on possible solutions being pursued. We hope this will help drive decisions on alternative process options that could be considered by the users. Cleanliness & Budget A researcher commented this week that all users of the facility should adopt a campaign to clean work areas after use. Also, it was suggested to leave equipment in a state that will enable ease of use for the next person, and that will promote long-term uptime (like turning off microscope lamps to extend their useful life). In addition the user noted that cleanroom wipes are wasted because many times more wipes are used than are required. So please be thrifty in your use if cleanroom supplies. Solvent Labels An input was received that the solvent list need to be updated with our current chemicals. We will take the action item to update the solvent lists. Thanks again for your constructive suggestions. Ron Travel Please remember to enter all trips into Concur before the trip occurs. Risk Management must track all international travelers and maintain a database of where people are and when they are there in case there is a need to evacuate. If you have any questions or concerns please contact Lois High in Risk Management.

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FW: Power Bump
by Anthrop, Heather L 11 Jun '14

11 Jun '14

Update... All Systems are back to normal.... From: Voorhis, Mark L. Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 12:04 PM To: BNC-EngStaff; BNC-FacilityStaff Cc: Shakouri, Ali; Peroulis, Dimitrios; Lane, Michael S; Laorange, Terry M; Laorange, Greg A; Laramore, Timothy D; Brown, Donna J Subject: RE: Power Bump Update.... Steam is back to normal and campus chilled water went from 42° to 51° and is currently at 49° (still recovering). At this time all critical building utilities are operating at normal levels. From: Voorhis, Mark L. Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 10:30 AM To: BNC-EngStaff; BNC-FacilityStaff Cc: Shakouri, Ali; Peroulis, Dimitrios; Lane, Michael S; Laorange, Terry M; Laorange, Greg A; Laramore, Timothy D; Brown, Donna J Subject: Power Bump All, Campus took a major power bump that restarted most of our local building systems. Wade power plant lost 1 boiler and 2 large chillers, but they are in the process of starting all chillers at the satellite chiller plant. We lost steam to the building which means we will not have ambient temperature and humidly control for the offices, cleanroom, and lab areas. The forecasted from campus utility department is that chilled water will recover soon (if there are no major issues) and steam will recover later. We may be looking at 2-3 hours before systems are normal. I will keep you posted. Regards, Mark Mark Voorhis Building Manager Purdue University Birck Nanotechnology Center Office: (765) 494-3036

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Power Bump
by Anthrop, Heather L 11 Jun '14

11 Jun '14

All, Campus took a major power bump that restarted most of our local building systems. Wade power plant lost 1 boiler and 2 large chillers, but they are in the process of starting all chillers at the satellite chiller plant. We lost steam to the building which means we will not have ambient temperature and humidly control for the offices, cleanroom, and lab areas. The forecasted from campus utility department is that chilled water will recover soon (if there are no major issues) and steam will recover later. We may be looking at 2-3 hours before systems are normal. I will keep you posted. Regards, Mark Mark Voorhis Building Manager Purdue University Birck Nanotechnology Center Office: (765) 494-3036

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Watching 2014 FIFA World Cup: this Thur at 4pm in BRK 1001
by NSAC 11 Jun '14

11 Jun '14

Hi all- Lets get together and watch the football world cup! First game is Brazil-Croatia. *Time & Place*: June 12 (Thursday), BRK 1001 at 4pm Friendly, -NSAC

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