January 2015 - BNC-all - ecn.purdue.edu

VB-6 Available for Use
by Reger, Ronald K 30 Jan '15

30 Jan '15

Dear all Birck Users: The VB-6 is now available for use. John Reilley, the Vistec field service engineer, successfully installed the new electronics crate that arrived today and this solved the video problem. A computer upgrade is to be done next Tuesday or Wednesday, and so the system will need to be off-line at that time, but it is now available for use. Ron

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NSAC Coffee Hour
by Anthrop, Heather L 30 Jan '15

30 Jan '15

Please join us at 3:30 pm in the atrium. Today's presenter is Sultan Helmi A 1.8 to 2.4 GHz Stacked Power Amplifier Implemented in 0.25μm CMOS SOS Technology

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E-news for the week of February 2nd
by Anthrop, Heather L 30 Jan '15

30 Jan '15

New BNC Ice Machine A new ice machine has been installed in the second floor east galley. This produces ice for experimental purposes only. Please note: THE ICE FROM THIS MACHINE IS NOT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION. If you have need for ice for experiments please help yourself. VB-6 The VB-6 continues to have video issues. Vistec has removed a complete crate from another VB at a different site and has shipped it here. The field service engineer will begin the installation today (Friday) and continue working through the weekend. This represents a major push to solve the problem, and we should have the VB-6 back up next week. All-User Meetings Thanks to all who attended one of the all-user meetings last week. The total attendance was 373. If for some reason you didn't get to one of the three sessions, please see Mary Jo Totten for further instructions. Seminar Dr. Yurii Vlasov Applications of Integrated Photonics Technology - from Optical Interconnects to Neurophotonics Tuesday, February 3rd at 11:00 am in Birck 1001

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Dr. Roger T. Bonnecaze Seminar - Today, Jan. 29th at 3:00pm in BRK 1001
by Turner, Jaime J 29 Jan '15

29 Jan '15

[cid:image001.png@01D03987.56CC9280] Jaime Turner Birck Nanotechnology Center 1205 West State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 Email: jjturner(a)purdue.edu<mailto:jjturner@purdue.edu> Phone: 765-494-3509

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Dr. Roger T. Bonnecaze Seminar - Jan. 29th at 3:00pm in BRK 1001
by Turner, Jaime J 26 Jan '15

26 Jan '15

[cid:image001.png@01D03987.56CC9280] Jaime Turner Birck Nanotechnology Center 1205 West State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 Email: jjturner(a)purdue.edu<mailto:jjturner@purdue.edu> Phone: 765-494-3509

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BNC e-news for the week of Jan. 26th
by Anthrop, Heather L 23 Jan '15

23 Jan '15

3-D Cell Culture Facility Cleanroom Hoods Concur Refrigerator Cleanout VB-6 3-D Cell Culture Facility If you walk by BRK 2087 you will notice that the smaller labs within, 2087A and 2087B, are being populated with new equipment. Each small lab now has a bio-safety hood, two incubators, and a refrigerator-freezer. This is the new 3-D cell culture facility that is coming on line here at Birck. The equipment is now being hooked up and Kim McDole, the 3-D Cell Culture manager, is working a plan to get these systems certified and all attendant 3-D supplies and materials in place for bringing up the lab this Spring. Cleanroom Hoods It was noted in our survey this week that we have a few different styles of cleanroom hoods. Some snap in the front, some have elastic around the face opening, some don't have snaps, and there are a couple of different colors available. All these different versions comply with our particle containment specifications, but they are just different styles. We will place more emphasis during gowning training to point out the differences in the hoods so that users will be familiar with the various hood styles regardless of which one they select from the bin. Concur [cid:image001.png@01D03715.5B3C8C40] Refrigerator Cleanout The refrigerator will be cleaned out Thursday, January 29th in the afternoon. All items unlabeled or appearing to be old will be thrown out. VB-6 The VB-6 continues to experience a very difficult video problem. Vistec sent their best field service engineer to solve the problem, and after swapping out 15 different boards the problem still exists. Vistec is now sending us the entire electronics 'crate' from a known-good machine and the same field service engineer will be here on Monday to replace this entire unit. Our plan is for this to address the problem and to get the VB-6 up and capable of both alignment and writing next week.

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Today's NSAC Coffee Hour Presentation
by Anthrop, Heather L 23 Jan '15

23 Jan '15

Please join us for today's NSAC coffee hour presentation at 3:30PM. Alice Jou will be presenting on An Integrated Reconfigurable Tuner in 45nm CMOS SOI Technology[Anthrop, Heather L] .

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All User Meeting - tonight and tomorrow
by Jurss, Stephen E 21 Jan '15

21 Jan '15

All, The annual All User meeting is scheduled for January 21st and 22nd . You must attend one of the sessions. Location: Lily Hall 1-105 at 7:00pm for both dates. If you do not attend your laboratory and cleanroom access will be removed. Please make sure you attend. (Note you will need your Purdue ID or Birck badge to swipe in for attendance tracking) Stephen Stephen E. Jurss CIH, CSP Safety Officer Birck Nanotechnology Center 1205 W. State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907 Tx: 765-496-8337 E-mail: sejurss(a)purdue.edu<mailto:sejurss@purdue.edu>

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BNC e-news for the week of Jan. 19
by Anthrop, Heather L 16 Jan '15

16 Jan '15

All-User Meetings New Process Meetings VB-6 All-User Meetings Please don’t forget: The annual All User meeting is scheduled for January 21st and 22nd . You must attend one of the sessions. Location: Lily Hall 1-105 at 7:00pm for both dates. If you do not attend your laboratory and cleanroom access will be removed. Please make sure you attend. New Process Meetings A user commented that the process meetings with staff provide a very valuable way to help guide users through processes that they want to accomplish in the cleanroom. The staff engineers are very pleased to be able to offer their experience and expertise to help new users with their processes. Please schedule your process discussion meeting with our staff engineer, Kenny Schwartz: kfschwar(a)purdue.edu<mailto:kfschwar@purdue.edu>. VB-6 The Vistec VB-6 has experienced a particularly tough problem for several days. The video is the issue, so alignment can’t be done without the video image. The Vistec field service engineer is on-site and has swapped 15 different PCBs to try to isolate the problem, but the root cause has not yet been found. He continues to work on the problem, so the VB-6 will still be available for writings but not alignment. We anticipate the problem to be resolved sometime next week.

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Professor Nadya Mason seminar today at 3:30 pm in Physics
by Anthrop, Heather L 16 Jan '15

16 Jan '15

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