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

Nanodays 2015: Thank you!
by Peroulis, Dimitrios 07 Jun '15

07 Jun '15

Dear all, This is belated email but I wanted to share some great news of this year's Nanodays. First, I would like to express a big heart-felt thank you to the 100s (literally!) of people who embraced the event and contributed to its great success at a new level. We had over 350 students visit us from public, private, and home-schools over a period of 2 days. In addition, the Girls scout evening attracted 110 GS & chaperone plus many more Birck families. We keep receiving thank-you notes from many of our visitors and these speak volumes of everyone's contributions. Naming all external sponsors and internal contributing groups to this event would make this email too long. However, they are listed in our new Nanodays website (https://nanohub.org/groups/bnc/nanodays under 2015 Contributors and Sponsors). Please let us know if we need to add any more groups or individuals. None of this would have been possible without the incredible contributions of the Nanodays 2015 leaders, namely, Dr. Swati Pol and Ms. Jaime Turner. Despite being a new research scientist at Birck, Swati was able to quickly catch up and make this happen. Jaime was an equal contributor and, not only led many aspects of the event, but became a critical link between new people/activities and established practices. Please congratulate them next time you see them, they truly made a difference! Thank you again everyone! Best Dimitri ________________________________________________________________________________ Dimitrios Peroulis Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Deputy Director, Birck Nanotechnology Center Purdue University 1205 West State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 tel: (765) 494-3491, fax: (765) 494-4731 email: dperouli(a)purdue.edu<mailto:dperouli@purdue.edu> http://sites.google.com/site/peroulisteam/ ________________________________________________________________________________

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BNC e-news for the week of June 8th
by Anthrop, Heather L 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

Building Evacuation ESL Summer Club announcement Fisher Scientific J-Bay Activity Magnetics Sputtering System VB6 Building Evacuation At 5:02 pm Wednesday, June 3 the toxic gas alarm was activated resulting in a building evacuation. The cause of the alarm was identified as the wireless gas monitoring system. However, a review of each of the individual point logs showed non-active alarms. In addition the fire panel did not show a toxic gas alarm. An actual gas release did not occur. An electrical/computer glitch is most likely the source. As a precaution all of the programmable logic controllers were powered down and restarted as a reset. Since the system has been operating for almost 10 years 24/7 we're in the process of switching to a Siemen's control system which will give us more detailed information by detection point as well as use new hardware. Stephen Safety Officer ESL Summer Club announcement ECE ESL Summer Club (Summer 2015) (7/2 - 7/30/2015) The purpose of the club is to help international students in ECE, who stay here in summer, practice English speaking and writing skills and make your resume ready for Industrial Round Table. Various forms will be used in the club: guest speakers from Purdue Writing Center (OWL) and Career Center, watching classic English films, English conversation group, resume evaluation, and oral presentations. Fisher Scientific Purdue University recently strategically sourced scientific supplies to Fisher Scientific. As part of the agreement, the University will be consolidating multiple sales channels through Fisher. Procurement Services would like to make all faculty and staff aware of the changes. Purdue and Fisher are hosting a manufacturer showcase (additional details attached). Invitation: Scientific Suppliers Manufacturer Showcase Purdue University and Fisher Scientific will host a manufacturer showcase on June 15 at Purdue Memorial Union Ballroom from 1:00pm to 3:00pm. The showcase will give all scientific researchers an opportunity to meet with Purdue's largest manufacturers of scientific supplies that will be offered through Fisher Scientific. Please direct any questions to Nathan Manges (nmanges(a)purdue.edu<mailto:nmanges@purdue.edu>). J-Bay Activity Over the next several weeks you will notice work being done in the new J-Bay laboratory to install various lab benches and equipment. Recall this area was temporarily re-purposed from cleanroom space to become a large laboratory only accessible from the outer tour aisle on the south side of the cleanroom. Magnetics Sputtering System The PVD magnetics system will be moved down slightly to accommodate a new load-lock retrofit for that system. After moving, the PVD field service engineer will be scheduled to install the new equipment that will provide a load-lock with faster and cleaner pumping. VB6 The Vistec VB6 e-beam system returned to operation on Thursday, June 4 after several weeks of down-time. The final root-cause of the problem turned out to be the input and output shape-writer boards. The Vistec field service engineer, working with the equipment experts at their home office, found and fixed these issues. Please see Bill Rowe with any questions regarding operation or databases.

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VB6 Fixed
by Reger, Ronald K 04 Jun '15

04 Jun '15

Dear All, The VB6 field service engineer has found and fixed the root cause of the write problem, and Bill has turned it green in Coral. Both the shape-writer input and output boards were replaced, and the system has now successfully written a ring-oscillator pattern without the extraneous 'slivers' that were being seen before. The 5na databases have been created and are ready to go. Bill is working on other databases, so if you need a database that is not 5na please see Bill to get that installed and/or determine when the other databases will be available. Thanks to Raith/Vistec for their continued service support, and thanks especially to the Birck user community for your patience. Ron

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