October 2016 - BNC-all - ecn.purdue.edu

NOTICE - Cleanroom & Laboratories are Now Open
by Voorhis, Mark L. 21 Oct '16

21 Oct '16

All BNC Users - The preventive maintenance shutdown of the Birck Nanotechnology Facility has been completed successfully due to the great efforts the BNC Engineering Staff and the Physical Facilities trades. The cleanroom and laboratories are now open for operation. Some equipment is still shut down for maintenance, or is in the process of being started back up. Please check Coral for individual equipment status. Thank you for your patience and understanding during this set of important preventive-maintenance procedures. Mark Voorhis Building Manager Purdue University Birck Nanotechnology Center Office: (765) 494-3036

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Visualization-3D-Cell-Culture-Training-Workshop-November 17 & 18 2016 -- 2nd Announcement
by Kwok, Tim 20 Oct '16

20 Oct '16

Dear Fellow Scientists, The first hands-on training workshop for visualization of 3D cell cultures organized by the 3D Cell Culture Core (3D3C) facility is scheduled on November 17 and 18, 2016. The workshop will cover some basic techniques for immunolabeling and dye staining and microscope observation of live and fixed 3D cell cultures. The registration deadline is on October 28. This will likely be the only workshop session on this topic this semester. If you are interested in attending the workshop, please contact me for information and registration. The flyer with detailed information on the workshop is attached. Thanks. Sincerely, Tim Kwok Facility Manager 3D Cell Culture Core (3D3C) Facility Birck Nanotechnology Center Purdue University ________________________________ [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/b7d6d1ffee56a866e499104cf/images/9c8a64b5-ab4…]

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Energy System Lecture by CEO Lynn Good, Duke Energy: Oct 20 @1:30 PM, MRGN 121
by Peroulis, Dimitrios 20 Oct '16

20 Oct '16

Dear all This is just a kind reminder of this talk today. Best Dimitri [cid:image002.jpg@01D22AB8.03AACD00]

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Hot Water Outage Wednesday
by Kuhn, Jeffrey G 19 Oct '16

19 Oct '16

All, As part of the PM this week, the trades will be servicing the hot water tank that supplies the kitchenette, the restrooms, and the mixing valves for the emergency eyewash/showers and the UPW system. There will be no hot water available in those areas for the entire day this coming Wednesday 10/19/16. The eyewash/shower units will still function in an emergency, but the water will be cold. We appreciate your understanding. Regards, Jeff Kuhn Facility Engineer Birck Nanotechnology Center 1205 West State St. West Lafayette, IN 47906 Ph: 765-496-8329 kuhn1(a)purdue.edu<mailto:kuhn1@purdue.edu>

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1st floor color printer/copier now working
by Turner, Jaime J 18 Oct '16

18 Oct '16

Hello all, The first floor color printer/copier is now printing again. Thanks Jaime Turner Administrative Assistant to the Director 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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1st floor color copier/printer
by Turner, Jaime J 18 Oct '16

18 Oct '16

Hello, Please do not print to the 1st floor color copier/printer as it is not working at the moment. I have submitted a trouble report. Thanks Jaime Turner Administrative Assistant to the Director 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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2016 OSA and SPIE Traveling Lecturer Program on TUESDAY OCT 18, 2016 in Birck 1001
by Justus C Ndukaife 17 Oct '16

17 Oct '16

Dear Colleagues, Every year the Optical Society of America (OSA) and the Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) sponsors the annual Traveling Lecturer Program featuring talks by world leading experts working in the broad fields of Optics and Photonics. This year we are delighted to host Professor Mark Brongersma and Professor Richard Haglund as the 2016 OSA and SPIE Lecturers respectively. The details of the Lectures are provided below: OSA Centennial Lecture by Professor Mark Brongersma (Stanford University) Title: Active Optical Antennas and Metasurfaces Date: Tuesday Oct 18, 2016 from 10am to 10:45am Venue: Birck 1001 SPIE 2016 Visiting Lecture by Professor Richard Haglund (the Stevenson Professor of Physics, Vanderbilt University) Title: A Phase-Changing Oxide for Ultrafast Silicon Photonics Date: Tuesday Oct 18, 2016 from 2pm to 2:45pm Venue: Birck 1001 All student members of OSA and SPIE are also invited to an informal lunch and discussion session with the Speakers in Birck 1001 from 1pm to 2pm. Please see the attached flyer for details. We look forward to having you join us for the 2016 Traveling Lecturer Program. Sincerely, Justus Ndukaife President of the Purdue Student Chapter of the Optical Society of America PhD Candidate in Electrical Engineering, Purdue University

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New Purchasing Procedure
by Anthrop, Heather L 17 Oct '16

17 Oct '16

All, The Birck Business Office is now working in conjunction with the Executive Office Business Operations Center (EOBOC) to handle certain aspects of both credit card purchases as well as Ariba purchases. With that said, we have made some modifications to our purchasing processes. Credit Card orders: Please complete the "purchasing details" and "account numbers to be charged" section of the new Purchasing Card Transaction Form with all of the pertinent information. Bring the form to the appropriate account manager in the business office for the necessary approvals. You can then see Viki Rogers in the business office to check out a credit card. After completing your purchase, return the credit card to Viki (business office) along with your itemized receipt. Ariba orders: Discover Park Purchase Request (DPPR) forms are no longer required with an Ariba order. If you are placing your own order through Ariba, simply create the order and submit. You do not have to attach a purchase request form. If you are working with Heather or Nancy to place an Ariba order, please email them with the required information listed below and they will place the order on your behalf. Required Information: 1. Item details with quote provided 2. Account to be charged 3. Specific benefit to the project for the items you are purchasing 4. PI approval - this can be in the form of an email Failure to provide all of these required pieces of information will necessitate additional e-mail communication and will delay the process so please be diligent in supplying this information. If you have any questions about the changes to our purchasing process, please email the business office at dp1211bo(a)purdue.edu<mailto:dp1211bo@purdue.edu>. Thanks in advance for your cooperation. ///////////////////////////////////////// Erica Cox Business Manager Birck Nanotechnology Center 1205 W. State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907 [New DP Logo B&G] * ericacox(a)purdue.edu<mailto:ericacox@purdue.edu> * 765-494-1619

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BNC E-news for the week of Oct. 17th.
by Anthrop, Heather L 14 Oct '16

14 Oct '16

Reminder of Buddy System Please remember that working in a fume hood after normal working hours (5:00 pm to 7:00 am every week day, and all hours on the weekends) requires using our "Buddy System" for safety. This Buddy System is defined as having at least one additional person in the same vicinity as the person working in the fume hood. For example, working in a cleanroom fume hood requires a second person to be somewhere in the cleanroom; working in a lab fume hood requires a second person to be in that particular lab. Please make sure you follow this important safety practice. Vacuum/Process Equipment System Training A user suggested we provide online vacuum training for common vacuum operation. We believe this is an excellent idea and we're working to extend this to other systems as well. In fact we're just starting to develop some video materials for several systems that will be put online and included as part of the specific equipment training. Watch for these in the future as we get them developed, debugged, and launched. Evaporator Contamination As a reminder please do not use any flexible/organic substrates in any e-beam evaporators except the Airco and Varian. These two systems are dedicated for organic substrates but using organics in any other system causes severe contamination and requires extensive cleaning to get them back to depositing pure films. Please see these two pictures of flaking taken from the PVD Evaporator where organic substrates were used: [cid:image003.png@01D22531.2128E880][cid:image005.png@01D22531.2128E880] This level of contamination not only causes significant down time for the evaporators but also can severely degrade the performance of devices of other groups expecting clean films. Thanks for your cooperation. Storekeeper Hours Lorraine Fox will be expanding her office hours from 1-2 pm daily for students wishing to purchase supplies. Dear Fellow Scientists, The 3D Cell Culture Core (3D3C) facility is proposing a first hands-on training workshop for visualization of 3D cell cultures on November 17 and 18, 2016. The workshop will cover some basic techniques for immunolabeling and dye staining and microscope observation of live and fixed 3D cell cultures. For details on the content, please see below and the flyer attached. The prerequisite for the workshop is REM biosafety training and blood-borne-pathogen training; sufficient knowledge in basic cell culture techniques is recommended. If you are interested in the workshop, please contact me for information and registration. The workshop is limited to SIX participants. The deadline for registration is October 28, 2016. Sincerely, Tim Kwok Facility Manager 3D Cell Culture Core (3D3C) Facility Birck Nanotechnology Center Purdue University [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/b7d6d1ffee56a866e499104cf/images/9c8a64b5-ab4…] Dear All Let's congratulate Vaibhav Jain for winning the Art in Science award as his micrograph of sweat will be featured on the cover of Lab on Chip journal. [Image] [Image] Best regards.

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BNC E-news for the week of Oct. 10th
by Anthrop, Heather L 11 Oct '16

11 Oct '16

Direct Email to Birck Engineering In an effort to provide better service to our customers (the student, staff, and faculty user-community of the Birck Nanotechnology Center) we have established a new email for suggestions, complaints, recommendations for improvements & operationing efficiency, safety related issues, etc. This new email, birckengineering(a)purdue.edu<mailto:birckengineering@purdue.edu> , will go directly to engineering management and the identity of the sender will be held in strictest confidence. The intent of this new email is to allow the Birck user community to air grievances, complaints, and suggestions to make our engineering operations better. If you see an opportunity for improvement, or have a suggestion for a more streamlined operation, please share it through this email. Answers will be provided with as much expediency as possible, and the identity of the sender will not be revealed, so please use this to 'open up' about our procedures, processes, priorities, and performance (the 4-P's). We can't address issues if we don't know them, so we're encouraging faculty, staff, and students to use this new email mechanism to bring issues to light. Thanks for helping us improve our operations and our customer service. Ron ________________________________ Dear Fellow Scientists, The 3D Cell Culture Core (3D3C) facility is proposing a first hands-on training workshop for visualization of 3D cell cultures on November 17 and 18, 2016. The workshop will cover some basic techniques for immunolabeling and dye staining and microscope observation of live and fixed 3D cell cultures. For details on the content, please see below and the flyer attached. The prerequisite for the workshop is REM biosafety training and blood-borne-pathogen training; sufficient knowledge in basic cell culture techniques is recommended. If you are interested in the workshop, please contact me for information and registration. The workshop is limited to SIX participants. The deadline for registration is October 28, 2016. Sincerely, Tim Kwok Facility Manager 3D Cell Culture Core (3D3C) Facility Birck Nanotechnology Center Purdue University ________________________________ [cid:image002.jpg@01D223D6.C8C1C000][cid:image006.jpg@01D223D6.C8C1C000][cid:image008.jpg@01D223D6.C8C1C000] [cid:image012.png@01D223D6.C8C1C000]

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