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New program to improve fabrication quality at Birck - input requested by March 24
by Peroulis, Dimitrios 03 Mar '17

03 Mar '17

Dear all, In an effort to improve fabrication quality at Birck, we are starting a new program focused on process characterization, monitoring, and control. Essentially, we would like our engineering staff to help you achieve consistent and repeatable results by regularly running and characterizing your critical fabrication processes in the cleanroom. This could have multiple benefits: 1. Improved quality control and repeatability 2. Provides early warning for process and equipment problems 3. Effectively creating and maintaining process database and lab memory 4. Active engagement of engineering staff into research 5. Lowering fabrication cost and time for everyone This effort will be successful only with active participation of faculty and their research group. As a first step, we would like to invite each group to document the steps for a couple of critical processes they follow on a regular basis. For example, it could be a lithography process (document PR, recipes, measurement method), or an oxide deposition process (document sample preparation, deposition recipe, measurement method). In the beginning students/postdocs will be training engineering staff to run these processes. In the long run the staff members will run these on a regular basis and maintain a database. This will be a dynamic program with new processes being added and obsolete ones being retired on a regular basis. Priority will be given to processes that benefit multiple groups. Please send these processes to Ron and I by March 24, 2017 in a ppt format. After this, we will have a meeting to group these and discuss a plan to get started. We would very much welcome any thoughts and ideas you have on how to make this successful and improve everyone's fabrication results at Birck. 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 email: dperouli(a)purdue.edu<mailto:dperouli@purdue.edu> http://sites.google.com/site/peroulisteam/ ________________________________________________________________________________

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Today's NSAC Coffee Hour
by Aveek Dutta 03 Mar '17

03 Mar '17

Dear all, Please join us for today's NSAC coffee hour session in the Birck atrium at 3:30 pm. Details follow: Presenter: Punyashloka Debashis Title: Computation with Nanomagnets Regards, Aveek Dutta Graduate Research Assistant Birck Nanotechnology Center Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue University

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BNC E-news for the week of March 6th
by Turner, Jaime J 02 Mar '17

02 Mar '17

Seminars Dr. David Warsinger Seminar Monday, March 6th @ 9:30am in BRK 1001 Title: Can we save lives with thermodynamics? Nanoengineering and Thermofluids for the Water-Energy-Food Nexus Link to abstract and bio: http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/birck/events/index.php?view=2260 Dr. Haimei Zheng Seminar Tuesday, March 7th @ 1:30pm in BRK 1001 Title: Materials Transformations and Dynamic Phenomena at Solid-Liquid Interfaces Link to abstract and bio: http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/birck/events/index.php?view=2261 Dr. Huan Hu Seminar Thursday, March 9th @ 9:30am in BRK 1001 Title: Advancing Nanomanufacturing for Crucial Healthcare Applications Link to abstract and bio: http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/birck/events/index.php?view=2262 Nanodevices for Bio-inspired Computing Julie Grollier Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Thales Research and Technology Laboratory, Palaiseau, France. Tuesday, March 7th from 2:00 - 3:15 PM MRGN 121 It is once again our pleasure to extend a warm invitation to the 34th Herbert C. Brown Lectures in Organic Chemistry at Purdue University. Date: Friday, April 14, 2017 Time: 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM (EST) Location: Stewart Center (STEW) 218 This year's event promises to be an exciting day celebrating and honoring the career of Professor H.C. Brown. The program includes a diverse array of topics from the fields of synthetic and physical Organic Chemistry by a distinguished group of plenary speakers: Jeffrey Bode, ETH Zürich: "Protein Synthesis with the KAHA Ligation" Samuel Gellman, University of Wisconsin - Madison: "Impact of Backbone Modifications on the Information Content of Peptidic Foldamers" Kazunori Kataoka, The University of Tokyo: "Fantastic Voyage by Supramolecular Nanosystems: Challenge from Polymer Chemistry Toward Smart Targeted Therapy of Intractable Diseases" Scott J. Miller, Yale University: "Searching for Selective Catalytic Reactions in Complex Molecular Environments" All interested students, faculty, and scientists are welcome to attend. Registration is free, and includes lunch for all participants who register by Friday, April 7, 2017. We also encourage student participants to present their recent works at our poster session and competition, with prizes awarded for the best posters. For more information about the H.C. Brown Lectures, please visit our website at: https://www.chem.purdue.edu/hcbrownlectures/. We look forward to seeing you on April 14, 2017. ALL-USER MEETING Did you miss the All-User Meeting? You have until Friday March 31st to go through the slideshow with your professor and hand in the signed paper work to BRK 1220. http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/birck/operations/safety.php has the slideshow and paperwork you need to fill out. NANODAYS Volunteers Needed!!! Volunteers can attend any or all of the following shifts: Wednesday: 4/5/17, 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM Thursday: 4/6/17, 8:45 AM - 11:30 AM 4/6/17, 11:15 AM - 2:00 PM Friday: 4/7/17, 8:45 AM - 11:30 AM 4/7/17, 11:15 AM - 2:00 PM Training is mandatory and will be provided in the Birck atrium. The schedule is: Tuesday: 3/28/17, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM (Pizza Party) 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM (Training Sessions) Interested volunteers can sign up here. (http://tinyurl.com/ztb83wz) A full list of activities can be found here. (http://tinyurl.com/hzbkkna) Questions can be directed to volunteer coordinators Joon Park (park218(a)purdue.edu<mailto:park218@purdue.edu>), Justin Wirth (jcwirth(a)purdue.edu<mailto:jcwirth@purdue.edu>), and Sean Rinehart (srinehar(a)purdue.edu<mailto:srinehar@purdue.edu>). User Information Dear Users of the FE SEM Hitachi S-4800 at BRK 1235, Unfortunately, approximately twice a week or even more, our SEM is down due one particulate repetitive mistake: assembling the sample holder. We are using a new base of a sample holder and therefore, please familiarize yourself how the SEM sample holder should be assembled. The simple cartoon is attached and the print out is on the wall of the SEM prep lab, BRK 1233. Please ask the SEM support staff if you have any question. The wrong assembly results in dropping the sample holder in the SEM chamber. It takes about 4 hours to make the SEM operational again and the other several hours to operate the SEM normally at high voltages. This compromises the research of the other user. Please aware that now your account might be billed for the staff time to recover the system and the lost SEM time. However, as a bonus for the wrong assembling the sample holder, we will place your "design" on the Wall of Shame in BRK 1233. Discovery Park Chief Scientist's Blog [cid:image005.jpg@01D29379.88DB8760]<https://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/blog/> Discovery Park is pleased to announce the launch of the new Discovery Park Chief Scientist's Blog<https://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/blog/>. In the blog, our Chief Scientist and Executive Director, Tomás Díaz de la Rubia<https://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/blog/about-the-chief-scientist/>, will share his accounts of our initiatives and the impact our teams are having in and across our three strategic areas: Global Health, Global Sustainability and Global Security. We invite you to follow along for updates on all that's happening at Discovery Park and more information on how you can get involved.

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New car charging station on the west side of Birck
by Totten, Mary J 28 Feb '17

28 Feb '17

Everyone, Huston Electric will be connecting the power to the car charging station Friday March 3rd. If everything goes well, the station will be ready for use. All require the EV hangtag EXCEPT the one in the Grant Street Garage. Visitors may use the stations in any garage/area with a $5.00 per day visitor "A" and a $2.00 EV pass purchased in our office. Visitors using the Grant Street Garage do not need the $2.00 pass or the $5.00 day visitor pass as they pay by the hour or have a swipe card purchased by a department for their use. (or are staying in the Union Club Hotel) For more information, please go to www.purdue.edu/parking/green_benefits/charging.html<http://www.purdue.edu/parking/green_benefits/charging.html> . Respectfully, Mary Jo Totten Birck Nanotechnology Center Purdue University/Discovery Park 1205 W. State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 (765)496-1173

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FW: Reminder - Informational Meeting & Panel on the Future of Autonomous Vehicles - February 27th (1:30-3:30 pm)
by Reger, Ronald K 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

Reminder of the Autonomous Vehicle Panel Session this afternoon in Burton Morgan. From: Muncy, Lisa A. On Behalf Of Diaz de la Rubia, Tomas J Sent: Friday, February 24, 2017 3:04 PM Cc: Diaz de la Rubia, Tomas J <tddlr(a)purdue.edu<mailto:tddlr@purdue.edu>>; Wojtalewicz, Clifford J. <cliffw(a)purdue.edu<mailto:cliffw@purdue.edu>>; 'Srinivas Peeta' <peeta(a)purdue.edu<mailto:peeta@purdue.edu>>; Shaver, Gregory M <gshaver(a)purdue.edu<mailto:gshaver@purdue.edu>>; Weldon, Sirje Laurel <weldons(a)purdue.edu<mailto:weldons@purdue.edu>>; Feinberg, Richard A <xdj1(a)purdue.edu<mailto:xdj1@purdue.edu>>; 'dsun(a)purdue.edu' <dsun(a)purdue.edu<mailto:dsun@purdue.edu>>; Voyles, Richard M <rvoyles(a)purdue.edu<mailto:rvoyles@purdue.edu>>; Bullock, Darcy M. <darcy(a)purdue.edu<mailto:darcy@purdue.edu>>; Horton, Deborah K. <dhorton(a)purdue.edu<mailto:dhorton@purdue.edu>>; 'Hasler, Daniel J.' <DJHasler(a)prf.org<mailto:DJHasler@prf.org>> Subject: Reminder - Informational Meeting & Panel on the Future of Autonomous Vehicles - February 27th (1:30-3:30 pm) Please share the following meeting announcement with interested faculty, staff and students Dear Deans, Associate Deans for Research, Department Heads and Discovery Park Center Directors, As a reminder, on February 27th, Discovery Park will host an information session and panel discussion, The Future of Autonomous Vehicles & Transportation, in Burton D. Morgan building, room 121, from 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. Autonomous vehicles will have far reaching societal implications, impacting domestic and international transportation, automotive, engineering, software and hardware development firms. It will also result in an increased demand for transportation research and development, which will be the driving force for realizing the growth of the industry. The purpose of this information session is to learn more from Indiana-based developers and entrepreneurs about the future of the auto mobility ecosystem, gain the perspective of faculty and staff in this sector, and capture applicable research and areas of convergence that compliment this fast-growing industry. John Fairbanks, President and Principal Broker of the Fairbanks Investment Group, will also participate in the info session and discuss the potential for a new technology hub, the Indiana Transportation Research and Development District, which would accelerate automotive and autonomous component validation. Topics to be addressed in the information session include: · Integrated Technology Systems/AI · Sensor and Software Evaluation Technologies · Security and Safety Testing/Cyber · Transportation Planning and Design Standards · Research & Development Assets · Public Policy and Regulatory Considerations Following the session, a panel of Purdue faculty including Laurel Weldon (Political Science), Srinivas Peeta (Civil Engineering), and Greg Shaver (Mechanical) and others will discuss their research and innovation needs for the future, and answer questions about possible contributions the potential project moving forward. Parking is available on the west side of the Burton D. Morgan Building. Prof. Richard Voyles (Professor and Director of the Robotics Accelerator) will also hold a demonstration, Autonomous Stunt Driving - Self-Driving Cars in Extreme Conditions, beginning at 1 p.m. in the Morgan Café. The Collaborative Robotics Lab and IEEE RAS Purdue Student Chapter is exploring autonomous vehicle control in difficult and highly dynamic driving conditions, such as slippery roads, sandy off-road conditions and high-speed racing. These highly dynamic and unstable driving scenarios present safety risks and technical challenges to self-driving cars if they inadvertently experience such situations. Discovery Park is excited to host this event and hope you will be able to attend and invite interested faculty, staff and students working in research areas complimentary to the future mobility ecosystem. Tomás Díaz de la Rubia, Ph.D. Chief Scientist and Executive Director, Discovery Park Purdue University Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, Room 120H 1201 W. State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 765-494-7768 Cell: (925)324-4378 @tddlr

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Today's Coffee Hour
by Aveek Dutta 24 Feb '17

24 Feb '17

Dear all, Please join us for today's coffee hour at 3:30pm in the Birck atrium. Details of today's presentation follows: Presenter: Justus Ndukaife Title: Shaping the future of plasmonic nano-optical tweezing. Regards, Aveek Dutta Graduate Research Assistant Birck Nanotechnology Center Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue University

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I would like to invite you to my final examination
by Shin, SangHoon 24 Feb '17

24 Feb '17

Dear all, I would like to invite you to my final examination: Date: Feb 27, 2017 Time: 02:30 P.M. Place: Birck 2001 Refreshment will be available too. Details are as follows: Title: Implications of Self-Heating on Performance and Reliability of Confined Geometry Transistors and Integrated Circuits Abstract: The microelectronic industry is in transition. At the device level, short-channel issues have led to the adoption of floating body transistors, and at the system level, ICs with a large number of cores, different operating voltages, and technologies are being mounted on the same board. The floating body transistors, such as FINFET, ETSOI, SOI-FinFET, GAA-FET, may be expensive because the fabrication process is complicated. Also, the floating body geometry increases thermal resistance and self-heating, with the corresponding penalty in reliability and lifetime. Isolated studies of self-heating have been reported, but a comprehensive analysis that compares various technologies in a systematic manner is missing and will be the first focus of this thesis. The heterogeneous integration of ICs defines the second challenge to be discussed in this thesis. Traditionally, high and low-voltage ICs had been separated by optical or inductive couplers. The area and power penalties are too high for modern applications. Innovative solutions involving capacitive voltage dividers – that reuses the backend dielectric stack – have been proposed, but the reliability of these stacks, especially subject to high voltage spikes, is unknown. Towards this goal, we use our broad collaboration with industry and academia to develop a comprehensive conceptual framework for these two end-of-the-roadmap reliability challenges. Specially, in this thesis we explore the emerging reliability challenges from a single transistor to ICs. We will (i) identify the performance and reliability issues with the floating body transistors, (ii) analyze the self-heating issues by the electrical and optical characterizations for mapping heat transfers in the transistor, (iii) develop new reliability models accounting for the self-heating, (iv) predict implications of the self-heating in Ge CMOS technologies by the digital circuit simulation, (v) provide solutions to suppress the self-heating in the floating body transistor, and (iv) take a look reliability concerns with intermetal level. Overall, our works provide the framework for the comprehensive understanding of the emerging reliability concerns with sub 10nm technology nodes. -- -- Sincerely yours, Purdue University <https://engineering.purdue.edu/%7Ealam/> Shin, SangHoon / Research Assistant & Ph.D. student 765-430-1766/ shin136(a)purdue.edu <mailto:shin136@purdue.edu> Purdue University Office: 765-494-5988 / Fax: 765-494-2706 465 Northwestern Ave. West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2035 https://engineering.purdue.edu/~alam/ <https://engineering.purdue.edu/%7Ealam/> Application AgQaa7bT2SiKipmjPHIvMz is unavailable

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BNC E-news for the week of Feb. 27
by Anthrop, Heather L 24 Feb '17

24 Feb '17

ALL-USER MEETING Did you miss the All-User Meeting? You have until Friday March 31st to go through the slideshow with your professor and hand in the signed paper work to BRK 1220. http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/birck/operations/safety.php has the slideshow and paperwork you need to fill out. Loud Noises Outside BRK 1080, 1084, 1088, and 1090 A user reported loud and annoying noises outside of these offices. The facility engineer checked and didn't notice it, so if the person who wrote this input on the survey could come forward we would be glad to listen again and discuss the corrective action plan. NANODAYS Purdue's Birck Nanotechnology Center has an exciting volunteer opportunity for students in the technical, education, and management fields. Participants will have the opportunity to: · Gain professional experience explaining scientific concepts to people from non-technical backgrounds. · Support the future of STEM programs by introducing grade schoolers and high school students to the miniscule world of atoms, molecules, and nanoscale forces. · Participate with other students/researchers in a nationwide festival celebrating nanotechnology science and education. Since 2010, the Birck Nanotechnology Center at Discovery Park has participated in NISE NanoDays, a program that promotes science and technology education nationwide. Volunteers will staff activity stations and assist visitors as they investigate different scientific concepts. Some example activities for 2017 include static electricity, DNA, and ultraviolet light. No prior knowledge is required to volunteer, just an enthusiasm for science and science education. Local vendors will be providing food for volunteer training and all three days of the event. Volunteers can attend any or all of the following shifts: Wednesday: 4/5/17, 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM Thursday: 4/6/17, 8:45 AM - 11:30 AM 4/6/17, 11:15 AM - 2:00 PM Friday: 4/7/17, 8:45 AM - 11:30 AM 4/7/17, 11:15 AM - 2:00 PM Training is mandatory and will be provided in the Birck atrium. The schedule is: Tuesday: 3/28/17, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM (Pizza Party) 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM (Training Sessions) Interested volunteers can sign up here. (http://tinyurl.com/ztb83wz) A full list of activities can be found here. (http://tinyurl.com/hzbkkna) Questions can be directed to volunteer coordinators Joon Park (park218(a)purdue.edu<mailto:park218@purdue.edu>), Justin Wirth (jcwirth(a)purdue.edu<mailto:jcwirth@purdue.edu>), and Sean Rinehart (srinehar(a)purdue.edu<mailto:srinehar@purdue.edu>). Notification of Equipment Status A user asked if iLabs has the capability to notify users that equipment is not available for processing. This feature does exist but is not yet being used universally. As iLabs comes completely up and has totally replaced Coral we will use this feature. Seminar It is once again our pleasure to extend a warm invitation to the 34th Herbert C. Brown Lectures in Organic Chemistry at Purdue University. Date: Friday, April 14, 2017 Time: 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM (EST) Location: Stewart Center (STEW) 218 This year's event promises to be an exciting day celebrating and honoring the career of Professor H.C. Brown. The program includes a diverse array of topics from the fields of synthetic and physical Organic Chemistry by a distinguished group of plenary speakers: Jeffrey Bode, ETH Zürich: "Protein Synthesis with the KAHA Ligation" Samuel Gellman, University of Wisconsin - Madison: "Impact of Backbone Modifications on the Information Content of Peptidic Foldamers" Kazunori Kataoka, The University of Tokyo: "Fantastic Voyage by Supramolecular Nanosystems: Challenge from Polymer Chemistry Toward Smart Targeted Therapy of Intractable Diseases" Scott J. Miller, Yale University: "Searching for Selective Catalytic Reactions in Complex Molecular Environments" All interested students, faculty, and scientists are welcome to attend. Registration is free, and includes lunch for all participants who register by Friday, April 7, 2017. We also encourage student participants to present their recent works at our poster session and competition, with prizes awarded for the best posters. For more information about the H.C. Brown Lectures, please visit our website at: https://www.chem.purdue.edu/hcbrownlectures/. We look forward to seeing you on April 14, 2017. With best regards, Herman Sintim, Chairman hsintim(a)purdue.edu<mailto:hsintim@purdue.edu> Mingji Dai, Chair-elect mjdai(a)purdue.edu<mailto:mjdai@purdue.edu>

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3D Cell Culture Training Workshop - March 23 & 24, 2017 -- 2nd Announcement
by Kwok, Tim 24 Feb '17

24 Feb '17

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Dr. Carolin Sutter-Fella Nanotechnology Preeminent Team Seminar TODAY - Feb. 23rd, 10:30am in BRK 1001
by Turner, Jaime J 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

[cid:image001.png@01D28DB0.FE25DB20] 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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