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FW: ECN servers down
by Anthrop, Heather L 11 May '15

11 May '15

This outage is affecting some areas of Birck. From: Ecestaff-list [mailto:ecestaff-list-bounces@ecn.purdue.edu] On Behalf Of Jurss, Karen L Sent: Monday, May 11, 2015 2:05 PM To: 'ecefaculty(a)ecn.purdue.edu'; 'ecestaff-list(a)ecn.purdue.edu' Subject: [Ecestaff-list] ECN servers down ECN servers are down due to a power outage. They're working on the problem but anticipate it being at least another 45 minutes before it's resolved. Thanks, Karen

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E-news for the week of May 11th
by Anthrop, Heather L 08 May '15

08 May '15

Cleanroom Chemical Clean-Out Keurig NEW PROCESS FOR SHIPPING/MAILING ITEMS Process Scientist Position Proper Use of Hoods STS ASE, AOE Suss Wafer Bonder VB6 Update Workshop Cleanroom Chemical Clean-Out Ira has taken this week to retrieve old chemicals from the cleanroom and prepare them for disposal. These are chemicals that were over 5 years old. If you have a need for one or more of these, please see Ira within the next two weeks. At the end of the two weeks, Ira will work with REM to permanently dispose of the remaining old chemicals. Keurig Do NOT use the mesh coffee cups in the Keurig machine, it is tearing the machine up. If this continues the machine will have to be removed. NEW PROCESS FOR SHIPPING/MAILING ITEMS Effective Immediately If you need to ship something via UPS or FedEx please pick up the forms in the Business Office (Room 1014). We need to approve the account you intend to use to pay for the cost of shipping the item, initial the form and then it can be taken to Mary Jo for shipment. If you have questions about the account we can help you, if you have questions about how to ship something Mary Jo will be the person to see. We are trying to ensure that the correct accounts are being used prior to shipping. Thank you in advance! Donna Brown Business Manager Process Scientist Position We're very pleased that we have hired a replacement for our process scientist (Aamer Mahmood), and he starts on May 18th. Dr. Nithin Raghunathan will be joining our team in this role and will be available to help coach and mentor users through processing questions and options, as well as doing processing work himself. We eagerly welcome Nithin to the team! Proper Use of Hoods A user noted that improper use of fume hoods and the lack of maintaining them has gotten worse recently. Please remember that users should clean up after themselves and leave the hoods in a good, clean, and uncluttered condition for the next user . . . just like any other piece of research equipment. Also the ventilation holes on the fume-hood deck should not be blocked as these are for proper air-flow for safely handling chemical fumes. Steve will continue to re-emphasize this in the BNC 150 training. STS ASE, AOE A field service engineer worked with us this week to repair and restore the plasma etchers. However STS ASE#1 was found to have a power supply issue, and a replacement PS is being ordered. The other systems are ready for processing. Suss Wafer Bonder A field service engineer from Suss worked with us this week and repaired the SB6E bonder. Serial communications for Z-axis control and a vacuum problem were found and fixed, and it is now ready for use. VB6 Update Raith/Vistec company executives met with Birck leadership last week, and have agreed to send a field service engineer here next week to get the VB6 operational again. Please see Bill Rowe next week to monitor the progress being made on the repair of the system. Workshop Dear Colleagues, I just want to attract your attention to two XPS workshop coming in May, 2015. I believe every research group using or planning to use Surface Analysis characterization tools should have at least one trained student. 1) Introduction to XPS workshop - What you should know about X-ray pohotoelectron spectroscopy (https://purdue.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_2aEjFISmtrn3IlD) May 19-20 @ 9:00 AM - BRK 1001. Course Description: XPS is widely used to determine the chemical composition of a surface (element concentrations, chemical states, lateral and depth distributions, etc.). Nowadays XPS has become a standard technique for the characterization of solid surface. The course will teach how and what information can be provided by XPS. 2) XPS Lite Workshop Introduction to CasaXPS (https://purdue.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_4ON5fLuUSipSyuV) May 26-27 @ 9:00 AM - BRK 1001. Course Description: XPS is widely used to determine the chemical composition of a surface (element concentrations, chemical states, lateral and depth distributions, etc.). Nowadays XPS has become a standard technique for the characterization of solid surface. however, XPS data require thorough analysis, and dedicated software is used for data analysis. Purdue University has a site license for CasaXPS allowing complete analysis XPS data. The course aims to teach (1) what analysis should be applied to raw XPS data and (2) how this can be done using CasaXPS. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of XPS data using CasaXPS will be discussed in detail as well. Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops to follow data analysis using CasaXPS. ************************ Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you! Best regards, Dmitry Zemlyanov, PhD

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NOTICE - Cleanroom & Laboratories are Now Open
by Voorhis, Mark L. 08 May '15

08 May '15

All BNC Users - The preventive maintenance shutdown of the Birck Nanotechnology Facility has been completed successfully due to the 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. BNC Management

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Birck Center's 10th Anniversary (Oct. 30th, 2015)
by Shakouri, Ali 05 May '15

05 May '15

Dear All, Please reserve Friday October 30th, 2015 on your calendars for Birck Center's 10th anniversary. We will have a day of lectures, panels and poster session to highlight latest research at the center, celebrate our outstanding alumni, and discuss about the future of nanotechnology beyond 2025. We will be delighted to host Tim Sands and one or two other thought leaders in nanotechnology. I hope our students, faculty and staff could all be engaged and contribute to this event. I look forward to hear your suggestions and ideas for the 10th anniversary of BNC. Best regards, Ali Ali Shakouri Mary Jo and Robert L. Kirk Director Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Birck Nanotechnology Center, Room 1027 Purdue University 1205 West State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 (765) 496-6105; Fax: (765) 496-8299 shakouri(a)purdue.edu

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BNC e-news for the week of May 4th
by Anthrop, Heather L 01 May '15

01 May '15

Cleanroom Supplies Kitchen Lab 1217 New Equipment Requests Seminar Workshop Cleanroom Supplies Ira will be working next week, May 4 - 8, to clean out old supplies in the cleanroom using the same approach he used in Lab 1217. If you have supplies you would like to retain please talk to Ira. Kitchen The kitchen is a shared space for all Birck users. If YOU make a mess, YOU need to clean it up. The refrigerator is shared space for all Birck users. It is NOT your personal space where gallons of milk and a weeks' worth of food can be stored. Do not take the refrigerator apart. If something spills clean it up! Kitchen spaces are not supposed to cost Purdue money, however many hours are spent cleaning up others messes unnecessarily. Be courteous and considerate of one another and take care of the space. Lab 1217 Just a reminder that there is one week left to contact Ira to retain any supplies that were part of the Lab 1217 clean-up one week ago. In one more week the unclaimed items will be sent to REM for disposal. New Equipment Requests In this week's survey a user suggested that more biomedical equipment should be included in the Birck labs. We welcome inputs such as this, and anyone wishing to suggest new equipment should contact Ron directly to help us understand the equipment, its use, and how widely applicable it is in a multi-user facility. We keep a new equipment forecast for the next several years, and we update it periodically. These kinds of requests can and should go on the forecast. Seminar ECE Faulty Candidate Seminar featuring Yurii Vlasov Monday, May 4th at 10:30 am in MSEE 239 Optical interconnects in computing systems - from fiber to the server to fiber to the brain https://nanohub.org/groups/bnc/calendar/details/1166 Workshop 5th Spectroscopic Imaging Workshop July 9th - Symposium July 10th - Imaging & Analysis Practice For more information please visit: https://www.eventreg.purdue.edu/ec2k/CourseListing.aspx?master_id=4209&mast…

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NSAC Coffee Hour today at 3:30PM in BRK Atrium
by NSAC 01 May '15

01 May '15

Dear BRK Community: Please join us today at 3:30PM in the atrium for NSAC coffee hour session. *Mark Hickle* will present a poster titled "*Tunable High-Isolation W-Band Bandstop Filters"* Thank you, Justus Ndukaife (NSAC President)

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2nd floor copier is up and running
by Black, Nancy Lee 28 Apr '15

28 Apr '15

Nancy Black Secretary Birck Nanotechnology Center West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 Phone: 765-494-8675 Fax: 765-494-4731

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2nd floor copier down
by Black, Nancy Lee 27 Apr '15

27 Apr '15

Service has been called. Nancy Black Secretary Birck Nanotechnology Center West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 Phone: 765-494-8675 Fax: 765-494-4731

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Keyence Microscope Demonstration
by Rowe, William J 27 Apr '15

27 Apr '15

All, Andrew Braun, of Keyence, will be demonstrating the Keyence VK-X250 microscope tomorrow morning in BRK-2290. The time of the demo will be from 8:30am-10:30am. The VK-X250 is a 3D Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope. It can detect features less than 8nm in height and has a z-resolution of 0.5nm. It has an x/y resolution of 120nm. Please feel free to bring samples for viewing. Attached is their brochure on the microscope. Best Regards, Bill Bill Rowe Microfab Research Engineer Purdue University Birck Nanotechnology Center 1205 West State Street West Lafayette, Indianan 47907 (765)496-8389 Office (765)427-3587 Mobile wrowe(a)purdue.edu

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Faculty candidate seminar - Tuesday, April 28th, 2:00 pm in Wang 1004
by Anthrop, Heather L 27 Apr '15

27 Apr '15

Alan Hoskinson Research Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Tufts University College of Engineering Faculty Candidate: Cold Plasma Team Tuesday, April 28th at 2:00 pm WANG 1004 Control of high-frequency microplasmas for materials and optical applications Using microwave power to generate plasmas at or near atmospheric pressure offers several advantages over comparable techniques: high steady-state electron densities, low voltage requirements, and extremely stable operation. The development of "cold" atmospheric-pressure plasma sources promises to open up new applications in areas from materials processing to medicine to chemical analysis. The high-energy electrons in the plasma can drive chemical reactions while the gas and substrate remain cool. In this talk, I discuss techniques for manipulating such plasmas to achieve the desired properties. The plasma structure can be altered by pulsing the microwave power, the electron density and plasma impedance can be adjusted by varying the drive frequency, and individual plasmas in an array can be switched on and off using solid-state circuitry. The plasma properties in these systems are characterized by applying an array of spectroscopic and electrical techniques. The high electron densities and stable operation make microwave-generated plasmas well-suited for applications requiring rapid generation of excited chemical species. Here I present exploratory studies in two such areas: rapid deposition of diamond-like carbon films, and the integration of microwave plasmas into a rare-gas laser system. Alan R. Hoskinson is a Research Assistant Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Tufts University. He obtained the Ph. D. degree from the Engineering Physics Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2009, specializing in the physics of dielectric barrier discharge operation. His research interests are in diagnostics and applications of "cold" plasmas, particularly when operating at atmospheric pressure. Recent investigations have included studies of control of microplasmas using solid-state electronics, development of spectroscopic analysis techniques, and engineering discharge systems for use in film deposition, chemical generation, gas-phase lasers and other applications.

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