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Food
by Anthrop, Heather L 24 Apr '15

24 Apr '15

There is leftover food in the kitchen, please help yourself. Thank you, Heather Anthrop Secretary V Birck Nanotechnology Center Purdue University 1205 West State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907 765-494-7053

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Grad Student Symposium Results + Spring Picnic [TODAY at 4pm ]
by NSAC 24 Apr '15

24 Apr '15

Dear Birck Community: We thank you for your participation in the NSAC Graduate Student Research Symposium that took place yesterday at the Birck Nanotechnology Center. Thirty graduate students presented posters on their research showcasing to the community their exciting research works. All of the presentations were of high caliber, resulting in very high scores from the judges. From these, the top three scoring presenters were identified. We are pleased to announce the following people as winners of the Spring 2015 NSAC Graduate Student Research Symposium. *First Place:* * Nirajan Mandal -- Observation of Current induced Optical Kerr Rotation in Topological Insulators* *Second Place:* * Justus C. Ndukaife -- Plasmon-Assisted Optoelectrofluidics* *Third Place:* * Nathaniel Kinsey -- ENZ Al-Doped ZnO for Ultrafast Switching at Telecom: Outpacing the Amplitude-Bandwidth Trade-Off* NSAC thanks the entire Discovery Park community and in particular the grad student presenters, the judges, and all those that made the event possible. NSAC appreciates and will continue to count on your unwavering support of its effort in enhancing research awareness among students and faculty at Birck, Discovery Park, and all of Purdue. *Please join us this evening at 4PM at Purdue University Village Center (Squirrel Park) for our annual spring picnic.* * There will be food, music, and fun activities. Following this we will have a presentation of awards and certificates for the symposium winners, poster presenters, and judges.* See you there!! NSAC Officers

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BNC e-news for the week of April 27th
by Anthrop, Heather L 24 Apr '15

24 Apr '15

Conference rooms Electrical Work Lab 1217 Cleanout Complete Preventive Maintenance Shut Down PROCESS FOR USING E-BEAM LITHOGRAPHY SYSTEM AT OTHER FACILITY Workshop Conference rooms Please remember that conference rooms are shared space and everyone should pick up after they use the room. If you move chairs and tables put them back where they belong. If you are going to move chairs from another room please check the schedule to make sure a meeting is not taking place before you are able to put the chairs back. Electrical Work During our PM shutdown scheduled for week of May 4, 2015 Physical Facilities electrical department will be completing major modification to the isolation grounding system in all general laboratories. Outlets in the laboratory with a label starting with "S" will be powered down 8 a.m. Monday, May 4 through 4 p.m. Friday, May 9 or until all modification are completed. Please move any critical tools requiring power during this shut down from the "S" outlets to the outlets starting with "N". [cid:image002.jpg@01D06220.1D6CF5E0] Lab 1217 Cleanout Complete The chemical cleanout of Lab 1217 is now complete. Ira Young has set aside the chemicals, and will hold them for two weeks prior to sending them to REM for disposal. If you need one of these chemicals please see Ira within the next two weeks. Also, during the PM shut down week of May 4th, the cleanroom will be cleaned out of old chemicals using this same process. Preventive Maintenance Shut Down The Birck Nanotechnology Center will be undergoing a semi-annual preventive maintenance and service shutdown May 4 through May 8, 2015. Air handling systems, exhaust systems, hazardous gas delivery, and monitoring systems will be down beginning at 7 a.m. Monday, May 4 through 4 p.m. Friday, May 8. The BNC staff will be performing appropriate preventive maintenance on the process equipment at this time as well. All CLEANROOM research work will be suspended until the maintenance activities are completed and all systems are returned to normal. No one will be allowed to enter the cleanroom during this time period. In addition, the laboratory areas will also be affected by this systems maintenance. As such, all LABORATORY activities that involve exhausted hoods, vacuum systems, and/or toxic gas systems will be down beginning 7 a.m. Monday, May 4 through 4 p.m. Friday, May 8. No chemical work will be allowed during this period. At the same time Physical Facilities electrical department will be completing major modification to the isolation grounding system in all general laboratories. Outlets in the laboratory with a label starting with "S" will be powered down 8 a.m. Monday, May 4 through 4 p.m. Friday, May 8. It is anticipated that the building and most process tool maintenance will be completed by the end of the day on Friday, May 9. Please check Coral for equipment status and availability. Thank you for your cooperation and understanding during these important preventive maintenance shutdowns. If you have any questions or concerns please contact Mark Voorhis. PROCESS FOR USING E-BEAM LITHOGRAPHY SYSTEM AT OTHER FACILITY 1.) Once you determine which facility you will use and have an estimate of the total project expense you will need to complete a purchase request form. This form will need to list the facility as the vendor, briefly describe the research you will be doing, and provide a total cost estimate for the project. For example, Vendor=Notre Dame and the project will not exceed $800 total. Also, we will need your PI's account information that will be charged for 75% of the facility fees. 2.) Once you have completed the purchase request form you will need to get approval from your PI for the expense. This can be signature or email approval. 3.) Once you have the PI approval and completed form, bring that to the business office for fiscal approval. This can be brought to Lyndsey Estes (estes3(a)purdue.edu<mailto:estes3@purdue.edu>) . 4.) Lyndsey will get fiscal approval and provide the purchase order information to the contact person at the chosen facility. 5.) When you have a date planned to go work at the facility, you will need to enter a travel request in Concur. We are reimbursing 100% of your travel mileage to/from the facility. The account number to enter in Concur is 21010000/4027002000/5200029404. 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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E-BEAM LITHOGRAPHY PROCESS
by Brown, Donna J 23 Apr '15

23 Apr '15

PROCESS FOR USING E-BEAM LITHOGRAPHY SYSTEM AT OTHER FACILITY 1.) Once you determine which facility you will use and have an estimate of the total project expense you will need to complete a purchase request form. This form will need to list the facility as the vendor, briefly describe the research you will be doing, and provide a total cost estimate for the project. For example, Vendor=Notre Dame and the project will not exceed $800 total. Also, we will need your PI's account information that will be charged for 75% of the facility fees. 2.) Once you have completed the purchase request form you will need to get approval from your PI for the expense. This can be signature or email approval. 3.) Once you have the PI approval and completed form, bring that to the business office for fiscal approval. This can be brought to Lyndsey Estes (estes3(a)purdue.edu<mailto:estes3@purdue.edu>) . 4.) Lyndsey will get fiscal approval and provide the purchase order information to the contact person at the chosen facility. 5.) When you have a date planned to go work at the facility, you will need to enter a travel request in Concur. We are reimbursing 100% of your travel mileage to/from the facility. The account number to enter in Concur is 21010000/4027002000/5200029404. I know that several students are planning to go to Notre Dame tomorrow. This communication may be too late for that group. Please complete the forms that are listed above next Monday for that visit. If you have any questions please free to contact Lyndsey or me. Thank you, Donna Brown Business Manager Birck Nanotechnology Center (765)494-1619

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Notice - Birck Nanotechnology Center is Back to Normal
by Voorhis, Mark L. 23 Apr '15

23 Apr '15

Steam pressure has recovered and the center is back to normal operation. Thank you for your patience and understanding during this interruption. From: Terry, Rebecca L Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2015 3:21 PM Subject: Physical Facilities Connection - April 23, 2015 [cid:image003.png@01CF655A.1BCC4E70]<https://www.purdue.edu/physicalfacilities/pfconnection/recent-news/index.ht…> Submit Information<https://www.purdue.edu/physicalfacilities/communications/request/index.html> Contact Us<mailto:rmkiefer@purdue.edu;rlterry@purdue.edu> News from Physical Facilities for Building Deputies - April 23, 2015 Recent News Update: Boiler outage and steam production resolved<https://www.purdue.edu/physicalfacilities/pfconnection/recent-news/042315-s…>

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Graduate Student Research Symposium: Today at 3PM in BRK Atrium
by NSAC 23 Apr '15

23 Apr '15

Dear BRK Community: You are all invited to the Graduate Student Research Symposium that is taking place today at the Birck Atrium. Please stop by in the Atrium between 3PM and 5PM to view posters on latest research works at Birck. See you there! NSAC Officers

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Notice - Campus Steam Outage
by Voorhis, Mark L. 23 Apr '15

23 Apr '15

Wade power plant had a failure that tripped off all steam boilers on campus they are reporting to hopefully have steam pressure back on line in couple hours. Due to the colder outside ambient we may have short notice interruption to lab and cleanroom air supply systems. All office and atrium air handling systems are off so you may notice cooler temperatures in those spaces. Mark Voorhis Building Manager Purdue University Birck Nanotechnology Center Office: (765) 494-3036

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Grad student research poster symposium: POSTER SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO (TUESDAY APRIL 21)
by NSAC 20 Apr '15

20 Apr '15

Dear BRK Graduate Students: The deadline to signup to present a poster during the Grad student research symposium has been extended to *Tuesday April 21, 2015 at Noon.* If you wish to signup, please do so by this new due date. We look forward to your participation in the Symposium this Thursday. Thank you, NSAC Officers

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BNC e-news for the week of April
by Anthrop, Heather L 19 Apr '15

19 Apr '15

Refrigerator Clean out The refrigerator will be cleaned out Thursday, April 30th in the afternoon. All items unlabeled or appearing to be old will be thrown out. VB6 The VB6 remains down hard. We have arranged for nearby facilities to help support our e-Beam lithography research needs until our VB6 is repaired. We have contacted Notre Dame, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, and Ohio State. They all have EBL systems and are ready to support us on a case-by-case basis. If you need detailed contact information please see me as I have the contact names, emails, and equipment capabilities. We apologize for this inconvenience and we’re working to find a good solution for our VB6 issues. Ron

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Keyence Digital Microscope Demo Wednesday April 15, 2015
by Rowe, William J 14 Apr '15

14 Apr '15

All, Tomorrow, April 15, Keyence's Senior Sales Rep, John Batchelor, will be setting up a digital microscope demonstration in room 2290. The time will be from 1:30-3:00pm. Please bring a sample to view for the demonstration. He will be bringing the VHX-5000 series microscope. http://www.keyence.com/products/microscope/index.jsp 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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