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NSAC Callout on Tuesday September 16 at 12PM in Birck 1001
by NSAC 10 Sep '14

10 Sep '14

Dear BRK Grad Students, *The Nanotechnology Student Advisory Council (NSAC) will be hosting a callout on Tuesday September 16, 2014 in Birck 1001 at 12PM. Please stop by for information about our activities and for some food/drinks.* If you would like to get more involved in the Nanotechnology community here at Purdue or have ideas about how to improve student life here at Birck, consider joining one of our committees! NSAC committees help organize events such as Research symposiums, Poster/Presentation session during weekly coffee hour, National Lab Visits, Game Night, Picnics, among other activities that help enrich student life at Birck and Discovery Park. *NSAC Committees:* Research Awareness Professional Development Policies and Procedures Social and Hospitality *About NSAC:* NSAC is an organization of graduate students at Purdue University who are interested in nanotechnology research. Our membership includes all Birck Nanotechnology Center (BNC) graduate student residents, but we encourage others to join. Our goal is to promote collaboration, enhance research awareness, and facilitate communication among faculty, staff, and students. See you there! NSAC Officers

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NSAC Coffee Hour
by Anthrop, Heather L 05 Sep '14

05 Sep '14

Please join NSAC Coffee hour today at 3:30 in the atrium. Today's speaker is Amirkoushyar Ziabari speaking on Observation of Nonlinear Peltier Coefficient in Low-doped Semiconductors at Room and Cryogenic Temperatures Thank you, Heather L Anthrop Purdue University Birck Nanotechnology Center 1205 West State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907 (765) 494-7053

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BNC e-news for the week of September 8th
by Anthrop, Heather L 05 Sep '14

05 Sep '14

Purchasing As a reminder you must include approval, quote, and fully completed purchasing request form or your order will not be processed. Survey Feedback Some users have been delayed in receiving training on the new PVD metals/dielectrics sputtering system. We apologize for this delay, which has been caused by a high demand for this new capability. This PVD sputtering system has been brought online just recently and has both RF and DC power supplies. Several groups are very interested in getting films from this new system, and we're trying to accommodate users as efficiently as possible. With multiple materials, both conductors and insulators, and with characterizing the films when the targets are first installed, we're on a bit of a learning curve ourselves. Also we are trying to accommodate groups with similar film needs so as to minimize the down-time associated with target changes and/or power supply calibrations. We're looking at ways to make this more efficient, including adding an additional power supply to facilitate more films without as much change-over time. We appreciate your patience as we work through this learning curve and establish more efficient procedures for this very popular deposition system. Also, we would welcome suggestions on how to make this popular machine more efficient to the user groups. Thanks, Ron Preventive Maintenance Shut Down Notice October 13 - October 17 The Brick Nanotechnology Center will be undergoing a semi-annual preventive maintenance and service shutdown October 13 through October 17, 2014. Air handling systems, exhaust systems, hazardous toxic gas delivery, and monitoring systems will be down beginning at 7 a.m. Monday, October 13 through 4 p.m. Friday, October 17. 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 9 a.m. Monday, October 13 through 4 p.m. Friday, October 17. However, work that involves taking standard electrical measurements may be carried out in the LABS provided that fluctuating air temperature and humidity do not affect the readings. No chemical work will be allowed during this period. It is anticipated that the building and process tool maintenance will be completed by the end of the day on Friday, October 17. Please check Coral for equipment status and availability. For long term research planning please refer the following future dates for our future preventive maintenance shutdowns. ? Week of May 4, 2015 ? Week of October 12, 2015 ? Week of May 2, 2016 ? Week of Oct 10, 2016 Thank you for your cooperation and understanding during these important preventive maintenance shutdowns. BNC Management Thank you, Heather L Anthrop Purdue University Birck Nanotechnology Center 1205 West State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907 (765) 494-7053

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Poster session, Sept. 18 , 2014
by Shakouri, Ali 05 Sep '14

05 Sep '14

Dear All You are cordially invited to present a poster and participate in the “Indo-US Workshop on Nanomaterials for Energy” to be held on Sep 17-18 , 2014, at the Burton D. Morgan Centre for Entrepreneurship and the Birck Nanotechnology Centre, Purdue University. The event is part of the ongoing Joint Centre on Nanomaterials for Energy, which is a collaboration between Purdue/BNC and the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) in Bangalore, India. The workshop’s inaugural address will be given by Prof. CNR Rao (FRS, Purdue PhD 1958 in Chemistry), and the remaining talks will cover a broad range of nano-material synthesis, characterization, and modelling techniques with emphasis on their potential applications in energy-related devices. The attached flier provides further information on the tentative schedule. Please use the link below to register and submit (before Sep 11) the title and abstract of your poster. The content of the poster could cover the broad topics of science and engineering and is not limited to the energy research only. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ii7WDCmWlisAMLok4HjNChp9zUsqtv-68eLHEKvFLl… Three best posters will be awarded a prize worth $100 each. Please feel free to contact Anurag (kumar50(a)purdue.edu<mailto:kumar50@purdue.edu>) or Ritu (ritu.jnc(a)gmail.com<mailto:ritu.jnc@gmail.com>) for further information. Thank you, Tim Fisher and Ali Shakouri

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BNC E-news for the week of Sept. 1st
by Anthrop, Heather L 29 Aug '14

29 Aug '14

Holiday Survey Input Tote Safety Tours Holiday Purdue University is closed Monday, September 1st in observance of Labor day. Survey Input Thanks very much to the Birck user community for continuing to suggest improvements and providing constructive feedback for our cleanroom operations. Over the past 20 weeks since we started the pilot feedback program we received 106 feedback messages and we've directly addressed 19 issues in the cleanroom, some large and some small . . . . but all important. Please keep your suggestions coming! Ron Tote Safety Some users have had difficulty reaching cleanroom totes stored on the upper racks. We will be purchasing a safe step stool for use near the tote racks. Please be safe when removing and replacing totes. Tours Friday, September 5th there will be a tour of 20 Academic Advisors at 1:00 pm.

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7+1 BRK updates: reorganization and opportunities to showcase your research
by Peroulis, Dimitrios 19 Aug '14

19 Aug '14

Dear all, With the start of the new semester, I would like to take the opportunity to outline a series of updates at BRK. Specifically: 1. We have reorganized our staff leadership team with updated roles and responsibilities to better serve the end users and support strategic growth for our center. The attached pdf outlines these changes. 2. We are in the middle of re-organizing our bio-safety protocols and operations. Instead of having a bio-safety officer, we will form a common safety committee with Bindley and will place our operations directly under the supervision of Bob Golden (REM Biological Safety Officer) in the same way as all other university units have done. I will email separately faculty working in the bio area to discuss the details of this re-organization. After this is completed the Bindley and BRK sites will have the same biosafety protocols. 3. We are designing a BRK Open House day for all internal and external researchers. All recharge centers will be part of the Open House, but we would very much welcome participation from students/postdocs/researchers/faculty to help showcase your research area. The first one will be in February 2015. Ideas and contributions are welcome. 4. We are creating a Wikipedia article for BRK. We would love to include your research area. Please send me a paragraph of your research area so we can integrate it with the rest of the write up. Please send this to me by: September 22nd, 2014. 5. We are updating all research areas on our website. The ones listed now are outdated. We plan to use the info above to also update our website. 6. We have now finished installing the big screens around BRK. We would love to show images, videos, presentations, etc. from your research. Please upload anything you would like to share in these big screens at: http://eng.purdue.edu/jump/b008ac. Log in with career account and password, then add files under the Display Information folder we have made. All BRK faculty have access to this. While free formatting will be accepted, I have attached an example slide that you may use as a template to provide a more unified BRK theme. This is available immediately and we are eager to receive your contributions. 7. We have now been running our pilot feedback system for 5 months. During this time, we received 106 feedback messages in 20 weeks and we directly addressed 19 issues in the lab. We are very thankful for your feedback. As always, please check the Friday memo for responses to issues that you bring up. We plan to expand this system to include the whole facility but we would like your input on how to best do this. Please talk or email either Ron or me with regards to this. Finally, I will be representing Discovery Park and BRK in the Purdue new faculty orientation on Thursday August 21, 1.30-2.30pm, PMU South Ballroom. If you know of new faculty at Purdue interested in Discovery Park/BRK, please encourage them to visit our booth. As always, comments are welcome. Happy to discuss in person as well. Wishing everyone a great start of the semester! 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 August 18th
by Anthrop, Heather L 15 Aug '14

15 Aug '14

Seminar Lunch & Learn Seminar Optical Specifications Basics by Anna Wang, Newport Corporation Hosted by OSA Purdue Student Chapter Tuesday, August 26th from 12 pm to 1 pm in Birck 2001 For more information see posted flyers or contact Zun (Andy)Huang (zun(a)purdue.edu<mailto:zun@purdue.edu>), President, Optical Society of America Purdue Chapter. Survey Feedback Cleanroom Microscopes One request we received this week involved providing a 5X objective on another cleanroom microscope to enable more 5X capability. This is an excellent input, based upon actual use scenarios in the cleanroom. We will work with Nikon to quote the 5X objective for the Nikon microscope on the left side in the photo bay. Additionally we will work with ECN and our staff members to upgrade the computers so that image capture is similar on both microscope/computer systems. FIB Manipulator Tips A survey comment noted that there was a period of time when manipulator tips for the FIB were unavailable. There were two issues/questions regarding this . . . (1) why didn't we order one when we installed the last one in stock, and (2) why is it taking so long to receive an order? We have looked at the process of ordering tips, and have now changed it to trigger an order based on the average lifetime of tips. This will allow adequate lead-time for ordering a new one to have it available here at Birck when the last one needs to be replaced. Additionally, we ordered the tips from a company who is was not in our new purchasing system so we had a delay in getting the business transactions properly set up in our system. We believe this to be fixed now as well. The tip vendor has told us to expect the tip order to arrive next week. Compliments for Staff One survey response had very positive compliments for several engineering staff members regarding their deep skill and expertise, their willingness to help research projects, and their support for research after-hours. The staff really appreciates this positive reinforcement as well as the suggestions for improvement. We consider the users here at Birck our 'customers' and it is our responsibility to support and enable the wide variety of research done here at our great facility. Thanks again for your constructive suggestions. Ron

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NSAC Coffee Hour
by Anthrop, Heather L 15 Aug '14

15 Aug '14

Please join NSAC at 3:30 pm in the atrium for coffee hour featuring Andy Huang speaking on Optical Imaging by Photonic Hyper-crystals. Thank you, Heather L Anthrop Purdue University Birck Nanotechnology Center 1205 West State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907 (765) 494-7053

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Graham "Gus" Nathan Seminar BRK 2001 Aug 14 10:30 AM
by Black, Nancy Lee 11 Aug '14

11 Aug '14

Solar Seminar Series Summer 2014 Photovoltaic Seminar series Graham 'Gus' Nathan Director, Centre for Energy Technology, The University of Adelaide , Australia August 14, Thursday, 10:30 AM DIRECT HYBRIDS BETWEEN SOLAR THERMAL AND GASIFICATION PROCESSES Abstract: The seminar will describe the advantages of directly integrating concentrating solar thermal with combustion and auto thermal gasification processes for liquid fuels production and power generation. It will also outline three novel classes of technology to achieve this, namely a hybrid solar receiver combustor for application in high temperature cavity receivers, in twin-bed hybrid solar gasification, which offers increased syngas yield and quality relative to conventional auto-thermal gasification and lower CO2 emissions, and in a hybrid solar chemical-looping-combustion concept, which offers a 60% solar share in a gas-turbine-combined-cycle. The presentation will highlight the need to fully account for the intermittent nature of the solar resource through pseudo-dynamic modelling of the full process for solar hybrid liquid fuels production via syngas and show how this variability can be accommodated through hybrids. It will explore a range of technology options, from 100% solar, via the Batch reactor developed at ETH Zurich, through to various options for hybridization, including dual bed gasification. Preliminary estimates of the cost of production will also be presented. Finally, it will explain how these novel hybrid technology concepts bring with them the need for new detailed understanding of the complex and coupled processes between high flux radiation and turbulent multi-phase and/or reacting flows. Bio: Professor Nathan is the founding Director of the University of Adelaide's Centre for Energy Technology and recipient of an ARC Discovery Outstanding Researcher Award. With more than $20m of research funding, he works with energy technologies spanning the combustion of fossil and bio-fuels, concentrated solar thermal, geothermal energy, wind power, energy storage and in hybrid technologies. He works closely with industry both in developing novel technologies and in identifying and addressing key research challenges, especially those that can be addressed with advanced laser diagnostics. His past technology developments include being principal leader of the Chief Design Team for the award winning fuel and combustion system for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Relay Torch and joint leadership of the development of low NOx combustion technology in rotary cement kilns. He has published widely, with more than 120 publications in leading journals, 200 in peer-review conferences and 10 patents.

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BNC E-news for the week of August 11th
by Anthrop, Heather L 09 Aug '14

09 Aug '14

Cleanroom Citizenship Reminder Graduation Orders Presentation Seminar Wang Hall Parking Cleanroom Citizenship Reminder Dear all cleanroom users, Please see the email below from Prof. Shakouri. This was sent out several months ago to remind users about cleanroom citizenship, and now is a good time to show it as a reminder. Thanks for your great help and cooperation, Ron Email from Prof. Shakouri: To: bnc-all(a)ecn.purdue.edu<mailto:bnc-all@ecn.purdue.edu> Subject: [BNC-all] Cleanroom Citizenship issues To ALL Cleanroom Users The overall cleanliness and orderliness of the cleanroom has deteriorated over the last several weeks to the point of adversely affecting research and productivity of other users. As a reminder, all users are responsible for cleaning up after themselves and for leaving their work areas ready for use by others. Effective immediately, if any user is observed leaving a mess in a hood or near equipment, or leaving an unattended tote not in its proper storage location, they will be subjected to mandatory participation in weekly cleanings for one month, or a one-week suspension of all cleanroom privileges. This means denied access to the cleanroom for one week. 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 Graduation Congratulations to our summer graduates James Mitchell, Adam Neal, Seung Hyun Park, Bivas Saha, Bryan Spann and Paul West! Orders Please remember that you must fill out the purchase request form in full, including an explanation before an order can be made. This is not a new policy. Also a quote, approval and safety approval (for chemicals) is still required. Your order will not be placed or approved without the proper documentation. Presentation I wanted to invite you and anyone from the Discovery Park family to a presentation by John Lechleiter on September 25th from 2:30 to 3:30 at Loeb Theater, in Stewart Hall. John will be giving a great presentation that will focus on innovation, what it takes, the characteristics of innovative people, and the skills faculty and students need to have, especially if they plan on collaborating with (or even working for) a company. His speech writer will be sending me the official title and a very short abstract (I hope) by the end of the week. Please advertise and strongly encourage faculty, staff, undergrad/grad students and post docs to attend because I really want to make a strong showing on behalf of Purdue. Many thanks in advance. Geanie Geanie Umberger, PhD, MSPH, RPh Assistant Vice President for Industry Research Office of Industry Research and Partnerships Purdue University Phone (765) 496-3723 Seminar Lunch & Learn Seminar Optical Specifications Basics by Anna Wang, Newport Corporation Hosted by OSA Purdue Student Chapter Tuesday, August 26th from 12 pm to 1 pm in Birck 2001 For more information see posted flyers or contact Zun (Andy)Huang (zun(a)purdue.edu<mailto:zun@purdue.edu>), President, Optical Society of America Purdue Chapter. Wang Hall Parking As we near the completion of Wang Hall, I would like to review the parking lot regulations we have going forward. The Wang Hall lot is for authorized personnel only. All students and faculty are required to park in the parking garage or other designated areas outside the lot. Vendors and contractors will be allowed to park by permit only. Patrons of the future retail space will be allowed to park in the lot for up to one hour. Our team will be monitoring this every work day to insure every authorized person will have a place to park. If we find unauthorized vehicles, we will tag them and document the license plate. The next time we will have it towed. With the school year beginning, please help us by advising all your staff and students to follow the guidelines going forward. Our goal is to keep your building running smoothly and making the tenants and patrons experience here a positive one. We are all learning together as we move forward to make this work for everyone, so if you have any questions, please contact me. Thank you, Dennis E. Lord Purdue Research Park Senior Facilities Director Purdue Research Foundation 1281 Win Hentschel Blvd. West Lafayette, IN 47906 PH: 765-588-3382 FX: 765-463-3217 delord(a)prf.org<mailto:delord@prf.org> www.purdueresearchpark.org<http://www.purdueresearchpark.org>

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