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Decadal Funding Seminar - Thursday April 19th at 10:00am in MRGN 121
by Turner, Jaime J 18 Apr '12

18 Apr '12

Decadal Funding Seminar by Provost Tim Sands April 19 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM - MRGN 121 Jaime Turner Birck Nanotechnology Center Purdue University 1205 West State STreet West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 (765) 494-3509 jjturner(a)purdue.edu

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NanoDays - Help Needed!
by Jeff Goecker 13 Apr '12

13 Apr '12

NanoDays, our annual event for K-12 students, will be held on April 26-27, 2012 from 9 am - 3 pm. The event is part of a national initiative to teach key concepts of nanoscale science and engineering. Our third annual NanoDays will bring over 1700students to Discovery Park, more than 2x last year's total. However, we still need volunteers to help with activities and other duties! The bad news: As of today, we only have approximately 15% of Birck students registered to volunteer. The good news: There is still time to volunteer to help! Please register for as much time as you can commit by Tuesday, April 17, 2012 via the NanoDays website (link on on the left side). Here, you will also be able to find out more about the event. The best news: All volunteers will receive a free lunch and a t-shirt! If you are planning to help with the event, but have not registered yet, please do so by Tuesday so that we can provide you with a t-shirt for the event. What are you waiting for? Please sign up today. Tell your friends to join you! NanoDays is an experience you will be proud to be a part of, especially knowing that you might be impacting the next generation of nanoscientists and engineers! With best regards, Jeff Goecker Communications Specialist Birck Nanotechnology Center 1205 West State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 765-494-7716 Nano.purdue.edu Facebook Twitter

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BNC E-News - Announcement of Seminars and Workshops
by Turner, Jaime J 13 Apr '12

13 Apr '12

Dr. Yoshi Yamada Seminar Monday, March 26 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM - BRK 1001 Title: Non-contact temperature measurement for semiconductor device fabrication and evaluation For more information and abstract please go to http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/nanotechnology/events/view.php?id=811 Joint Physics and Birck Nanotechnology Center Seminar - Professor Chih-Kang Shih Friday, March 30 @ 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM - BRK 1001 Ultra-thin epitaxial metallic films on semiconductors - A playground for exploration of novel quantum phenomena at nanoscale For more information and abstract please go to http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/nanotechnology/events/view.php?id=838 Thanks! Jaime Turner Birck Nanotechnology Center Purdue University 1205 West State STreet West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 (765) 494-3509 jjturner(a)purdue.edu<mailto:jjturner@purdue.edu>

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Reminder :Refrigerator clean out
by Anthrop, Heather L 11 Apr '12

11 Apr '12

The refrigerator will be cleaned out Friday, April 13th. Anything not marked with a name and date will be discarded. Thank you, Heather Anthrop Birck Nanotechnology Center Purdue University 1205 West State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907 (765) 494-7053

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Seminar Friday 4/13 BNC 2001 1PM Alexei Sokolov
by Black, Nancy Lee 10 Apr '12

10 Apr '12

You are invited to attend a seminar hosted by Vlad Shalaev at BNC this Friday April 13th at 1PM in the afternoon. Ultrafast Coherent Phenomena: Physics and Applications Alexei Sokolov, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University The basic physics of interactions between matter and short light pulses is of fundamental interest. Such interactions generally result in coherence effects where all molecules of a sample "dance" in unison. As an example, we have used molecular coherence to efficiently generate short bursts of light that are automatically synchronized with respect to the molecular oscillations. Furthermore, our work has shown that an increased and cleverly manipulated molecular coherence enables improvements in optical detection and sensing applications. Short laser pulses provide a unique tool for probing the environment. In particular, femtosecond pulses, when powerful enough, will produce laser filaments that have found intriguing remote-sensing applications. Femtosecond laser filamentation starts when nonlinear self-focusing overcomes beam diffraction, and results in a tightly-confined propagation over distances orders of magnitude longer than the Rayleigh range corresponding to the filament's transverse dimensions. In a recent experiment we have used filaments for sub-diffraction-limited imaging of remote objects. Alexei Sokolov was born on April 14, 1971 in Odessa, Ukraine, to a family of engineers. He obtained his first degree in 1994 from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. In his Diploma work, performed in the Laser Biophysics Laboratory at the General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Sokolov focused on the development of integrated optical sensors that use Langmuir-Blodgett films as sensing elements. In 2001 he received a Ph. D. in Physics from Stanford University, where he worked in the Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory under supervision of Steve Harris. While in the Harris group at Stanford, Sokolov investigated electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) effects in molecular systems, which lead to collinear generation of a wide coherent Raman spectrum with a possibility of sub-femtosecond pulse compression. After completing his Ph. D. work, Sokolov moved to Texas A&M University, where he currently holds a Professor position in Physics and Astronomy and a Stephen E. Harris Professorship in Quantum Optics. His overall expertise is in the field of laser physics, nonlinear optics, ultrafast science, and spectroscopy. His research interests center around applications of molecular coherence to quantum optics, ultrafast laser science and technology, including generation of sub-cycle optical pulses with prescribed temporal shape, and studies of ultrafast atomic, molecular, and nuclear processes, as well as applications of quantum coherence in biological and defense-oriented areas. Sokolov maintains a well-funded group at Texas A&M; he has supervised a number of postdocs and graduate students who have won numerous student awards. Thanks you from, Vladimir M. Shalaev Scientific Director of Nanophotonics Bob and Anne Burnett Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Physics Purdue University Birck Nanotechnology Center 1205 West State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 tel: (765) 494-9855; fax: (765) 496-6443 email: shalaev(a)purdue.edu www.ece.purdue.edu/~shalaev Nancy Black Secretary Birck Nanotechnology Center 1205 West State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 (765) 494-8675 Email: blackn(a)purdue.edu

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by Sorenson, Chris E 10 Apr '12

10 Apr '12

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XPS workshop: XPS data analysis using CasaXPS on April 12-13
by Black, Nancy Lee 09 Apr '12

09 Apr '12

Dear Colleagues, I would like to draw your attention to upcoming XPS workshop "XPS data analysis using CasaXPS" on April 12-13. The flier is available at http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/nanotechnology/XPS/xpslite.php and the registration is at www.conf.purdue.edu/xps<http://www.conf.purdue.edu/xps>. The data analysis is equally important to the data collection and therefore every group planing to use XPS should have at least one dedicated person capable to do basic XPS analysis. This will allow me to help you faster and more efficiently. Thank you and hope to see you on April 12-13! Best regards, Dmitry Zemlyanov, Surface Science Application Scientist at Birck Nanotechnology Center *********************************** ***************************************** Dmitry Zemlyanov, PhD Surface Science Application Scientist Purdue University Birck Nanotechnology Center, 1205 West State Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 Tel.: +1 (765) 496-2457 (office - BRK 1274) +1 (765) 496-6217 (lab - BRK 1077) Cell: +1 (765) 427-3813 Fax: +1 (765) 496-8299 mailto:dzemlian@purdue.edu web: http://www.purdue.edu/dp/Nanotechnology/facilities/XPS.php

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Seminar 4/19 11AM BNC 1001 Seunghyun Baik
by Black, Nancy Lee 09 Apr '12

09 Apr '12

Professor Jong Hyun Choi will be hosting a seminar at Birck Nanotechnology Center on April 19 at 11:00 AM for Seunghyun Baik from Sung Kyun University in Suwon, Korea. You are all invited to attend. Composite, Energy and Environmental Applications of Carbon Nanomaterials Seunghyun Baik sbaik(a)me.skku.ac.kr Department of Energy Science and School of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea Carbon nanomaterials such as carbon nanotubes and graphene have received considerable attention due to their unique electrical and mechanical properties. This talk provides an overview of our lab's recent research activities in conductive composite, energy and environmental applications of carbon nanomaterials. Firstly, carbon nanotube-incorporated conductive composites have been of interest for decades. However, the poor contact interface hindered a dramatic increase in electrical conductivity for polymer matrix composites. Here we present highly conductive silver/epoxy pastes [1], metallic inks [2] and stretchable conductive films [3] by using micron-sized silver (Ag) flakes and a small amount of nanotubes functionalized with Ag nanoparticles. The one-dimensional, flexible and conductive nanotubes constructed effective electrical networks among the micron-sized Ag flakes, and the contact interface was improved by the Ag nanoparticles self-assembled on the sidewall of nanotubes. This strategy provided extraordinary high conductivities for epoxy-based pastes and stretchable conductive films. Secondly, the highly anisotropic thermal property of carbon nanotubes was utilized to control surfacial thermochemical reaction [4] and generate thermopower waves [5]. Finally, membrane filters based on vertically-aligned multi-walled carbon nanotubes with superhydrophobicity and superoleophilicity were investigated to separate oil, water and other molecules [6]. References: [1] J. Mater. Chem., 2010, 20, 3579-3582 [2] J. Mater. Chem., 2011, 21, 7070-7073 [3] Nature Nanotechnology, 2010, 5, 853-857 [4] Energy Environ. Sci., 2011, 4, 204 [5] Nature Materials, 2010, 9, 423-429 [6] Carbon, 2010, 48, 2192-2197

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POSTER PRESENTATION: Symposium on Nanomaterials for Energy
by Bivas Saha 08 Apr '12

08 Apr '12

Dear Friends, You are cordially invited to present a poster and participate in the “Symposium on Nanomaterials for Energy” to be held on April 16-17th , 2012, at the Burton D. Morgan Centre for Entrepreneurship and the Birck Nanotechnology Centre, Purdue University. The symposium will cover broad range of nano-material synthesis, characterisation, and modelling techniques with emphasis on their potential applications in energy related devices. Please use the link below to register and submit the title and abstract of the poster. Typical guidelines are mentioned in the poster section of the page. The content of the poster could cover the broad topics of science and engineering and is not limited to the energy research only. https://nanohub.org/groups/jnc_purdue_symposiums Four Best posters with the category (1) Best Overall, (2) Best theoretical and/or modelling work, (3) Best experimental work, and (4) Best interdisciplinary and/or collaborative work (having authors from different Colleges of Purdue) will be awarded $100, $50, $50, and $50 each respectively. Please feel free to contact the symposium organisers for further information. Looking forward for your active participation. Thanks, Bivas Saha Graduate Student School of Materials Science and Engineering, and Birck Nanotechnology Center Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47906. USA

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Heat Transfer Faculty Candidate Seminar Monday April 9th @ 10:30am in ME 2054
by Turner, Jaime J 07 Apr '12

07 Apr '12

HEAT TRANSFER FACULTY CANDIDATE SEMINAR April 9, 2012 10:30am Room ME 2054 Liang Pan, PhD Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California, Berkeley Mechanics and Energy Transfer in Scalable Nano-Manufacturing Abstract: Nanomanufacturing provides the crucial engineering supports for many current and emerging applications, including semiconductor, data storage, alternative energy, biology and healthcare. There have been many exciting and significant findings in this field, however many scientific and engineering challenges have to be tackled in order for them to enter real world applications. At nanoscale many classical laws and theories start to break down and some other effects start to arise, bringing much of great opportunities and challenges in engineering research, particularly in the size range of 1~100 nm according to current trend of technology progression. This seminar reports a new low-cost high-throughput maskless nanomanufacturing approach, aiming as the enabling technique for breaking optical diffraction limits in the future applications, which uses arrays of plasmonic lenses (PLs) that "fly" above the rotating surface to be thermally processed, concentrating short wavelength surface plasmons into deep sub-wavelength scales. A self-spacing air-bearing surface was designed to carry the array just a few nanometers above a substrate at linear speeds of tens of meter per second. Experimental results showed feature sizes far smaller than the far-field diffraction limit reaching state-of-the-art 22-nm half-pitch direct material processing capability using ultra-fast laser assisted nanoscale heat management and progressive multistage PL designs. This nanomanufacturing scheme has the potential of a few orders of magnitude higher throughput than current maskless techniques, and opens a new cost effective route towards the next generation nano-manufacturing. Besides patterning and material processing, this nearfield technique can also lead to niche applications such as data storage, nanoscale metrology and imaging, and alternative energy. Bio: Dr. Liang Pan is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the NSF’s Nano-scale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC) for Scalable and Integrated Nanomanufacturing (SINAM). Dr. Pan earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of California at Berkeley in 2009 and 2010. Before joining Berkeley, he received his B.S. and M.E. in Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering from University of Science and Technology of China. There will be a 30 minute open discussion after the seminar.

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