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FW: NSAC/NCN Seminar on March 1, 2012 at 3:30-4:30 PM
by Black, Nancy Lee 24 Feb '12

24 Feb '12

NSAC/NCN Seminar Series 2012 Topic: Non-planar 3D III-V MOSFETs for high-speed low-power logic applications Abstract: In this talk, we review recent developments on non-planar 3D III-V MOSFETs for high-speed low-power logic applications. In the 2011 ITRS roadmap, III-V MOSFETs have been considered promising candidate for Si CMOS at beyond 14nm technology node, due to its high mobility and saturation velocity. Targeting the 14nm channel length, we demonstrated non-planar 3D III-V transistors, including InGaAs FinFETs, HFinFET, and gate-all-around nanowire MOSFETs by top-down approach, to address the increasing demand for electrostatic control. Fabrication and characterization of the 3D III-V MOSFETs are summarized in this talk. Speaker: Jiangjiang Gu, PhD candidate(Prof. Peter Ye Group) in ECE, Purdue University Date/time: Thursday, March 1, 2012 3:30 PM- 4:30 PM at Birck 1001 Refreshment will served.

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Decadal Funding Plan Seminar by Provost Tim Sands - March 7th at 1:30pm in MRGN 121
by Turner, Jaime J 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

Dear all, The Decadal Funding Plan Seminar by Provost Tim Sands has been rescheduled for March 7th, 2012 at 1:30pm in MRGN 121. Please find attached the latest notice sent out by the Provost's office outlining this plan for reference if you would like. Thank you! 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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FW: Hot Chocolate
by Black, Nancy Lee 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

Dear graduate students, staff and faculty at Birck: The Nanotechnology Student Advisory Council would like to invite you once again for Hot Chocolate today at 2PM in the kitchen. Come to relax and chat for a few minutes while drinking some delicious hot chocolate. Only a few more Tuesdays left until we stop serving. We hope to see you there! Alfredo NSAC Treasurer -- PhD Candidate Purdue University School of Mechanical Engineering Birck Nanotechnology Center 1205 West State Street (Office 2234) West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 973.462.6810

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FW: SRC TECHCON 2012 - Call for Abstracts - Due Feb. 22
by Haines, Cheryl E 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

Good morning! Please pass this along to the students in your area to see if they are going to TECHCON. They have to get their abstracts in by Wed, Feb 22 From: Geddes, Shannon / SRC [mailto:Shannon.Geddes@src.org] Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 10:01 AM To: DL.geddes.TECHCON.2012.Call.for.Faculty Subject: FW: SRC TECHCON 2012 - Call for Abstracts The deadline for TECHCON 2012 abstracts is this Wednesday, February 22. Please make sure you know that you need web accounts and need to be in the SRC student database associated with SRC sponsored research BEFORE submitting an abstract. Submit abstracts as soon as possible to make sure all the requirements are met by the posted deadline. Regards, Shannon Geddes From: Geddes, Shannon / SRC Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 1:30 PM To: 'DL.geddes.TECHCON.2012.Call.for.Faculty(a)src.org' Subject: SRC TECHCON 2012 - Call for Abstracts It is with great pleasure that SRC announces TECHCON 2012 to be held September 10 - 11, 2012 at the Renaissance Hotel in Austin, Texas. TECHCON is designed to foster technical interaction among SRC's academic, government, and industry communities. The TECHCON 2012 program will include up to 16 technical paper sessions showcasing research funded by SRC research programs through the presentation of 144 papers and accompanying posters. Technical paper presentations will be fifteen minutes in length and will be organized according to related technologies. TechFair will feature a poster display from each presenter based on his/her presentation. TechFair sessions provide an excellent opportunity for students to discuss their research projects in a one-on-one setting. TECHCON 2011 received rave reviews for sessions including papers from GRC, FCRP, and NRI students. This year we will be adding presentations from ERI students. TECHCON 2012 will be a two-day event focused on students within one-year of graduation. This Call for Abstracts is extended to all GRC, FCRP, NRI, and ERI researchers to invite their students to submit abstracts of original research. Since TECHCON 2012 is open only to the SRC community, authors are not precluded from publishing/presenting in the open literature at a later date. Abstract submission<http://www.src.org/calendar/e004114/> is now open! Deadline for submission is 3:00 p.m. eastern time on Wednesday, February 22, 2012. We encourage you to post the attached announcement in a prominent place and encourage your students to submit abstracts this year. Thank you for your excellent research and ongoing support of SRC. We look forward to seeing you and your students at TECHCON 2009. Call for abstracts: http://www.src.org/calendar/e004114/ ______________________________________ Shannon M. Geddes Vice Chair - TECHCON SRCEA Operations Manager Semiconductor Research Corporation 919-941-9456 www.src.org/calendar/e004114/<http://www.src.org/calendar/e004114/> [cid:image001.png@01CCD452.96E664B0]<http://twitter.com/srctechcon>

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"Ask the Staff" Forum Launches!
by Reger, Ronald K 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

To the Birck Research Community, We're pleased to announce the launch of a new web-based forum for Birck researchers, "Ask the Staff." Our goal with this forum, hosted on the Purdue Engineering Intranet, is to increase the collaboration and communication between the Birck research community and the staff. This is a place to ask process questions, inquire about equipment, discuss safety issues and procedures, and bring up almost anything relative to working at the Birck Nanotechnology Center. We encourage you to use this new communication tool, and over time there should be many threads developing and evolving on a variety of subjects. All it takes to log in is your career account User Name and Password. Please give this a try, and as always, your comments and suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Ron LINK: https://engineering.purdue.edu/Intranet/Groups/BNC/AsktheStaff

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Birck Projectors
by Turner, Jaime J 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

Dear all, The new projectors have been installed therefore we now have working projectors in BRK 1099 and BRK 1201. Please thank Mary Jo for her wonderful work in getting these replaced so quickly! Thanks! 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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Reminder: Prof. Shakouri NSAC/NCN Seminar on February 15, 2012
by Black, Nancy Lee 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

NSAC/NCN Seminar Series 2012 Title: Nano solutions to our impending energy crisis Abstract: In this talk we review some of the advances in nanoscale energy conversion devices and discuss about the challenges and opportunities to provide a clean energy infrastructure. Couple of examples from solar and thermoelectric materials, devices and systems will be given and the scale of the necessary change will be discussed. Speaker: Prof. Ali Shakouri, Director, Birck Nanotechnology Center Date/time: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 , 12:00 PM-1:00 PM at Birck 1001 Refreshment will served. Hope to see you there today. 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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FW: Hot Chocolate Event - Today @ 2
by Black, Nancy Lee 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

Dear graduate students, staff and faculty at Birck: The Nanotechnology Student Advisory Council would like to invite you once again for Hot Chocolate today at 2PM in the kitchen. Come to relax and chat for a few minutes while drinking some delicious hot chocolate. We hope to see you there! Alfredo NSAC Treasurer [images/cleardot.gif] -- PhD Candidate Purdue University School of Mechanical Engineering Birck Nanotechnology Center 1205 West State Street (Office 2234) West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 973.462.6810

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Lights on in the parking lot
by Totten, Mary J 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

There is a red Chevy HR with Florida plates in the west parking lot with their lights on. Thank you, Mary Jo Totten Building Logistics Coordinator Birck Nanotechnology Center Purdue University/Discovery Park 1205 W. State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 765-496-1173 "Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean." -Ryunosuke Satoro

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Updated Birck Operations Policy
by Shakouri, Ali 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

Dear All, As we move forward together here at the Birck Nanotechnology Center we are implementing a series of operational changes that are designed to promote increased staff-student collaboration and to reward student processing excellence. At the same time we also want to implement additional educational initiatives that will provide a broader processing background that can be tailored to the specific needs of students from a variety of engineering and scientific disciplines. The changes, effective March 1st, 2012, are as follows: (1) Each resident faculty at Birck will receive 8 free hours of "technical staff" time per fiscal year to help with their research projects in the cleanroom and/or laboratories. Faculty who are heavy users will get an additional 8 hours for every $100K they spend in recharge. This will be tracked in Coral and reported monthly. (2) Super Users will be identified by our Engineering Staff members for each of the main tools in the cleanroom and labs. The role of a Super User is to help train new students and assist staff members. Super User status will be evaluated on a month-by-month basis. If the Super Users spend at least 6 hours supporting staff they will receive double reservation time for their own equipment use during the month, and free monthly lab or cleanroom access (depending on where their tool is located). This also will be tracked using Coral and reported monthly. (3) Prior to starting a process in the cleanroom, new students will present a 15min summary of their proposed research to key staff members. Ron Reger will lead this activity and appoint the staff members who will participate in this review process. Also, as process problems arise, please contact Ron directly via e-mail or in person to discuss the problem. He and his staff will be happy to assist you in solving the problem and/or providing alternative solutions. (4) We are revamping our processing class to appeal to a broader user base: EE, ME, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. This will become a required class for every student who will need access to the Birck cleanroom. This class will include both theory and hands on work in the cleanroom so that students will be ready to do great processing after they have taken this class. Our plan is to eventually have this class accepted as one of the elective graduate classes in all the appropriate departments. Please note that this initiative will take more time to fully implement as new course material must be created. (5) If students are careless and don't follow procedures and break any equipment or contaminate it, their advisor will be charged for the staff time needed to re-train the student. We realize that mistakes happen and this is part of the learning process, but repeated gross negligence will result in retraining charges. These retraining charges will be assessed when students misuse the equipment on a repeated basis after a written warning to the student and his/her advisor has been ignored. This affects all of the users of the cleanroom and their productivity. (6) For repeated "major" safety, procedural, and/or citizenship issues (misuse of equipment, not using Coral to log in, or a behavior which will put other students in danger), technical staff manager and director can and will forbid access to the cleanroom for one week or longer, depending on the severity of the action. (7) Recharge billings are distributed monthly to faculty for approval. We are working to make sure that all expenses are reported in a timely fashion. However, on the other hand, some bills remain unapproved for several months. This causes a problem with understanding and tracking budget performance throughout the year. The new procedure will continue to provide monthly billings to faculty, but if these go unapproved or unchallenged for a period of one month, payment will automatically be processed. Thank you all for supporting our initiatives. Together we can improve the educational experience of our student researchers and continue to provide a world-class research environment and experience. I welcome your comments and suggestions. 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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