Brick Nanotechnology Center PM Closure Notice = This Week October 18-October 22, 2021 The Birck Nanotechnology Center will be undergoing a semi-annual preventive maintenance and service shutdown October 18 through October 22, 2021. Air handling systems, exhaust systems, toxic gas delivery, and monitoring systems will be down beginning at 7 a.m. Monday, October 18 through 4 p.m. Friday, October 22. 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. Only authorized personnel 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, biological safety cabinets, vacuum systems, and/or toxic gas systems will be down beginning 7 a.m. Monday, October 18 through 4 p.m. Friday, October 22. 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 or biological 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 22. Please check iLabs for equipment status and availability. Seminars /Workshops / Events BNC Faculty Seminar Series There will be no Faculty Seminar this Thursday. Seminar for Neurotrauma and Diseases<https://vet.purdue.edu/cpr/Seminar%20for%20Neurotrauma.php> Sponsored by Plexon Neurotechnology Systems Wednesdays | 4-5pm | via Zoom Birck Events<https://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/birck/events/index.php> and Birck News<https://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/birck/news/index.php> Birck has purchased one of the OWL Intelligent Video Conferencing Device. It can be reserved for your meetings by emailing Brenda Meador meador3@purdue.edu<mailto:meador3@purdue.edu> or Nancy Black blackn@purdue.edu<mailto:blackn@purdue.edu> This will be a shared system so please be considerate and return to Brenda when your meeting is completed. The Meeting Owl is the first 360° smart video conferencing camera. The Meeting Owl video conferencing camera dynamically captures 360° video and superior audio for a near face-to-face experience engineered for plug & play simplicity. 2021 Birck Nanotechnology Center Research Image Contest Sponsored by NSAC and Birck leadership - $600 in prize awards for student entries Please share your research images which showcase the beauty you've observed around you at Birck! All members of the Birck community - students, staff, and faculty - are welcome to submit their images that can include not only research images but also photos of life here at Birck. For research images, we ask that you also write a short paragraph explaining what we are looking at and why it is significant to you. We will assemble a panel of judges and announce awards at the BNC Holiday Party in December, and student entries are eligible to win: $300 for 1st place $200 for 2nd place $100 for 3rd place You can submit multiple images anytime between now and November 30, 2021 to a new MS Teams channel we have set up for the image contest, see link below: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/channel/19%3abf8be291dbb9468b831b6e0de523b930%... If you have issues or questions, please email Neil Dilley at ndilley@purdue.edu<mailto:ndilley@purdue.edu> . Happy image hunting! [Text, logo, company name Description automatically generated] and the Birck Nanotechnology Center [A picture containing text, indoor, seat Description automatically generated][A picture containing background pattern Description automatically generated][A group of colorful feathers Description automatically generated with low confidence][A picture containing indoor, birthday, office, chocolate Description automatically generated][A picture containing tool Description automatically generated][cid:image015.png@01D7BEA6.8D0C2170][A close-up of a person's chest Description automatically generated with medium confidence] Opening in OxideMEMS lab Sunil Bhave's OxideMEMS Lab <https://engineering.purdue.edu/oxidemems/publications.html> explores inter-domain coupling in Opto-mechanical, Spin-Acoustic and Atom-MEMS devices. PhD, Postdoctoral and Research Associate positions are available in these areas: · Superconducting qubit and cryo-CMOS circuits · Resonators and switches · MEMS-engine for LIDAR · Piezo-on-nitride transducers for atom-mechanics Expertise in many and most of Microfabrication, PiezoMEMS, Photonics, Quantum Mechanics, Microwave circuits, PCB design, ADS/HFSS, Comsol, Python and Labview is required. Please send CV to bhave@purdue.edu<mailto:bhave@purdue.edu> if you are interested.link<http://interested.link> [cid:image020.png@01D7BEAF.D3C3AE90] Postdoctoral Position - Nonlinear Nanophotonics - Deadline Nov.15, 2021 Fliers with more information posted on the bulletin boards. An electronics engineer position is available in the Smart Sensing and Electronics Systems Branch of NASA, located at the Glenn Research Center (GRC). The focus of the successful candidate will be on research, design, development, simulation and testing of sensing devices, transducers, components, and related circuitry for application to aerospace research and development endeavors. See https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/615488500 for details. Contact Dallas Morisette morisett@purdue.edu<mailto:morisett@purdue.edu> for more detail Dear Birck Students. There is a recently announced West Lafayette Smart City Challenge<http://bit.ly/wlsmartcitychallenge>. This competition is open to students/faculty at U.S. universities and colleges as well as start-ups with fewer than 25 employees. Finalists may secure up to $15,000 to develop their idea and prototype. Participants are tasked with developing a scalable IoT solution and/or software application using West Lafayette's IoT infrastructure to improve safety for vulnerable road users in West Lafayette. There is an informational webinar on October 20 at 1pm CT/ 2pm ET by the challenge sponsors. Registration is required and the link to sign up is: https://bit.ly/3uQfquO Any questions can be directed to challenges@us-ignite.org<mailto:challenges@us-ignite.org>. Best regards, Ali NSAC Fab Forum There will be no NSAC Fab Forum this Tuesday NSAC Coffee Hour There will be no NSAC Coffee Hour this Friday Birck Nanotechnology Center Advanced Capabilities Kinzel Roll-to-Roll Screen Printer RCA Cleaning Process Hood [cid:image017.png@01D7C3F5.A015DC30]Features: * Print patterns of conductive, dielectric, and graphic inks on flexible substrates (polymeric films or paper). * Automatic, roll-to-roll operation for large volume flexible electronics fabrication, over 10 impressions per minute. * Large format, up to approximately 500 mm x 500 mm printed per impression, 200 micrometer resolution. Other Capabilities: * Ink curing via in-line UV lamp or thermal convection dryer. * Multi-layer printing via multiple passes with registration. [cid:image018.png@01D7C3F5.A015DC30] Contact: Nick Glassmaker - nglassma@purdue.edu<mailto:nglassma@purdue.edu> Purdue University, Birck Nanotechnology Center Roll-to-Roll Laboratories<https://dev.www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/birck/facilities/equipment/Roll-to-roll/index.php> Please visit the Birck Wiki<https://wiki.itap.purdue.edu/display/BNCWiki/> to learn about the wide array of fabrication and characterization equipment at the facility ***To post an announcement in the weekly BNC E-news please send to Nancy Black @ blackn@purdue.edu***<mailto:blackn@purdue.edu***> Follow us on Facebook and Twitter [Facebook icon]<https://www.facebook.com/nano.purdue.edu/> [Twitter icon] <https://twitter.com/BNCPurdue>
