BNC News

week of October 5, 2009

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Preventive Maintenance Shutdown
6-8 October 2009

Monday, 5 October 2009:  
Metallization systems taken off-line
Other cleanroom and laboratory activities as normal

Tuesday, 6 October 2009
Cleanroom closed beginning 7:00 AM
Laboratory operations as limited – no process vacuum, no ultrapure water
Fire alarm testing will be underway

Wednesday, 7 October 2009
Cleanroom closed – may reopen late in day
Ultrapure water should be functional
Odors may be present due to work near air handlers

Thursday, 8 October 2009
Cleanroom expected to reopen
Laboratory usage very limited beginning 7:00 AM – no work involving exhausted hoods, biosafety cabinets or enclosures, vacuum systems, and/or gas systems can be performed 
Laboratories may reopen late in day
Odors may be present due to work near air handlers

Friday, 9 October 2009
Laboratories expected to reopen
Cleanroom operations as normal
Some equipment may come online late in day

Please check Coral for equipment status and availability!

It is expected that the metallization systems will be off-line all week, and that plasma etch systems will be off-line Tuesday through Friday.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation,

John R. Weaver

SAVE THE DATE: Fall TOWN HALL MEETING, Wednesday, 10.07.09, 1:30, BRK 1001: annual review of business at Birck will include reports on earnings, expenditures, corporate involvement, and other items of interest to our faculty and residents. Add this to your calendar now.

Meet and Greet NCN/PRISM/NSAC student at the BNC for the 1st Annual NSAC/NCN/PRISM student cookout & carry-in! ALL FACULTY, STUDENTS, & STAFF ARE WELCOME: Friday, 10.09.09, 4-7PM, volleyball and food at the west end of building [outside]. [Flier] [RSVP]

Kudos! A paper by Birck graduate students Aaron Franklin and Bob Sayer and Profs. Sands, Janes, and Fisher was featured on the July 2009 cover of IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology. Citation: A.D. Franklin, R.A. Sayer, T.D. Sands, D.B. Janes, T.S. Fisher, “Vertical carbon nanotube devices with nanoscale lengths controlled without lithography,” IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, Vol. 8, pp. 469-476, 2009.

Where's Iron Man????? Just for the fun of it: be on the look out for Iron Man; he could show up anywhere in Birck.

NSAC NEWS

NSAC is sponsoring a blood drive on Friday, Oct 23rd from 8 to 11 am. "Indiana Blood Center lives a daily mission to supply blood and blood components to Hoosier patients in need. In doing so, we meet remarkable people every day.Read the true stories of both donors and recipients in Indiana have been touched." Please schedule an appointment today.

TOURS/VISITORS

visit nano.purdue.edu and refer to "Featured Events" for the most up-to-date information

SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS

visit nano.purdue.edu and refer to "Featured Events" for the most up-to-date information

Tuesday, 10.06.09, 3:30PM, Wetherill 320, Amy-Mellon Lecture in Analytical Chemistry:“Observation of Chemical Reactions on Surfaces using STM: Watching Individual Molecules do their Molecular Dances," by John T. Yates, Jr.

Wednesday, 10.07.09, 12:00PM, Pfendler 241: "Genes and the Microenvironment: the two faces of breast cancer," by Mina Bissell, PhD, Distinguished Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.Reception will follow lecture in the Phfendler Gallery.[Flier]

Friday, 10.09.09, 2:00PM, HORT 222: Birck Nanotechnology Seminar Series - “Structural and Thermodynamic Evidence for Allosteric Relaxed-State Symmetry" by Professor Jannette Carey Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, Princeton University. [Flier]

CALL FOR PAPERS: "International Symposium on MEMS & Nano," 06.07.10 to 06.09.10, Indianapolis, IN. [More]

HIGH FIVE

Birck's version of Purdue's "Thumbs Up," which appears in the Purdue Today publication. To send someone a HIGH FIVE, submit your request to Deboah Starewich.

Melissa Marris sends a special thank you to NANCY BLACK for being the excellent back up she provided while Melissa was away.

LIFE ON THE OUTSIDE

WELCOME the newest edition to the Gardner clan: Elizabeth and Geoff Gardner have been blessed with a beautiful daughter! She came into the world on Sunday, September 13, weighing 7 pounds and 12 ounces and was 20 inches long. Picture

PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS

FLU SHOTS available [Flier]

Faculty, staff, and students who have fever or other influenza symptoms should seek medical care. PLEASE DO NOT REPORT TO WORK WHILE ILL.

Birck Nanotechnology Center staff will be notified of an emergency situation by telephone in the order set out in the BNC’s Phone Tree (personnel should have a copy on hand in their offices and homes; contact Deborah Starewich, if you do not have the most recent copy; distributed on Thursday, 09.13.09). BNC faculty members will receive an e-mail message from Monica Allain or Tim Sands.

Members of the Faculty (Professors and Research Professors) are responsible for contacting each of their group members, including graduate students, undergraduate researchers, postdoctoral fellows and research scientists. Specific instructions should be conveyed by phone if possible. All graduate students should register for the Purdue University e-mail alert system at http://news.uns.purdue.edu/mail.html.

Additional information for pandemic and emergency preparation may be found atwww.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/faculty andhttp://www.purdue.edu/emergency_preparedness

Submit items for memo of the week of September 28, 2009 by ****12 NOON**** on FRIDAY, 09.25.09, to Deborah Starewich dstarewi@purdue.edu