**************** 1. Announcements **************** 1.1: Monday Memo items to appear on-line Visit http://nano.purdue.edu/ where you¹ll be directed to the Discovery Park home page, select ³Nanotechnology² from the DP Centers drop-down menu. Several pieces of this weekly memo have migrated to the Birck website. As additional pages are created, all items will soon appear there, which will decrease the amount of BNC-all messages being sent. 1.2: Cleanroom Preventive Maintenance scheduled for May 1-2, 2007 Per Mark Voorhis, a 48-hour shut down of cleanroom operations has been scheduled to complete a six-month preventive maintenance procedure. The shutdown of cleanroom operations will begin on Tuesday (1-May-07) at 7:00 AM and will be completed by Wednesday (2-May-07) at 5:00 PM. Maintenance is required for BNC cleanroom makeup air handlers and chemical exhaust. During this time, the BNC Staff will also complete cleanroom troubleshooting to improve temperature repeatability. Toxic gases will be shutdown to the entire building for the duration of this procedure. Since the chemical exhaust system for the cleanroom will be shut down please remove chemicals from all hoods in the cleanroom prior to the shutdown. If not removed by 9PM Monday evening, the lab staff will dispose of them for you. **NOTE**: Contrary to our earlier notices released on behalf of the lab staff, the Ultra Pure Water (UPW) System will not be shut down for maintenance. All Laboratory Hoods and Laboratory UPW are UNAFFECTED by this shutdown. Thank you for your understanding and patience during this necessary procedure. If you have any questions or concerns please Mark Voorhis (mvoorhis@purdue.edu) 1.3: Birck will NOT be sponsoring a volleyball team for this year¹s Spring Fling, as previously announced. 1.4: New Call for Research in Patterning White Papers due Friday, May 18, 2007 http://www.src.org/fr/S200704_NMS_Call.asp#needs OVERVIEW: GRC¹s Nanomanufacturing area is soliciting white papers in the Patterning, Emerging Research Materials, and Nanocharacterization/Metrology areas for work to begin January 1, 2008 for an expected three-year period. This call for research is issued to universities worldwide. Successful white paper authors will be invited to submit a full proposal, and a limited number of contracts will be awarded based on these proposals according to the schedule below. GRC may elect to negotiate a project¹s research scope or composition to meet funding or distribution needs. RESEARCH NEEDS: Member needs in Patterning, Emerging Research Materials, and Nanocharacterization/Metrology, developed by a task force of SRC industry members, are outlined in a new needs document. WHITE PAPER GUIDELINES: Responses are limited to four pages, using at least a 10-point font, and MUST BE SUBMITTED VIA THE SRC WEB SITE by FRIDAY, MAY 18, 3 PM EDT/12 PM PDT. White papers not meeting these requirements will be discarded. Please include the following identifying information in your white paper: Project title; Needs category/sub-categories addressed by your submission; Investigator(s); University; Telephone number and e-mail address. Please address the following topics in your white paper: Context: emphasis area and problem to be addressed; Rationale: value in terms of semiconductor industry needs; Novelty: role of this research in advancing knowledge beyond the state-of-the-art; Approach: strategy for addressing the problem; Results: anticipated output of a successful effort; Engagement: how you now or will plan to interact with SRC member companies; Funding: a per-year approximation of overall funding requirements (university approval and official budgets are not required at this time); Students: involvement and education of graduate students is a key SRC goal; typical funded proposals will support 1-2 full time students. The extent, if any, that this research requires the use of Background Intellectual Property. Awardees will be expected to: Resolve any blocking Background Intellectual Property issues before award of contract; Update information about participating students; Submit publications resulting from sponsored research; Participate in annual research reviews; Provide annual reports and pre-defined deliverables. TIMETABLE AND DEADLINES: Deadline to Submit White Papers: Friday, May 18, 2007 - 3 PM EDT/12 PM PDT; Proposals Requested: Monday, June 25, 2007; Deadline to Submit Proposals: Monday, July 23, 2007 - 3 PM EDT/12 PM PDT; Funding Decisions Announced: Monday, November 12, 2007; Program/Funding Start: Tuesday, January 1, 2008. Please direct all technical questions to Daniel Herr (919) 941-9400. All other questions and responses should be directed to nms@src.org Deborah S. Starewich Administrative Assistant to Timothy D. Sands, Director Birck Nanotechnology Center Purdue University 765-494-3509 dstarewi@ecn.purdue.edu http://www.nano.purdue.edu/