Brick Nanotechnology  Center PM Closure Notice = 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.

Notification for Network Maintenance Being Performed on October 14^th

When work will be performed:

October 14th 12:05 AM

Work Details:
ITIS DN Engineers and ITIS Field Operations Engineers will complete minor work. This includes the following:
Replace mjis-2063-c9348uxm-01 switch 3 due to faulty ports

Replace brk-1257-c9348uxm-01 switch 2 due to faulty ports

Replace pfsb-1172-c9348uxm-01 switch 3 due to faulty ports
Replace heav-g20-c9348uxm-01 switch 2 due to faulty ports

Replace mrrt-158-c9348uxm-01 switch 2 due to kernel error

Replace brwn-5155-c9348uxm-01 switch 6 due to faulty ports

Will there be an interruption in service?

Yes

Affected areas/clients:

Various MJIS, BRK, PFSB, HEAV, MRRT, BRWN wired and wireless users. 

Downtime Expected?:

We expect up to 240 minutes of intermittent connectivity during the window because equipment will need to be powered down and moved in some cases.

Thank you,

Mike

Mike Skvarek
Network Engineer
IT Infrastructure Services

Important Reminder Regarding Lab & Cleanroom Access

Some users have been observed to not be swiping into labs and the cleanroom, but rather entering on another user’s card-reader swipe.  Please note that this is a serious violation of our protocols and policies as we depend on swipe and equipment-use income to offset the expenses of running this great research facility that we all benefit from.  If a person enters a lab without swiping this reduces our income and severely affects our ability to provide training, utilities, equipment services, and process work.  Additionally, card-reader swiping is a tool we use for COVID contact tracing and is critically important for the health of our community.  Not swiping-in is actually considered theft from the university, so please take this as a serious reminder to ALWAYS swipe into any lab or the cleanroom every time you enter. 

Thanks for your consideration and support!
Ron

Ron Reger

Engineering Manager

Seminars /Workshops / Events

BNC Faculty Seminar Series

Xiaoping Bao, Ph.D., Davidson School of Chemical Engineering,  Purdue Center for Cancer Research

Engineer and Manufacture Off-the-Shelf CAR-NK Cells for Targeted Cancer Immunotherapy

October 14^th, 2021 | 12:00pm, Join Zoom: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/98695180597

Seminar for Neurotrauma and Diseases

Sponsored by Plexon Neurotechnology Systems

Wednesdays | 4-5pm | via Zoom

ECE webinar series

Prof. John Heron (University of Michigan)

Electric Field Control of Magnetism for Energy Efficient Memory and Logic Devices

Thursday, October 14, 2021 10 AM-11 AM • https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/3164232249

Birck Events and Birck News

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 1^st place        $200 for 2^nd place       $100 for 3^rd 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%40thread.tacv2/2021%2520BNC%2520%2520Research%2520Image%2520Contest?groupId=5bf94bef-11c6-4867-b6b1-a3a6d90de4e9&tenantId=4130bd39-7c53-419c-b1e5-8758d6d63f21

If you have issues or questions, please email Neil Dilley at ndilley@purdue.edu .

Happy image hunting!   and the Birck Nanotechnology Center

NSAC Coffee Hour

In-person Coffee Hour talk: Birck 1^st floor atrium every Friday 2pm.

During the talk, one student speaker will present his/her recent research. Individually packed snacks and coffee will be provided to help us digest the talk

NSAC Fab Forum

In-person Fab Forum: Birck 1^st floor atrium every Tuesday 2pm.

During the event, students can come and discuss their issues in fabrication and experiments. Individually packed snacks and coffee will be provided to help us digest the conversation.

Birck Nanotechnology Center Advanced Capabilities

RCA Cleaning Process Hood & Spin Rinse Dryer

A dedicated area and equipment for performing SC1, SC2 and HF Dip baths

RCA Cleaning Process Hood

Features:

• SC1 – Organic and Particle Clean

• UPW, NH4OH, and H2O2 at 80C.
• Removes organic residues & particles

• SC2 – Ionic Clean

• UPW, HCL, H2O2 at 80C.
• Removes metallic contaminants and leaves a thin passivizing layer on surface.

• HF – Oxide Strip

• UPW and HF at 25C.
• Removes thin oxide layers and some ionic contaminants.

Spin Rinse Dryer

•             Automatically rinses and dries up to 14 4” wafers at a time.

Location: Cleanroom R Bay

Contact: Rich Hosler (hosler0@purdue.edu)

https://wiki.itap.purdue.edu/display/BNCWiki/Omicron+Surface+Analysis+Cluster

Please visit the Birck Wiki to learn about the wide array of fabrication and characterization equipment at the facility

Opening in OxideMEMS lab

Sunil Bhave’s OxideMEMS Lab 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  if you are interested.link

Postdoctoral Position – Nonlinear Nanophotonics – Deadline Nov.15, 2021

Fliers with more information posted on the bulletin boards.

***To post an announcement in the weekly BNC E-news please send to Nancy Black @ blackn@purdue.edu***

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