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. Seminars /Workshops / Events Seminar for Neurotrauma and Diseases<https://vet.purdue.edu/cpr/Seminar%20for%20Neurotrauma.php> Sponsored by Plexon Neurotechnology Systems Wednesdays | 4-5pm | via Zoom BNC Faculty Seminar Series Michelle Thompson, Assistant Professor of Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences

From Atomic Scales to Asteroid Surfaces: Understanding Planetary Surfaces across the Solar System through the Coordinated Analysis of Returned Samples October 7th, 2021 | 12:00pm, Join Zoom: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/98695180597 Birck Events<https://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/birck/events/index.php> and Birck News<https://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/birck/news/index.php>

NSAC Coffee Hour In-person Coffee Hour talk: Birck 1st 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 1st 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. Purdue Intramural Indoor Volleyball Purdue intramural indoor volleyball is back in mid-October, and the NSAC volleyball team will be participating in the intramurals. Please fill the form if you are interested in playing for the NSAC Volleyball team. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeI5hv5r_U-sxIRqjTbANQdalEBRcHTiXHZ... Registration End date: 10/04/2021 Details of the event will be communicated later. Birck Nanotechnology Center Advanced Capabilities Keithley 4200A Ultrafast Pulse Unit (Probe 2) [cid:image002.jpg@01D7B930.793D2CA0] [cid:image003.jpg@01D7B931.D0073BB0] Features:

Ultra fast I-V module with remote PreAmp ( 4225-PMU & 4225-RPM) Pulse widths as low as low as 60 ns Low noise (15uA) and wide measurement range (10-40V) Other Capabilities: Also measure low noise CV-IV measurements with Cascade

Location: BRK 2100-J Contact: Nithin Raghunathan (nithin@purdue.edu<mailto:nithin@purdue.edu>) Website: https://wiki.itap.purdue.edu/display/BNCWiki/Omicron+Surface+Analysis+Cluste... 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 RA Position Graduate Research Assistantship Opportunity: Deposited Gate Oxides for SiC MOSFETs Graduate research assistantships are available in the area of silicon carbide metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) devices. SiC is a wide bandgap semiconductor with a high critical field, making it an exciting material for power electronic devices. SiC MOSFETs are now commercially available, but do not yet achieve their full potential. Our group is approaching this problem from several directions, including a new device trench MOSFET geometries inspired by modern FinFETs and alternative gate insulator fabrication methods. Research activities will include fabrication and characterization of SiC MOS capacitors and MOSFETs with gate oxides formed by thermal oxidation, atomic layer deposition (ALD), and other methods. The student will gain a detailed understanding of the physics of the MOS interface and will learn various methods of characterizing devices, including MOS CV analysis, interface state density and carrier mobility. For more information or to apply, send resume and contact information to: Dallas Morisette Research Assistant Professor morisett@purdue.edu<mailto:morisett@purdue.edu> 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> ***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>