[cid:image001.jpg@01D4EDE9.DE5D5B10] Seminars /Workshops / Events BNC Seminar: Dr. Ibraheem Badejo<https://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/birck/events/index.php?view=2242> Catalyzing Innovation to Deliver Transformational Solutions to People Globally October 17th, 2019 @ 1:00pm in BRK 1001 BNC Distinguished Seminar: Dr. Lon Bell<https://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/birck/events/index.php?view=2219> Opportunities, limitations and challenges to the broad commercialization of Thermoelectric technology October 24th, 2019 @ 11:00am MRGN 121 NextFlex Workshop: FHE Applications for Structural Health and Asset Monitoring Systems<https://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/birck/events/index.php?view=2270> October 28th - Oct. 30th, 2019 Birck Events<https://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/birck/events/index.php> and Birck News<https://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/birck/news/index.php> BNC Preventative Maintenance Closure & Research Equipment Power Outage: (See Attachments) The Birck Nanotechnology Center will be undergoing a closure involving major electrical repairs and completion of our semi-annual preventive maintenance from October 14 through October 18, 2019. There will be a major electrical power outage involving all research equipment in the center. During our electrical bus duct failure back in February is was discovered that main power to all research equipment has the same issue that caused the failure in February. ELECTRICAL work is scheduled from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday, October 14, 2019. EVERY GENERAL LAB, MAIN CLEANROOM & BIO CLEANROOM AREAS WILL LOOSE POWER TO RESEARCH EQUIPMENT DURING THIS TIME. ALSO ALL BUILDING WIDE MAJOR UTILITIES WILL BE LOST INCLUDING Compressed Air, Process Vacuum, Process Cooling Water, Ultra Pure Water, Acid Waste System, & ETC. Research equipment on UPS or generator power will not be affected. Power will be lost to all conference rooms and office areas as well so please plan accordingly to safely power down all office computers and electronic devises in your offices prior to the outage. Attached is the electrical shutdown sequence. Please plan accordingly to secure you research equipment and office computers. All air handling systems, exhaust systems, toxic gas delivery, and monitoring systems will be down beginning at 7 a.m. Monday, October 14 through 4 p.m. Friday, October 18 to complete our preventative maintenance activities. Please contact me if you need more detailed information. Mark Voorhis Building Manager Purdue 2050: Conference of the Future: Sept 26th and 27th<https://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/2050/> [cid:image014.jpg@01D566F7.F23EB9D0]<https://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/2050/> Lesker Evaporator Converted to Flexible Substrate Tool Birck has always had a dedicated evaporator for flexible substrates due to the challenging conditions internal to the vacuum chambers caused by substrate outgassing. Having a dedicated evaporator for these types of materials has helped us maintain other evaporators in a much cleaner condition. The Airco evaporator served us for many years as our evaporator for flexible substrates but recently the Airco went down hard and became impossible to repair. As a result we have moved flexible substrate processing over to the Lesker evaporator and it is available immediately for use. We are working to bring a refurbished CHA evaporator online that will be another clean evaporator system for normal processing. Please see me for any questions you may have and for training on the Lesker system. Kenny Schwartz Research Engineer Welcome to Rich Harlan, New Engineering Staff Member We are pleased to announce that Mr. Richard (Rich) Harlan will be joining the Birck Engineering Staff on Monday, September 23rd. Rich comes to us with many years' experience working in semiconductor process engineering assignments in wafer fabs and cleanrooms, with direct experience in optical lithography, wet & dry etching processes, and thermal processes. He holds a 6-Sigma green belt and has led a number of process improvement initiatives in his previous positions. Rich will bring his process optimization, structured problem solving, and process improvement experience to Birck and he will be responsible for metrology tools and for overall process optimization methods and projects. Rich holds a BS EET from Purdue, and will be located in the engineering suite. Please join me in welcoming Rich to the engineering team! Ron Reger Refrigerator Clean out The kitchen refrigerator will be cleaned out on Friday Sept 27 at 1:30 PM If your item does not have a label the container and all will be trashed. Questions or Concerns? Contact: Nancy Black (blackn@purdue.edu<mailto:blackn@purdue.edu>) Floor Scrubbing Please note that the following offices will be unavailable from 5AM - 10:30AM on the dates listed. You can still access labs through the galley doors. * Sept. 24 Tuesday - BRK 2262 - 2283 * Sept. 25 Wednesday - West 2nd floor hallway (the elevator and west stairwell will not be available from 5 AM to 10:30AM) * Sept. 26 Thursday - Hallway west of the cleanroom Please direct any question or concerns to Mary Jo Totten: tottenm@purdue.edu<mailto:tottenm@purdue.edu> Graduate Research Assistantship: Advanced SiC MOSFETs Up to 3 graduate research assistantships are available in the area of advanced silicon carbide (SiC) power 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. We are approaching this problem from several directions, including a radical new device geometry inspired by modern FinFETs, as well as a submicron, fully self-aligned trench UMOSFET, as well as atomic layer deposited gate dielectrics. Research activities will include semiconductor device process development (including sub-micron electron beam lithography and deep reactive ion etch), complete device fabrication, electrical characterization and modeling, and 3D device simulations. Requirements: Must be enrolled in the ECE graduate program at Purdue, with an interest in microelectronics. Preference will be given to candidates demonstrating a familiarity with basic semiconductor physics, or those who have previous experience in device fabrication or characterization. Enrollment in or completion of any of the following courses or equivalents is desirable: * ECE 305 (Semiconductor Devices) * ECE 407 (Semiconductor Measurements Laboratory) * ECE 557 (Integrated Circuit/MEMS Fabrication Laboratory) * ECE 606 (Solid State Devices I) For more information or to apply, send resume and contact information to: Dallas Morisette Research Assistant Professor morisett@purdue.edu Follow us on Facebook and Twitter [Facebook icon]<https://www.facebook.com/nano.purdue.edu/> [Twitter icon] <https://twitter.com/BNCPurdue> ***If you would like to share a Thank You/Kudos for a Birck staff, student or faculty who went above and beyond in the weekly news and atrium TV's please send to jjturner@purdue.edu<mailto:jjturner@purdue.edu> *** ***If you have any news items (published papers, research news, awards, honors) please send to jjturner@purdue.edu<mailto:jjturner@purdue.edu> so they may be included on Birck's website, Facebook and Twitter pages*** Jaime Turner Administrative Assistant to the Director Birck Nanotechnology Center | Room 1027 | W. 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