January 2017 - Bnc-faculty-all-list

John Weaver's Retirement Reception - Feb. 17th @ 2:00pm in the Birck Atrium
by Turner, Jaime J 31 Jan '17

31 Jan '17

Dear all, John and Carol would like to invited you to join them at 9 Irish Brothers after his Birck retirement party on Feb. 17th. Please RSVP to Carol at carol(a)weaverhome.com<mailto:carol@weaverhome.com> by 2/13/17 so she may reserve enough space. Thank you! Jaime From: Turner, Jaime J [mailto:jjbiggs@purdue.edu] Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 4:16 PM To: 'bnc-all(a)ecn.purdue.edu' (bnc-all(a)ecn.purdue.edu) <bnc-all(a)ecn.purdue.edu> Cc: Turner, Jaime <jjturner(a)purdue.edu> Subject: John Weaver's Retirement Reception - Feb. 17th @ 2:00pm in the Birck Atrium [cid:image001.png@01D270DC.F7826680] Jaime Turner Administrative Assistant to the Director Birck Nanotechnology Center 1205 West State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 Email: jjturner(a)purdue.edu<mailto:jjturner@purdue.edu> Phone: 765-494-3509

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accepting contributions
by Black, Nancy Lee 18 Jan '17

18 Jan '17

Accepting donations for a retirement gift for John. Please have this contribution to Mary Jo or myself by Feb 10 Thanks, Nancy [cid:image001.png@01D270DC.F7826680] Jaime Turner Administrative Assistant to the Director Birck Nanotechnology Center 1205 West State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 Email: jjturner(a)purdue.edu<mailto:jjturner@purdue.edu> Phone: 765-494-3509

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spintronics lab equipment upgrades
by Dilley, Neil R 11 Jan '17

11 Jan '17

Dear BNC faculty, To those of you who are interested in magnetic, electrical, and thermal properties characterization of materials at high fields and/or low temperatures at Birck: We have some year-end funds to use toward the purchase of additional measurement capabilities for the instruments in the spintronics lab, namely the Quantum Design MPMS and/or PPMS. There is consensus that a rotation stage for electrical transport in PPMS is of high interest, but there are funds remaining and several options which are of interest to various people which compete for the remaining funds. Please indicate which of the following automated measurement options you would have IMMEDIATE or POSSIBLE interest in, keeping in mind that the instrument goes from T=1.8-400 K and up to B=9 tesla: - Heat Capacity microcalorimeter: typical sample masses ~mg, used for bulk/crystal, NOT for thin films. Used For: Phase transitions, entropy calculations, Debye temperature, electron effective mass (low temp.), lattice/electronic/magnetic excitations... - Thermal Conductivity, Seebeck coefficient, Nernst effect, electrical resistivity (latter is added for ZT determination): bulk samples of typ. 3-5mm length- again NOT for films. Has a heater, two thermometers, and two voltage probes. Used For: low temp thermoelectrics, lattice/electronic thermal conductivity, magneto-thermal effects... - Large sample Magnetometry (VSM): this means maximum transverse dimension up to 10mm. It would enable larger devices to be magnetically characterized. - Magnetometry under fiber optic illumination: IR/VIS or UV/VIS fiber delivers light to the sample in the magnetometer. If you have a vote to put in, please let me know by Friday morning. For those who responded to my previous email on this topic, I will assume your support is toward my initial proposal of Heat Capacity unless I hear otherwise from you. Thank you for your feedback on this! Best regards, Neil -- Neil R. Dilley Research Scientist Birck Nanotechnology Center , Rm 1010 1205 West State St. West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 765-496-6080

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FW: Seminar Announcement: Dr. Sunando DasGupta /10:30am Friday Jan 13th/ Room ME 2054
by Turner, Jaime J 09 Jan '17

09 Jan '17

From: Hao, Xiaomei M Sent: Monday, January 09, 2017 8:43 AM To: 'me-faculty(a)purdue.edu' <me-faculty(a)purdue.edu<mailto:me-faculty@purdue.edu>> Subject: Seminar Announcement: Dr. Sunando DasGupta /10:30am Friday Jan 13th/ Room ME 2054 Dear all, Dr. DasGupta will visit Purdue this Friday. His talk will be at 10:30am Fri Jan 13th at ME 2054, with a topic on field-assisted contact line motion in droplets and thin films. Below and attached is the seminar announcement for his talk details and bio sketch. Thank you and have a nice day! Maggie Hao | Secretary IV Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics Areas School of Mechanical Engineering | ME 2172 585 Purdue Mall,<x-apple-data-detectors://2/0> Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907 765.49.45619 Fax: 765.496.1114<tel:765.496.1114> hao41(a)purdue.edu<mailto:hao41@purdue.edu> [cid:image001.png@01D26A54.62A6EE70]

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BNC faculty meeting update/New Year
by Shakouri, Ali 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

Dear Colleagues, I wish you the best for the New Year 2017. I hope have a new year full of health, joy and success. We had our end-of-the-year Birck faculty meeting on Dec. 16th. I know everybody is busy. I appreciate very much your great participation and those who couldn’t make it but emailed to provide a lot of useful input. Here is a brief summary from our meeting: · We had the highest number of new cleanroom users at the Birck Center in 2016 (102 users vs. previous record 99 in 2008; our average in the last five years was ~60 new users/year). · Equipment replacement/new equipment priorities: o Ion Mill (anticipated usage ~125 hours/week; ~22 users): up to $600K (including installation cost) o Optics (FLIM/AFM; supplementing 600K DURIP): $20K o Cleanroom items (Microscope Filmetrics 30K, programmable hot plate 6K, chuck for MA6): up to 50K o Siemens Building control upgrade: 100K o Burn box manifold: 15K o Hazardous Gas Cabinet controller: 15K The following items are pending some additional information: o Mask plate processor replacement: 55K (pending review of current mask reworks) o Micro-injection molding: 200K (pending preliminary trial results and review options to reduce entry barrier –mold cost) o PPMS new options (horizontal rotator, etc.): 45K · We provide monthly updates to faculty points-of-contact for each recharge center. Here is the latest update for December: o https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/62299037/Recharge%20Report%20December%2… o In order to have more resources to replace aging equipment, we plan to reduce subsidy in the operation of various centers. For example, the hourly rate to Raith is going to increase in order to achieve zero subsidy within two years. We look forward to receive feedback on ways we can improve the operation of all recharge centers serving broadest number of research groups at Purdue. * We have outstanding faculty at the Birck Center. Our operation will be improved if more faculty take ownership and are directly engaged. Dimitri and I have asked two faculty committees to provide feedback about our future directions (new space allocations, staff scientists, engagement with departments, etc.) as well as our current operations (usage policy, current space utilization and staff assignments, recharges). The committees will meet in January and we hope to provide update in our next Birck faculty in the summer. If you have any additional items for the committees, please let me know. Best regards, Ali

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