November 2008 - Bnc-grads-list

Lock Found outside
by Marris, Melissa J 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

There was a bike lock found outside on the sidewalk. If it is your please pick it up at my desk. Thanks, Melissa J Marris Secretary Birck Nanotechnology Center 1205 West State Street West Lafayette, In 47907-2057 (756) 494-7053 Fax: (765) 496-8299 Email: lanem(a)purdue.edu www.nano.purdue.edu

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FW: Global Internship Opportunities: Information session on Nov 20th @ 7-8:15 PM, STEW 322
by Deborah S. Starewich 17 Nov '08

17 Nov '08

This message is being forwarded at the request of Pankaj Sharma. Please send questions or comments regarding the email to Pankaj at sharma(a)purdue.edu. Infosys Technologies Ltd is located in Bangalore, India. In the past, they have hired seven Purdue students in their Global Internship program (INSTEP). Recently, Purdue President France Cordova visited Infosys during her trip to India. Narayana Murthy, founder and chief mentor of Infosys, marked Córdova's visit to the company's Indian headquarters with a tree-planting ceremony reserved for its most distinguished guests. We discussed ways in which Purdue and Infosys can continue to pursue our parallel interests in research and development as well as internship possibilities for students. Your consideration in this internship opportunity would expand your networking opportunities globally. Pankaj Sharma Associate Director, Operations and International Affairs Discovery Park sharma(a)purdue.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- InStep, Infosys¹s Global Internship Program Explore your potential with a company of the future! ³Through my internship at Infosys, I have come to understand and appreciate first hand the power of a company to change the worldto transform the ambitions of a nation and to reconfigure the world¹s understanding of business in a global economy. I believe that the skill and understanding I have developed here has deeply enriched me personally and will empower me professionally throughout my career.² - Eugenie Rosenthal, MBA Candidate 2008, Stanford Graduate School of Business Dear Student, Greetings from Infosys! I would like to cordially invite you to a presentation on an internship opportunity with Infosys, a company delivering technology-led business solutions in the flattening world. Through this forum we look forward to sharing with you the 4 mega forces shaping the business world of tomorrow, the secrets to a successful career in this new landscape, while giving you a peek into our exclusive internship program, InStep <http://www.infosys.com/instepweb> at Infosys. Date: November 20th 2008 Time: 7.00 8:15 pm Hrs followed by light snacks Venue: 322 STEW RSVP: anupama_murthy(a)infosys.com <mailto:anupama_murthy@infosys.com> Infosys (NASDAQ: INFY) defines, designs and delivers IT-enabled business solutions that help Global 2000 companies win in a flat world. These solutions focus on providing strategic differentiation and operational superiority to clients. Infosys creates these solutions for its clients by leveraging its domain and business expertise along with a complete range of services. With Infosys, clients are assured of a transparent business partner, world-class processes, speed of execution and the power to stretch their IT budget by leveraging the Global Delivery Model that Infosys pioneered. Infosys has over 95000 employees in 25 offices worldwide. InStep is Infosys¹ Global Internship Program for undergraduate, graduate, MBA and PhD students from top academic institutions around the world. As part of the Infosys family, you are given a chance to work on high impact assignments including live consulting to organizationally strategic projects in our offices in India and around the world. While you explore new and emerging technologies and various industries, you gain unparalleled international work experience and build a global network of colleagues. View Projects: Students with a technical background are offered an opportunity to work on projects involving cutting edge technologies across diverse areas, such as! To view our projects in detail, please log on to http://www.infosys.com/InStepWeb/Projects.htm <http://www.infosys.com/InStepWeb/Projects.htm> Benefits: First-hand exposure to one of the world¹s fastest growing markets India; access to senior executives through multiple industry and cultural workshops organized exclusively for interns; platform to interact with a diverse group of employees and interns representing over 39 different nationalities. We look forward to meeting you at the presentation! Contact: · Anupama Murthy · Global Academic Relations · Website: www.infosys.com/instepweb <http://www.infosys.com/instepweb> · You tube o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN9rfrbuPLw <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN9rfrbuPLw%20> **************** CAUTION - Disclaimer ***************** This e-mail contains PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by e-mail and delete the original message. Further, you are not to copy, disclose, or distribute this e-mail or its contents to any other person and any such actions are unlawful. This e-mail may contain viruses. Infosys has taken every reasonable precaution to minimize this risk, but is not liable for any damage you may sustain as a result of any virus in this e-mail. You should carry out your own virus checks before opening the e-mail or attachment. Infosys reserves the right to monitor and review the content of all messages sent to or from this e-mail address. Messages sent to or from this e-mail address may be stored on the Infosys e-mail system. ***INFOSYS******** End of Disclaimer ********INFOSYS*** ------ End of Forwarded Message

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Lab Open House (11/14) and Dinner with NCN (11/20)
by Laura Biedermann 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

Hello, Lab Open House: Friday, 11/14, at 12:30 pm Lab Open House continues with a tour this Friday of Birck 1217 at 12:30 pm. This week's tour will feature the PVD Product's Pulsed Laser Deposition System, which is a physical vapor deposition system that can be used to deposit oxide thin films. Graduate student Caitlin Burger will be our tour guide. A wide variety of oxides can be deposited via PLD, including ferroelectric oxides, which enables the possibility for non-Silicon based oxide integration into microelectronics. Dinner with NCN: Thursday, 11/20 at 6:00 pm All grad students at Birck are invited to a dinner with the NCN graduate students. NCN is the Network for Computational Nanotechnology. This dinner, on Thurs., Nov 20th at 6 pm at the Purdue Memorial Union, is a great chance to meet computational nanotechnology grad students from a variety of disciplines. If you would like to attend, please e-mail Raseong Kim (kim369(a)purdue.edu) by Sunday, Nov. 16th. See the flyer below for more information. Thanks, NSAC Begin forwarded message: > From: kim369(a)purdue.edu > Date: November 13, 2008 2:21:54 PM GMT-05:00 > To: Laura Biedermann <biedrmnn(a)purdue.edu> > Subject: Invitation to NCN dinner on 11/20/08 > > Hello Laura, > > NCN Student Leadership Council is going to have the NCN@Purdue Fall > Dinner on > 11/20/2008 (Thu), and we'd like to invite NSAC students. > > The dinner will be from 6pm to 9pm, in the Anniversary Drawing Room > at Purdue > Memorial Union. We also have invited speakers who will give us > informal talks > on "Preserving Research Data". > > Those who are to participate should RSVP (kim369(a)purdue.edu, Raseong > Kim) by > Sunday, Nov. 16. The details (speaker list, dinner menu, etc.) are > shown in the > attached flyer. Please distribute the flyer to other students (and > print out a > few copies and post them around if possible). > > Thank you. > > Best regards, > Raseong Kim >

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Postdoctoral Research Associate Position
by Deborah S. Starewich 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

Postdoctoral Research Associate Position: One post-doctoral position is available to investigate Novel Electronic Devices on Graphene structures. Candidates should have a Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics or Electrical Engineering and experience in Electronics Devices and Transport in Low-Dimensional Systems. Preference will be given to candidates with a background in Nanoelectronics that have performed experimental work on carbon nanotubes, nanowires or graphene with an emphasis on device fabrication and electrical characterization. Interested candidates should send their CV including names of three references to: appenzeller(a)purdue.edu Contact: Joerg Appenzeller Professor and Scientific Director of Nanoelectronics School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue University Birck Nanotechnology Center, Box 1006 1205 West State Street W. Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 Tel. 765-494-1076 Fax. 765-496-8383 Email: appenzeller(a)purdue.edu Purdue University is an equal opportunity, equal access, affirmative action employer fully committed to achieving a diverse workforce.

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11/14 Nanotech. seminar (Francesco Stellacci, MIT)
by Deborah S. Starewich 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

Supramolecular Nanomaterials and Lithography Friday, November 14, 2008 4:30 pm, Wetherill (WTHR) 201 Francesco Stellacci Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA Specific molecules can spontaneously arrange on various surfaces forming two-dimensional poly-crystalline mono-molecular layers called self-assembled monolayers (SAMs). We will show that when mixed SAMs are formed on surfaces with a radius of curvature smaller than 20 nm they spontaneously phase-separate in highly ordered phases of unprecedented size. In the specific case of mixed SAMs formed on the surface of gold nanoparticles, the molecular ligands separate into 5 Å wide phases of alternating composition that encircle or spiral around the particle metallic core. This new family of nano-structured nano-materials shows properties solely due to this unique morphology, both in terms of fundamental properties such as surface energy and in terms of complex interaction with biological materials such as proteins and cells. Additionally, it will be shown how patterned DNA SAMs can be used as masters for a novel printing technique for organic materials called Supramolecular NanoStamping (SuNs). This method, like the DNA/RNA information transfer, uses the reversible assembly of DNA double strands as a way of transferring patterns from a surface onto another. One of the main advantages of SuNs is that multiple DNA strands (each encoding different information) can be printed at the same time, thus allowing for a complex chemical pattern to be formed, much like Gutenberg movable type. >

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Seminar by Dr. Adina Scott, Thurs. 11/6 at 10:30 am (BNC 1001)
by Laura Biedermann 05 Nov '08

05 Nov '08

Hi all, NSAC is hosting a seminar by Adina Scott this Thursday, 11/6 at 10:30 am in Birck 1001. Until she defended her thesis in September, Adina was a graduate student at Birck, working in Prof. Janes group. Please come to her seminar Thursday morning on metal-molecule-silicon devices (MMS devices). Adina will be speaking about the fabrication, characterization, and applications of MMS devices. As a bonus, NSAC is providing cookies and tea. Thank you, NSAC Nanotechnology Student Advisory Council Metal-Molecule-Silicon Heterostructures Thursday, November 6, 2008 Birck Nanotechnology Building, Room 1001 10:30 A.M. Dr. Adina Scott Electrical Engineering, Purdue University Recently there has been significant interest in incorporating molecular elements into electronic devices for electronics, memory, and chemical/biological sensing applications. To date much of the work on this topic has utilized metal electrodes however using silicon (Si) presents physical and technological advantages. Molecules can be covalently bound to Si surfaces. Device properties can be tailored both by changing the surface chemistry and by doping the Si. Moreover, Si is technologically relevant for electronics applications. This study focuses on the development, characterization, and modeling of metal/molecule/Si (MMS) devices. Si surfaces have been functionalized with various organic species and the resulting molecular layers have been characterized using a variety of surface-analysis techniques. The structural and chemical properties of metallized molecular layers have been characterized using in-situ spectroscopic measurements. MMS devices with various molecular layers, Si doping types, and doping densities have been fabricated and electrically characterized using capacitance-voltage and temperature-dependent current-voltage measurements. A model has been developed in which MMS devices are described by a four-layer structure consisting of the metal, the molecular layer, the Si surface, and the Si bulk. Electronic transport is modulated by the molecular layer, which acts as a tunnel barrier with a transmission coefficient that depends on the molecular- electronic structure, and the Si surface, which can be accumulated or depleted depending on the device electrostatics. In the MMS devices developed and analyzed in the study, electronic transport is governed by the interplay between the molecular-electronic properties and Si bandstructure, enabling novel hybrid organic/semiconductor functionality. Biography: Adina Scott has been working with Prof. David Janes since 2003. In September 2008, she defended her PhD thesis, “Metal/Molecule/Silicon Devices: Realizing Hybrid Semiconductor/Organic Functionality.” She has received numerous awards including a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and a Purdue Doctoral Fellowship. She received her BSE in Electrical Engineering and BA in Music from Case Western Reserve University in 2003.

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Save the date announcement - Multiscale integration of nanotechnology, bioMEMS and biology Symposium
by Deborah S. Starewich 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

This email is being forwarded to the DP e-list at the request of the Luann Ludwig in the Bindley Bioscience Center. Please send questions or comments to Luann at lml(a)purdue.edu. Save the date for: Multiscale integration of nanotechnology, bioMEMS and biology Symposium with Raoul Kopelman, Ph.D from the University of Michigan as the key note speaker Thursday, November 20th 8:30am 3:30pm (Location to be determined) Call for student poster presentations attached

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