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[Anthrop, Heather L]

***Please read all the way to the bottom for all important information***

Monday, September 16th

Biswajit Ray
Final Exam - Redefining the Operation and Design Considerations of Organic Solar Cells: Role of Morphology and Defect States
Birck 1001 at 3:00 pm

Friday, September 20th

Maria Torress Seminar
Improving the Diagnosis of Pancreatic Cancer Patients Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
WSLR 116 at 11:30 am
See attached flyer for more information

***Special Notice***
Dear All BNC Cleanroom Users,

We're pleased to announce that the2014  Fiscal Year Scifres rate structure was approved last week by Purdue costing, and will be retroactive to July 1, 2013.  The cleanroom will now have a daily rate of $40/user, capped at a maximum 8 days per calendar month.  If a user continues using the cleanroom beyond 8 days within a month then they will be only charged $320 for the entire month.  This rate structure was mentioned by Prof. Shakouri several months ago in a faculty meeting, and now costing has approved the package.  Our intent with this new rate structure is to promote short-term/daily use of the cleanroom without a monthly rate penalty.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Ron Reger

***IMPORTANT***
Please make sure you are locking your office doors when you leave the office.  Campus has reported a number of thefts on campus and the one way you can stop thieves is to lock your doors.  We are seeing a number of doors  in Birck being left unlocked overnight.  Please help us keep your valuables safe!

Mary Jo Totten
***Special Notice***

The Birck Nanotechnology Center will be undergoing a semi-annual preventive maintenance and service shutdown October 7 through October 11, 2013.  Air handling systems, exhaust systems, toxic gas delivery, and monitoring systems will be down beginning at 7 a.m. Monday, October 7 through 4 p.m. Friday, October 11.  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.  No one 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, vacuum systems, and/or toxic gas systems will be down beginning 9 a.m. Monday, October 7 through 4 p.m. Friday, October 11.  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 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 11.  Please check Coral for equipment status and availability.

Due to the new lab expansion projects electrical outages are required that will mainly affect the office areas.  We will send out a notice with a date and time of the power outage when we have more detailed information from Physical Facilities.

For long term research planning please refer the following future dates for our future preventive maintenance shutdowns.


  *   Week of May 5, 2014 (Possible power outage of lab research tools)
  *   Week of October 13, 2014
  *   Week of May 4, 2015
  *   Week of October 12, 2015
  *   Week of May 2, 2016

Thank you for your cooperation and understanding during these important preventive maintenance shutdowns.

BNC Management


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