[BNC-all] BNC e-news for the week of April 6th

[Anthrop, Heather L]

Electrical Work
Lab 1217
VB6
Preventive Maintenance Shut Down
Seminar
Workshop

Electrical Work

During our PM shutdown scheduled for week of May 4, 2015 Physical Facilities electrical department will be completing major modification to the isolation grounding system in all general laboratories.  Outlets in the laboratory with a label starting with "S" will be powered down 8 a.m. Monday, May 4 through 4 p.m. Friday, May 9 or until all modification are completed.

Please move any critical tools requiring power during this shut down from the "S" outlets to the outlets starting with "N".

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Lab 1217
A clean-out of Lab 1217 is being planned for the week of April 13th.  Please see Ira Young for details.

VB6
The Vistec e-beam system is down due to a data misplacement issue.  The Birck management team is working this issue since our service contract has been fully used.  We plan to have a resolution by early next week.

Preventive Maintenance Shut Down

he Birck Nanotechnology Center will be undergoing a semi-annual preventive maintenance and service shutdown May 4 through May 8, 2015.  Air handling systems, exhaust systems, hazardous gas delivery, and monitoring systems will be down beginning at 7 a.m. Monday, May 4 through 4 p.m. Friday, May 8.  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 7 a.m. Monday, May 4 through 4 p.m. Friday, May 8.  No chemical work will be allowed during this period.



At the same time Physical Facilities electrical department will be completing major modification to the isolation grounding system in all general laboratories.  Outlets in the laboratory with a label starting with "S" will be powered down 8 a.m. Monday, May 4 through 4 p.m. Friday, May 8.

It is anticipated that the building and most process tool maintenance will be completed by the end of the day on Friday, May 9.  Please check Coral for equipment status and availability.



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

If you have any questions or concerns please contact Mark Voorhis.

Seminar
Sarah L. Swisher
Flexible, Impendance-sensing "Smart Bandages" Enable Early Detection of Pressure Wounds
Monday, April 6th at 11:00 am in Birck 1001
For more information please visit: https://nanohub.org/groups/bnc/calendar/details/1140
Douglas R Strachan
University of Kentucky
Low-Dimensional Properties of Atomically-Thin Materials and Systems
Tuesday, April 7th at 10:30 am in Birck 2001
For more information please visit: https://nanohub.org/groups/bnc/calendar/details/1153

Integrated Imaging Seminar featuring Prof. Amanda Petford-Long
Integrated Imaging: The Sum is Greater than the Parts
Tuesday, April 7th in Birck 1001 at 2:00 pm
For more information please visit: https://nanohub.org/groups/bnc/calendar/details/1152

Workshop
Dear Colleagues,
I just want to attract your attention to two XPS workshop coming in May, 2015. I believe every research group using or planning to use Surface Analysis characterization tools should have at least one trained student.

1) Introduction to XPS workshop - What you should know about X-ray pohotoelectron spectroscopy (https://purdue.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_2aEjFISmtrn3IlD), May 19-20 @ 9:00 AM - BRK 1001.

Course Description: XPS is widely used to determine the chemical composition of a surface (element concentrations, chemical states, lateral and depth distributions, etc.). Nowadays XPS has become a standard technique for the characterization of solid surface. The course will teach how and what information can be provided by XPS.

2) XPS Lite Workshop Introduction to CasaXPS (https://purdue.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_4ON5fLuUSipSyuV), May 26-27 @ 9:00 AM - BRK 1001.

Course Description: XPS is widely used to determine the chemical composition of a surface (element concentrations, chemical states, lateral and depth distributions, etc.). Nowadays XPS has become a standard technique for the characterization of solid surface. however, XPS data require thorough analysis, and dedicated software is used for data analysis. Purdue University has a site license for CasaXPS allowing complete analysis XPS data. The course aims to teach (1) what analysis should be applied to raw XPS data and (2) how this can be done using CasaXPS. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of XPS data using CasaXPS will be discussed in detail as well. Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops to follow data analysis using CasaXPS.
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Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

Best regards,
Dmitry Zemlyanov, PhD

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