[BNC-all] BNC e-news for the week of February 16th

[Anthrop, Heather L]

Cleanroom Boot Covers and Gloves
Event
Seminar
Windows
Workshop
XPS

Cleanroom Boot Covers and Gloves
Some users have noted that the cleanroom boot covers sometimes have difficulty staying up through the course of walking around in the cleanroom.  The engineering staff has experienced this as well.  There is a little trick that sometimes works to help the tops stay up.  There is a series of snaps on the outside, and one mating-snap on the inside.  The mating snap can be used to semi-tighten the top of the boot, and then the elastic band can be snapped to fully tighten the top.  Many times the right combination of inside snap and elastic band snap can be found that makes the boot tight enough to stay up under normal walking conditions.  Also, some users have pointed out that the gloves are short and sometimes wrists can become exposed.  We will explore what glove options are available that may help this issue.

Event
There will be a Biomedical Engineering event held in the atrium on Wednesday, February 18th. Please do not disturb the posters, table set up or help yourself to the catering. This is a CLOSED event.

Seminar
Spintronics Preeminent Team Seminar Series
Prof. Gang Xiao, Brown University
Giant Spin Hall Effect and Spintronics
Monday, February 16th at 1:00 pm in Birck 1001
For more information please visit: https://nanohub.org/groups/bnc/calendar/details/1119

Quantum Photonics Faculty Candidate Seminar
Dr. Zubin Jacob, University of Alberta, Canada
Quantum and thermal polaritons
Thursday, February 19th at 1:30 pm in Birck 1001
For more information please visit: https://nanohub.org/groups/bnc/calendar/details/1121

BNC Seminar
Dr. Lin Cheng, US Army Research Laboratory, Texas Tech University and North Carolina State University
Unit Operations of Nanomanufacturing
Thursday, March 5th at 10:30 am in Birck 2001
For more information please visit: https://nanohub.org/groups/bnc/calendar/details/1122

Windows
Do you want your windows cleaned?  We need you to remove your signs and cardboard from the windows so we can dust and wash the windows.  If you have any questions, please ask Mary Jo Totten, BRK 1220 :)

Workshop

Do you work in a cleanroom?
Do you plan to work in a cleanroom after graduation?
Are you curious about how a cleanroom works?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, register for the workshop on CLEANROOMS offered by John Weaver on the morning of Thursday, March 26, 2015. Registration is free for Purdue faculty and students, and it will be held right here in the Birck Nanotechnology Center room 1001. Contact Jaime Turner to register.

XPS
The XPS system has experienced a variety of maintenance issues recently and so has been available for analysis only sporadically.  Most of the problems have been found and fixed.  Please see Dmitry for analysis.  Also, there is a process by which students can get trained to use the XPS system themselves, but this can take several months or more to develop the skill and expertise to get meaningful results.  Please discuss your analysis needs with Dmitry and depending on frequency and duration of use, he will be able to advise if training is the best route for XPS analysis.  Note too that the system has just acquired UPS (Ultraviolet Photoeemission Spectroscopy) capability, so please see Dmitry for details.

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