[BNC-all] BNC News: Week of March 14th

Mon Mar 14 14:21:21 EDT 2022

Seminars /Workshops / Events / Announcement
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Announcing the 2022 LOR Science Prize Winner

Congratulations to Dr James Nakamura of Purdue University,  winner of the 2022 Lee Osheroff Richardson (LOR) Science Prize!

Dr. James Nakamura is recognised for the first direct observation of anyonic braiding statistics for quasiparticles at the 𝜈=1/3 fractional quantum Hall state. Dr. Nakamura’s experimental results substantiate theoretical predictions made nearly forty years ago by Frank Wilczek and Bertrand I. Halperin, and his work will stand as a high point in the study of topological phases of condensed matter systems.

The LOR Science Prize promotes and recognises the novel work of young scientists working in the fields of low temperatures and/or high magnetic fields or surface science in North and South America.

Dr. Nakamura comments: “It is an honour to receive the Lee Osheroff Richardson Science Prize for 2022. The Prize will enable my group’s research to continue, including investigating other fractions where effective charge and fractional statistics diverge. Thank you to my fellow researchers for working alongside me and to Oxford Instruments for recognising my achievement with such a prestigious Prize.”

Dr. Nakamura will share his award-winning work in a short presentation at the APS March Meeting<https://email.oxinst.com/oxfordinstruments_nanosciencelz/lz.aspx?p1=MG1DU3MTUxNFMyMDMxOjExMjFDODI1MTEwRTA3RjkxM0U5ODhEM0EwOUMyMEZF-&CC=&w=6608> on 15th March between 3.00 pm - 5.00 pm local time (CDT). Please join us at booth #715 to enjoy some refreshments and celebrate Dr. Nakamura’s amazing achievement!  Please RSVP to this email: nanoscience.marketing at oxinst.com<mailto:nanoscience.marketing at oxinst.com>.

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Announcement
Birck Masking Update

Dear Birck Research Community,

Beginning Monday, March 14 the Protect Purdue masking protocols have changed campus-wide.  Per the Protect Purdue website:

With campus COVID-19 cases continuing to decline, effective Monday, March 14, Purdue University will further relax indoor mask requirements, making masks optional in classrooms and research spaces on the West Lafayette campus.

Birck, as a research building, is complying with the Protect Purdue direction by making masks optional in all spaces.  Wearing a mask in Birck is now a personal choice, not mandated by Purdue.  In the cleanroom we will still will require a face covering, either a D3 mask or a cleanroom veil.

Thanks for your cooperation!

Ron Reger

NEW EMPLOYEES

Dear BNC Community,

We are pleased to announce that Greg Laorange has accepted our offer to fill open Nanotechnology Research Facility Engineer position. Greg Laorange brings 8 years of direct experience working at center involving complex building operations with experience with Siemens building automation and research HVAC/environmental sub systems.

With Greg’s extensive knowledge of the center will allow too quickly contribute quickly. Please welcome Greg to our team as we look forward to work together.

Mark Voorhis
Building Manager
Purdue University
Birck Nanotechnology Center
Office: (765) 494-3036

Dear BNC Community,

Please join me in welcoming Melissa Taylor as the new Birck Business Manager.  Melissa comes to us from the University of Louisville where she supported the Department of Public Safety as well as the Division of Student Affairs.  During her time at Louisville she served as a Staff Senator and also chaired the Staff Morale and Engagement Committee, she presented regularly at the Academy of Human Resource Development Conferences and created an online instruction module for new employee training.  She holds a BS in Business and Operations Management, a MS in Human Resource Education and anticipates completing her PhD in Human Resource Development this year.  Melissa will be working remotely from her home in Southern Indiana.  The best way to talk to Melissa is via Microsoft Teams chat or video conference.  You can also email her or use the MS Teams chat function.  Feel free to direct business office matters to her going forward.

Erica Cox
Asst. Director of Financial Affairs
Executive Vice President for
      Research & Partnership
Phone: (765) 491-3354

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Virtual Judges needed for the 2022 Lafayette Regional Science and Engineering Fair

Hello! Would you be willing to act as a virtual judge at the 2022 Lafayette Regional Science and Engineering Fair?

If you are receiving this message, it means you are eligible to volunteer as a judge in the 2022 Lafayette Regional Science and Engineering Fair in March 2022. This year, we have over 200 young experimentalists (5-12 graders) eagerly awaiting a chance to share their projects with you. The fair is only a few weeks away, so right now they are working hard on their projects. Students are going the extra mile this year to prepare virtual presentations, and having many judges from a variety of disciplines helps us award prizes most fairly to deserving projects.

That’s where you come in.

Students will be submitting their work in a brief, 7-10 slide powerpoint, along with a 30 second introduction and optional narration. If you sign up to judge you will be assigned about 10 projects to score, which should take 2-3 hours at most, and will need to submit feedback through a google form. Judging will occur in two sets based on age group, and you may participate in either one or both sets according to your availability. The judging materials are made available on the morning of the first day, and we ask that you submit your responses by midnight on the final day. The dates for judging rounds are as follows:

Senior (grades 9-12): March 9-18

Junior (grades 5-8): March 9-21

If you are able to judge, please sign up using the link below. You will receive an email closer to the time of the fair with your category assignment and detailed instructions.

Sign-up link: https://forms.gle/C8DKTpMFPd7cZuuU8

Feel free to email me at lrsef2022 at gmail.com<mailto:lrsef2022 at gmail.com> with any specific questions or concerns not covered in the survey. Thank you so much for your help, and we hope to hear from you!

Best Regards,

Vicki Bower (lrsef2022 at gmail.com<mailto:lrsef2022 at gmail.com>)

2022 Judge Coordinator

and

Dr. Cynthia Stauffacher

2022 Director

JOB POSTINGS:
Post-Doctoral Fellow
The Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering at Purdue University is seeking highly qualified applicants for a Postdoctoral Fellow position to work under the supervision of Prof. Theresa S. Mayer within a project on scalable nanofabrication of manufacturable gradient refractive index (M-GRIN) optical devices and coatings for high performance and extreme environment applications. This use-inspired research supported by industry and involves early stage work through prototypes. The project will be conducted in the Birck Nanotechnology Center, which includes the state-of-the-art Scrifes Nanofabrication Laboratory and associated characterization labs.
This research work will advance the field of high-performance M-GRIN optical devices and coatings by leveraging advanced nanofabrication techniques to create customizable 2D and 3D nanostructures in a wide variety of bulk and deposited materials. Specific skills include experience in nanofabrication of advanced devices that require integration of multiple complex unit process steps, including optical and electron-beam lithography, physical and chemical vapor deposition, wet and dry etching. Experience in optical and GRIN material design, structural and optical device characterization, and technology transition is recommended. Other duties outside of the lab include interfacing with industry and federal sponsors, attending research team meetings, mentoring Ph.D. students, preparing manuscripts and presentations and formulating ideas proposals. The successful candidate will also receive support and mentoring on ways to work with industry and federal sponsors, preparing proposals, and responsible research practices.

QUALIFICATIONS: A Ph.D. degree in an engineering or science discipline with training in advanced nanofabrication and characterization of optical nanostructures or related devices is required by the start date. Research experience in optical materials and device design and modeling is preferred. Outstanding interpersonal, written, and verbal communication, and analytic skills are required. The candidate must be able to work in a nanofabrication cleanroom environment and remotely from home, as necessary.  US Citizenship or Permanent Residency strongly desired.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE:  Inquiries and applications (including CV, name/email address of 2-3 referees, and reprints of 2 most significant publications) should be directed to:
Theresa S. Mayer, Ph.D.
Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University
Email: tsmayer at purdue.edu

This is a two-year appointment that may be renewed for up to two additional one-year terms, contingent upon available funding and satisfactory performance.

For more information on the benefits available to postdoctoral fellows at Purdue, visit this Link: https://www.purdue.edu/hr/Benefits/.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Review of applications will be ongoing and the posting will remain open until filled.

Research Assistant Professor
Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Purdue University

The Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering at Purdue University is seeking highly qualified applicants for a Research Assistant Professor position to work with Prof. Theresa S. Mayer in the area of scalable nanofabrication of manufacturable gradient refractive index (M-GRIN) optical devices and coatings for high performance and extreme environment applications. This use-inspired research supported by industry and involves early stage work through prototypes. The project will be conducted in the Birck Nanotechnology Center, which includes the state-of-the-art Scrifes Nanofabrication Laboratory and associated characterization labs.
This research work will advance the field of high-performance M-GRIN optical devices and coatings by leveraging advanced nanofabrication techniques to create customizable 2D and 3D nanostructures in a wide variety of bulk and deposited materials. Specific skills include experience in nanofabrication of advanced devices that require integration of multiple complex unit process steps, including optical and electron-beam lithography, physical and chemical vapor deposition, wet and dry etching. Experience in optical and GRIN material design, structural and optical device characterization, and technology transition is strongly recommended. Other duties outside of the lab include interfacing with industry and federal sponsors, ensuring program milestones and deliverables are met, mentoring Ph.D. students and post-docs, leading research team meetings, preparing proposals, manuscripts and presentations and managing a research budget. The successful candidate will also receive support and mentoring on ways to work with industry and federal sponsors, preparing proposals, and responsible research practices.

QUALIFICATIONS: A Ph.D. degree in an engineering or science discipline with training in advanced nanofabrication and characterization of optical nanostructures or related devices is required by the start date. Research experience in optical materials and device design and modeling is preferred. Outstanding interpersonal, written, and verbal communication, and analytic skills are required. The candidate must be able to work in a nanofabrication cleanroom environment and remotely from home, as necessary. US Citizenship or Permanent Residency required.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE:  Inquiries and applications (including CV, name/email address of 2-3 referees, and reprints of 2 most significant publications) should be directed to:
Theresa S. Mayer, Ph.D.
Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University
Email: tsmayer at purdue.edu

This is a two-year appointment that may be renewed for up to two additional one-year terms, contingent upon available funding and satisfactory performance.
For more information on the benefits available to Research Faculty at Purdue, visit this LINK: https://www.purdue.edu/hr/Benefits/.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Review of applications will be ongoing and the posting will remain open until filled.

Opening in OxideMEMS lab

 Sunil Bhave’s OxideMEMS Lab <https://engineering.purdue.edu/oxidemems/publications.html> explores inter-domain coupling in Opto-mechanical, Spin-Acoustic and Atom-MEMS devices. PhD, Postdoctoral and Research Associate positions are available in these areas:

·      Superconducting qubit and cryo-CMOS circuits
·      Resonators and switches
·      MEMS-engine for LIDAR
·      Piezo-on-nitride transducers for atom-mechanics
Expertise in many and most of Microfabrication, PiezoMEMS, Photonics, Quantum Mechanics, Microwave circuits, PCB design, ADS/HFSS, Comsol, Python and Labview is required.
Please send CV to bhave at purdue.edu<mailto:bhave at purdue.edu>

Graduate Research Assistantship Opportunity:
Deposited Gate Oxides for SiC MOSFETs

Up to two graduate research assistantships are available in the area of silicon carbide metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) devices. SiC is a wide bandgap semiconductor with a high critical field, making it an exciting material for power electronic devices. SiC MOSFETs are now commercially available, but do not yet achieve their full potential. Our group is approaching this problem from several directions, including a new device trench MOSFET geometries inspired by modern FinFETs and alternative gate insulator fabrication methods.

Research activities will include fabrication and characterization of SiC MOS capacitors and MOSFETs with gate oxides formed by thermal oxidation, atomic layer deposition (ALD), and other methods. The student will gain a detailed understanding of the physics of the MOS interface and will learn various methods of characterizing devices, including MOS CV analysis, interface state density and carrier mobility.

For more information or to apply, send resume and contact information to:

Dallas Morisette
Research Assistant Professor
morisett at purdue.edu<mailto:morisett at purdue.edu>

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Postdoctoral Fellow Position in the NIBIB’s Section on Mechanobiology

Fields: Mechanobiology, Biophysics, Engineering, High-resolution Imaging, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology
Research Project Title: Mechanobiology of Self-Organization in Cancer
Project Description: The NIBIB’s Section on Mechanobiology (https://www.nibib.nih.gov/labs-at-nibib/section-mechanobiology) at the National Institutes of Health is recruiting a Staff Scientist. The focus of the Cartagena-Rivera lab the development and use of advanced Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) tools for cellular and tissue mechanics investigation. We seek to understand several important biological processes by applying physics and engineering principles, particularly: the molecular-mechanical regulation of the actomyosin cortex and glycocalyx of highly malignant cancers (including melanoma, breast, ovarian, and pancreatic); the structural-molecular-mechanical regulation of the solid tumor microenvironment for deciphering self-organization, morphogenesis, and growth in cancer biology; and the anisotropic mechanical properties of developmental and mature inner ear sensory and non-sensory epithelial tissues using a novel noncontact AFM approach.
This position will work at the intersection of biophysics, engineering, mathematics, and molecular/cellular/developmental biology to study the mechanobiological regulation of cells and tissues during development and disease. Furthermore, will work on development of new Atomic Force Microscopy-based technologies to study fast multiparametric and multidimensional cellular and tissue processes, advances the state of the art AFM imaging methods for high spati-temporal and quantitative nanomechanical mapping. In addition, will work closely with collaborating cell biologist, geneticists, engineers, and byophysists within and outside the NIH.

Qualifications: The candidate must have a Ph.D. degree in cellular biology, biophysics, biomedical or mechanical engineering, or related discipline, with some background in molecular cell biology and developmental biology. The candidate must demonstrate ability to work in a multidisciplinary and diverse team. We are seeking a highly motivated individual who has a demonstrated record of productivity and success in scientific and engineering projects. The candidate must have experience on cellular and tissue mechanics, tissue culture, AFM imaging, high-resolution optical imaging, and programming for data analysis (preferably Julia, Python, MATLAB, or R) and/or experimental devices control (preferably LabVIEW).
Position Location: Bethesda, Maryland (NIH main campus)

To Apply: Salary is determined by the NIH stipend level for Post-Doctoral Trainees and Fellows.Applicants are invited to submit a curriculum vitae including a list of publications, a maximum one-page summary of research interests, and names and contact details of three referees to Dr. Cartagena-Rivera by email at alexander.cartagena-rivera at nih.gov<mailto:alexander.cartagena-rivera at nih.gov>.
The National Institutes of Health is an equal opportunity employer. The NIH is dedicated to building a diverse community in its training and employment programs.

For more information or to apply, send resume and contact information to:
Daniel M. Suter, PhD
Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Purdue University
915 West State Street
West Lafayette, IN 47906
dsuter at purdue.edu<mailto:dsuter at purdue.edu>

NSAC Fab Forum
NSAC Fab Forum every Tuesday 2:00pm-2.30pm

NSAC Coffee Hour
NSAC Fab Forum every Friday 3:00pm-3.30pm

Birck Nanotechnology Center Advanced Capabilities

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Features:

  *   Multi-tool instrument equipped with state-of-art UHV STM/AFM, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), high-resolution energy loss spectroscopy (HREELS) and low energy electron diffraction (LEED).

  *   Ideal for Growth of 2D materials and ultra-thin films under UHV: e-beam evaporator (2 sources evaporate simultaneously),  several thermal evaporators (can be replaced; currently: Zn, Te, Bi, Se) and sputtering deposition source for high-melting temperature metals (can be replaced; currently: Ta).

  *   Surface cleaning, functionalization and doping under UHV: atomic hydrogen source, argon sputtering, gas manifolds for UHV ALD, etc.

  *   Full control on the surface chemical composition.

  *   Deep characterization of the structural properties and electron states of a sample without exposure to air under UHV;.

Location: BRK 1077
Staff in charge: Dmitry Zemlyanov – dzemlian at purdue.edu

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