1 / 14

The Birck Nanotechnology Center

The Birck Nanotechnology Center. Tim Sands, Mary Jo and Robert L. Kirk Director. Birck Nanotechnology Center. Discovery Park. Core DP research infrastructure centers. Core DP research challenge centers. K-12. Select externally funded centers. Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering.

beate
Download Presentation

The Birck Nanotechnology Center

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. The Birck Nanotechnology Center Tim Sands, Mary Jo and Robert L. Kirk Director Birck Nanotechnology Center

  2. Discovery Park Core DP research infrastructure centers Core DP research challenge centers K-12 Select externally funded centers Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering Center for the Environment The Energy Center Discovery Learning Center e-Enterprise Center PRISM Alfred Mann Institute for Biomedical Development Bindley Biosciences Center Birck Nanotechnology Center Center for Advanced Manufacturing Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship NCN Oncological Sciences Center Cyber Center Purdue Research Park An integrated network of multidisciplinary centers addressing interdisciplinary challenges

  3. The BNC concept • Engaging interdisciplinary, societal-scale challenges and opportunities in healthcare, information access, energy, and the environment with approaches enabled by nanoscale science and engineering • Community encompassing a very broad span of disciplines • In the same space to the degree possible • The best in facilities and tools • Everything shared • Fluid…no “ownership” of space • Sustainable financial model

  4. BNC timeline • 2000 - Envisioned as one of the first centers in Discovery Park • March 2001 - BNC established • Founding co-directors Jim Cooper and Dick Schwartz • Fall 2001 - $51M raised • July 2003 - Construction starts • Oct. 2005 - Dedication • June 2006 - Scifres Nanofabrication Laboratory opens to researchers • Fall 2006 - Tool move-in complete Now home to 45 faculty members, 220 graduate students and 30 staff members from 12 schools

  5. The BNC Building A unique instrument for nanoscale research • 187,000 ft2, $58M + ~$25M in equipment • First integration of bio-pharma and semiconductor cleanroom • Exceptional quality cleanroom - 25,000 ft2; 45 % Class 1 (ISO Class 3) • Low Vibration (NIST A in cleanroom and A-1 in Hall lab) • “Nanotechnology Grade” DI water plant (<15 ppt boron) • 1, 0.1, and 0.01°C control • Nanotech incubator

  6. Bio-Pharma cleanroom Bindley Bioscience Center Bio-Pharma Cleanroom Nanofabrication Cleanroom Designed to facilitate research at the nano/bio interface BNC Chem/Bio Labs

  7. Specialized instruments Leica VB-6 electron beam lithography tool with 6nm-in-resist capability FEI Titan TEM/STEM with environmental/growth stage and atomic resolution Omicron surface analysis cluster

  8. Affiliated faculty 160 faculty from 36 units • Shared: faculty share equipment and share space • Flexible: space assignments reviewed annually • Cross-cutting: faculty appointments remain with schools and departments • Vital: 17 nanotechnology faculty appointed since January 2002

  9. Publications 200 refereed journal articles with the BNC as an author affiliation published through 2007,with 102 published in 2007 alone.

  10. Occupancy and research productivity 2005 - before BNC occupancy 2007 (Jan-Nov) - after occupancy 151 total publications (15 joint) 191 total publications (34 joint) Joint- not BNC Joint- BNC Single- Not BNC Single- BNC SCI publications: Address = Purdue Authors are 2007 BNC resident faculty (46 total) BNC occupied during the 2006 calendar year. BNC affiliation on publications by author’s discretion. “Joint” publication includes two or more of the BNC faculty (resident in 2007) as authors.

  11. Building the BNC research network 2005 - before BNC occupancy 2007 (Jan-Nov) - after occupancy Murthy Wereley Wereley Reifenberger Raman Garimella Bashir Akin Raman Fisher Sands Garimella Fisher Narimanov Shalaev Reifenberger Stach Janes Xu Sands Murthy Woodall Chappell Ye Alam Mohammadi Woodall Narimanov Shalaev Lundstrom Klimeck Lundstrom Klimeck Bashir Akin Bergstrom Joint SCI publications - Address = Purdue; Authors are 2007 BNC resident faculty (46 total) Hub diameter scales with number of resident faculty co-authors Connection width scales with number of joint publications Hubs become closer as number of joint publications increases

  12. Domains of strength • Computational Nanotechnology • Nanoelectronics • Nanophotonics • Energy Conversion Devices • MEMS/NEMS • Nanotechnology in Biology and Medicine • Nanobiotechnology (e.g., single-molecule sensors) • Nanomedicine (e.g.,nanoparticle-based therapeutics) • Medical devices (e.g., implantable microsystems for drug delivery)

  13. Photonic Metamaterials Array of Gold Nanorods • An engineered (designed) material! • First negative refractive index at fiber-optic communications wavelengths • Winner of a Top 50 Innovations of 2006 Award from NanoTech Briefs • Future Applications in • Lenses for microscopes with unprecedented resolution • Sensing of molecules • Hiding objects in plain sight – optical cloaking Vlad Shalaev, Evgenii Narimanov and collaborators

  14. The BNC • An experiment that is working: • Research results will impact energy independence, human health, communications and computing, security…. • The BNC is a magnet for attracting world-class faculty and students • The doors are now open • On the horizon: discovery to commercialization • Challenge: putting theorists, modelers and experimentalists in the same beaker • Opportunity: exploiting synergy with Discovery Park Centers focused on societal and global-scale challenges www.nano.purdue.edu

More Related