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Purdue launches $2.019 billion 'Ever True' campaign
Featuring the Birck Nanotechnology Center
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Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Opening of the Birck Nanotechnology Center
October 30th, 2015 from 8:00am - 5:00pm
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Birck Mourns the Passing of Mike Birck
Mike Birck (BSEE ’60, DEA ’91, HDR ’95) passed away early morning of Monday July 6. Dr. Birck was an outstanding alumnus of ECE, and a great friend of ECE, Birck Nanotechonology Center and Purdue. The Birck Nanotechnology Center, the ECE Headship, and two ECE named professorships proudly bear the Birck name.
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Birck Faculty Fellows...
2013-2014 Birck Nanotechnology Center Discovery Park Research Fellows.
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Professor Michael Manfra and Professor Alexandra Boltasseva
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Professor Ali Shakouri
Birck Nanotechnology Center director wins prestigious THERMI Award
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Professor Dimitrios Peroulis
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Professor Joerg Appenzeller
From the director
Welcome to the Birck Nanotechnology Center website! The BNC leverages advances in nanoscale science and engineering to create innovative nanotechnologies addressing societal challenges and opportunities in computing, communications, the environment, security, energy independence, and health. In turn, the BNC exploits the accelerating progress in nanotechnology utilizing the most advanced nanoscale instrumentation to pursue answers to fundamental questions in the life and physical sciences. The interplay between these two complementary arcs of inquiry fosters a stimulating interdisciplinary environment for discovery that will engage us well into the 21st century.
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Introduction
Overview
The Birck Nanotechnology Center opened in July of 2005. This facility comprises 186,000 square feet, providing office space for 45 faculty, 21 clerical and technical staff, and up to 180 graduate students. The heart of the building is a 25,000 sq. ft. Class 1-10-100 nanofabrication cleanroom (Scifres Nanofabrication Laboratory), part of which is configured as a biomolecular cleanroom with separate entry and gowning areas and isolated air flow. The building also includes over 22,000 sq. ft. of laboratory space external to the cleanroom, including special low vibration rooms for nanostructures research, with temperature control to less than 0.1 °C. Other laboratories are specialized for nanophotonics, crystal growth, bio-nanotechnology, molecular electronics, MEMS and NEMS, surface analysis, SEM/TEM, electrical characterization, RF systems, instruction and training, and precision micro-machining and the Hall Nanometrology Laboratory. In addition, a unique nanotechnology incubator facility is provided for interaction with industry.
Equipment
The entire set of resources provided by this 186,000 square foot facility are designed to support collaborative interdisciplinary research in nanotechnology.
Operations
One of the most advanced facilities of its kind in the world, the BNC facility is designed to support multidisciplinary research in nanotechnology and to foster interaction between researchers and research disciplines.