This seminar summarizes the capabilities of the high accuracy Kevin G. Hall Laboratory which is located in Purdue’s newly completed Birck Nanotechnology Center. The seminar is primarily intended for anyone interested in designing, building and characterizing a high accuracy room for nanoscience research. The talk will summarize the design specifications and character-ization the Hall Laboratory. Relevant issues related to electrical power, vibration isolation, thermal stability, acoustic isolation, and EMI shielding will be discussed. The talk will conclude with a few lessons learned.

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Ron Reifenberger is currently a professor of Physics at Purdue University and is a member of Purdue’s Center for Sensing Science and Technology (CSST). He is also a member of Purdue’s Birck Nanotechnology Center. Reifenberger received his PhD in Physics from the University of Chicago in 1976 and has received the Distinguished Physics Alumni Award from his alma mater, John Carroll University, in 1992. He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. His research is mainly focused on the development of new scanning probe microscope techniques for the study the nanoscale properties of matter.

NCN@Purdue Student Leadership Team, Network for Computational Nanotechnology, The Institute for Nanoelectronics and Computing

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Ron Reifenberger (2008), "Nanometrology Room Design: The Performance and Characterization of the Kevin G. Hall Nanometrology Laboratory," https://nanohub.org/resources/3779.

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1. experiments
2. facility design/management
3. metrology
4. tutorial