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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. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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The Birck Nanotechnology CenterThe Birck Nanotechnology Center
Birck Nanotechnology Center
Tim Sands, Mary Jo and Robert L. Kirk Director
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Discovery ParkDiscovery Park
An integrated network of multidisciplinary centers addressing interdisciplinary challenges
Burton D. Morgan Center for
Entrepreneurship
Birck Nanotechnology
Center
Bindley Biosciences
Center
Discovery Learning
Center
Cyber Center
e-Enterprise Center
Core DP research infrastructure centers
Oncological Sciences Center
Center for Advanced
Manufacturing
The Energy Center
Center for the Environment
Core DP research challenge centers
Purdue Research Park
K-12
NCN
Alfred Mann Institute for Biomedical Development
Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering
Select externally funded centers
PRISM
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The BNC conceptThe 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
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BNC timelineBNC 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
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The BNC BuildingThe BNC Building
•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)
A unique instrument for nanoscale research
•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
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Bio-Pharma cleanroomBio-Pharma cleanroom
BNC Chem/Bio Labs
Designed to facilitate research at the nano/bio interface
BindleyBioscienceCenter
Nanofabrication Cleanroom
Bio-Pharma Cleanroom
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Specialized instrumentsSpecialized instruments
FEI Titan TEM/STEM with environmental/growth stage and atomic resolution
Omicron surface analysis cluster
Leica VB-6 electron beam lithography tool with 6nm-in-resist capability
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Affiliated facultyAffiliated facultyBirck Nanotechnology Center Membership: 145
Med Chem/Mol Pharm
Nuclear Engineering
Ag & Bio Eng.
Computer Science
Civil Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Mathematics
Materials EngineeringIndustrial Engineering
Industrial & Physical Pharmacy
ECE
Chemistry
Chemical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Biological Sciences
Agronomy
Aero & Astro
Other
Physics
Vet Pathobiology
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
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BNC Journal Publications
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Journal Publications including BNC as anauthor affiliation as recorded in the ISIWeb of Science database
PublicationsPublications
200 refereed journal articles with the BNC as an author affiliation published through 2007, with 102 published in 2007 alone.
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Occupancy and research productivityOccupancy and research productivity
SCI publications: Address = Purdue Authors are 2007 BNC resident faculty (46 total)
2005 - before BNC occupancy
151 total publications (15 joint)
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2007 (Jan-Nov) - after occupancy
191 total publications (34 joint)
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.
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Building the BNC research networkBuilding the BNC research network
Joint SCI publications - Address = Purdue; Authors are 2007 BNC resident faculty (46 total)Hub diameter scales with number of resident faculty co-authorsConnection width scales with number of joint publicationsHubs become closer as number of joint publications increases
2005 - before BNC occupancy
SandsGarimella
Wereley
Murthy
Stach
Fisher
Raman
Woodall
Alam
Reifenberger
Bergstrom Bashir Akin
Lundstrom Klimeck
Narimanov Shalaev
2007 (Jan-Nov) - after occupancy
Lundstrom Klimeck
Narimanov Shalaev
Bashir Akin
Sands
Garimella
Wereley Murthy
Fisher
Janes
Raman
Xu
Chappell
Mohammadi
Ye
Woodall
Reifenberger
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Domains of strengthDomains 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)
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5 µm200 nm
• 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
Vlad Shalaev, Evgenii Narimanov and collaborators
Array of Gold Nanorods
Photonic MetamaterialsPhotonic Metamaterials
Future Applications in• Lenses for microscopes with unprecedented resolution• Sensing of molecules• Hiding objects in plain sight – optical cloaking
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The BNCThe 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