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1 The Birck Nanotechnology Center
Tim Sands, Mary Jo and Robert L. Kirk Director Frogs dueling; acknowledge; cleanroom water specs Birck Nanotechnology Center

2 Discovery 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

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 Envisioned as one of the first centers in Discovery Park March BNC established Founding co-directors Jim Cooper and Dick Schwartz Fall $51M raised July Construction starts Oct Dedication June Scifres Nanofabrication Laboratory opens to researchers Fall Tool move-in complete Main points: multidisciplinary 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 Designed to facilitate research at the nano/bio interface
Bio-Pharma cleanroom Designed to facilitate research at the nano/bio interface Bindley Bioscience Center Nanofabrication Cleanroom Bio-Pharma Cleanroom 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
SCI publications: Address = Purdue Authors are 2007 BNC resident faculty (46 total) before BNC occupancy 151 total publications (15 joint) Joint- not BNC Single- Not BNC 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.

11 Building the BNC research network
before BNC occupancy Sands Garimella 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 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


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