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