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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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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