Aimee Price Named Manager of Nanofabrication

Aimee Price, Senior Research Associate and Institute For Materials and Manufacturing Research (IMR) Member of Technical Staff, has been named the new Manager of Nanofabrication at Nanotech West Laboratories. With over 20 years of experience in fabrication, Aimee has been serving the NTW user community since 2007.  She has been a fixture in the NTW cleanroom and instrumental in providing …

Passion for manufacturing, operations and design drives Yessica Jimenez to conquer dreams

Yessica Jimenez is not familiar with the confines of limitations. She is the epitome of a trailblazer leading the charge among demographics as diverse as her background. Yessica represents everyone who has a dream, makes a wish and devours opportunities. Her illustrious story is an ever-developing journey that continues to get better, bigger and more impressive as it progresses. When …

Nanotech West Lab’s Aimee Price elected to EIPBN steering committee

Aimee Price, manager of nanofabrication at Nanotech West Laboratory, has been elected to the EIPBN (Electron, Ion, Photon Beam Technology, and Nanofabrication) steering committee. The EIPBN international conference is a leading symposium on lithography and nanofabrication. Commonly referred to as “3-beams,” the conference gathers scientists and engineers from academia, government laboratories, and industry to discuss electron, ion, and photon lithography, …

COVID Occupancy Restrictions Lifted

Dr. Peter Mohler, interim VP for Research, has allowed the “people density” for all Research and Creative Expression activities at OSU to be increased back to 100%, PROVIDED that campus physical distancing requirements can be maintained and all other university guidance (located on the Safe and Healthy Buckeyes website) for activities on campus are followed. Effective today users no longer …

Ohio State’s new M4 Lab utilizes 3D printing to meet needs in clinical medicine

A newly formed, interdisciplinary team of researchers at The Ohio State University’s Nanotech West Laboratory is utilizing 3D printing to find innovative engineering solutions for real-world needs in clinical medicine. Current 3D printing technologies at Ohio State allow experts in the recently established Medical Modeling, Materials and Manufacturing Lab (M4 Lab) to quickly create complex geometries and shapes to be …

New research strategy shared by Honda and Ohio State advancing energy innovation

In its first year, a jointly held research strategy between The Ohio State University and Honda has blossomed into multiple projects advancing next-generation energy systems research. Ohio State’s Institute for Materials and Manufacturing Research (IMR) worked with Honda to focus the research direction for multiple projects and shape the overall strategy to further energy experimentation. The relationship grew from an …

3D printing innovation at M4 Lab featured on 10TV

The newly established Medical Modeling, Materials and Manufacturing Lab (M4 Lab) was recently featured on WBNS-10TV. In the lab, experts work to find innovative engineering solutions for real-world needs in clinical medicine. The M4 Lab is a hub for innovative approaches to health care and advanced manufacturing techniques that brings together experts from the College of Medicine’s Department of Otolaryngology, …

NSF funds $1.5M tool to advance next-gen nanotechnology at Nanotech West Lab

Scientists at The Ohio State University earned another key tool for semiconductor research, which is paving the way for advanced technologies beneficial to society. The National Science Foundation approved a $1.5 million Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) toward the purchase and installation of an electron-beam lithography system at Nanotech West Laboratory, operated by the Institute for Materials and Manufacturing Research (IMR). Principal Investigator Siddharth Rajan, Ohio State professor …

MAEBL 2020 offers support, solutions to research community facing coronavirus

Despite being geographically scattered, a small but growing community of engineers, scientists and students working in fields utilizing e-beam lithography came together this July at the fourth annual, and first virtual, Meeting for Advanced Electron Beam Lithography (MAEBL). But virtual attendees at this year’s annual event had more in common than their interest in lithography; these researchers from the U.S., …

Stage 3 – Nanotech West Lab reopens today

We are happy to announce that NTW opens today (Monday, June  22, 2020) for limited use under Stage 3 of the Office of Research, Research Recovery Plan. Implementing guidelines consistent with that plan, the following will apply (abridged): Returning researchers must complete the training on BuckeyeLearn at https://go.osu.edu/returningtocampus and complete the attestation form. After e-mailing confirmation of completion to nanotech@osu.edu, …