In early August, Institute for Materials and Manufacturing Research members at the Nanotech West (NTW) Lab formed a peloton for Pelotonia 2015 and raised over $15,000 for Cancer Research at The James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Center. “Team IMR” – Veni Velo Vici was comprised of 7 IMR members and 6 friends and family. Riders from IMR/NTW were Derek …
On 01 October, Nanotech West staff hosted a “Meetup” for alumni of the OSU Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Approximately 10 alumni attended the event. Light food was served; the staff gave talks describing Nanotech West and the Institute for Materials and Manufacturing Research; and the group toured the lab. RJD
Several non-cleanroom tools are moving to Central Campus. They are under the group of Prof. Jim Lee, and most are heading to the new Chemical Engineering building. They include some user tools: The NanoInk dip-pen lithography tool, DPN01; The Brookhaven Dynamic Light Scattering system, DLS01; The Asylum atomic force microscope, AFM02; The Varian ICP-OES tool. These and other tools have …
NTW Staff Member and IMR Sr. Research Associate Aimee Bross Price helps feed a young giraffe at the OR HR Staff Appreciation Event on Sept. 11th 2015. The giraffe snarfed the lettuce down so fast that I didn’t get the picture… RJD
As part of the Office of Research Staff Appreciation Day, Nanotech West staff members / Ohio Sensor and Semiconductor Innovation Platform engineers attended an event on Friday, September 11th at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium. Lunch was provided overlooking the new Africa Savannah exhibit (very impressive, by the way, for this writer, who has been to that continent), and after …
Monthly, the OSU Nanotech West Lab (managed by IMR) struggles with accounting and paperwork associated with the numerous tools and instruments for which it charges user fees. All of these tools have historically had paper log sheets. Other OSU systems that are available to Nanotech West (NTW) have not fit its needs. A very limited few commercial systems exist but …
As of mid-October we have a new furnace tube system at Nanotech West. It is a 150 mm Across International table-top system capable of 1200 C. It is intended for users who need furnace treatments for non-silicon applications with the advantage that they can buy their own furnace tubes that can easily be swapped out. The purchase of this furnace …
In the Nanotech West cleanroom, wireless access to the OSU network has, in the past, been poor in part due to the aluminum walls of the cleanroom. OSU IT has finished installing four new wireless access points, one in each bay of the cleanroon. They turned on yesterday morning. Wireless network access should now be greatly improved. Bob Davis
Ms. Aimee Price, Senior Research Associate of the Ohio State Institute for Materials and Manufacturing Research (IMR) and a Nanotech West staff member, was featured on the cover of the July 2014 Alumni Newsletter of the OSU Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department. Aimee is shown holding a sample holder for the Vistec EBPG 5000 electron beam nanolithography tool. …
[This is an online repeat of an email that all users should have received today] All users of Ohio State Nanotech West Lab and the NanoSystems Lab: Annual Safety Retraining for all users in the Columbus area begins next week. This year we are offering two options. If you are a user who attended a full hour session last year, …
