[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, …
NTW/NSL Announce Second Annual Safety Retraining Program
All users – Starting the second week of May (following IMR Materials Week), we will start our second annual Safety Retraining Program. All users in the Columbus area will be required to attend a session. For users outside of the Columbus area we will make arrangements to hold a convenient session when they visit campus. We currently have a preliminary …
New Faces at Nanotech West
New personnel for the Ohio Sensor and Semiconductor Innovation Platform (OSSIP), an Ohio Third Frontier and Ohio Development Services Agency Program that is centered at the Nanotech West Lab, were hired in late February. The two new Research Associates that will be seen at Nanotech West are Mr. Dave Hollingshead (left center in photo) and Mr. Jay DeLombard (right center). …
Nanotech West Users win NIH Phase I SBIR
A small local company, Columbus NanoWorks, that uses Nanotech West has recently been awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). See below for text from Dr. Arfaan Rampersaud, CNW President: Columbus NanoWorks is pleased to announce that the company has been awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research contract …
All lab users must complete Globally Harmonized System (GHS) online training by Dec. 1
Globally Harmonized System (GHS) training must be completed by Dec. 1 or lab access will be terminated. See email sent to all lab users. Contact nanotech@osu.edu or 614.688.3055 if you did not receive this email.
In Memoriam: Dr. Lanlin Zhang Lee
The Nanotech West Lab community, and indeed the entire Ohio State community, mourns the passing of Dr. Lanlin Zhang Lee, a Senior Research Associate in the OSU ElectroScience Laboratory (ESL) of the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department. Lanlin succumbed last week, at the age of 31, to injuries that she sustained in a triathlon bicycling accident in Geneva, NY. …
Nanotech West Lab to be Primary Site of New Ohio Third Frontier and Ohio Development Services Agency Program
Staff of the Ohio State Nanotech West (NTW) Lab and the Institute for Materials and Manufacturing Research (IMR) have won a major Ohio Third Frontier and Ohio Development Services Agency Program that will partner OSU with Ohio industry to create high-tech jobs in the State. The $2.54M / 3 year award, announced two weeks ago, will form the Ohio Sensor …
Nanotech West Announces Annual Safety Retraining Requirement
As part of ongoing Ohio State University laboratory safety improvement efforts, all Nanotech West Lab users (internal, OSU, and external) will now be required to attend a one-hour Safety Retraining Session, to be offered during the month of May. Everyone should now expect this to be an annual requirement for use of the facility. These sessions will each last approximately …
UPM Solar Researcher Visits Ohio State
Nanotech West would like to help welcome a visitor, Ms. Elisa Garcia-Tabares, to the research group of Prof. Steve Ringel. Elisa will be spending quite a bit of her time at our Lab during her three month stay at Ohio State. Ms. Garcia-Tabares is currently a Ph.D. student in the III-V semiconductor group at the Institute of Solar Energy of …
Dr. John Carlin Named Associate Director
Dr. John Carlin, Research Scientist of IMR / Nanotech West, was named Associate Director of Nanotech West effective 01 November 2012. As a result he will assume increased responsibility for day-to-day operations at the Lab, especially in the cleanroom. Congratulations to John for his promotion and thanks to him for his hard work. RJD