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Science and Engineering Day Buzzes with Excitement

More than 1,500 parents and children across the Atlanta metropolitan area attended a jam-packed second annual Georgia Tech Science and Engineering Day in conjunction with the tenth annual 2023 Atlanta Science Festival. IEN students, staff, and faculty volunteers led four hands-on demonstrations and gave tours of the IEN Cleanroom and the Materials Characterization Facility.

New Ultrafast Water Disinfection Method Is More Environmentally Friendly

Xing Xie and his postdoctoral researcher Ting Wang have found a way to use small shocks of electricity to disinfect water, reducing energy consumption, cost, and environmental impact.

Faces of Research: Meet Chaouki T. Abdallah

This installment of the Faces of Research Q&A series is with Chaouki T. Abdallah, Executive Vice President for Research at Georgia Tech

The IEN Core Facility Seed Grant Program is Open for Applications

Successful proposals to this program will identify a new, currently-unfunded research idea that requires core facility access to generate preliminary data necessary to pursue other funding avenues.

Seven Decades in the Making: How Women Are Leading the College of Engineering into the Future

This year, 14 women occupy critical leadership roles guiding the College of Engineering, including IEN faculty member and MSE School Chair Natalie Stingelin.

Cleanroom Corner

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Boston Micro Fabrication S140 3D Printer

The BMF microArch S140 is the ideal solution for researchers requiring ultra-high resolution, accuracy, and precision in a desktop micro 3D printer. The microArch has a large build volume (94x52x45mm) and the ability to print with engineering-grade materials (photosensitive resins) to meet the needs of industrial production and quality. With an optical resolution of 10μm and layer thickness of 10-40μm, the S140 can produce surface finishes of 0.4 - 0.8μm Ra (top) and 1.5 - 2.5μm Ra (side). BMF microArch is the first commercialized high-resolution, 3D microfabrication equipment based on PμSL technology. Projection Micro Stereolithography allows for rapid photopolymerization of a layer of liquid polyer using a flash of UV-LED at micro-scale resolution.

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Materials Characterization Facility

MCF Tool Spotlight: easyXAFS

The easyXA

FS/XES is a benchtop spectrometer for x-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) and x-ray emission spectroscopy (XES). This laboratory x-ray absorption/emission spectrometer enables users to examine x-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) and extended x-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) in the transmission mode for XAFS while the configuration for XES presents fluorescence spectra. By analyzing signals, users can understand the local atomic and electronic structures in an element-specific manner.

Techniques such as XANES and EXAFS have previously only been accessible at national lab accelerator facilities. This instrument -- one of the first in the region -- is the first to make these measurements possible in an academic lab. In combination, these techniques allow examination of atomic coordination and chemical state in the bulk and provide a complement to XPS and its ability to give surface-specific chemical state information.

More information about the tool can be found here.

This instrument is listed on SUMS and filling out the information form on the tool page will start the process for training. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact MCF staff and we will be happy to assist you. More information will be forthcoming on the mcf webpage.

IEN Publications

Ion Intercalation Enabled Tunable Frequency Response in Lithium Niobite Memristors
Aheli Ghosh, Alex S. Weidenbach, Bill Zivasatienraj, Timothy M. McCrone, W. Alan Doolittle

Bias history impacts the analog resistance change of HfO_x-based neuromorphic synapses
Matthew P. West, Fabia F. Athena, Samuel Graham, Eric M. Vogel

A Ge-Channel Ferroelectric Field Effect Transistor With Logic-Compatible Write Voltage
Dipjyoti Das, Prasanna Venkatesan Ravindran, Chinsung Park, Nujhat Tasneem, Zheng Wang, Hang Chen, Winston Chern, Shimeng Yu, Suman Datta, Asif Khan

A Drift-Diffusion Based Modeling and Optimization Framework for Nanoscale Spin-Orbit Torque Devices
Piyush Kumar, Yu-Ching Liao, Daniel C. Ralph, Azad Naeemi

Controlling Collision-Induced Aggregations in a Swarm of Micro Bristle Robots
Zhijian Hao, Siddharth Mayya, Gennaro Notomista, Seth Hutchinson, Magnus Egerstedt, Azadeh Ansari

3-D Heterogeneous Integration of RRAM-Based Compute-In-Memory: Impact of Integration Parameters on Inference Accuracy
Ankit Kaul, Yandong Luo, Xiaochen Peng, Madison Manley, Yuan-Chun Luo, Shimeng Yu, Muhannad S. Bakir

Funding Opportunities

IEN Core Facilities Seed Grant Program
Application Deadline: April 1, 2023
IEN is an Interdisciplinary Research Institute comprised of faculty and students interested in using the most advanced facilities for fabrication, characterization, and cleanroom processes, to facilitate research in micro and nanoscale materials, devices, and systems. Applications of this research span all disciplines in science and engineering with particular emphasis on biomedicine, electronics, optoelectronics and photonics, and energy applications. As there can be a learning curve associated with initial proof-of-concept development and testing using cleanroom tools, this seed grant program was developed to expedite the initiation of new graduate students and new research projects into productive activity. Successful proposals to this program will identify a new, currently-unfunded research idea that requires core facility access to generate preliminary data necessary to pursue other funding avenues.

Future Manufacturing
Full Proposal Deadline: April 19, 2023
As noted in the 2022 National Strategy for Advanced Manufacturing (NSAM), advances in US manufacturing enable the economy to continuously grow as new technologies and innovations increase productivity, enable next-generation products, support our capability to address the climate crisis, and create new, high-quality, and higher-paying jobs. In accordance with that strategy, this solicitation aims to support fundamental research that will enable sustainable new manufacturing technologies and education to grow production and employment in America's manufacturing sector.

Future of Semiconductors (FuSe)
Full Proposal Deadline: April 24, 2023
The goal of this solicitation is to cultivate a broad coalition of researchers and educators from across science and engineering communities that utilizes a holistic, co-design approach to fundamental research and workforce education and training, to enable rapid progress in new semiconductor technologies. The future of semiconductor manufacturing will require the design and deployment of diverse new technologies in materials, chemical and materials processes, devices, and architectures through the development of application-driven systems. Partnerships between industry and academic institutions are essential to spur innovation and technology transfer, to inform the research needs, and to train the future workforce.

Events

Current Trends in X-Ray Scattering for the Study of Soft and Hard Materials - March 20, 2023 | 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
This workshop will include presentations on facilities and instruments, research cases, and a brainstorming session.

NNCI Education Webinar: The SEMI Foundation - Building a Bridge Between Industry and Academia - March 29, 2023 | 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Featuring Shari Liss, Executive Director, SEMI Foundation

2023 Brumley D. Pritchett Lecture and Institute for Materials Symposium on Materials Innovations - March 31, 2023 | 8:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
The symposium will feature a combination of technical presentations, distinguished seminars, a poster contest, and student recruitment activities. These evets are co-hosted by the Institute for Materials and the School of Materials Science and Engineering.

IEN Soft Lithography Short Course - April 13-14, 2023 | 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

This two-day intensive short course includes laboratory hands-on sessions, including SU-8 master mold creation using photolithography, and PDMS device fabrication in the IEN cleanroom, and supporting lectures.

ASPE 2023 Spring Topical Meeting on Precision Micro-Nano Technology - April 20-21, 2023
This meeting will connect precision micro-nano engineering experts from academia, industry, and national labs.

IEEE Glass Packaging Workshop - May 23 - 24, 2023
This workshop brings together researchers, designers, designers, developers, users, and supply chain manufactures to share the latest advances in glass packaging.

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