Center for Materials, Devices and Integrated Systems
August Newsletter
Your assistant to keep you updated. Snippets on upcoming events, news about facilities, publications, past event notes.
Brief.
Additional capabilities will be integrated into our facilities soon! During Summer, we have completed the acquisition processes of Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), Electron Beam Lithography (EUV), Deep Reactive Ion Etch (DRIE) and Plasma Vapor Deposition (PVD) systems to our facilities through DoD Microelectronics Commons, NORDTECH (Northeast Regional Defense Technology) Coalition. In addition, we are in the process of acquiring a new LP-CVD system through New York State. For more information, please contact Kent Way (wayk2@rpi.edu) or Katharine Dovidenko (dovidk2@rpi.edu).
BYOND (Build Your Own NanoDevice) program is now accepting applications through 04.September for Fall semester. Lauren Voight and Ryan Donnellan have received their certificates at the end of Spring semester. We are looking for the next round of brilliant undergraduate students. This competitive program is designed to introduce microfabrication and analysis concepts to interested undergraduate students. Please contact Sarah An (anx@rpi.edu) for technical details and content. Learn more.
CMDIS Facilities Open House is scheduled to 11.September. During this event, you can visit the Micro and NanoFabrication Cleanroom (MNCR), Nanoscale Characterization Core (NCC) and Polymer Processing and/or Characterization Core (PPCC) to learn about instrumentation, fabrication and characterization techniques and requirements. Follow e-mail notifications to sign-up for tours.
James Czwakiel has joined Micro and Nanofabrication CleanRoom as Semiconductor Process Equipment Engineer. James has established a career spanning multiple fields, including military, transportation (aviation, shipbuilding, and railroad), power generation, pharmaceutical, and semiconductor industries. In this role, he will be supporting several equipment and operations.
Jody Amundson has joined CMDIS as Administrative Coordinator. Jody has 24 years of U.S. Air Force service and received a Bachelor’s degree from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. In this role, he provides administrative support to the MNCR technical staff and to the CMDIS Business Administrator with general financial issues.
Our team is growing! We are in process of hiring Process Engineer, please contact Kent Way if you’d like to be involved in the interview schedule.
You may consider our facility tours for external visitors or faculty candidates. During the walking tour, the visitors will learn about CMDIS and our research enterprise, meet with technical expertise, and discuss fabrication, analytical, and characterization capabilities. Don’t have time? Then you may consider a guided virtual tour in Micro and Nanofabrication Cleanroom. Learn more.
RPI @ Albany Nano team provides Albany Nanotechnology Complex facility tours. The Albany Nanotechnology Complex is a leading research and development facility in Albany, New York, focused on semiconductor innovation and advanced nanotechnology. It hosts multiple organizations and provides state-of-the-art cleanroom facilities, fostering collaboration between academia, industry, and government. If you’d like to schedule a tour for your external visitors, faculty candidates or small size student groups, don’t hesitate to reach out by filling the facility tour request form.
What’s ahead?
2024 Albany Nanotechnology Symposium will be held on 30.October at Albany Nanotechnology Complex. The abstract submission deadline is 16.August. Albany Nanotechnology Symposium (ANS) provides a forum for promoting cross-functional and interdisciplinary research in device technologies. The conference features invited and contributed talks, and posters by authors from research institutions, industry, and academia. This year’s topics focus on emerging research and development with semiconductor, quantum, and photonic device technologies.
NY CREATES Emerging Technology Seminar Series is welcoming Shekhar Garde on 08/22, 11:30am-12:30pm for a seminar titled “A Matrix of Life: A New Molecular Perspective on Water”. These seminars are conducted via Zoom, and require pre-registration. Learn more.
The 35th Annual Electronics Packaging Symposium will take place 09/04-09/05, at the Binghamton University Innovative Technologies Complex. The event focuses on various aspects of electronic packaging and how advance packaging is evolving toward a Chiplet future. Learn more.
The 2nd Annual New York State Pollution Prevention Institute Student and Faculty Research Program Symposium highlighting Reagents of Change: Green Chemistry and Safer Chemicals in Products and Industry will take place at CBIS Auditorium on 09/20. The program includes keynote speakers from industry, academic, and government organizations, student-led project presentations and a poster session. All researchers are invited to present research posters. Breakfast and lunch will be provided. Registration is due 09/16. Learn more.
Approaching deadlines
(Undergraduate) The Hertz Fellowship
(Applications: 19.August - 27.October)
The program provides financial and lifelong professional support for the nation’s most promising graduate students in science and technology. All eligible applicants must be college seniors, first-year graduate students, or in a gap year preparing to apply to graduate school; intend to pursue a PhD in the applied physical and biological sciences, mathematics, or engineering; intend to direct their studies toward understanding and solving major, near-term problems facing society; and be citizens or permanent residents of the United States. Learn more.
(Graduate*) NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program
(Application deadline: 11.September)
NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program provides funding in the amount of up to $60,000 per award to PhD students who are researching topics that will lead to major advances in accelerated computing and its applications. NVIDIA particularly invites submissions from students pushing the envelope in artificial intelligence, robotics, autonomous vehicles, and related fields. Learn more.
(Graduate*) Stanford Energy Postdoctoral Fellowship
(Application deadline: 1.October)
The Stanford Energy Postdoctoral Fellowship aims to identify, develop, and connect the next generation of energy leaders from science and engineering to policy and economics to address the challenges of the global energy transformation through interdisciplinary approaches. Learn more.
(Post-doc) Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship
(Letter of Intent Due: 6.September)
The Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Sciences or Chemical Instrumentation Award Program supports advanced research by postdoctoral scholars within the core areas of fundamental chemistry or the development and build of chemical instrumentation. Learn more.
(Faculty) 2024 Alan T Waterman Award Nominations
(Nomination Period: 22.July – 20.September)
The Alan T. Waterman Award recognizes an outstanding young researcher in any field of science or engineering supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation. The annual award is the nation's highest honor for early-career scientists and engineers. In addition to a medal, the awardee receives a grant of $1,000,000 over a five-year period for scientific research or advanced study in the science and engineering disciplines supported by the National Science Foundation at the institution of their choice.Learn more.
*please contact Elizabeth Madigan (madige@rpi.edu) Sr. Program Administrator, Fellowships, Office of Graduate Education for more opportunities.
Publications on our radar.
Bose P.; Koratkar N.; Shi Y., Simultaneous improvement in the elastic and fracture properties of graphene-epoxy nanocomposites–a computational perspective, 2024, Carbon, DOI:10.1016/j.carbon.2024.119455
Wang B.-Q.; Zhao T.-Y.; Ding H.-R.; Liu Y.-T.; Chen N.-K.; Niu M.; Li X.-D.; Xu M.; Sun H.-B.; Zhang S.; Li X.-B., Partial melting nature of phase-change memory Ge-Sb-Te superlattice uncovered by large-scale machine learning interatomic potential molecular dynamics, 2024, Acta Materialia, DOI:10.1016/j.actamat.2024.120123
Bowman A.R.; Rodríguez Echarri A.; Kiani F.; Iyikanat F.; Tsoulos T.V.; Cox J.D.; Sundararaman R.; García de Abajo F.J.; Tagliabue G., Quantum-mechanical effects in photoluminescence from thin crystalline gold films, 2024, Light: Science and Applications, DOI:10.1038/s41377-024-01408-2
Abir S.S.H.; Sharma S.; Sharma P.; Karla S.; Balasubramanian G.; Samuel J.; Koratkar N., Piezoelectricity in chalcogenide perovskites, 2024, Nature Communications, DOI:10.1038/s41467-024-50130-5
Fazel K.; Karimitari N.; Shah T.; Sutton C.; Sundararaman R., Improving the reliability of machine learned potentials for modeling inhomogeneous liquids, 2024, Journal of Computational Chemistry, DOI:10.1002/jcc.27353
Huang Y.; Zhang Y.; Wu R.; Shao B.; Deng R.; Das R.; Han F., Hydride-Based Interlayer for Solid-State Anode-Free Battery, 2024, ACS Energy Letters, DOI:10.1021/acsenergylett.4c00704
Zakrzewski L.; Purkaysta K.D.; Bae C.; Picu C.R., Increasing Ductility and Toughness of Photocurable Thermosets with Microstructures Controlled by Phase Separation, 2024, ACS Applied Polymer Materials, DOI:10.1021/acsapm.3c03155
Hasan M.M.; Wang C.; Pala N.; Shur M., Diamond for High-Power, High-Frequency, and Terahertz Plasma Wave Electronics, 2024, Nanomaterials, DOI:10.3390/nano14050460
Shi X.; Nazirkar N.P.; Kashikar R.; Karpov D.; Folarin S.; Barringer Z.; Williams S.; Kiefer B.; Harder R.; Cha W.; Yuan R.; Liu Z.; Xue D.; Lookman T.; Ponomareva I.; Fohtung E., Enhanced Piezoelectric Response at Nanoscale Vortex Structures in Ferroelectrics, 2024, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, DOI:10.1021/acsami.3c06018
Hu Y.; Chen R.; Pendse S.; Taniguchi T.; Watanabe K.; Jiang J.; Zhang L.; Jia R.; Palermo E.F.; Wertz E.; Shi J., Chiral photon emission from a chiral-achiral perovskite heterostructure, 2024, Applied Physics Letters, DOI:10.1063/5.0180188
Thakral A.; Jog A.; Gall D., Resistivity size effect in epitaxial face-centered cubic Co(001) layers, 2024, Applied Physics Letters, DOI:10.1063/5.0190905
Peng K.; Li W.; Sun M.; Rivero J.D.H.; Ti C.; Han X.; Ge L.; Yang L.; Zhang X.; Bao W., Topological valley Hall polariton condensation, 2024, Nature Nanotechnology, DOI:10.1038/s41565-024-01674-6
In case you have missed.
Northeast Regional Defense Technology Hub (NORDTECH) Workforce Development Summit was held on July 18th. The event featured panel discussions, workforce development and related breakout sessions, a poster session and reception. During the day, over 200 participants from government agencies, industry and other education institutions gathered to discuss high-impact ideas around microelectronics exposure, education and experience. We were a part of the reseach showcase meeting with the guests to introduce your capabilities.
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