Nano Bootcamp features hands-on training this year

This year, the Fourth ASME Nano Training Bootcamp will feature hands-on instruction at a nano fabrication and characterization facility, as well as an optional tour of a particle technology laboratory. In addition, the program will offer attendees detailed and tutorial-based accounts of advances in the fundamentals of nanoscience in a variety of fields.

The seminar, which was developed for engineers, scientists, government leaders, attorneys, and R&D and marketing professionals, will offered from July 10-14 at the Continuing Education Center at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

Steve Campbell

On July 11 and 12, attendees will have the opportunity to interact with the university's technical staff at various locations throughout the school's Characterization Facility and Nano Fabrication Center. You'll have the chance to learn about the machines at the Characterization Facility, which include scanning and transmission electron microscopes, X-ray diffractometers, Auger electron spectrometers, and a wide variety of proximal probe systems.

At the Nano Fabrication Center, Bootamp participants will become acquainted with equipment for optical or e-beam lithography, evaporation, sputtering, reaction ion etching, ion milling, focused ion beam processing, various types of chemical vapor deposition, and rapid thermal annealing.

Vinayak Dravid

The Bootcamp's technical program, which will be presented by experts from academia and industry, will challenge attendees with open-ended questions about opportunities in engineering nanosystems.

Sessions scheduled for the Nano Bootcamp include "Micro and Nano Fabrication" by Steve Campbell of the University of Minnesota, "Mesoscopic and Nanometer Scale Physics" by Venkat Chandrasekhar from Northwestern University, "Scanning Probe Microscopy" by Ioannis Chasiotis of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Electron Microscopy and Spectroscopy" by Vinayak Dravid from Northwestern University, "Discussion on IP Issues on Nanotech" by Richard Ekstrom from Buchanan Ingersoll, and "Electronic Devices" by Mark Hersam of Northwestern.

Pam Norris

Among the other Bootcamp sessions will be: "Introduction to Statistical Mechanics" by Daniel Kosov of the University of Maryland, "Thermal Properties of Materials" by Pam Norris from the University of Virginia, "Soft and Imprint Lithography" by Dong Qin of the University of Washington, and "Thermoelectric Devices" by Ali Shakouri from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Rajeev Ram

In addition, Rajeev Ram of Massachusetts Institute of Technology will present two sessions: "Electronic and Optical Properties of Materials" and "Optical Devices," while Ryan Vallance of George Washington University will speak on the subject "Nano Manufacturing and Metrology: Precision Positioning Systems for Nanomanufacturing and Metrology."

A separate optional tour of the university's Particle Technology Lab will be held on July 14, after the conclusion of the Nano Bootcamp. Visit the Lab Tour page, www.me.umn.edu/labs/ptl, for further details.

Registration for the Nano Bootcamp is $1,595 for members of ASME and participating professional societies and $1,995 for the general public. Members of government agencies may attend the Bootcamp for $995. Students may register for $595.

To register for the ASME Nano Training Bootcamp, or to find out more, contact ASME Information Central, (800) 843-2763 or (973) 882-1170, and mention program code "NB6."

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