"Birck Nanotechnology Center has for decades been a critical home for discovery and technology development, both for Purdue researchers and those from industry and other universities who use out facilities'" says Zhihong Chen, the Mary Jo and Robert L Kirk Director of the Birck Nanotechnology Center and professor in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Upgrades to the facility include an effort to increase capacity in the 25,000 sq ft Scifres Nanofabrication Laboratory cleanroom, one of the largest cleanrooms in the nation. It will include a dedicated training bay for use in training those enrolled in the university's Semiconductor degrees program.It will also create dedicated cleanroom and lab space for advanced packaging research.
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