2015-2016 Annual Report Singh Center for Nanotechnology
A Message From the Director We are proud to present the 2015-16 Annual Report of the Singh Center for Nanotechnology at the University of Pennsylvania. The leadership and staff of the Singh Center endeavor to foster nanotechnology-enabled innovation, scientific discovery, and intellectual collaboration, assisting internal and external users in addressing their nanoscience and application needs by: • providing a forum for intellectual exchange between academic (both Penn and external) and industry users — in the past year, the Center has served more than 400 researchers, resulting in over 250 publications and conference talks, and multiple patent applications. Papers were published in fields ranging from nano-biogenomics to nanophotonics to microelectromechanical systems to nanomaterials to nanoelectronics, in prestigious journals and conferences that include Nature, multiple IEEE Transactions, Physical Review, and Science; • considering user needs as a basis for new equipment acquisition and invention — over 19 new nanofabrication and analysis tools have been purchased to meet these needs; •
developing new fabrication processes that not only contribute to the users’ end application but also further the fields of nanofabrication and nanomanufacturing; Singh Center staff have presented results at the NNT and EIPBN conferences and published results in important journals such as the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology; and
• Hosting a Nano User Day exhibition, in which nearly 200 researchers and industry representatives had an opportunity to exchange ideas, showcase their latest results, and hear speakers from academia, industry and government on important new topics in nanotechnology. New advances in nanofabrication are disseminated not only in peer-reviewed journals, but also through a process wiki. This dissemination promotes the emergence of new ideas and innovations, and enables widespread process adoption across not only the Singh user base, but also around the world. Over sixty process recipes developed by the Singh Center staff and users have been published to Scholarly Commons, an open website, and others have downloaded these reports 5,800 times worldwide, including researchers from Europe, South America, Australia, and Asia.
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