MRI-R2: Acquisition of a Versatile Deposition System

0957701 RosenthalVanderbilt U.技术摘要：该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。该建议是为了获得一种沉积工具，该沉积工具能够连续蒸发高质量、无缺陷的有机、金属和氧化物膜，而不会交叉污染或暴露于空气中。一个附加的旋涂涂层单元（也在惰性环境中）允许纳米晶体和聚合物的集成，扩展了工具的制造能力。该仪器将用于广泛的研究项目，涵盖物理，化学，工程和生命科学的学科，所有这些都在纳米科学的中心主题。这种沉积集群工具的功能将使变革性的研究计划能够解决大量前沿纳米科学和纳米技术的挑战，从纳米等离子体到单细胞生物传感，从高效的固态照明到石墨烯器件。沉积工具还将加强学生的学习，因为学生们种植自己的材料和设计/建造自己的材料结构，他们被迫在更深的层次上参与科学，而不是依靠外部资源来获取其他地方制造的样品。该仪器将由范德比尔特纳米科学与工程研究所安置和操作，并将改善许多年轻科学家的研究和培训，包括代表性不足的学生（由NSF IGERT为菲斯克（HBCU）和范德比尔特支持）和一个不同的教授群体接近他们的职业生涯的开始。 除了将仪器到研究生和本科课程的工作，沉积系统将是三个外展工作的一部分，涉及高中生暑期课程。外行摘要：这个奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助。构建任何设备的本质是存款材料的能力。 单次沉积可以是将铝蒸发到石墨烯上以形成电接触，而更复杂的结构可能涉及蒸发多层不同的有机材料和金属以形成期望的器件结构，诸如太阳能电池或固态照明器件。 本提案是为了获得具有存款有机膜、金属膜和金属氧化物膜的能力的多功能材料沉积系统。 沉积系统处于无空气环境中，使得膜不与空气反应，并且不同的材料处于不同的腔室中，使得沉积一个膜层不会污染另一个膜层，并且使得膜可以顺序地沉积。该仪器将用于广泛的研究项目，涵盖物理，化学，工程和生命科学的学科，所有这些都在纳米科学的中心主题之内。该仪器的功能将使变革性的研究计划能够解决大量前沿纳米科学和纳米技术的挑战，从纳米等离子体到单细胞生物传感，从高效的固态照明到石墨烯器件。该仪器将由范德比尔特纳米科学与工程研究所安置和操作，并将改善许多年轻科学家的研究和培训，包括代表性不足的学生（由NSF IGERT为菲斯克（HBCU）和范德比尔特支持）和一个不同的教授群体接近他们的职业生涯的开始。 除了将仪器纳入研究生和本科生课程的工作，沉积系统将是三个外展工作的一部分，涉及高中生的暑期课程。利用沉积系统的许多拟议的研究工作涉及能源，包括创建新型太阳能电池，生物燃料电池和节能固态照明。这些领域的进展将通过创造可再生能源、减少对现有能源的需求以及随后减少温室气体排放而造福社会。

0957701RosenthalVanderbilt U.Technical Summary: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This proposal is for the acquisition of a deposition tool that has the capability to sequentially evaporate high quality, defect-free organic, metal, and oxide films without cross-contamination or exposure to air. An attached spin-coating coating unit (also in inert environment) allows the integration of nanocrystals and polymers, extending the fabricating capabilities of the tool. The instrumentation will be used for a broad range of research projects spanning the disciplines of physics, chemistry, engineering and the life sciences, all within the central theme of nanoscience. The capabilities of this deposition cluster tool will enable transformative research initiatives addressing a large range of forefront nanoscience and nanotechnology challenges, from nanoscale plasmonics to biological sensing on single cells, and from efficient solid-state lighting to graphene devices. The deposition tool will also enhance student learning, as students who grow their own materials and design/build their own materials structures are forced to engage the science at a much deeper level than they would if relying on outside sources for samples made elsewhere. The instrument will be housed and operated by the Vanderbilt Institute for Nanoscale Science and Engineering and will improve the research and training of many young scientists including under-represented students (supported by a NSF IGERT for Fisk (an HBCU) and Vanderbilt) and a diverse group of professors near the beginning of their careers. In addition to incorporating the instrumentation into graduate and undergraduate course work, the deposition system will be a part of three outreach efforts involving summer programs for high school students.Layman Summary: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Intrinsic to building any device is the capability to deposit material. A single deposition might be the evaporation of aluminum onto graphene to make electrical contact, whereas more complicated structures might involve evaporating multiple layers of different organic materials and metals to make a desired device structure, such as a solar cell or a solid state lighting device. This proposal is for the acquisition of a versatile materials deposition system that has the capabilities to deposit organic films, metal films, and metal oxide films. The deposition system is in an air free environment such that the films do not react with air, and the different materials are in different chambers in such a fashion that depositing one film layer does not contaminate another, and such that the films can be deposited sequentially. The instrumentation will be used for a broad range of research projects spanning the disciplines of physics, chemistry, engineering and the life sciences, all within the central theme of nanoscience.The capabilities of this instrument will enable transformative research initiatives addressing a large range of forefront nanoscience and nanotechnology challenges, from nanoscale plasmonics to biological sensing on single cells, and from efficient solid-state lighting to graphene devices. The instrument will be housed and operated by the Vanderbilt Institute for Nanoscale Science and Engineering and will improve the research and training of many young scientists including under-represented students (supported by a NSF IGERT for Fisk (an HBCU) and Vanderbilt) and a diverse group of professors near the beginning of their careers. In addition to incorporating the instrumentation into graduate and undergraduate course work, the deposition system will be a part of three outreach efforts involving summer programs for high school students. Many of the proposed research efforts utilizing the deposition system pertain to energy, including the creation of new types of solar cells, bio-fuel cells, and energy conserving solid state lighting. Progress in these areas would benefit society by creating renewable energy, reducing demand on current power sources, and subsequently reducing greenhouse gas emissions.