NSL Acquires Origin Pro 9.1 Licenses for User Purchase

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NanoSystems Laboratory (NSL)  has acquired a site license for Origin Pro 9.1. It is a one year subscription for 100 concurrent instances of the program. Origin Pro can be installed on any computer, OSU owned or private that is connected to the OSU network, as long as the user is the current OSU student, staff or faculty. Once the program has been installed in the computer, users will need to acquire the license key for each session of software use. The price of the license for one computer is $87.50/year, which will be prorated to reflect purchases made later in the year. Purchases can be made via eRequest to NanoSystems Laboratory for the desired number of licenses, and should contain the list of MAC addresses of the computers on which the software will be installed. Once the eRequest is approved, NSL will issue instructions on how to access the license server. Installation of the program can be done via installation media that can be borrowed from NSL service desk.

Contact NSL program assistant Asnika Bajracharya (bajracharya.5@osu.edu) with any questions.

Learn LabVIEW Workshop offered

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A free on-campus training course is being offered at Ohio State for those new to programming with LabVIEW or looking to improve existing skills. The course is a hands-on introduction to graphical programming with LabVIEW system design software. Fundamental skills to develop data acquisition, instrument control, data logging and measurement analysis applications will be taught. All registrants will have the opportunity to take the Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer (CLAD) exam, a globally recognized entry-level certification exam, for free.

Dates: 9/17/2014 – 12/10/2014
Time: Wednesdays 6:00pm-8:00pm
Location: Smith Lab – Room 1009 174 West 18th Ave.
Cost: FREE (A $3,200 value)
Duration: Weekly, 2-hour sessions during the Autumn 2014 semester

Space is limited. Register today at https://OSULearnLabVIEW.eventbrite.com/

Questions? Contact Justin Young, LabVIEW Student Ambassador for The Ohio State University, justin.young@ni.com

CEM Hosts Kurt J. Lesker Co. for Vacuum Course

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On July 31st, 2014, the Center for Emergent Materials hosted a vacuum course taught by the Kurt J. Lesker Company. The course covered basic vacuum technology, gauging, and physical vapor deposition. Graduate student participation was enthusiastic and the course was well received.
Students learn at the KJL Vacuum Course

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CEM Faculty Jos Heremans Featured in Nature ‘News and Views’ Article: “Thermoelectricity: The ugly duckling”

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With tin sometimes described as one of the base (think homeliest) metals, perhaps it should come as no surprise that it, like the misidentified cygnet in Hans Christian Andersen’s tale The Ugly Duckling, may actually be inherently beautiful — at least in the eyes of those who appreciate the potential of thermoelectricity.

To draw the analogy, Professor Joseph Heremans, borrowed the title “Thermoelectricity: The ugly duckling” for an article that he authored and which appears in the April 17, 2014 print edition (Volume 508) of the journal Nature. The article, which can be found on pages 327-328 in the News and Views section of the journal, details why there’s beauty (or higher than imagined thermoelectric efficiency) in the single crystals of tin selenide. The article also serves as context for a research paper authored by a group Northwestern University researchers whom belong to the same Energy Frontier Research Center as Professor Heremans and his research team. 

According to Heremans, the study led by Professor Mercouri Kanatzidis at Northwestern University, his graduate student Li-Dong Zhao and colleagues further underscores the fact that progress in the thermal sciences relative to thermoelectric power applications has been unrelenting and discoveries about thermal conductivity often quite surprising.

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Recent CEM results published in Nature Nanotechnology – Could diamonds be a computer’s best friend?

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Recent CEM results published in Nature Nanotechnology

Could diamonds be a computer’s best friend?

March 24, 2014

For the first time, CEM researchers have demonstrated that information can flow through a diamond wire. In the experiment, electrons did not flow through diamond as they do in traditional electronics; rather, they stayed in place and passed along a magnetic effect called “spin” to each other down the wire—like a row of sports spectators doing “the wave.

Spin could one day be used to transmit data in computer circuits—and this new experiment, done at The Ohio State University, revealed that diamond transmits spin better than most metals in which researchers have previously observed the effect.

Further information on this research can be found in this article and in the publication.