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Next week, Dr. David Ruzic will head to Dubrovnik, Croatia as a plenary speaker for the 14th Joint Vacuum Conference (JVC):

http://www.jvc-evc-2012.com/plenary-talks.php

This past May many CPMI students (and even a staff member!) received degrees from the University of Illinois. We would like to congratulate all undergrads, graduates and staff members that graduated this year. You worked hard and you deserve it!

As a former undergraduate assitant and new graduate research assistant, CPMI would like to congratulate Peter Fiflis for receiving the NPRE Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award and the NPRE Outstanding Academic Achievement Award to a Graduating Senior. Great job Peter!

Phi Nyugen, a former CPMI gradaute student has recently been named the new Vice President of the Tecnology and Manufacturing Group at Intel.

Nguyen is responsible for the process development, equipment development, fabrication operations and transfer of next-generation novel materials and process technologies that will produce future Intel microprocessors. Nguyen also manages the development, training, integration and coaching of engineering staff at Portland Technology Development.

Nguyen joined Intel in 1990 as a process engineer in the Portland Technology Development group. Since then, he has held various technical and management positions within the group and contributed to the development, transfer and ramp-up of the most recent logic technologies. He has since managed the development, transfer and ramp-up of novel materials and far back-end modules for Intel’s 22-nanometer logic technology.

Congratulations to CPMI graduate student Liang Meng on passing his prelim today. We are all very proud!

J. Sporre and D. Ruzic, “Extreme Ultraviolet Light Lithography for Producing Nanofeatures in Next-Generation Semiconductor Processing,” in Plasma Processing of Nanomaterials, R. M. Sankaran, Ed., CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2012, p. 35-54.

C. Castano, M. Aghazarian, J. Caughman and D. Ruzic, “Visual and Electrical Evidence Supporting a Mechanism of Vacuum Breakdown” – To appear in next regular issue of IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science.

CPMI has concluded the search for a new postdoctoral researcher and will welcome a new member of the team this February.

 CPMI Welcomes S. B. Bhatt, Vaccum Division Head of Tokamak ADITYA,  from the Institute for Plasma Research in India. Bhatt will be giving a seminar entitled “Wall Conditioning in Tokamak Aditya,” on Monday afternoon from 2 PM – 3 PM in Rm. 103 Talbot Lab.

Two of CPMI’s PhD students did the Center proud at the recent Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE) Conference in Chicago. Both students were nominated for the SOFE student paper award. Wenyu was the eventual winner of the award, with a $500 cheque and plaque while Soonwook was runner up.

Wenyu Xu (Left) and Soonwook Jung (Right) at the awards ceremony, SOFE conference dinner.

Wenyu presented a paper on his LiMIT concept. LiMIT is a device that is being developed using liquid lithium metal to be able to absorb the high heat fluxes in the divertor of a Fusion reactor and be able to pump this away while replenishing itself, thus effectively eliminating damage to the divertor itself.

While Soonwook’s presentation was in his recent investigations on lithium vapor shielding for with molybdenum in DEVeX. The DEVeX device is able to simulate an high energy strike using a theta pinch and can obtain high plasma temperatures and densities to simulate the edge of a fusion plasma.

Soonwook Jung receiveing his runners-up certificate.

Both students gave presentations to a panel at the conference and it was eventually decided that Wenyu had the best paper at the conference. Wenyu received the award at the SOFE Conference dinner on Wednesday night.

Wenyu with his prize for the best Student Paper for SOFE.

Everyone at CPMI are proud of the work that Wenyu and Soonwook have done and this wonderful recognition of their and the CPMI’s work in fusion.