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On Tuesday June 4, 2013, John Sporre held his final doctoral defense. His presentation on the “Diagnosis of the flux emanating from the intermediate focus of an extreme ultraviolet light lithography source” earned him the completion of his PhD. Congratulations to Dr. John Sporre!

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Under the leadership of Peter Fiflis, CPMI has begun research looking into the effect of radiation on tungsten material. The TUngsten Fuzz by heliCON (TUFCON) project is currently exploring tungsten surface fuzz formation in hopes of understanding and minimizing its presence for application as a potential divertor material in fusion devices. Current published works suggest that fuzz formation occurs at He energies of less than 150 eV which is the sputtering threshold of W. CPMI intends implement new methods in exploring this phenomenon.

Every generation wishes to see the young and developing succeed. As CPMI is a closely knit family, we are proud to announce that, through hard work and dedication, a few of our PhD candidates (soon to be PhD graduates) are heading toward a bright future. Zihao Ouyang, and Liang Meng have acquired positions with Lam Research and John Sporre will be working with IBM. We wish them good luck.

CPMI is pleased to welcome Dr. Logan Liu from the Electrical Engineering department. Dr. Ruzic, CPMI’s Director, and Dr. Liu will be submitting a joint SRI proposal.

On February 16th, CPMI Director Dr. David Ruzic held his 26th annual Chili Cookoff. Over 95 people were in attendance and over 33 different chilis were served.  A good time was had by all.

Daniel Andruczyk, one of CPMI’s Research Engineers employed at Princeton’s Plasma Physics Lab returned to Champaign this week. He brought along a fast framing camera, which was extremely useful in additional experiments. We look forward to future visits from Dan.

CPMI was visisted by one our alumni this week, as Shailendra Srivastava now employed at Cymer/ASML stopped by our laboratory.

The CPMI family would like to extend their congratulations to Liang Meng who became a proud father on Tuesday, November 6th with the birth of his daughter, Evie Lu Meng.

Last week the CPMI Director, David Ruzic, was awarded the prestigious “Plasma Prize” from the Plasma Science and Technology Division of the American Vacuum Society.  It is awarded once per year to a recognized leader in the field. The citation reads, “For his pioneering contributions to the science of processing plasmas and the societal benefits of plasma technology.”  Congratulations to Professor Ruzic for garnering such an honor.

Congratulations to CPMI graduate research assistant Peter R. Fiflis,  awarded with an Office of Science Graduate Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Energy!

http://npre.illinois.edu/news/fiflis-gains-doe-fellowship-plasmafusion-studies