The Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory
The Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory
The Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory is a multidisciplinary research facility that houses advanced equipment to support research in photonics, microelectronics, nanotechnology, and biotechnology. Faculty and students also have access to extensive computing resources.
Cleanroom Labs
The cleanroom facilities within the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory are comprised of sixteen separate 500-square-foot laboratories, for a total of 8000 square feet of usable cleanroom lab space. The structure was designed in order that there be less than ten microinches of floor vibration throughout the cleanroom lab complex. This insures optimum performance from ultra-sensitive equipment such as electron-beam lithography system, optical lithography systems, scanning electron and atomic force microscopes.
The BioNanotechnology Labs
The BioNanotechnology Laboratories are comprised of physically distinct but functionally complementary individual laboratory areas where interdisciplinary biological and micro and nanotechnology research experiments can be carried out simultaneously. These labs fulfill the need for existence of biological laboratories within engineering fabrication and characterization areas for biomedical sensors and device research. The BioNanotechnology Laboratories are subdivided into the following functional areas: cryostorage and sterilization area, fixed and flex space micro/nano research workbench areas, polymer devices and nanodevices lab, mammalian cell culture lab, prokaryotic cell culture lab, BioAFM lab, optical and fluorescence microscopy lab, nanophotonics area, DNA patterning/microarray area. Some advanced equipment housed within the BNL includes: an Asylum Research biological AFM (BioAFM) integrated with a fluorescence microscope, multiple advanced optical and fluorescence microscopes (upright and inverted configurations), ultra low light imaging and image analysis system, and microfluidics instrumentation.