Nanotech-The UCSB Nanofabrication Facility

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Use Our New Facility

Need a research tool, but would rather not buy it? You can rent it in a new nanofabrication facility with 12,700 ft² of clean room space to work in!

Affordable rates provide you with the tools you need, as well as training and support from our dedicated and knowledgeable staff, that is tailored to your specific research needs.

We support a broad line of lithography, thin-film deposition, reactive ion etching, and characterization tools in support of device fabrication for a variety of materials, including InP, GaAs, GaN, SiC, Si, and other novel materials.

NSF-sponsored program offers free facility use to some

This new NNIN program, called Lab Experience for Faculty, offers a faculty member within a US campus to write a small proposal for the opportunity to use the capabilities of an NNIN fabrication lab free of charge.

In brief, the features of the program are as follows:

10 weeks (dates are flexible, summer is ideal)
$8,000 salary, $3,000 housing, up to $1,000 travel
Costs to use the nanofabrication facility will be waived during this period
We provide staff to assist you with tool use and training.
A coordinator will assist you with logistics, such as travel and housing

In effect, this might be of interest for faculty who wish to pursue an outside period of research at UCSB under the support of NSF and the NNIN.

Further details are available, by contacting the NNIN Programs Coordinator, Mrs. Angela Berenstein at: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Deadline for submission is December 1, 2009.

Dedicated Staff Assistance

Dedicated staff assistance includes:

Equipment training
Process consultation
Hands-on work
Troubleshooting
Machine maintenance
Tool modification

Make Research Progress in Beautiful Santa Barbara!

Nanotech is located in the new Engineering Sciences building at the University of California, Santa Barbara—a world leader in materials science, optoelectronic and electronic device research, and nanofabrication. For information regarding our location and travel information to make planning your visit with us easier, please click here.

santa barbara location map

UCSB and NNIN thank the following companies for their generous contributions and partnership to the facility that has been crucial to the facility expansion and progress in many research areas:

		Sputtered Films, now part of

(Please click on each logo for a description of their partnering activities.)