Nanostructured Materials Growth and Metrology Laboratories

纳米结构材料生长和计量实验室

• 批准号: 0963009
• 负责人: Michael Rubner
• 金额: $ 183.74万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0963009&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Nanostructured; Materials; Growth; Metrology; Laboratories

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This award will provide support for the renovation of laboratory space for the establishment of the Nanostructured Materials Growth and Metrology Laboratories (MIT NanoMat Labs) that will be housed within the NSF Center for Materials Science and Engineering (CMSE) at MIT. The renovated 2,900 square foot MIT NanoMat Labs will be part of the 200,000 square foot NSF CMSE. The renovated space will support a MIT-wide shared facility for processing and analysis facilities, which include wet lab, cleanroom, specialized instruments and research space. The materials growth portion of the facility is expected to support a unique multi-chamber integrated materials growth system for the deposition of multi-nanostructured thin films, spun-cast polymers, e-beam evaporated metals, stamp-printed quantum dots and sputter deposited semiconducting and insulating dielectrics. Scientists will be studying physical phenomena, materials structures and chemistries, and demonstrations of practical nanostructured devices that exceed the current state-of-the-art science and technologies. The metrology portion of the renovated facility will contain a suite of equipment to characterize optical and electrical properties of nanostructured photovoltaics, fuel cells, batteries, and solid-state lighting structures. The proposed NanoMat Labs could provide a centralized set of research facilities in the campus aimed at enabling growth and metrology of nanostructured materials, and is expected to foster collaborative interactions among nine research groups at MIT. It is expected that the facility would be used by over 70 graduate students and post-doctoral fellows from the above research groups, and 5 to 10 associated undergraduates. Additionally, the facility will also be used by high-school teachers and students.

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。该奖项将为实验室空间的改造提供支持，以建立纳米结构材料生长和计量实验室（MIT NanoMat Labs），该实验室将设在麻省理工学院的NSF材料科学与工程中心（CMSE）内。翻新后的2900平方英尺的MIT NanoMat实验室将成为20万平方英尺的NSF CMSE的一部分。翻新后的空间将支持麻省理工学院范围内的处理和分析设施共享设施，包括湿实验室、洁净室、专用仪器和研究空间。该设施的材料生长部分预计将支持一个独特的多室集成材料生长系统，用于沉积多纳米结构薄膜、自旋铸造聚合物、电子束蒸发金属、邮票印刷量子点和溅射沉积半导体和绝缘电介质。科学家们将研究物理现象、材料结构和化学，以及超越当前最先进科学技术的实用纳米结构设备的演示。翻新设施的计量部分将包含一套设备，用于表征纳米结构光伏、燃料电池、电池和固态照明结构的光学和电学特性。拟议中的NanoMat实验室可以在校园内提供一套集中的研究设施，旨在促进纳米结构材料的生长和计量，并有望促进麻省理工学院九个研究小组之间的合作互动。预计将有70余名以上课题组的研究生、博士后和5 ~ 10名本科生使用。此外，该设施还将供高中教师和学生使用。