NNCI: Center for Nanoscale Systems (CNS)

非技术描述：哈佛大学纳米系统中心（CNS）的创建有一个清晰的愿景，即为学术界和工业界的研究人员提供一个协作的多学科研究环境，以支持世界级的纳米科学和技术专业知识。CNS的目标是：促进应用物理学、生物学、化学、电气工程、地质学、材料科学、医学和物理学等学科在纳米级结构的制造、成像和表征方面的前沿研究和教育；通过提供共享的仪器设备和基础设施、专家人员、协同会议场所和有利于生产性科学参与的教育机会，创建一个协作的纳米技术社区。作为NSF国家纳米技术协调基础设施（NNCI）的新英格兰中心，技术团队的重点是开发专门的工具、工艺、仪器和专业知识，以帮助设计、表征和制造超越传统方法的新材料、纳米结构、设备和系统。CNS推动了量子科学与工程的发展。CNS提供纳米制造、电子显微镜和纳米级系统表征工具，其工作人员提供技术专长和协助。中枢神经系统是世界上最活跃的纳米加工和成像设备之一。凭借其多样化的用户基础、完善的基础设施和出色的设备，CNS有能力继续成为技术领导者。此外，CNS在培养国家下一代科学家和工程师方面发挥着关键作用。它有一个成熟的本科生研究经验（REU）项目，以及一年一度的夏季纳米技术系列研讨会。一个CNS学者项目将引进代表性不足的研究人员，一个实习项目将培训美国的纳米技术退伍军人。技术描述：自2001年创建以来，CNS已成为国家关键的纳米技术资源。CNS开发了多种多样的多功能设备，包括多长度尺度光学和电子束光刻，聚焦离子束（FIB）和反应离子蚀刻（RIE）系统，用于塑造结构量子器件和光子结构，以及软光刻专业知识，用于制造各种微流体系统和转化生物科学设备。这些工具允许用户使用非传统材料推动量子工程、纳米级电子学和光子学的前沿，并使生物医学传感器系统的发展成为可能。CNS研究人员追求先进的课题，包括量子科学，等离子体，钻石光子学，纳米级传感器和原子层器件。CNS拥有一套出色的成像和表征工具，包括像差校正STEM，高分辨率TEM， CryoTEM和用于3D断层扫描的原子探针，以及扫描探针显微镜，线性和非线性光学显微镜。它的表征工具允许对材料、组件和系统进行详细的分析和评估，为研究人员提供了量子技术和纳米技术研究的综合平台。CNS专注于推进世界一流的纳米技术研究，促进新技术转化为商业和公共利益的产品，开发和维持教育资源，以培养熟练的纳米技术劳动力，并支持不断发展的基础设施和先进工具，以支持卓越的量子科学和纳米技术研究和开发。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Non-Technical Description:The Center for Nanoscale Systems (CNS) at Harvard University was created with a clear vision to provide a collaborative multi-disciplinary research environment to support world-class nanoscience and technical expertise, for the community of researchers from academia and industry. The goals of CNS are: Facilitating leading-edge research and education in the fabrication, imaging, and characterization of nanoscale structures across the disciplines of applied physics, biology, chemistry, electrical engineering, geology, materials science, medicine and physics; Creating a collabortive nanotechnology community by providing shared instrumentation facilities and infrastructure, expert staff, synergistic meeting places, and educational opportunities conducive to productive scientific engagement. As the New England hub of the NSF National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI), the focus of the technical team is to develop specialized tools, processes, instrumentation, and expertise to help design, characterize, and fabricate novel materials, nanostructures, devices, and systems, that go beyond conventional approaches. CNS pushes the envelope of Quantum Science and Engineering. CNS offers tools for nanofabrication, electron microscopy, and characterization of nanoscale systems, with technical expertise and assistance provided by its staff. CNS is one of the most active nanofabrication and imaging facilities in the world. With its diverse user base, well-established infrastructure, and outstanding facilities, CNS is well placed to continue as a technology leader. In addition, CNS plays a key role training the nation's next generation of scientists and engineers. It has an established Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program, as well as an annual summer nanotechnology seminar series. A CNS Scholars Program will bring in underrepresented researchers, and an internship program will train U.S. veterans in nanotechnology. Technical Description:Since its creation in 2001, CNS has become a key nanotechnology resource for the nation. CNS has developed diverse and versatile facilities including multi-length-scale optical and electron-beam lithography, focused ion beam (FIB) and reactive ion etch (RIE) systems to shape structures quantum devices and photonic structures, and soft lithography expertise to enable fabrication of a wide variety of microfluidic systems and devices for translational bioscience. These tools allow users to push the frontiers of quantum engineering, nanoscale electronics and photonics using nontraditional materials, and they enable the development of sensor systems for biomedicine. CNS researchers pursue advanced topics including quantum science, plasmonics, diamond photonics, nanoscale sensors, and atomic-layer devices. CNS has an outstanding suite of imaging and characterization tools including an aberration-corrected STEM, a high resolution TEM, a CryoTEM, and an Atom Probe for 3D tomography, as well as scanned probe microscopes, and linear and non-linear optical microscopes. Its characterization tools permit detailed analysis and assessment of materials, components, and systems, providing researchers with a comprehensive platform for quantum technology and nanotechnology research. CNS focuses on advancing world-class nanotechnology research, fostering the transfer of new technologies into products for commercial and public benefit, developing and sustaining educational resources to develop a skilled nanotechnology workforce, and supporting the evolving infrastructure and advanced tools needed to support excellence in quantum science and nanotechnology research and development.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.