NNCI: Nebraska Nanoscale Facility (NNF)

非技术描述：内布拉斯加州纳米尺度设施(NNF)将继续作为NNCI的区域用户设施发挥作用，满足美国中西部地区小型学院、大学、小型和大型公司的纳米技术和材料表征需求。用户可以在NNF获得最先进的仪器设备和专业知识。它促进了纳米材料科学和纳米技术的尖端研究，越来越重视新兴的量子材料和技术，以及能够导致新消费产品的纳米技术设备的制造。更新后的国家核技术委员会继续为美国的研究和教育基础设施作出贡献，促进在新型纳米结构、材料和装置的制造、表征、理解和利用方面取得变革性的进展。这些结构和设备在包括信息技术、数字通信、能源处理、威胁检测传感器和生物医学在内的当代技术中发挥着越来越重要的作用。NNF强大的教育外展(E/O)计划专注于通过学生的暑期研究体验、课外中学计划、社区大学计划、微型课程等来增加多样性和包容性。NNF的E/O活动包括与内布拉斯加州的美洲原住民和部落学院有关的项目，这些项目与Winnebago、Santee Dalota和Omaha部落有关，并帮助吸引学生从事工程和科学职业。技术描述：作为NNCI的组成部分，内布拉斯加州纳米尺度设施(NNF)为来自美国中西部地区的学术界、工业界和政府实验室的用户提供开放和负担得起的访问先进仪器设施、专业知识、培训和服务的途径。国家核设施提供通往八个核心设施和与之相关的两个共享设施的单一入口。NNF是美国中西部地区唯一一家拥有一系列先进的最先进研究仪器的设施，这些仪器结合了尖端技术、智力和专业知识，对该地区的所有用户开放。更新的NNF使外部用户能够轻松访问专门用于先进纳米制造、纳米材料表征、化学分析和添加剂制造的系统。NNF的装备是支持纳米材料、量子材料和超材料的研究，以及纳米磁性和纳米生物装置的制造和测试。NNF的研究得到了纳米电子学、纳米磁学、纳米光子学以及能源材料和结构方面的强大研究小组的支持。NNF还支持内布拉斯加州材料和纳米科学中心、UNL和邻近大学的主要赞助研究项目。数以百计的研究生和本科生、博士后助理、来访的科学家和工程师继续受益于国家自然科学基金会最先进的设施。该奖项反映了国家自然科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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 Nebraska Nanoscale Facility (NNF) will continue to function as an NNCI regional user facility serving the nanotechnology and materials characterization needs of small colleges, universities, small and large companies in the western region of the US Midwest. Users have access to state-of-the-art advanced instrumentation facilities and expertise at the NNF. It facilitates cutting-edge research in nanomaterials science and nanotechnology with increasing emphasis on emerging quantum materials and technologies and fabrication of nanotechnology enabled devices, which can lead to new consumer products. The renewed NNF continues its contribution to the United States research and educational infrastructure for transformative advances in the fabrication, characterization, understanding and utilization of novel nanostructures, materials and devices. These structures and devices play an increasingly critical role in contemporary technologies including information technology, digital communication, energy processing, sensors for threat detection, and biomedicine. The strong education-outreach (E/O) program at NNF is focused on increasing diversity and inclusiveness through summer research experiences for students, after school middle-school programs, community-college programs, minicourses, and others. NNF’s E/O activities include programs with Native Americans and tribal colleges in Nebraska associated with the Winnebago, Santee Dakota, and Omaha tribes and help attracting students to engineering and science careers.Technical Description: As an integral part of the NNCI the Nebraska Nanoscale Facility (NNF) provides open and affordable access to advanced instrumentation facilities, expertise, training, and services in nanoscience, nanotechnology, materials science, and engineering to users from academia, industries, and government labs in the western region of the US Midwest. The NNF provides a single door access to eight core facilities and two shared facilities associated with it. NNF is the only facility in the western region of the US Midwest that houses an advanced array of state-of-the-art research instrumentation with a combination of cutting-edge technologies, intellectual capabilities and expertise that are open to all users in the region. The renewed NNF provides external users easy access to systems dedicated for advanced nanofabrication, nanomaterials characterization, chemical analysis, and additive manufacturing. NNF is equipped to support the investigation of nanomaterials, quantum materials, and metamaterials as well as nanomagnetic and nano-biodevice fabrication and testing. Research at NNF is bolstered by strong research groups in nanoscale electronics, nanomagnetism, nanophotonics and materials and structures for energy. The NNF also supports major sponsored research programs at the Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience, UNL and neighboring universities. Hundreds of graduate and undergraduate students, postdoctoral associates, visiting scientists and engineers continue to benefit from the state-of-the-art facilities in NNF.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.