NNCI: nano@stanford

非技术描述：斯坦福大学的国家纳米技术协调基础设施网站Nano@Stanford通过向所有人提供实验资源和如何使用它们的技术来促进纳米科学和工程。Nano@Stanford的核心是四个先进的研究设施，供来自其他大学、行业或政府的任何研究人员使用：斯坦福纳米共享设施(SNSF)、斯坦福纳米加工设施(SNF)、斯坦福微型化学分析设施(MAF)以及斯坦福同位素和地球化学测量与分析设施(Sigma)。这些设施配备了致力于支持科学进步的技术专家，共同跨越各种制造和表征方法，为广大用户社区服务。该网站欢迎所有学科；研究人员使用这些设施来解决能源、环境、医学等现实世界的问题。该网站还接待了艺术家和教师，因为它的使命是培训和教育，不仅是设施中的研究人员，而且是任何地方想要学习实验纳米科学和技术的人。Nano@Stanford建立了一个及时教育材料图书馆，旨在为最新的研究人员建立基础知识，并在任何地方对每个人都可用。Nano@Stanford已经制定并将扩大劳动力发展、教师培训和K-12外联方面的计划。通过其在NNCI网络中的合作伙伴，Nano@Stanford将继续将这些努力扩展到教室和实验室之外的教育领域。技术描述：Nano@Stanford提供一系列全面的纳米制造和纳米表征设备和专业知识，这些设备位于约30,000平方英尺的实验室空间内，其中包括16,000平方英尺的洁净室，其中6,000平方英尺是低振动的。制造能力由一个完整的电子设备制造洁净室和一个纳米颗粒实验室支撑，并由十几个实验室空间补充，提供专门和灵活的处理系统。表征能力包括用于材料成像和化学/物理特性识别的全套工具。Nano@Stanford提供了研究界通常无法获得的高级功能。这些专业能力包括：用于生长III-V材料结晶薄膜的MOCVD；用于小于200 mm晶片的电子束曝光；用于高横向分辨率同位素分析的NanoSIMS；用于高分辨率表面磁场测绘的扫描SQUID。经验丰富的技术人员支持所有使用这些设施开发和表征先进结构的研究人员，如光子晶体、光电探测器、光学MEMS、惯性传感器、光学/电子生物传感器、悬臂探头、纳米FET、新存储器、电池和光伏。Nano@Stanford欢迎非传统科学和工程领域的研究人员，如生命科学和医学、地球和环境科学，并向Nano-Currity提供个人咨询、种子资助、制作和表征服务、研讨会和网络研讨会。该奖项反映了NSF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 National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure site at Stanford University, nano@stanford, promotes nanoscience and engineering by making experimental resources and the know-how to use them available to all. At the core of nano@stanford are four advanced research facilities that are open for use by any researcher, from other universities, industry, or government: the Stanford Nano Shared Facilities (SNSF), the Stanford Nanofabrication Facility (SNF), the Stanford Microchemical Analysis Facility (MAF), and the Stanford Isotope and Geochemical Measurement and Analysis Facility (SIGMA). These facilities are staffed with technical experts dedicated to supporting the progress of science and together span the full range of fabrication and characterization methods to serve the broad user community. The site welcomes all disciplines; researchers use the facilities to solve real world problems in energy, environment, medicine, and beyond. The site also hosts artists and teachers, as its mission is to train and educate, not only the researchers in the facilities, but anyone anywhere wanting to learn about experimental nanoscience and technology. nano@stanford cultivates a library of just-in-time educational materials aimed at building foundational knowledge for the newest researchers and is available to everyone everywhere. nano@stanford has developed and will expand programs in workforce development, teacher training, and K-12 outreach. Through its partners in the NNCI network, nano@stanford will continue to expand these efforts to educate beyond the classroom and beyond the lab.Technical Description:nano@stanford offers a comprehensive array of nanofabrication and nanocharacterization equipment and expertise, housed in facilities that encompass ~30,000 ft2 of lab space, including 16,000 ft2 of cleanrooms, 6,000 ft2 of which is low vibration. Fabrication capabilities are anchored by a full electronics device fabrication cleanroom and a nanopatterning laboratory that are supplemented by a dozen lab spaces providing specialized and flexible processing systems. Characterization capabilities encompass the full suite of tools for imaging and chemical/physical property identification of materials. nano@stanford offers advanced capabilities not normally available to the research community at large. These specialized capabilities include: MOCVD for growing crystalline films of III-V materials; Electron-Beam Lithography for wafers up to 200 mm; NanoSIMS for isotope analysis at high lateral resolution; scanning SQUID for high resolution mapping of surface magnetic fields. Experienced, technical staff support all researchers, who have used the facilities to develop and characterize advanced structures, such as photonic crystals, photodetectors, optical MEMS, inertial sensors, optical/electronic biosensors, cantilever probes, nano-FETs, new memories, batteries, and photovoltaics. nano@stanford welcomes researchers in non-traditional areas of science and engineering, such as the life sciences and medicine, earth and environmental sciences, and offers personal consultations, seed grants, fabrication and characterization services, seminars and webinars, to the nano-curious.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.