MRI: Acquisition of a Nanostructure Fabrication and Characterization System for Research and Education

在获得重大研究仪器计划的这一奖项后，纽约州立大学水牛城分校将获得一台高分辨率(1.5 nm)扫描电子显微镜，可用作电子束光刻系统和用于纳米结构设备表征的晶片探针站，用于研究和教育目的。该系统将允许制造和测试金属、半导体和聚合物纳米结构，用于纳米电子、纳米光子学、自旋电子学和分子电子学应用，以及基础物理和化学研究。此次收购将加强激光、光子学和生物光子学研究所及其附属材料活动、先进光子和电子材料中心(CAPEM)的现有和计划中的研究计划，以及化学、物理和电气工程系的其他研究计划。这些领域的研究工作目前得到了NSF、DARPA、ONR、AFOSR和纽约州的支持。该系统将通过激光、光子学和生物光子学研究所(ILPB)作为研究设施进行维护和运营。这是一个由大学支持的研究所，汇集了来自科学和工程系、布法罗大学医学院和生物医学科学系以及其他大学的教职员工。一名兼职博士级别的技术支持人员将负责学生的日常操作和培训，并由教职员工监督。广泛的研究项目将利用这一设施：低维(纳米级)量子流体和磁体的基础物理，横向涨落单量子点中激子内部跃迁的研究(通过纳米孔)，纳米薄膜晶体管和纳米线的制备和评价，分子电子器件结构的制备和评价，以及纳米内含子结构的制备和基础研究。此外，该系统还将用于在纳米级光刻和器件/结构制造和表征方面教育和培训一代电气工程、物理和化学学生；它还将以一种重要的方式加强最近资助的NSF IGERT计划。%从主要研究仪器计划获得这一奖项后，纽约州立大学布法罗分校将获得一台高分辨率(1.5 nm)扫描电子显微镜，其功能是用作电子束光刻系统和用于纳米结构设备表征的晶片探针站，用于研究和教育目的。该系统将允许制造和测试金属、半导体和聚合物纳米结构，用于纳米电子、纳米光子学、自旋电子学和分子电子学应用，以及基础物理和化学研究。该系统将通过激光、光子学和生物光子学研究所(ILPB)作为研究设施进行维护和运营。这是一个由大学支持的研究所，汇集了来自科学和工程系、布法罗大学医学院和生物医学科学系以及其他大学的教职员工。一名兼职博士级别的技术支持人员将负责学生的日常操作和培训，并由教职员工监督。范围广泛的研究项目将利用这一设施。此外，该系统还将用于教育和培训一代电气工程、物理和化学方面的纳米级光刻和器件/结构制造和表征方面的学生；它还将以一种重要的方式加强最近资助的NSF IGERT计划。

With this award from the Major Research Instrumentation program, SUNY Buffalo will acquire a high-resolution (1.5 nm) scanning electron microscope equipped to function as an electron beam lithography system and a wafer probe station for nanostructure device characterization, both for research and education purposes. This system will permit fabrication and test of metal, semiconductor, and polymer nanostructures for nanoelectronic, nanophotonic, and spintronic and molectronic applications, as well as for basic physics and chemistry studies. This acquisition will enhance existing and planned research programs in the Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics and its affiliated materials activity, the Center for Advanced Photonic and Electronic Materials (CAPEM), as well as other research programs in the Departments of Chemistry, Physics and Electrical Engineering. Research efforts in these areas are presently supported by NSF, DARPA, ONR, AFOSR and New York State. The system will be maintained and operated as a research facility through the Institute of Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics (ILPB). This is a University-supported institute that brings together faculty from science and engineering departments, and from departments in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo, as well as from other universities. A half-time Ph.D.-level technical support person will be responsible for Daily operation and training of students, who will be supervised by faculty members. A wide range of research projects will make use of this facility: basic physics of low dimensional (nanoscale) quantum fluids and magnets, studies (through nano-apertures) of internal transitions of excitons in lateral fluctuation single quantum dots, fabrication and evaluation of nanoscale thin-film transistors and nanowires, fabrication and evaluation of molectronic device structures, and fabrication and basic studies of nanospintronic structures. In addition, this system will also be used to educate and train a generation of students in Electrical Engineering, Physics and Chemistry in nanoscale lithography and device/structure fabrication and characterization; it will also enhance in an important way a recently funded NSF IGERT program.%%%With this award from the Major Research Instrumentation program, SUNY Buffalo will acquire a high-resolution (1.5 nm) scanning electron microscope equipped to function as an electron beam lithography system and a wafer probe station for nanostructure device characterization, both for research and education purposes. This system will permit fabrication and test of metal, semiconductor, and polymer nanostructures for nanoelectronic, nanophotonic, and spintronic and molectronic applications, as well as for basic physics and chemistry studies. The system will be maintained and operated as a research facility through the Institute of Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics (ILPB). This is a University-supported institute that brings together faculty from science and engineering departments, and from departments in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo, as well as from other universities. A half-time Ph.D.-level technical support person will be responsible for Daily operation and training of students, who will be supervised by faculty members. A wide range of research projects will make use of this facility. In addition, this system will also be used to educate and train a generation of students in Electrical Engineering, Physics and Chemistry in nanoscale lithography and device/structure fabrication and characterization; it will also enhance in an important way a recently funded NSF IGERT program.