NNCI: Nebraska Nanoscale Facility (NNF)

内布拉斯加州大学的内布拉斯加州纳米尺度设施(NNF)将为NNCI提供纳米科学和纳米技术方面的仪器和服务的区域卓越中心。它将为美国在制造、理解和利用新型纳米结构、材料和装置方面取得变革性进展的研究和教育基础设施作出贡献。这些结构和设备在当代技术中发挥着越来越重要的作用，包括信息处理、数字通信、能源处理、威胁检测传感器和生物医学中的超小型化。将特别注意满足美国中西部西部地区教育机构和工业对纳米技术的需求。NNF将通过产业合作、衍生产品、材料分析和向公司转让技术，显著促进经济发展。与新成立的内布拉斯加州创新园区和内布拉斯加大学国家安全研究所的互动和合作将产生国家影响。NNF的一个强大的教育外展计划专注于通过学生和教授-学生对的暑期研究体验、课外中学计划、社区-大学计划、微型课程等增加多样性。此外，还将继续与内布拉斯加州的美洲原住民和与温尼巴戈、桑蒂达科塔和奥马哈部落有关的部落学院开展教育和外联工作。NNF将以内布拉斯加州材料和纳米科学中心现有的中心设施为基础，大力推动内布拉斯加州和该地区的纳米技术研究和教育。中心和共享实验室设施包括：纳米制造洁净室、纳米材料和薄膜制备、纳米工程材料和结构、电子显微镜、X射线结构表征、扫描探针和材料表征、低维纳米结构合成和激光纳米制造和表征。这些设施大多位于32,000平方米的面积内。英国《金融时报》Voelte-Keegan纳米科学研究中心于2012年完工，由国家标准与技术研究所和内布拉斯加大学基金会提供重大赠款。纳米电子学、磁学以及能源材料和结构方面的强大研究小组支持了NNF的研究。NNF反过来将加强几个中心和重点研究计划，包括内布拉斯加州NSF-MRSEC：纳米铁性结构中的极化和自旋现象，DOE-EERE磁性材料联盟，SRC-NIST铁性设备中心，NSF-纳米混杂材料中心，以及其他。这些项目拥有许多国内和国际合作伙伴，将为NNF增添活力并提供广泛的用户基础。来自公司的数百名研究生和本科生、博士后研究助理以及来访的科学家和工程师每年都将从NNF最先进的设施中受益。

The Nebraska Nanoscale Facility (NNF) at the University of Nebraska will provide a regional center of excellence for instrumentation and service in nanoscience and nanotechnology to the NNCI. It will contribute to the United States research and educational infrastructure for transformative advances in the fabrication, understanding and utilization of novel nanostructures, materials and devices. These structures and devices play an increasingly critical role in contemporary technologies including ultraminiaturization in information processing, digital communications, energy processing, sensors for threat detection, and biomedicine. Special attention will be given to serving the nanotechnology needs of educational institutions and industry in the western region of the United States Midwest. NNF will significantly enhance economic development through industrial collaborations, spin-offs, materials analyses, and tech-transfer to companies. National impact will result from interactions and collaborations with the newly developing Nebraska Innovation Campus and the National Security Research Institute at the University of Nebraska. A strong education-outreach program at NNF is focused on increasing diversity through summer research experiences for students and professor-student pairs, after school middle-school programs, community-college programs, minicourses, and others. In addition, education and outreach efforts will be pursued with Native Americans and tribal colleges in Nebraska associated with the Winnebago, Santee Dakota, and Omaha tribes.NNF will build upon the established Central Facilities of the Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience to strongly galvanize research and education in nanotechnology in Nebraska and the region. The Central and Shared Laboratory Facilities include: Nanofabrication Cleanroom, Nanomaterials and Thin-Film Preparation, Nanoengineered Materials and Structures, Electron Microscopy, X-ray Structural Characterization, Scanning Probe and Materials Characterization, Low-Dimensional Nanostructure Synthesis, and Laser Nanofabrication and Characterization. Most of these facilities are housed in the 32,000 sq. ft. Voelte-Keegan Nanoscience Research Center that was completed in 2012 and funded by major grants from the National Institute for Standards and Technology and the University of Nebraska Foundation. The research in NNF is bolstered by strong research groups in nanoscale electronics, magnetism, and materials and structures for energy. NNF in turn will reinforce several centers and focused research programs including the Nebraska NSF-MRSEC: Polarization and Spin Phenomena in Nanoferroic Structures, DOE-EERE Consortium on Magnetic Materials, SRC-NIST Center for Ferroic Devices, NSF-Center for Nanohybrid Materials, and others. These programs have many national and international collaborators that will add vitality to and provide a broad base of users for the NNF. Hundreds of graduate and undergraduate students, postdoctoral research associates, and visiting scientists and engineers from companies will benefit each year from the state-of-the-art facilities in NNF.