NNCI: Nebraska Nanoscale Facility (NNF)

非技术描述：内布拉斯加州纳米设施（NNF）将继续作为NNCI区域用户设施，服务于美国中西部西部地区小型学院、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前沿研究，越来越重视新兴的量子材料和技术以及纳米技术设备的制造，这可以导致新的消费产品。更新后的NNF继续为美国的研究和教育基础设施做出贡献，以促进新型纳米结构、材料和器件的制造、表征、理解和利用方面的变革性进步。这些结构和设备在当代技术中发挥着越来越重要的作用，包括信息技术、数字通信、能源处理、威胁检测传感器和生物医学。NNF强大的教育外展（E/O）项目侧重于通过学生暑期研究经历、课后中学项目、社区大学项目、迷你课程等增加多样性和包容性。NNF的E/O活动包括在内布拉斯加州与Winnebago、Santee Dakota和Omaha部落有关的印第安人和部落学院的项目，并帮助吸引学生从事工程和科学事业。技术描述：作为NNCI的一个组成部分，内布拉斯加州纳米设施（NNF）为来自美国中西部西部地区的学术界、工业界和政府实验室的用户提供开放和负担得起的先进仪器设施、专业知识、培训和服务，包括纳米科学、纳米技术、材料科学和工程。NNF提供了通往八个核心设施和两个与之相关的共享设施的单门通道。NNF是美国中西部西部地区唯一的设施，拥有一系列先进的研究仪器，结合了尖端技术，智力能力和专业知识，向该地区的所有用户开放。更新后的NNF为外部用户提供了方便地访问专用于先进纳米制造、纳米材料表征、化学分析和增材制造的系统。NNF装备支持纳米材料、量子材料和超材料的研究，以及纳米磁性和纳米生物器件的制造和测试。在纳米电子学、纳米磁学、纳米光子学以及能源材料和结构方面，NNF的研究得到了强大的研究小组的支持。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。数百名研究生和本科生，博士后助理，访问科学家和工程师继续受益于NNF最先进的设施。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 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.