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使用这些资源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，可供来自其他大学、行业或政府的任何研究人员开放使用：斯坦福纳米共享设施（SNSF）、斯坦福纳米制造设施（SNF）、斯坦福微化学分析设施（MAF）和斯坦福同位素和地球化学测量和分析设施（SIGMA）。这些设施配备了技术专家，致力于支持科学的进步，并共同跨越全方位的制造和表征方法，以服务于广泛的用户群体。该网站欢迎所有学科；研究人员利用这些设施来解决能源、环境、医学等领域的现实问题。该网站还接待艺术家和教师，因为它的使命是培训和教育，不仅是设施中的研究人员，而且是任何想要学习实验性纳米科学和技术的人。nano@stanford建立了一个及时的教育材料库，旨在为最新的研究人员建立基础知识，并向世界各地的每个人开放。nano@stanford已经制定并将扩大劳动力发展、教师培训和K-12教育项目。通过NNCI网络中的合作伙伴，nano@stanford将继续将这些努力扩展到课堂和实验室之外的教育领域。技术描述：nano@stanford提供全面的纳米制造和纳米表征设备和专业知识，位于约30,000平方英尺的实验室空间内，包括16,000平方英尺的洁净室，其中6,000平方英尺是低振动。制造能力由一个完整的电子设备制造洁净室和一个纳米图案实验室组成，辅以十几个实验室空间，提供专业和灵活的处理系统。表征能力包括成像和材料化学/物理性质识别的全套工具。nano@stanford提供了通常不提供给整个研究界的高级功能。这些专业能力包括：用于生长III-V材料结晶膜的MOCVD；电子束光刻可用于200mm以下的晶圆；用于高横向分辨率同位素分析的NanoSIMS扫描SQUID以获得高分辨率的地表磁场图。经验丰富的技术人员支持所有研究人员，他们使用这些设施开发和表征先进的结构，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，悬臂探针，纳米场效应管，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，并为纳米好奇者提供个人咨询，种子资助，制造和表征服务，研讨会和网络研讨会。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 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.