The South West Ontario Nanotechnology Facility (SWONTF)

西南安大略纳米技术设施（SWONtF）整合了原本由西安大略大学（UWO）的三个主要实验室支持和管理的资源和专业知识：西部表面科学（SSW），西部界面科学（ISW）和UWO纳米制造实验室（NL）。这些资源今后将作为西部纳米材料科学研究所（WINS）的一个实体得到支持和管理，为西南安大略省地区和其他地区提供新的、开放的和负担得起的途径，以进行纳米尺度物质的高度竞争的跨学科研究。综合资源和专业知识的性质和广度在加拿大是独一无二的。重要的基础设施包括制备新材料、确定机械性能（包括纳米摩擦学）和纳米生物学（包括微流体）的设施。在纳米尺度上设计和制造材料和器件所需的所有工具，包括光学光刻和干涉测量，气相沉积，反应离子蚀刻，聚焦离子束铣削，电子束光刻，LB沉积，电子显微镜，椭偏仪和各种其他表征工具都可以在NL中使用。本应用的主要仪器包括：XPS；SIMS、TOF-SIMS、SEM-EDX、拉曼光谱、FTIR、AFM、电化学方法、Tandetron加速器和相关的MBE、离子散射和注入设施、van de Graaff加速器和腔室、用于缺陷表征的正电子加速器和OLED腔室。因此，这些资源提供了材料、器件、结构和表面在纳米尺度上的创建和分析（表征）。它支持电子和光子材料、纳米级化学、硬材料和极软材料（包括活细胞）的机械性能、腐蚀和磨损、新工具和技术的开发以及示范设备的研究。目前有80多名科学家和工程师在使用这些设施。

The South West Ontario Nanotechnology Facility (SWONtF) consolidates resources and expertise originally supported and managed in 3 major laboratories at The University of Western Ontario (UWO): Surface Science Western (SSW), Interface Science Western (ISW) and the UWO Nanofabrication Laboratory (NL). The resources will henceforth be supported and managed as one entity within the Western Institute for Nanomaterials Science (WINS) providing new, open and affordable access for the South Western Ontario area and beyond for highly competitive interdisciplinary research on matter at the nanoscale. The nature and breadth of the combined resources and expertise in one location is unique in Canada. Significant infrastructure includes facilities to prepare new materials, determine mechanical properties, including nanotribology, and for nanoscale biology including microfluidics. All the tools necessary to design and fabricate materials and devices on the nanometer length scale, including optical lithography and interferometry, gas phase deposition, reactive ion etching, focused ion beam milling, e-beam lithography, LB deposition, electron microscopy, ellipsometry and various other characterization tools are available in the NL.  The major instruments in this application include: XPS; SIMS, TOF-SIMS, SEM-EDX, Raman Spectroscopy, FTIR, AFM, electrochemical methods, a Tandetron accelerator and associated MBE and ion scattering and implantation facilities, a van de Graaff accelerator and chambers, a positron accelerator for defect characterization, and OLED chambers. These resources thus provide for both the creation and analysis (characterization) of materials, devices, structures, and surfaces at the nanometer length scale. It supports research on electronic and photonic materials, on nanoscale chemistry and on mechanical properties of both hard and very soft materials, including live cells, on corrosion and wear, and the development of new tools and techniques, as well as demonstrative devices. The facilities are currently used by over 80 scientists and engineers.