The South West Ontario Nanotechnology Facility (SWONTF)

西南安大略纳米技术设施（SWONtF）巩固了资源和专业知识，最初在西部安大略大学（UWO）的3个主要实验室支持和管理：表面科学西部（SSW），界面科学西部（ISW）和UWO纳米纤维实验室（NL）。今后，这些资源将作为西部纳米材料科学研究所（Western Institute for Nanomaterials Science）的一个实体得到支持和管理，为安大略西南部地区及其他地区提供新的、开放的和负担得起的途径，用于对纳米级物质进行竞争激烈的跨学科研究。在一个地方综合资源和专门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。NL提供设计和制造纳米尺度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、椭圆偏振仪和各种其他表征工具。 该应用中的主要仪器包括：XPS、西姆斯、TOF-SIMS、SEM-EDX、拉曼光谱、FTIR、AFM、电化学方法、Tandetron加速器和相关MBE以及离子散射和注入设施、货车de Graaff加速器和腔室、用于缺陷表征的正电子加速器以及OLED腔室。因此，这些资源提供了纳米长度尺度的材料、器件、结构和表面的创建和分析（表征）。它支持电子和光子材料，纳米化学和硬和非常软的材料，包括活细胞，腐蚀和磨损的机械性能的研究，以及新工具和技术的开发，以及演示设备。这些设施目前由80多名科学家和工程师使用。

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.