Facilities

Collaborating Facilities

• NREC @ usf

The Nanotechnology Research and Education Center (NREC) at USF is a university-wide user facility dedicated to advanced fabrication and metrology. NREC provides state-of-the-art instrumentation, expert technical support, and specialized infrastructure to facilitate multidisciplinary research in nanomaterials, nanofabrication, and nanomanufacturing.

The center offers some fully equipped laboratories such as:

• • Cleanroom – A controlled environment for micro- and nanoscale device fabrication.
  • Metrology Suite – Houses advanced characterization tools, including Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), X-ray Diffraction (XRD), Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), and a Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FE-SEM) with Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS), as well as a Focused Ion Beam (FIB) system.
  • Test and Packaging Laboratory – Provides instrumentation for probing, wire bonding, packaging, and electronic testing of devices and circuits.
  • Thin Film Laboratory – Equipped with multiple physical vapor deposition (PVD) systems, including sputtering, e-beam evaporation, and thermal evaporation tools for thin-film growth.
  • Wet Chemistry Laboratory – Features acid/base wet benches, solvent processing stations, lab sinks, and tube-cleaning furnaces for chemical processes that do not require a cleanroom environment.

For more information, please visit the NREC website.

• NEutron scattering facilities:

  • NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR)
  • Spallation Neutron Source (SNS)
  • Oak Ridge National Lab
  • ISIS Muon and Neutron Source
  • Rutherford Appleton Lab

• synchotrons:

  • BESSY-II
  • Advanced Light Source (ALS)
  • Advanced Photon Source (APS)
  • National Synchotron Light Source - II (NSLS-II)

• Other collaborative labs:

• • HELIOS Extreme UV Source

  • Ångstrom Lab
  • Uppsala University