The National Science Foundation has renewed its funding for the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility (CNF), with a five-year, $7.5 million grant to continue supporting academic and commercial research in nanofabrication – the design and manufacture of devices measured in nanometers.
The grant funds CNF’s participation in the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure(NNCI), a network providing engineers and scientists from academia, government and industry with rapid, hands-on access to advanced nanofabrication tools and staff expertise they couldn’t afford on their own.
In this photograph, CNF REU student intern Austin Little (2014) works with one of the CNF sputtering systems. Credit: Photograph by Don Tennant, courtesy Melanie-Claire Mallison, Cornell NanoScale Facility