The CNI Shared Lab Facilities are open to student and faculty researchers, as well as those from government, start-ups, and industry. The Clean Room offers a comprehensive set of tools for microfabrication and nanofabrication. The Materials Characterization Laboratory and the Electron Microscopy Laboratory offer state-of-the-art instruments for chemical and structural characterization of materials.

News

Columbia’s CUbiC featured in Columbia Engineering’s Year-in-Review. Read about the groundbreaking advances SEAS researchers made in 2023 here.

Columbia’s CUbiC recently held its inaugural annual review. Read about its recent advances in addressing data and connectivity bottlenecks here.

CNI professors Keren Bergman, Alex Gaeta and Michal Lipson published a paper in Nature Photonics about transferring data with many colors of light simultaneously. Read more and access this paper, titled, “Massively scalable Kerr comb-driven silicon photonic link," here.

CNI professors Keren Bergman, Alex Gaeta and Michal Lipson published a paper in Nature Photonics about transferring data with many colors of light simultaneously. Read more and access this paper, titled, “Massively scalable Kerr comb-driven silicon photonic link," here.

Optica names Alex Gaeta 2023 Stephen D. Fantone Distinguished Service Award Recipient. Read more about this distinguished award here.

CNI Director Keren Bergman speaks about use of silicon photonics for HPC. Professor Keren Bergman talks about silicon photonics and the future of HPC on HPCpodcast. Read more about this and listen to the podcast here.

In The Lab with Michal Lipson's PhD student Mateus Corato Zanarella. Mateus walks us through a new tunable laser platform he helped invent, and discusses Michal Lipson’s nanophotonics lab. Read more about Mateus’s work here.

Columbia University and Partners Win $35M JUMP 2.0 Grant to Create Center for Ubiquitous Connectivity. Read more.

In Memoriam: Aron Pinczuk (1939-2022). Read more.

Columbia’s Materials Science Center

Nanotechnology is at the Core of Columbia’s New Materials Research Center. 

History of the CNI

The center builds upon a long research history in multidisciplinary research.

CNI Shared Laboratories

The shared laboratories provide access to cutting edge equipment and innovative research.