CNI SHARED LABORATORIES

CNI Shared Laboratories provide access to cutting-edge equipment and services for student and faculty researchers at Columbia University, external academic institutions, as well as researchers from government, entrepreneurial ventures, and industrial companies.

The shared facilities include a wide range of micro and nanofabrication processing, characterization, and imaging instruments. The CNI Nano Fabrication Clean Room offers access to a comprehensive set of tools for micro-/nano-fabrication for applications such as nano-electronic/photonic devices, micro and nano-electromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS), flexible electronics, nano-bio interfaces, and more. The Materials Characterization Laboratory and the Electron Microscopy Laboratory provide access to state-of-the-art instruments for chemical and structural characterization of materials at the micro- and nanoscale.

Users are charged nominal fees for the use of individual instruments. These charges are intended to cover the cost of machine regular maintenance and consumables. The labs do not seek to profit from user charges.

WHERE DO I SIGN UP?
In order to become a user of our labs, click on the respective lab of interest and follow the access protocol (Clean Room, SMCL, and EM). Sign up for the CNI labs newsletter,  using this link (CNI labs newsletter), for important lab related announcements, and open a Badger account which is required for the use of all of our labs. The new user account form for internal users can be downloaded here: New User Account Form.

Users of the lab are strongly encouraged to acknowledge CNI labs and MRSEC facilities in their publications using this recommended wording:

“The authors acknowledge the use of facilities and instrumentation supported by NSF through the Columbia University, Columbia Nano Initiative, and the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center DMR-2011738”.

For more information please contact Dr. Nava Ariel-Sternberg or email cnilabs@columbia.edu.

The CNI labs team December 2023