NTNU opens new NanoLab facility

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has opened its €22.4 million NanoLab clean room. The new facility will give researchers from across physics, chemistry and biology access to a range of nanotechnology tools and facilities.

The clean room is equipped with advanced filtering and vibration control systems to enable scientists to make ultra-precise measurements and manipulate materials at the nanoscale. “This makes the laboratory unique in Norway today,” said Bjørn Torger Stokke, chair of the board of NTNU NanoLab.

The new laboratory has five rooms, one for synthesis using chemical methods, one for synthesis using physical methods and a third for bionanotechnology research. Two other rooms are designed for characterisation and other research. The lab is equipped with nano imprinting lithography, electron beam lithography with scanning electron microscope, field emission gun scanning electron microscope, inductively coupled plasma reactive ion etch, focused ion beam, scanning tunneling electron microscope, atomic force microscope, scanning electrochemical microscope and an article size analyser.