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Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies

Helping you understand, create, and characterize nanomaterials

CINT RESEARCH FACILITIES

The CINT user community has access to multiple, national research capabilities including the CORE Facility in Albuquerque, NM and the Gateway Facility in Los Alamos, NM.

CINT researchers may also access select non-CINT capabilities at Los Alamos and Sandia national laboratories on a limited basis. Joint proposals involving nearby national user facilities, including the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory are encouraged.

Collectively, these facilities provide laboratory and office space for researchers to synthesize and characterize nanostructured materials, theoretically model and simulate their performance, and integrate nanoscale materials into larger-scale systems in a flexible, clean-room environment.

Materials Synthesis: Capabilities include molecular beam epitaxy, physical and chemical vapor deposition, pulsed laser deposition, inorganic, organic and polymer synthesis, nanoparticles and nanowires, thin film deposition, membranes and monolayers, mesoporous materials, biomaterial synthesis, biomolecular recognition.
Characterization: Capabilities include scanning probe microscopies, electron microscopies, optical spectroscopy and microscopy, single molecule spectroscopy, ultrafast laser spectroscopies, nano/micro-mechanics, Raman microscopy, terahertz spectroscopy, and transport.
Nano-Micro Integration: Capabilities include optical and electron beam lithography, soft nanolithography, focused ion beam, etching, and deposition.
Theory and Simulation: Capabilities include atomistic theory, predictive capability development, interpretation and design of experiments, multi-scale material modeling, and large scale computing.
Discovery Platforms™: Modular, micro-laboratories designed and fabricated expressly for the purpose of integrating nano and micro length scales and for studying the physical and chemical properties of nanoscale materials and devices.

CINT FACILITIES

Core Facility at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque

The 96,000 square foot CORE facility features low vibration for sensitive characterization, chemical and biological synthesis labs, a clean room for device integration, interaction areas and conference rooms, visitor office space, and high-speed communications.

Gateway Facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory

The CINT Gateway Facility brings together materials science and bioscience capabilities. The 36,500 square foot laboratory and office building complex features approximately 11,000 square feet of laboratory space for synthesis, characterization, fabrication, and advanced computation.

LABORATORY FOR ULTRAFAST MATERIALS AND OPTICAL SCIENCE (LUMOS)

The LUMOS Team at CINT seeks to understand and control the interaction of photons with materials’ electronic, spin, and structural behavior on the ultrafast time scale for missions of national security.

The LUMOS facility is equipped with ultrafast laser systems covering a broad spectral range that spans the far-infrared to the soft X-ray portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. These systems enable a multitude of ultrafast spectroscopic and imaging experiments, including optical-pump terahertz-probe spectroscopy, high harmonic generation extreme ultraviolet spectroscopies, and scanning probe imaging and spectroscopies. We work closely with the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies to study and develop novel materials for a wide range of applications.

CO-LOCATED FACILITIES

The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory — MagLab

An international user program for research in high magnetic fields.

Los Alamos Neutron Science Center — LANSCE

Serving an international user community in support of civilian and national security research.

Microsystems Engineering, Science and Applications (MESA)

Sandia National Laboratory Ion Beam Laboratory