A premier research laboratory in the College of Engineering, the Carnegie Mellon Nanofabrication Facility is one of the most well equipped university based facilities for thin film and nano/micro device development in the United States. The Nanofab includes a cleanroom with 2,600 square feet of class 100 space and 1,200 square feet of class 10 space, as well as three thin film labs. The Nanofab is a self supporting facility managed by the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department and occupies space on the F level of Hamerschlag Hall and on the second floor of Roberts Engineering Hall.

Matt Moneck from Prof. Jimmy Zhu's group in the DSSC, using the FEI Sirion/Nabity E-Beam Lithography system to expose 75 nm I.D. rings for MRAM device fabrication.

Andreas Schaefer from University College London, in collaboration with Prof. Nathan Urban's Lab in the Biology Department, using the Micrion 2500 FIB to fabricate tungsten nano-probes for cellular recording.

The facility was originally constructed by the university to support the thin film and solid state electronics research conducted primarily by the DSSC and the ECE department. Research requiring the use of the facility is inherently multidisciplinary. Faculty, staff, and students access the labs and collaborate on projects originating from Electrical & Computer Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Physics, Robotics, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, DSSC, MEMS Lab, ICES, CNXT, and industry. Areas of research include process development of data storage materials and devices, microelectromechanical systems, semiconductor materials and quantum structures, and integrated electro-optics.

FIB cross-section of resonator beams from Chiung Lo of Prof. Gary Fedder's group in the MEMS lab, fabricated using the Carnegie Mellon CMOS-MEMS process (ASIMPS).