The Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) is located at the
University of Waterloo
The University of Waterloo (UWaterloo, UW, or Waterloo) is a public research university with a main campus in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is on of land adjacent to "Uptown" Waterloo and Waterloo Park. The university also operates ...
and is co-located with the
Institute for Quantum Computing
The Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) is an affiliate scientific research institute of the University of Waterloo located in Waterloo, Ontario with a multidisciplinary approach to the field of quantum information processing. IQC was founde ...
in the
Mike and Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre (QNC). WIN is currently headed by Dr.
Sushanta Mitra.
The Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology comprises 96 faculty from nine different departments in the faculties of Science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Environment.
Major research facilities
The Quantum-Nano centre is the site of a community laboratory for nano-metrology and nano-fabrication. Construction began on 9 June 2008 and is expected to be completed 21 September 2012. The 160 million dollar, facility will be the home to a laboratory.
Funding
Capital funding for construction of the QNC was made possible by major gifts and awards from multiple sources including a 101 million dollar donation from Ophelia and
Mike Lazaridis (co-CEO of
Research in Motion
BlackBerry Limited is a Canadian software company specializing in cybersecurity. Founded in 1984, it was originally known as Research In Motion (RIM). As RIM, it developed the BlackBerry brand of interactive pagers, smartphones, and tablet ...
and Chancellor of the University of Waterloo). Government funding includes 17.9 million dollars from the
Canada Foundation for Innovation The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI; french: Fondation canadienne pour l'innovation, ''FCI'') is an independent not-for-profit organization that invests in research facilities and equipment in Canada's universities, colleges, research hospital ...
(CFI) which has been matched by the Province of Ontario.
[University of Waterloo Quantum-Nano Fact Sheet] In addition, an anonymous donor has provided an endowment of 29 million dollars for 3 endowed chairs and 42 Graduate Nanofellowships.
Laboratories
Giga to Nano Electronics Laboratory
G2N is a
fabrication laboratory that integrates a range of thin-film manufacturing, assembly, testing, and characterization equipment to create electronic systems in the very large (a few billion
pixels
In digital imaging, a pixel (abbreviated px), pel, or picture element is the smallest addressable element in a raster image, or the smallest point in an all points addressable display device.
In most digital display devices, pixels are the sm ...
) and very small (a few
nanometres
330px, Different lengths as in respect to the molecular scale.
The nanometre (international spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures; SI symbol: nm) or nanometer (American and British English spelling differences#-re, ...
) size range.
WATLab
WATlab is a nano-materials
metrology
Metrology is the scientific study of measurement. It establishes a common understanding of units, crucial in linking human activities. Modern metrology has its roots in the French Revolution's political motivation to standardise units in Fran ...
research facility, equipped with surface and nano-materials research tools for exploring areas of nanotechnology and nano-scale sciences.
Advanced Micro-Nano Lab
The Advanced Micro-Nano Lab will address the following device technologies.
Advanced Micro/Nano-Devices Lab
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# Micro/Nanoelectromechanical Systems (MEMS/NEMS): micro-optics, electromechanical wireless components, and biomedical & microfluidics devices.
# Carbon Nanotube devices, eventually targeting biomedical applications.
References
External links
Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology
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Research institutes in Canada
Quantum information science
Nanotechnology institutions