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RPI Facilities

Micro and Nanofabrication Cleanroom (MNCR)

RPI’s MNCR contains a broad range of processing, measurement, and fabrication tools enabling researchers to create new structures, devices, and systems at the micro and nanoscale. The MNCR, operated by the Center for Materials, Devices, and Integrated Systems (cMDIS), is a state-of-the-art, 10,000-square-foot, Class 100 multi-user facility with extensive tools and infrastructure. The MNCR performs end-to-end device fabrication, characterization, metrology and testing services to users from universities, local start-ups, and industrial institutions for research, education, and economic development. 

Contact: Kent Way, Interim Director of MNCR (wayk2@rpi.edu)

Learn more: https://cmdis.rpi.edu/facilities

The Nanoscale Characterization Core (NCC) 

The NCC provides a powerful suite of imaging, spectrometry, and diffraction instruments to interrogate structure, chemistry, and other properties from the atomic- to microscales.

Contact: Dr. Katharine Dovidenko, Director of NCC (dovidk2@rpi.edu)

Learn more: https://cmdis.rpi.edu/facilities

Polymer Processing and Characterization Core

Polymer Processing and Characterization Core is a combination of laboratories to prepare and process polymers and composite materials with testing and characterization capabilities at the nano and micro scale.
Contact: Dr. Katharine Dovidenko, Director of NCC (dovidk2@rpi.edu)

Learn more: https://cmdis.rpi.edu/facilities

The Electron Microscopy Core

The Electron Microscopy Core, managed jointly by the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) and Center for Materials, Devices, and Integrated Systems (cMDIS) provides TEM and SEM imaging, diffraction and spectroscopy capabilities, and a broad range of sample preparation facilities. 

Learn more: https://mse.rpi.edu/research/facilities/electron-microscopy-laboratory

Quantum Computing

RPI is the first university to host an IBM quantum computer on its campus. The Quantum System One at RPI is powered by a 127-qubit IBM Quantum ‘Eagle’ processor, which offers RPI’s network of researchers, students and partners dedicated access to a utility-scale quantum computer.

Learn more: https://foci.rpi.edu/computing-resources/rpi-quantum-computing