Cornell NanoScale Facility

03/19/2024

Tom Pennell, CNF Youth Outreach Coordinator Extraordinaire, partnered with the Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga BOCES welding program to train students in the kind of welding needed for a cleanroom facility.

Cornell NanoScale Facility is helping expose youth to jobs.

03/11/2024

Cornell NanoScale Facility Innovates Nanotechnology Education for Students of All Ages — partnering with Micron Technology!

The Cornell NanoScale Facility is partnering with Micron Technology on workforce development initiatives, education and outreach.

02/02/2024

Allison Godwin, an expert in engineering education and associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has been appointed associate director of the Cornell NanoScale Facility (CNF), effective January 3, 2024. Please help us welcome Allison! https://www.cnf.cornell.edu/node/461

01/31/2024

Cornell NanoScale Facility Helps Develop a Workforce - Thomas Pennell, education and outreach coordinator andCNF process integration specialist, talks about the ATLAS Program he created and leads.

https://www.cnf.cornell.edu/node/460

12/05/2023

"Nanoscience is for Everyone!" For Rachel Miller, the path from aspiring astronaut to nanoscience researcher has been a long and winding road. From her childhood in Los Angeles to completing her Ph.D. at Cornell University in June 2023 (research performed in part at the CNF). Miller says, "I would like to teach science and engineering not just as part of a curriculum, but also as a lens to find solutions to problems..." Link to full article in the comments!

11/06/2023

Registration is now OPEN! CNF Technology & Characterization at the Nanoscale (CNF TCN) VIRTUAL Short Course. The 2024 CNF TCN virtual short course will be held Wednesday, January 10th through Friday, January 12th, daily from 11:00am to 4:00pm (ET). For more information and to register visit: https://cnf.cornell.edu/education/tcn (Registration deadline, January 5, 2024)

10/12/2023

Waveguides! Gallium! Explosive Lycopodium! Pennell!

Nanoday 2023 was a riot!

The Cornell NanoScale Facility partnered with our great friends at the Micron Foundation and the Museum of Science & Technology (MOST) to give the 5th graders at Millard Fillmore Elementary School a fun look at the world of nanotechnology!

We explored nanorobotics, photonics, materials science and micro particles in a fun and interactive one hour demo session. My favorite part was the “is it science or is it magic” part where I blew the audience’s mind with a gallium spoon and shape memory alloy wire!

CNF also provided four nano experiments for the kids to do in class along with Nanooze magazines for the school library. The Micron Foundation and MoST put the icing on the cake by giving every 5th grade student and the educators at the school a free pass to visit the new Micron “Deconstructed” exhibit at the MoST in Syracuse, NY!

Our sincere thanks go out to our partners for helping us give these kids an amazing experience!

CNF partnered with our great friends at the Micron Foundation and the Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science and Technology (MoST) to bring some exciting nan...

10/10/2023

We are very pleased to announce -- "Judy Cha Named Director of CNF" -- link in comments!

03/27/2023

The CNF family mourns the passing of Prof. Ed Wolf, first director for the National Research and Resource Facility for Submicron Structures (NRRFSS) at Cornell, which later became CNF. Ed was a long time supporter of CNF and Cornell and a great friend. His leadership 45 years ago set CNF on the path to where we are today.

Edward Dean Wolf, a pioneer in nanofabrication who joined Cornell in 1978 as the first director of what would become the Cornell Nanoscale Science and Technology Facility, died March 11 in Ithaca. He was 87.

02/03/2023

✅Replace 400+ HEPA filters
✅Repair Main Air Handler
✅Replace exhaust duct
🕗Re-opening to researchers scheduled for Monday, 2/20!

01/06/2023

Scaffolding is set up in wet chemistry and behind the Heidelberg mask writers to enable access to the exhaust lines being replaced.

12/21/2022

The shutdown has begun! With over 400 HEPA filters to replace, CNF will remain closed until mid-February. Shhhh…the tools are sleeping 🥱😴