Dedicated Facilities
Dedicated CINT resources, including the Core and Gateway facilities, are under construction. The CINT Core Facility will feature low vibration for sensitive characterization, chemical/biological synthesis labs, clean room for device integration, interaction areas and conference rooms, visitor office space, and high-speed communications. The CINT Gateway to Sandia will focus on nanomaterials and microfabrication from the existing Integrated Materials Research Laboratory (IMRL), while the CINT Gateway to Los Alamos will focus on biosciences and nanomaterials.

National User Facilities
The national user programs at Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL) provide a platform for CINT to lead the advancement of neutron scattering and high magnetic field techniques for nanoscale science research.

With completion of the Asterix spectrometer, LANSCE will have the world’s most intense source of polarized cold neutrons, which, along with neutron reflectometry and other neutron spectroscopies, will be essential for the study of complexity in nanomaterials.

The National Science Foundation NHMFL pulsed field facility that is coupled to the facilities in Tallahassee and Gainesville, Florida, represents a unique tunable nanoscale probe important for exploring nanostructured semiconductors, quantum systems, and complex materials.

Leveraged DOE Laboratory Facilities
At Sandia, the Compound Semiconductor Research Laboratory (CSR) and the Microelectronics Development Laboratory (MDL) provide an impressive array of state-of-the-art capabilities housed in about 100,000 sq ft of clean room space. Capabilities include metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) and molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) for crystal growth, a world-renowned center for MEMS technology, a state-of-the-art CMOS microelectronics foundry, e-beam writing, a focused ion beam, ion implanters, and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy. The Scanning Probes Laboratory houses unique and state-of-the-art instruments that are crucial to the advancement of nanoscience.

The Los Alamos Bioscience Division offers expertise that spans biochemistry, biomaterials, biophysics, soft and polymeric materials, chemical synthesis, self-assembly, spectroscopic techniques, structural characterization, and imaging and microscopy. This multidisciplinary approach will help establish important connections between fundamental science and potential applications in both biotechnologies and integrated systems.