Integrated NanoMaterials Lab

Diana Huffaker, Faculty Director
Baolai Liang, Lab Manager
Kalyan Nunna , Lab Manager

The Integrated NanoMaterials laboratory is a state of art nano-materials synthesis and characterization facility. The focus of this laboratory is to address critical technological needs of the future through nano-material development and to integrate nano-material science with disciplines such as electronics, photonics, renewable energy, chemistry, biology, physics and medicine.

The Integrated NanoMaterials laboratory features a state of art GEN 930 III-V and Si molecular beam epitaxy reactor with an unprecedented array of material synthesis, characterization and growth monitoring tools. The reactor is designed to realize optimal epitaxy for lasers, detectors, solar-cells, thermo-photo-voltaics and transistors. The nano-material synthesis capabilities include the ability to grow nano-wires, nano-pillars, quantum dots and single atomic layer thick semiconductor films. The cluster configuration envisioned around this reactor will allow the study of - structural, optical and electronic properties of nano-materials under pristine ultra-high vacuum conditions using a range of microscopes including a scanning electron microscope, scanning tunneling microscope and low-energy electron microscope.

The laboratory serves the research and development requirements for several research teams at UCLA, national and international academic partners, national laboratories and industrial partners. The extensive technological advancements made by this lab in the area of integrated III-Sb/CMOS optoelectronics, photonics and electronics forms the basis for a large number of the industrial partnerships.

The Integrated NanoMaterials Lab at CNSI is currently under construction.