The research infrastructure (hereinafter RI) CEITEC Nano provides complex facilities and expertise for the experimental research in the field of nanotechnology and nanoscience. Since 2012 it has been operated as a single-sited national research infrastructure “under construction” which is expected to reach the fully operational state in 2016. Actually, about 180 users use one third of all planned technologies in RI CEITEC Nano.
Infrastructure:
| Nanofabrication and Nanocharacterization | Equipment |
| Structural Analysis Laboratory | Equipment |
The key aspect of the RI is to provide user’s access to one-site integrated clean-room facilities equipped with a complete set of tools for preparation and characterization of functional nanostructures and advanced materials finding their applications especially in the fields of nanoelectronics, nanophotonics, energy harvesting, biosensing and biomedicine.
The uniqueness of the RI in the Czech Republic and other Central European countries (e.g. Poland, Hungary and Slovakia) consists in providing of the complete set of methods for nanotechnology research via open access- and “self-service” user policy to both research teams of CEITEC and other users from academia and industry. Besides the full service expertise performed by the RI specialists, almost all the instruments available in the RI can be directly operated by the users increasing thus the utilization of RI equipment.
Thanks to its modern design, emphasizing equal approach to fabrication and characterization methods, the RI CEITEC Nano will also provide complementary services to nanotechnology RIs abroad where nanofabrication instruments generally predominate among the nanocharacterization ones.
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