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UCSD’s state-of-the-art Nano3 facility includes nanofabrication and semiconductor process equipment as well as microstructural and other characterization facilities. It is a part of Calit2 building at UCSD.
In addition to providing essential nanofabrication capabilities for research on electronic and optoelectronic materials and devices, the facility is intended to facilitate the pursuit of research in emerging, interdisciplinary, and rapidly growing fields. Nano3 provides advanced capabilities for fabrication and characterization in a top of the line 1,200 square foot ‘class-100’ cleanroom. This facility supports three exciting fields of Nanoscience, Nanoengineering and Nanomedicine in UCSD, and the available equipment includes electron beam lithography capability, photolithography/semiconductor processing capability, thin film deposition systems, and high-resolution SEM and other structural characterization facilities.
Materials Science graduate students are active users of these facilities which operate on a user fee basis after some basic training.
As the primary biochemical structure analysis core, instrumentation
will provide opportunities to discover the 3-dimensional structures and complexes
of macromolecules and their biological functions. These measurement capabilities
range from single molecules up through the molecular collections and will allow
quantitative analysis of the biochemical and biophysical properties of proteins,
nucleic acid, and their regulators.
The new
technologies located in the IMAGING CORE FACILITY provide dynamic, high-resolution
images of cellular architecture, from molecular to cellular assemblies. This core
is particularly important if we are to cogently make the link between molecular
structure and organisms.
In the near future,
the entire genome of organisms, including humans will be sequenced. Microarray,
(commonly referred to as gene-chip) technology revolutionizes biochemical experimentation.
In this core facility, researchers will be able to simultaneously monitor the
response of individual genes as conditions in a cell of an organism changes. The
technologies in this facility will lead to the next generation of novel therapeutics,
patient-specific designer drugs and customized proteins.
Led by a cross-disciplinary team of world-re-known
researchers, this facility will envelop the functions of all other core facilities
and enable the modeling, visualization, and prediction of complex molecular structure.
It will become a test bed for understanding the links between the molecular structure
and biochemical activity. This facility leverages the extraordinary computational
facilities and faculty at UCSD and the development of the CAL(IT)2.
The Division is ranked third nationwide in the
production of American Chemical Society certified chemists. Graduate programs
in the Physical Sciences were ranked among the highest in a recent U.S. News and
World Report survey. Seven new wet labs and one new computer lab will support
continued high ratings among our peers and in industry with additional hands-on
learning opportunities for undergraduates, graduates, and industry employees.
As an interdisciplinary support core to both the macromolecular and
imaging facilities, instrumentation will provide the infrastructure
to obtain dynamic, high-resolution images of cellular architecture and
allow quantitative analysis of the biochemical and biophysical properties
of proteins, nucleic acids and their regulators in the other facilities.
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California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (CAL-(IT)2)
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