Facilities on the U of A campus

On campus, there is incredible depth of instrumentation and facilities for research into nanoscience. Through the affiliations of the Buriak group with both the University of Alberta and the National Institute for Nanotechnology, we are grateful to have access to all of the facilities listed below.

The National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT)

The National Institute for Nanotechnology is Canada's flagship institution, funded by the Federal Government of Canada, the Provincial Government of Alberta, the National Research Council (NRC), and the University of Alberta. The 15,000 square meter building is presently under construction, and will be completed within a year. NINT is temporarily housed in new engineering space on campus. Instrumentation now available includes:

Small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS): Bruker NanoStar and D8

AFM: New DI multimode IIIa and Dimension 3100 (with NanoMan)

SEM/STEM: Hitachi S-4800 (1 nm resolution) SEM/STEM and Hitachi 3500 Environmental SEM

Much more, including HREELS, Raman imaging, high resolution TEM, additional AFM/STM.

University of Alberta Micromachining and Nanofabrication Facility (Nanofab)

Top of the line facility for processing on the nanoscale, including lithography, deposition, wet and dry etching, e-beam lithography, deep silicon reactive ion etching, micro-embossing, among others.

Alberta Centre for Surface Engineering and Science (ACSES)

ACSES is a Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) funded centre focussing upon state-of-the-art surface techniques. Scientists and engineers from all over campus are using instruments such as XPS (including imaging XPS), SEM, EELS, ION-TOF, scanning auger microscopy, and others.

Centenially Centre for Interdisciplinary Sceiences (CCIS)

The new Centennial Centre for Interdiscplinary Science provides the infrastructure to allow teams of scientists to conduct their research in an interdisciplinary fashion. The building houses five teams from diverse disciplines who are pooling their knowledge and resources to think outisde traditional scientific boundaries. The teams are Nanostructures and New Materials (that's us), Integrated Earth and Landscape Management, Chemical Biology and Proteomics, Planetary Dynamics, and Resource Geosciences. The Buriak group moved into a new lab in CCIS in June 2011.