Nanotechnology at your fingertips

NanoLabNL is the Netherland’s national facility with open-access infrastructure for nanotech research and nano-innovation. We maintain and develop the national infrastructure for nanotechnology. Our laboratories, cleanrooms, equipment, knowledge and network in nanotech make NanoLabNL the ideal starting point for research, development and small-batch production on an atomic scale.

A grand future with small nanostructures

The NanoLabNL facilities are an important link in the innovation process from basic idea to product. In this role NanoLabNL supports fundamental research, process and product development and small-scale production. We have been offering the use of our facilities and expertise to universities, research institutes, start-ups and industry.

Our Mission?

Our mission

Providing a full-service and open-access infrastructure for R&D in nanotechnology

In the field of micro- and nanotechnology, the foundation aims to:

Develop, disseminate and continuously update a vision with regard to research facilities

Facilitate current and foreseeable research as well as relevant technological developments

Monitor and promote the open and national character of the high-quality “nano” research facilities

Monitor the alignment of the NanoLabNL facilities and their current and prospective research programs, with (future) (inter) national research agendas

Promote the use of NanoLabNL facilities by the business community

NanoLabNL Manifesto

A testimony how a sustained nanotechnology infrastructure can prepare the Netherlands for a role in global transitions.

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Locations

As a Dutch national facility with open-access infrastructure for nanotechnology research and innovation, NanoLabNL provides cutting-edge facilities and expert support to universities, research institutes, start-ups, and industry. With five locations across the Netherlands, we are dedicated to advancing innovation and collaboration in the field of nanotechnology.

Facts & figures

NanoLabNL is featured on the Roadmap Large-scale scientific research and is a vital enabler for science and business:

  • 169.635Equipment hours booked
  • 1.304Active users
  • 600+PhD Projects
  • 1.452Publications
  • 20%Industrial use
  • 28Patents
  • 6Startups &
    spinoffs

Our organisation

NanoLabNL is a foundation comprising supervisory, advisory and executive roles and supported by a program office.

Contact

Dr. Thomas Swahn is Director for the Swedish Micro- and Nanofabrication Research Infrastructure ; Myfab, and Associate Professor at the Microwave Electronics Laboratory- Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience, Chalmers University of Technology, in Gothenburg, Sweden. He has a PhD (1993) in Theoretical Physics/Condensed Matter Theory, from Chalmers University of Technology. After finishing his PhD-studies, he spent 12 years in industry holding various research and management positions, at Ericsson, Allgon Systems and Optillion, before joining Chalmers Industrial Technologies in 2005. Lately, he has been involved in research on ultra-high speed IC design for microwave and millimeter wave communication systems, targeting data rates of 100 Gb/s or more.

Guus Rijnders investigates complex materials, particularly those used in electronic devices. He focusses on the structure-property relation of atomically engineered complex (nano)materials, especially thin film ceramic oxides. As one of the leaders in the field of PLD, and a driving force of interface engineering, Rijnders is one of the few major researchers who openly addresses controversial topics in the field. He has also successfully brought PLD from the laboratory to industry as the co-founder of two companies.

(Chair) Prof dr. Jos Benschop received his MSc (cum laude) and PhD from the physics faculty at The University of Twente. From 1984 until 1997 he worked at Philips on optical metrology and optical recording. He joined ASML in 1997 and currently holds the position of Senior Vice President Technology, is responsible for research and system engineering within ASML. Prof. Benschop has published 30+ papers and generated 20+ patents and worked as a part-time professor of Industrial Physics at the University of Twente until 2021. He is a SPIE fellow and also a member of the Netherlands Academy of Technology and Innovation (https://www.acti-nl.org/nl), and has been appointed by the king as advisor to the Dutch government on science, technology and innovation (https://www.awti.nl/ )

(TNO, Delft)

(AMOLF NanoLab Amsterdam)

(Else Kooi Laboratory, Delft | Kavli NanoLab)

(MESA+ NanoLab Twente)

TU/e Nanolab

NanoLab Delft (Chairman)

Marcos Guimaraes is an associate professor at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials at the University of Groningen. During his PhD he worked with electronic and spin transport in high-mobility devices based on graphene, and during his postdoc he broadened his research directions to include other two-dimensional materials and other techniques, such as high-frequency spin-orbit torque characterization and time-resolved magneto-optics through optical pump-probe measurements. Since 2019 he leads his own research group in Groningen, working on optical and opto-electronic studies of the interplay of light, charge and spins/magnetism in high-quality nanodevices based on van der Waals heterostructures.

Gary Steele is a professor of quantum physics at the department of Quantum Nanoscience in Delft. He comes from a background of condensed matter physics, studying the quantum Hall effect in semiconductors during my PhD. In his postdoc, he worked intensely on advanced and creative nanofabrication techniques with carbon nanotubes. In 2010, Gary started my own group in Delft, focussed on nanomechanics. The core aim of his research is to combine  superconducting quantum circuits, such as qubits, to create and explore quantum states of mechanical resonators, with the hope to be able to probe the interaction of quantum mechanics and general relativity.

Erwin Kessels is a full professor at the Department of Applied Physics of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). He is also the scientific director of the NanoLab@TU/e facilities which provides full-service and open-access clean room infrastructure for R&D in nanotechnology. Erwin’s research interests cover the field of synthesis of ultrathin films and nanostructures using methods such as (plasma-enhanced) chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and atomic layer deposition (ALD) for a wide variety of applications, mostly within the areas of nanoelectronics and photovoltaics. Within the field of ALD, he has contributed most prominently by his work on plasma-assisted ALD, his research related to ALD for photovoltaics, and ALD for nanopatterning (including area-selective ALD).

Currently, Erwin is focusing his research mostly on atomic scale processing, a field which is believed to grow in importance quickly in the next decade, for a wide variety of application domains.

Read more (tue.nl)

Prof. dr. Ewold Verhagen leads the new research group Photonic Forces at the FOM Institute AMOLF. His group studies photonics in high-quality microcavities and nanophotonic waveguides, with a special interest in the coupling between light and nanomechanical motion through radiation pressure forces in nanophotonic systems. In 2014, he was awarded the NWO Vidi grant to perform quantum measurements in nano-optomechanical systems.

Collaborations in Nanotechnology

The NanoLabNL ecosystem and infrastructure is essential in several high-tech collaborative research programmes targeting societal challenges.

Collaboration Quantum Delta NL and NanoLabNL

The National Growth Fund Quantum Delta NL focuses on strengthening the Dutch Quantum ecosystem by investing in three Catalyst programmes (quantum computing, quantum networks, and quantum sensing) and four action lines (knowledge base, ecosystem and valorisation, talent, and societal impact). NanoLabNL’s facilities contribute directly to strengthening these programmes and action lines. From the growth fund QDNL, EUR 150 million has been provided to NanoLabNL to invest in maintaining and expanding the Dutch nanotechnology infrastructure. Thanks to this investment, NanoLabNL will be able to make significant improvements in its facilities and acquire state-of-the-art high-tech equipment. This will further enhance the quality of research and development at the laboratories in Amsterdam, Delft, Eindhoven, Enschede and Groningen, ensuring that they remain at the forefront of quantum research.

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