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Ithaca is a single university town with an outsized place in nanotechnology, thanks to Cornell. The Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility, often just called the CNF, is one of the oldest and most established open-user nanofabrication facilities in the United States, taking outside researchers from academia and industry for decades. Cornell pairs it with deep programs in materials, applied physics, and electrical engineering, giving the town real strength in nanoscale devices, photonics, MEMS, and the fabrication methods that underpin them.
Almost all activity sits on Cornell's Ithaca campus, centered on Duffield Hall and the surrounding engineering and physical-science buildings, where the cleanroom and characterization tools are concentrated. The draw for outside groups is the CNF itself, since it runs as a shared national facility rather than a single lab and trains visiting users on its tools. Ithaca sits within the broader upstate New York technology corridor, but its nanotechnology weight comes almost entirely from the university.
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Locations of nanotechnology research labs and companies across the Ithaca NY area. Click any marker for the institution’s profile and to find hotels nearby.
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Cornell University
11 nano groups
Cornell Center for
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Cornell NanoScale Science
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Kavli Institute at
1 nano group
PARADIM
1 nano group
Research Labs & Groups
The following nanotechnology research groups and labs are based in the Ithaca NY area.
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Ithaca
An NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) at Cornell whose unifying theme is materials structured at the nanoscale, uniting more than 100 faculty and operating shared facilities for materials analysis and processing.
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Ithaca
Subjects of research encompass physical sciences, life sciences, and engineering, particularly with inter-disciplinary emphasis
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Ithaca
Research group of Prof. Hector D. Abruna in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, studying the electrochemistry of new materials for fuel cells and batteries, including nanostructured electrocatalysts and core-shell nanoparticle catalysts.
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Ithaca
The Craighead research group at Cornell focuses on creating nanoscale devices using established and newly-developed techniques. A major motivation is to develop methods to pattern, sort, and analyze biological materials.
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Ithaca
Research group of Prof. Lara A. Estroff in Materials Science and Engineering, studying bio-inspired materials synthesis and biomineralization, including the growth of nanocrystals and nanocomposites in hydrogels.
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Ithaca
Research group of Prof. Gregory D. Fuchs in Applied and Engineering Physics, studying spin dynamics at the nanoscale, including nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond and time-resolved nanoscale magnetic imaging.
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Ithaca
Research group of Prof. Tobias Hanrath in the Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, studying semiconductor nanocrystals and quantum-dot solids for solar energy conversion and energy storage.
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Ithaca
The McEuen Group runs the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics at Cornell. Reaerch focus is on proberties of carbon nanotubes, SPM of nanostructures, single molecule electronics and applications of nanoelectronics in chemistry and biology
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Ithaca
The Muller group is the research group of Prof. David A. Muller, a faculty member of the Applied and Engineering Physics department of Cornell University. The group's research typically centres around the investigation of the underlying physics of functional nanostructures, primarily by the application of advanced microscopic and spectroscopic techniques.
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Ithaca
Research group of Prof. Daniel C. Ralph in the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, studying the electronic and magnetic properties of nanometer-scale devices with a focus on spintronics and spin-transfer-torque phenomena.
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Ithaca
Research group of Prof. Richard D. Robinson in Materials Science and Engineering, working on size, shape and composition controlled colloidal synthesis of nanocrystals and nanoparticle assemblies for energy and catalytic applications.
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Ithaca
This research group aims at understanding complex phenomena at the nanoscale that are of fundamental relevance to fiber and polymer science.
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Ithaca
Research group of Prof. Ulrich Wiesner in Materials Science and Engineering, focused on block copolymer self-assembly and polymer-based nanomaterials, including fluorescent core-shell silica nanoparticles known as C dots for nanomedicine.
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Ithaca
The central scientific focus of the Kavli Institute at Cornell is to ddress the major challenges and opportunities for science at the atomic and molecular scale.
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Ithaca
An NSF Materials Innovation Platform at Cornell for designing and creating new interface and quantum materials by design, with user facilities for molecular-beam epitaxy thin-film growth, electron microscopy and theory.
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Nanotech Companies
Commercial nanotechnology companies based in the Ithaca NY area.
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Ithaca
Develops and to markets a novel, automated chip-based technology for mass spectrometry users with the microfluidics chip containing an array of nanoelectrospray nozzles.
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Ithaca
Develops cobalt-free lithium-sulfur battery materials, including cathode actives, electrolytes and cell designs, based on Cornell technology for higher energy density and lower cost in drones, micromobility and electric vehicles.
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Ithaca
Cornell spinout commercializing ultrawide-bandgap gallium oxide (Ga2O3) transistors and diodes for more efficient, compact power electronics in EV charging, grid and aerospace applications.
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Ithaca
Cornell spinout developing chip-based gigahertz ultrasonic imagers that capture high-resolution video of samples at the micro and nanoscale without light, for agriculture, biomedical assays and fingerprint sensing.
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Ithaca
Develops the SiGraph anode additive, which encases silicon in a graphene nanoweb to raise the energy density of lithium-ion batteries, based on nanomaterials technology from the Joo Group at Cornell Engineering.
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Ithaca
The company has historically specialized in the design and manufacture of instruments for optical spectroscopy. Although originally conceived for surface cleaning in optical spectroscopy and general optics, Harrick Scientific's plasma devices have found service in a wide variety of applications and in numerous technical fields.
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Ithaca
iFyber develops, licenses and sells nanoparticle coating technology used to functionalize natural and synthetic textiles for high-end technical applications.
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Ithaca
Phoebus Optoelectronics LLC is a small business leader in the technology fields of metamaterials, photonic crystals and plasmonic crystals. Phoebus Optoelectronics brings together expert scientists and engineers who specialize in advanced optical modeling and design, nano/micro fabrication and device testing.
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Ithaca
Cornell spinout developing aluminum nitride and gallium nitride based RF power amplifiers that deliver higher power density and longer signal range for 5G, satellite communications and radar systems.
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