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Rochester is the optics capital of the United States, and its nanotechnology grows out of that strength. The University of Rochester's Institute of Optics awards a large share of the country's optics degrees, and the university operates URnano, an open nanofabrication center serving academic and industry users. Rochester is also home to the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, the largest university based research program funded by the Department of Energy, which runs some of the most powerful lasers in academia. The combination gives the region unusual depth in nanophotonics, optical materials, and imaging.
Activity centers on the University of Rochester and a surrounding base of optics, photonics, and imaging companies, a legacy of the region's long history in lenses, film, and precision instruments. URnano is the practical draw for outside groups needing fabrication, while the laser laboratory anchors high-end optical and materials research. Rochester links into the wider upstate New York microelectronics and photonics corridor, but its optics driven profile is distinct from Ithaca and Albany.
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Locations of nanotechnology research labs and companies across the Rochester NY area. Click any marker for the institution’s profile and to find hotels nearby.
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The following nanotechnology research groups and labs are based in the Rochester NY area.
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Rochester
As part of RIT's Microsystems Engineering Ph.D. Program, the 'epitaxially-integrated nanoscale systems' (EINS) lab focuses on applied physics and engineering at the nanometer scale. At the center of the group's research is the atomic-level assembly or epitaxy of III-V compound semiconductors by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD).
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Rochester
The Future Photon Initiative is a cross-disciplinary RIT research effort spanning eleven groups that develop photonic and nanophotonic devices for the generation, manipulation and detection of light, with applications in quantum information, imaging, communications and sensing.
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Rochester
The NanoPower Research Labs at RIT are dedicated to the development of new materials and devices for power generation and storage for microelectronic components and micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS).
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University
Rochester
The multidisciplinary program builds on the fundamentals of traditional engineering and science, combined with curriculum and research activities addressing the numerous technical challenges of micro- and nano-systems. These include the manipulation of electrical, photonic, optical, mechanical, chemical, and biological functionality to process, sense, and interface with the world at a nanometer scale. The goal is to provide the foundation to explore future technology through research in nano-engineering, design methods, and technologies for micro- and nano-scaled systems.
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Rochester
The RIT Semiconductor Nanofabrication Laboratory (formerly the Semiconductor and Microsystems Fabrication Laboratory) is a 10,000-square-foot cleanroom user facility supporting micro- and nanoscale fabrication and characterization for microelectronics, integrated photonics, nanotechnology, MEMS, nanomaterials and biomedical devices.
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University
Rochester
Project areas include: Nanostructured materials for biological sensing; Nanoporous membranes; Nanoparticle-based drug delivery; Imaging, transport, and toxicity properties of semiconductor nanocrystals; Nanobiomechanics
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University
Rochester
Includes a research focus on near-field optical spectroscopy, nano-lithography, nano-inspection.
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University
Rochester
The Integrated Nanosystems Center (URnano) is the shared nanofabrication facility at the University of Rochester, offering tools for lithography, deposition, etch and characterization to university, industry and external researchers.
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University
Rochester
The group's research goal is a complete understanding of the fundamental properties of materials with a size in between individual molecules and the bulk. Currently, their investigations are focused on fundamental studies of carbon nanotubes and semiconductor nanocrystals, and the integration of these materials into both novel non-linear optical devices and biological sensors.
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Commercial nanotechnology companies based in the Rochester NY area.
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Ontario
Optimax Systems is one of the largest precision optics manufacturers in the United States, producing custom aspheres, spheres, prisms and plano optics with optical coatings for aerospace, defense, semiconductor and medical applications.
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Rochester
Cerion Nanomaterials is a leader in the science of designing, scaling and manufacturing metal, metal oxide and ceramic nanomaterials for companies developing products or systems.
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Rochester
Kodak Research and Development competencies include expertise in nano-patterning and nano-layering for transparent optical coatings.
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Rochester
G&H GS Optics manufactures custom precision polymer optics using injection molding, diamond turning and thin-film coatings for biomedical, diagnostics, machine-vision and night-vision applications.
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Rochester
Sydor Optics is a manufacturer of precision flat (plano) optics including thin glass wafers, windows, filters and optical flats, operating the largest collection of double-sided polishing machines in North America.
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West Henrietta
Apollo Optical Systems is a precision polymer optics manufacturer offering diamond turning, injection molding and thin-film optical coatings for medical, defense and imaging applications, with roots in the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester.
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West Henrietta
RPC Photonics, now part of VIAVI Solutions, designs and manufactures refractive and diffractive micro-optics including Engineered Diffusers and microlens arrays for 3D sensing, LiDAR, displays and laser beam shaping.
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West Henrietta
SiMPore is a early-stage company commercializing a breakthrough membrane technology for the separation and purification of biomolecules and other nano-sized particles in a wide range of applications. Such application areas include biomedical research, biopharmaceutical processing, nanotechnology development and hemodialysis.
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West Henrietta
Vuzix designs and manufactures waveguide-based optics and display engines for augmented reality smart glasses, producing nanostructured diffractive waveguides in its in-house cleanroom facility.
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