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Hub Overview
Vienna concentrates Austria's nanoscience in a compact cluster dominated by its universities. TU Wien anchors the device side through its Center for Micro and Nanostructures, a semiconductor cleanroom that fabricates nanoelectronic, optoelectronic, and sensor structures and supports the university's work in quantum technologies and two-dimensional materials. The University of Vienna contributes a deep quantum optics and surface science tradition, while the Austrian Academy of Sciences institutes and the Austrian Institute of Technology extend the hub into quantum materials, photonics, and applied nanoelectronics.
The cluster is small by international standards but unusually dense, with universities, academy institutes, and technology transfer offices within a short distance of each other inside the city. It also plugs into Austria's wider microelectronics and materials base, including industrial research links toward Lower Austria and the sensor and chip activity around Styria and Carinthia. For a visitor, almost everything of interest is reachable within Vienna itself.
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Locations of nanotechnology research labs and companies across the Vienna area. Click any marker for the institution’s profile and to find hotels nearby.
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Company
Key Institutions
Technical University Vienna
3 nano groups
University of Vienna
3 nano groups
Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
2 nano groups
BOKU University
1 nano group
NanoTrust
1 nano group
Research Labs & Groups
The following nanotechnology research groups and labs are based in the Vienna area.
Klosterneuburg
University
Klosterneuburg
The Nanoelectronics group studies semiconductor nanodevices, including hole spin qubits in germanium quantum wells and hybrid semiconductor-superconductor quantum devices.
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University
Klosterneuburg
The Klajn Group investigates colloidal and supramolecular chemistry, including supramolecular self-assembly, the effect of nanoscale confinement on chemical reactivity, and the design of new stimuli-responsive materials.
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Vienna
University
Vienna
Applies colloidal and physico-chemical methods to biointerfaces, developing core-shell nanoparticles, responsive polymer nanostructures and bioinspired nanomaterials for biotechnology and medicine.
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Lab
Vienna
An ITA (Institute of Technology Assessment) Project - Integrative Analysis of the State of Knowledge Regarding Health and Environmental Risks of Nanotechnology. The heart of the research project is to continually survey, analyse and summarise the state of knowledge regarding potential health and environmental risks of nanotechnology.
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University
Vienna
Investigates the atomic-scale structure and reactivity of metal-oxide surfaces and single-atom catalysts using scanning probe microscopy and ultrahigh-vacuum surface science methods.
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University
Vienna
The center provides a state-of-the art environment for teaching the fundamental techniques used to fabricate new semiconductor devices. The main goal of the research and development activities is the transfer of innovative ideas from basic science to device concepts.
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University
Vienna
Supramolecular chemistry involving: Nanoglycobiology, Nano-Biotechnology, Nanostructures.
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University
Vienna
Studies the physics of low-dimensional and nanostructured materials, including graphene and other two-dimensional materials and nanocrystalline metals, using aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy.
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University
Vienna
Research interests of the group is focused on quantum nanophysics with large molecules and nanoparticles: Matter-wave coherence, interference and decoherence; Quantum-enhanced molecule & cluster metrology; New trapping and cooling schemes; New molecular beam and detection methods.
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University
Vienna
Runs the Solid State Spectroscopy research group at the University of Vienna.
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Nanotech Companies
Commercial nanotechnology companies based in the Vienna area.
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Brunn am Gebirge
The company develops massively parallel charged particle (electron / ion) printing technologies for cost effective patterning in the nanometer range onto a wide range of substrates.
Materials
Vienna
A BOKU University spin-off that develops and produces perovskite quantum-dot nanomaterials and processes them into high-resolution, fast X-ray scintillators for medical imaging and dosimetry.
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