Nanotechnology Research Laboratories

The Pasquali Research Group develops sustainable high-value carbon materials, especially carbon nanotubes and CNT fibers, for decarbonization, advanced conductors, structural materials, biomedical sensing, and related applications.

The Institute's mission is to provide a venue where researchers from all disciplines of science and engineering can come together to share ideas and discuss their views and prospects of nanoscience, nanoengineering, and nanotechnology.

The Tour group at Rice University. Scientific research areas include molecular electronics, chemical self-assembly, conjugated oligomers, electroactive polymers, combinatorial routes to precise oligomers, polymeric sensors, flame retarding polymer additives, carbon nanotube modification and composite formation, synthesis of molecular motors and nanotrucks, use of the NanoKids concept for K-12 education in nanoscale science.

The Yakobson Research Group in Materials Science and NanoEngineering carries out theoretical and computational research on nanoscale materials, including carbon and two-dimensional materials, defects, mechanics, and related nanostructures.

The group's research focuses on the development of functional oxides based thin film devices utilizing photonic, electronic, and magnetic properties; the fabrication of conducting oxide based superstructure and their potential investigation as thermoelectric materials; the development of special epitaxial growth method; and the development of novel oxide spintronics devices.

The group explores advanced molecular photonics based on semiconducting quantum dots, photofunctional organic molecules, and laser manipulation techniques.

The group's research focuses on plasmonics for photochemistry and photophysics, including following sub-topics: Plasmonic Waveguiding; Single Molecule Studies; Plasmon Associated Energy Harvesting; Drug Delivery System based on Plasmonics.

Researchers in the lab are involved in a variety of research aimed at integrating and combining top-down and bottom-up phenomena.

Nanochemistry and materials - plasma and powders.

Conducts research on nanoscale and quantum materials, spintronics and emergent electronic and photonic devices, spanning physics, chemistry and electronics.

Research investigates optical properties of nanomaterials and nanoscale photonic devices, engineering atomically defined nanostructures to explore quantum effects for future computing, sensing, metrology and communication technologies.

The Centre for Advanced Materials and Industrial Chemistry (CAMIC) is a multidisciplinary centre that strives to undertake high quality fundamental and applied research. The interconnected research themes in the centre allow materials scientists, nanotechnologists and applied scientists with industrial experience to undertake ambitious research projects from conception to real world implementation.

The Centre for Atomaterials and Nanomanufacturing leads atomic-scale materials research and translation for clean energy, nanofabrication, atomic characterisation and next-generation functional materials and miniaturised devices.

The Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence Nanophotonics develops nanophotonic devices inspired by ideas from artificial intelligence and brain science for a smarter and greener future.

Current activities in the laboratory center around micro/nano-electro-mechanical-systems (MEMS/NEMS) and micro/nanofluidics.

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).

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.

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).

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.

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.

European FP7 project that aims to develop cost effective and highly efficient solar cells with silicon nano-rods.

The RO-NANOMED project is devoted to the creation and development of an integrated research network in the field of nanobiotechnology for health. This network is targeting integration into the European Technology Platform (ETP) 'NanoMedicine'.

The activity of the group focuses on two main areas. On the one hand, the Group develops and applies new chemometric techniques related to the validation of analytical methodologies. On the other hand, the second main activity of the Group is the transfer of knowledge and technology.

The group works on modeling and design of linear and nonlinear photonic crystals; the development of technologies based on the macroporous ordered silicon and on the nanoporous silicon for the production of 1D and 2D photonic crystals; and the development of physical models for advanced electronic devices: Thin-film transistors, nanometric-sized MOSFETs, silicon-based heterojunction devices.

The laboratory of Tabbetha Dobbins uses synchrotron X-ray and neutron scattering to characterize nanostructured and nanoconfined materials, including metal hydrides studied for hydrogen storage.