Small Footprints, Huge Impacts
The Center for Micro- and Nanotechnology (CMNT) at LLNL is a collaborative space for materials research, device fabrication, and system integration that transforms ideas into technologies that shape the future. Our unique facilities tools and world-class expertise allow researchers to move seamlessly as they fabricate, characterize, and validate technologies that matter.
The center is national resource for both prototyping and mission-driven production, strengthening national security, improving human health, addressing global energy challenges, and pushing the field of micro- and nanotechnology forward. Technologies developed in the CMNT range from quantum devices and photonic systems to high-power electronics, MEMS for stockpile stewardship, biomedical implants, and the cooling arms holding each hohlraum in the National Ignition Facility (NIF).
CMNT Capabilities
The CMNT includes characterization and biosafety laboratories, a clean room, world-leading capabilities in additive biomanufacturing, and a unique biomedical device foundry with a dedicated toolset for microfabricating human-use implantable medical devices. In addition, we possess state-of-the-art processing capabilities, including plasma and wet etching, thin-film deposition, micro- and nanolithography, packaging, and metrology. And, as our name suggests, we fabricate field-ready devices at meso-, micro-, and nanoscales.
Our Microfabricated Materials Are Also Used In...
Electronics and semiconductors—some of which have medical uses, like electrodes implanted in the brain to regulate seizures
Photonics (the science of light waves)—to manipulate light in lasers or xrays that give us insight into how bodies, materials, and weapons work
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) that involve microscopic electronics and moving parts—these are largely used in sensors that detect and communicate information about different environments or environmental conditions
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