The Rice NanoFabrication Facility (RNF), Houston’s first  “clean room” dedicated solely for academic research and education is located in the Abercrombie Engineering Laboratory on the Rice campus. This user facility provides Rice researchers with access to a variety of new tools for fabrication and characterization of materials requiring an environment free of the possibility of contamination from dust or particles in the atmosphere. The state-of-the-art facility allows researchers to manufacture and test nanoscale devices and materials that are no wider than a few atoms or molecules. In addition to research, the facility supports education, giving graduate students a chance to train in clean room procedures.

The shared clean room complements the existing suite of instruments managed and operated under the auspices of the Shared Equipment Authority (SEA) and the Richard E. Smalley Institute.

For more information regarding the SEA’s user policies and application process, or for more general information about the Nanofabrication Facility Clean Room Class 100/1000 as well as other facilities and instrumentation offered, please visit www.sea.rice.edu and www.cnst.rice.edu.

SEA contact information

Rice University
Shared Equipment Authority
6100 Main Street, CNST MS-100
Houston, TX  77005-1892
713-348-4890  Phone
713-348-5320 Fax
www.sea.rice.edu

Faculty: Professor Dan Mittleman, Electrical and Computer Engineering  |   daniel@rice.edu 
            Professor Doug Natelson, Physics and Astronomy  |   natelson@rice.edu

Facility Technician:  Patrick Johnson  |   paj1@rice.edu