Equipment & Facilities
The Institute of Nanotechnology (INT) is a world-class facility with equipment and technologies ranging from imaging and diffraction to cryophysics. And for those requiring custom-made glass apparatus or unique, manufactured devices, we have an in-house glassblowing workshop and mechanical and electrical workshops.
Recently we have taken the effort to create virtual lab tours through some of our synthesis, structuring and spectroscopy facilities.
- BELLA lab on battery research
- Inert Gas Condensation lab for production of nanomaterials
- UHV lab for nanomaterials production and in-situ analysis
- Atomic Layer Deposition lab for production of oxide layers
- Moessbauer lab for Moessbauer spectroscopy
- Single Crystal X-ray diffractometer lab featuring a Gallium-Jet X-ray diffractometer
- Powder X-ray diffractometer lab
- Transmission Electron Microscopy lab featuring a Themis Z double-corrected TEM
- Magnetometry lab with several SQUID instruments and Helium liquefier
Open-access Facilities (KNMF)
The INT also collaborates with the Karlsruhe Nano Micro Facility (KNMF), a large-scale facility providing public users from industry and academia free access to state-of-the-art micro and nanotechnologies. Part of this facility is coordinated in-house as the Electron Microscopy and Spectroscopy Laboratory.
![FEI Titan Transmission Electron Microscope](/img/INT_Equipment_and_Facilities/titan_news_rdax_98s.jpg)
The FEI Titan TEM is just one of the top level instruments in the field of electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction.
![Bruker NMR 500 instrument](/img/INT_Equipment_and_Facilities/nmr500_news_rdax_98s.jpg)
In addition to standard instruments like NMR or MALDI-TOF, home-build installations enable rather unique research activities.
![STED Lithography](/img/INT_Equipment_and_Facilities/STED_news_rdax_98s.jpg)
An enormous variety of surface structuring methods as well as three-dimensional nanolithography is available at the INT.
![UHV Cluster Deposition Installation](/img/INT_Equipment_and_Facilities/PVD_news_rdax_98s.jpg)
Our synthetic capabilities in chemistry and nanomaterials are the foundation of our research efforts.
![INTCOOL Compute Cluster](/img/INT_Equipment_and_Facilities/compute_cluster_news_rdax_98s.jpg)
Our INTCOOL compute cluster is a local complement to the central computing resources at the KIT.
![glassblowing workshop](/img/INT_Equipment_and_Facilities/glassblowing2_rdax_98s.jpg)
Our glassblowing workshop has the ability to manufacture unique pieces and small series according to the needs of our scientists.
![Mechanical and Electrical Workshops](/img/INT_Equipment_and_Facilities/mechanical_workshop2_rdax_98s.jpg)
This workshop has the ability to manufacture unique pieces and small series according the requirements of our scientists.