CNSE'S ALBANY NANOTECH COMPLEX

CNSE’s Albany NanoTech Complex is a fully-integrated research, development, prototyping, and educational facility that provides strategic support through outreach, technology acceleration, business incubation, pilot prototyping, and test-based integration support for onsite corporate partners including IBM, TEL, Applied Materials, ASML and International SEMATECH, as well as other “next generation” nanotechnology research activities.

NanoFab Xtension, an expansion now underway, part of which will house the world’s first Global 450mm Consortium, will add nearly 500,000 square feet of next-generation infrastructure, an additional 50,000 square feet of Class 1 capable cleanrooms, and more than 1,000 scientists, researchers and engineers from CNSE and global corporations.

NanoFab East was completed in March 2009. The $150 million project included a 250,000-square-foot office, laboratory and classroom building. NanoFab Central, a separate 100,000-square-foot building, houses 15,000 square feet of 300mm wafer, class 1 capable cleanroom space. 

NanoFab North, completed in December 2005, is a 228,000 square foot, $175 million facility including 35,000 square feet of cleanroom space with Class 1 capable 300mm wafer production. The NFN facility also houses the world’s first extreme ultraviolet (“EUV”) Alpha Demo Tool, developed by ASML.

NanoFab South, completed in March 2004, is a 150,000 square foot, $50 million facility including 32,000 square feet of cleanroom space. The facility also includes classrooms and offices for the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering.

NanoFab 200 (also known as CESTM) was completed in June 1997. This 70,000 square foot, $16.5 million facility includes 4,000 square feet of cleanroom space, plus CNSE metrology labs and office space for programs such as the State University of New York’s Atmospheric Sciences Research Center.  

In sum, CNSE's more than $12 billion Albany NanoTech Complex totals 800,000 square feet of cutting-edge facilities, with the currrent expansion underway to add an additional 50,000 square feet. CNSE boasts 85,000 square feet of 300mm wafer, class 1 capable cleanrooms, with an additional 50,000 square foot expansion underway.  There are more than 2,600 R&D jobs on site.