Shared Instrumentation Laboratories - Davis Hall Clean Room

Overview of Services

Commissioned in 2012, the University at Buffalo’s 7-bay, 5,000 sq. ft. Davis Hall Cleanroom is the most advanced in the Buffalo Niagara region. It features Class 1,000 space with Class 100 working areas – well-equipped for electronic device research, processing and development, materials characterization, micro- and nanofabrication and other processes. It is one of several Shared Instrumentation Laboratories (SIL) operated by UB’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

The facility offers a variety of scientific tools and instruments with capabilities for deposition, e-beam and focused-ion-beam lithography, etching, metrology & microscopy, photolithography, sample preparation, and thermal processing and analysis.

A searchable online equipment database (see http://www.buffalo.edu/shared-facilities-equip/facilities-equipment/SearchEquipment.html) helps link users to the state-of-the-art tools that best meet their research, development, testing and evaluation needs.

The Davis Hall Cleanroom is available for shared use by: UB students, UB faculty, Researchers at other academic institutions, as well as Government and Industry researchers and scientists.

Access and hand-on equipment use require completion of an onboarding process; information is available at the following link (Getting started in the Davis Hall Cleanroom - Science & Engineering Shared Facilities – University at Buffalo - University at Buffalo)

New users will also be required to register with iLab at Shared Instrumentation Laboratories - Davis Hall Clean Room

Leadership

Jeff Salzmann, Cleanroom Manager, Research Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering

Jonathan McMahon, SIL Equipment Engineering

Location and hours of operation

Links and Resources

Facility Webpage

Facility Access

Science & Engineering Equipment Portal

Contacts

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