EUMINAfab Starts User Operation

EUMINAfab is the first European Research Infrastructure on multimaterial micro and nanotechnology. It offers open and no-cost access to state of the art fabrication and characterisation technologies for a multitude of functional materials. EUMINAfab combines the scientific expertise and technological capacities of 10 leading European institutions from industry and academia, creating a unique source of knowledge and capabilities in micro nano technologies for European researchers from industry or academia.

 

EUMINAfab is a one-stop shop for its users who are invited to work with the state-of-the-art machines of EUMINAfab's partners. Access is granted upon an on-line submission of a proposal via www.euminafab.eu. The access is free of cost for public research. In case of non-public and proprietary work, EUMINAfab offers an utmost level of confidentiality under full cost recovery.

EUMINAfab and its public users are funded by the European Commission until 2013 in order to facilitate the industrial uptake of emerging technologies for developing new products and creating tangible economic and competitive advantages to European researchers, engineers and product developers in micro and nano technologies. The European Commission supports transnational access to EUMINAfab installations by reimbursing access costs of the installations and the travel expenses of its users.

"We are ready to work with our users", Matthias Kautt is quoted, he is EUMINAfab's project co-ordinator from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. "With quite a comprehensive technology portfolio from IC-related processes over multimaterial micro and nano to bio-inspired technologies we aim at creating dedicated micro and nano solutions for our users' problems, enabling specific competitive advantages in the economic as well as academic arena. Each of these technologies is backed by local scientific experts who are open to solve the grand challenges or specific problems of our industrial or academic users."