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FabLab Floorplan

The FabLab is comprised of 3 main areas: Main Fab, Explor Lab, and the Teaching Lab.

Main Fab

The Main Fab is the primary cleanroom in Maryland NanoCenter. A large class 1000 facility, it contains processing equipment for lithography, deposition, etching, planarization, and other operations essential to fabrication of micro- and nano- structures. The FabLab also includes auxiliary spaces for exploratory processes, teaching microfabrication methods, support equipment, characterization, and operations.

Webcams: Deposition Tunnel | Litho Tunnel | Etch Tunnel | CVD Tunnel

Teaching Lab

The Teaching cleanroom in the FabLab complex contains process equipment for use by laboratory-based courses aimed at fabrication processes and device structures. Lab courses also take advantage of some equipment in the main cleanroom.

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Explor Lab

The exploratory area of the FabLab is a class 100,000 area for use of exploratory materials and processes, involving equipment which is highly specialized for research or does not require the cleanliness of the FabLab cleanroom.

SEM Room

Instruments in the SEM room enables characterization of device structures being fabricated in the FabLab cleanroom.

Materials Handling Room

The materials handling room provides for organized management of the extensive materials and consumables used in the FabLab.

FabLab Control Room

The FabLab's control room provides equipment and safety monitoring systems in a central location for FabLab staff to oversee activities and operations.

Gowning Area

The gowning area supplies cleanroom garments for users of the FabLab.