MIT.nano

Provides Massachusetts researchers access to MIT.nano facilities and engineering staff for prototyping.

MIT.nano is MIT's open-access nanoscale fabrication, characterization, and immersion facility, housed in the Lisa T. Su Building. It serves MIT faculty, researchers, and students, along with qualified external users from industry, academia, and government on a fee and recharge basis. Its core value is infrastructure access, not broad grantmaking.

The facility houses Fab.nano, Characterization.nano, and the Immersion Lab. It also supports a small set of internal support routes, including the MIT.nano Industry Consortium / Foundry Access credits at up to 500,000, the MIT.nano Immersion Lab Gaming Program with NCSOFT at up to 175,000, and SENSE.nano Seed Grants at up to 75,000. Those routes are limited to MIT-affiliated researchers and are not a general open call.

The center is a strong fit for work in semiconductors, materials science, photonics, biotech, and hardware, especially when the immediate need is tool time, specialized fabrication, or access to shared laboratory infrastructure. External applicants should treat MIT.nano as a facility and internal support platform rather than a conventional grantmaker.