Overview

A state-of-the-art facility and a new model of doing research.

Funded by Canada Foundation for Innovation, BC Knowledge Development Fund and SFU, our $41 million facility opened in January 2007. 4D LABS offers a model where our users have open access to cutting edge analytical and fabrication equipment in one place.

4D LABS is your one-stop-shop institute  for materials research

FACILITY HIGHLIGHTS

Visiting Scientists' Laboratory

• enabling face-to-face collaboration with researchers from around the world
  

Clean Room

• Class 100 with Class 1 mini-environments
• specializing in materials fabrication and nanofabrication

Surface Growth and Characterization Laboratory

• characterizing materials using PEEM/LEEM, XPS, XRD and SQUID
• materials analysis and growth of thin films and crystals

Nanoimaging Facility

• characterizing materials using SEM, FIB, STEM, EDS, EELS, E-Holography, AFM/STM
• specializing in high resolution electron and scanning probe microscopy

Laboratory for Advanced Spectroscopy and Imaging Research (LASIR)

• exploring new frontiers in photonics

List of our fabrication capabilities

List of our analytical capabilities