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

Nanofabrication Facility

• Class 100 Clean Room with Class 1 mini-environments
• specializing in microfabrication and nanofabrication
• advanced lithography, etching, and deposition tooling
• characterizing materials using XPS, XRD, PEEM/LEEM, and others
  
• 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
• analysis of materials with nano- and femtosecond lasers
• advanced imaging with two-photon laser scanning confocal microscope

Visiting Scientists' Laboratory

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

A complete list of our capabilities

A list of our fabrication capabilities