KNMF at a glance

The Karlsruhe Nano Micro Facility(KNMF) is a high-tech research infrastructure for structuring and characterising a multitude of functional materials at the micro- and nanoscale. The platform belongs to the Helmholtz Association and is operated as a large-scale user facility on the campus north of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.

The facility is focused on providing users from industry and academia, either national or international, open and in case of public work free access to multimaterial state-of-the-art micro- and nanotechnologies.

• KNMF Laboratory for Micro- and Nanostructuring

• KNMF Laboratory for Microscopy and Spectroscopy

• KNMF Laboratory for Synchrotron Characterisation

The facility has a supervisory and a laboratory management structure. The supervisory management board is liable for the users’ interests and for the welfare of the facility. The management board of the laboratory for micro- and nanostructuring, the laboratory for microscopy and spectroscopy and the laboratory for synchrotron characterisation is coordinating the available technologies and services. Besides these installations, the user office is assisting the users in all questions relating to the organisation.