The Center for Advanced Technology in Nanomaterials and Nanoelectronics (CATN2) is a strategic partnership between premier research universities and the nanoelectronics, optoelectronics, telecommunications, defense, and nanobiotechnology industry clusters in New York State. The Center's mission is to provide industry with critical research and development, business assistance, workforce training, and economic outreach within a technically aggressive and financially competitive environment.
The CATN2 is built on the strong foundation, infrastructure, and entrepreneurial experience of its predecessor, the Center for Advanced Thin Film Technologies (CATFT). Established in 1993, CATFT established close ties with a significant network of nanoelectronics, nanotechnology, bioelectronics, and telecom companies in New York, with the intention of eliminating historic barriers to inter-university projects with corporate partners. CATN2 currently leverages the specialist knowledge of each university within the consortium, whose members include the University at Albany-SUNY, Alfred University, Binghamton University-SUNY, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and Stony Brook University-SUNY.
The main hub of the CATN2 is at CNSE. CATN2 utilizes CNSE's fully-integrated, 450,000 sq. ft. Albany NanoTech complex, which houses a unique 200mm/300mm wafer "nanofab" with over 65,000 square feet of Class 1 cleanroom facilities that are unparalleled in the academic world.
The consortium campuses significantly augment this complex with satellite facilities, each focusing on specialized areas to create an integrated network that serves the research, development and business expansion goals of New York State. These include solid state optical devices (Alfred University), telecom/wireless devices (University at Stony Brook), nanosystems packaging (Binghamton University) and biomedical devices/sensors (Albert Einstein College of Medicine).
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