One of the largest university-based facilities - working at the intersection of biology and engineering.
Research Facilities
MNTL is one of the country's largest and most sophisticated university facilities for conducting photonics, microelectronics, biotechnology, and nanotechnology research. Our 15 class 100 and 1000 cleanrooms, 46 general purpose labs, and 2,500 square foot biosafety level-2 bionanotechnology complex contain all the tools researchers need to conduct their work.
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- Holonyak Lab graduate student Pankul Dhingra wins best student presentation prize at North American conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy
Pankul Dhingra, a graduate student in the lab of Prof. Minjoo Larry Lee, won the prize for best student oral presentation at the North American Conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy (NAMBE).
- Holonyak Lab works to establish Digital Diagnostics Foundry for Cancer Center
CCIL brings together experts in science, technology, engineering, and health to fight the deadly disease. More than 150 Illinois faculty, research, postdocs, and students – including researchers at the Holonyak Micro & Nanotechnology Laboratory -- have committed to developing new tools and research programs that allow for more advanced and precise diagnostic methods and treatments for all types of cancer.
- Holonyak Lab graduate student named a finalist for 2019 Collegiate Inventors Competition
Holonyak Lab graduate student Richard Dicky Liu has been named a finalist for the 2019 Collegiate Inventors Competition. The prestigious annual competition rewards innovations, discoveries, and research by college and university students and their faculty advisors.
- Holonyak Lab researchers develop new framework for nanoantenna light absorption
Harnessing light’s energy into nanoscale volumes requires novel engineering approaches to overcome a fundamental barrier known as the “diffraction limit.” Holonyak Lab researchers have breached this barrier by developing nanoantennas that pack the energy captured from light sources.
- Dragic highlights enabling role of fiber laser technologies; Paper among "Most Read" from 2018
Dragic highlights enabling role of fiber laser technologies; paper among "Most Read" from 2018.
- Holonyak Lab to be upgraded thanks to Investment for Growth Program
When Brian Cunningham attended Illinois in the 1980s, the equipment he used in the Microelectronics Laboratory was top-of-the-line. Now as the Director of the Holonyak Lab, Cunningham, along with faculty and students, are still using some of the same equipment.