SMIF has leveraged NSF support to create field-tested outreach programs that can:
This image of a partially reacted rubidium cluster, which appeared on the cover of the Journal of Applied Physics, was taken on SMIF's scanning electronic microscope (SEM) by Chris Flower—a Duke undergraduate.
An optical mage of an active metamaterial array fabricated with photolithography.
A 3D print of 40-million-year-old primate jaw (Notharctus tenebrosus) scanned in SMIF's MicroCT scanner.
Students make amazing things through the Undergraduate User Program (SUUP).
Supported by the Lord Foundation, Duke students get a year’s worth of hands-on research experience through access to the extensive technological resources in SMIF.
The Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility (SMIF) at Duke University is an interdisciplinary, shared resource open to Duke University researchers from all schools and departments—as well as to users from other universities, government laboratories and industry.
SMIF is a member of the Research Triangle Nanotechnology Network (RTNN), a National Science Foundation-funded site in the National Nanotechnolgy Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI).
