Capabilities
Oak Ridge National Laboratory is
- The nation’s largest energy laboratory
- $1.3 billion annual budget
- 4,100 employees
- 3,000 research guests annually
- The first DOE Nanoscale Research Center (Center for Nanophase Materials Science)
- The Department of Energy’s flagship center for materials research
- Nation’s largest concentration of open source materials research
ORNL Facilities can be Utilized by Industry
- Materials Processing Group
- Variety of convention and one-of-a-kind processing equipment
- Capabilities in metals and ceramics
- Nanoscale Science & Technology Laboratory
The Nanoscale Science and Technology Laboratory Clean Room Facility offers users expertise in compound semiconductor-based device fabrication providing a full range of processes to the scientific and research communities.
NSTL supports a wide variety of thin-film and solid state electronic research projects and provides expertise in compound semiconductor-based device fabrication. A full range of processes are available including: lithography, thin-film deposition and etching. The NSTL facility offers users state-of-the-art processes and fabrication techniques including genome research, SEM, AFM and other microscopic evaluation techniques.
High Temperature Materials Laboratory (HTML)- Capabilities in Microstructure analysis
- X-ray & neutron diffraction
- Residual stress
- Friction and wear testing
- Machining and inspection
- Mechanical characterization
- Thermophysical properties
- Thermography
