NY CREATES’ Albany NanoTech Complex. The Albany NanoTech Complex is a fully-integrated research, development, prototyping, and educational facility that provides strategic support through outreach, technology acceleration, business incubation,  prototyping, and test-based integration support for onsite corporate partners including IBM, GlobalFoundries, Samsung,  Applied Materials, Tokyo Electron, and Lam Research, as well as other “next generation” nanotechnology research activities. In sum, the 1.65 million square-foot NanoTech complex boasts more than $20B in high-tech investments and multiple corporate partners, with approximately 3,000 R&D jobs on site.

Facilities at the NanoTech Complex include:

  • NY CREATES’ Zero Energy Nanotechnology (ZEN) building opened in 2015. ZEN is a $191M, 356,000-square-foot facility that serves as a living laboratory for clean and renewable energy technologies.

  • NanoFab Xtension, completed in 2013, is a $375M, 500,000-square-foot facility with 50,000 square feet of 300mm wafer cleanrooms.

  • NanoFab East, a 250,000-square-foot office, laboratory and classroom building and NanoFab Central, a separate 100,000-square-foot building that houses 15,000 square feet of 300mm wafer, class 1 capable cleanroom space were part of a $150 million project completed in March 2009.

  • NanoFab North, completed in December 2005, is a 228,000 square foot, $175 million facility including 35,000 square feet of cleanroom space with Class 1 capable 300mm wafer production.

  • NanoFab South, completed in March 2004, is a 150,000 square foot, $50 million facility including 32,000 square feet of cleanroom space. The facility also includes classrooms and offices for the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering.

  • The Center for Environmental Sciences and Technology Management (CESTM or NanoFab 200) was completed in June 1997. This 70,000 square foot, $16.5 million facility includes 4,000 square feet of cleanroom space and metrology labs.

Questions regarding the Albany NanoTech Complex can be sent to tenants@frmc.us