NJIT to Open State-of-the-Art Facility to Fabricate Nanoelectronic Devices and Sensors

NJIT Unveils State-of-the-Art Facility to Fabricate Nanoelectronic Devices and Sensors

What: Ribbon-Cutting for NJIT’s Microfabrication Innovation Center, followed by a tour of the facility

When: 11 a.m., December 5, 2019

Who: Speakers to include Joel Bloom, NJIT president; Robert Cohen, chair-elect of the Board of Trustees; Atam Dhawan, senior vice provost for research, Lisa Axe, chair of the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering; Pedro Moura, senior majoring in chemical and materials engineering

Where: Microfabrication Innovation Center (outside of the entrance), followed by a reception at noon in the multi-purpose room of the Life Sciences and Engineering Center and tour of the Center

Impact: NJIT’s new Microfabrication Innovation Center (MIC) houses advanced equipment and a cleanroom environment that provides a state-of-the-art facility for the fabrication of micro- and nanoelectronic and microfluidic devices and sensors. These devices and sensors will transform technology across a range of areas and will accelerate work on smart devices.  In the area of healthcare, for example, biomarker sensors may be developed that can communicate with medical information systems to support point-of-care diagnostics and therapeutic intervention.

Along with the York Center for Environmental Research and the Life Sciences and Engineering Research Center, the MIC is an integral part of NJIT’s strategic effort to produce translational research on microchip and microfluidic devices with applications not only in healthcare, but in environmental technologies and advanced manufacturing.  

Projects include:

• Electrochemical platforms and sensors for the rapid detection of cancer biomarkers and infectious diseases that offer significant enhancements in both selectivity and sensitivity over current electrochemical sensors in the field
• Custom devices that will advance the development of new diagnostic tools for various medical, environmental and food applications
• Powerful diagnostic sensor systems, including electrochemical DNA sensors, that are miniaturized down to the size of a single molecule
• On-chip electrochemical mass spectrometry used to elucidate protein structures and determine protein quantities