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Nanoscience Center is a high-level research environment that provides diverse repertoire of research equipment for cross-disciplinary research combining expertise of physics, chemistry, and biology. 

We serve industry with our state-of-the-art equipped laboratories, where our well-trained personnel use strong scientific knowledge.  External users are welcome in our facility! Wide range of services are offered, from contract-based research with companies to scientific collaboration, where our well-trained experts do the fabrication work. 

Laserlab-NSC is a member of Laserlab-Europe. Laserlab-Europe is a network of 38 laser laboratories in 16 EU countries.  Laser processes are efficient methods that comply with sustainable development and that are used for several tasks. 

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Jyväskylä Imaging facility is situated in the Nanoscience center; some equipments are also situated in the Department of Biological and Environmental Science. The facility provides infrastructure for various modalities of microscopy for students and researchers in nanoscience, i.e. for biology, chemistry and physics. In addition, the core provides training for local researchers and organizes courses and workshops for imaging and image analysis for national and international students.

The nanofabrication cleanroom (NSC-Nanofab) is a shared open access facility, where state-of-the-art nanofabrication can be performed in a controlled ISO 5 clean room environment. Wide range of multidisciplinary research conducted at NSC is based on structures and devices fabricated in the facility, down to length scales of 10 nm. Device fabrication can be based on UV-photolithography, advanced electron-beam lithography, direct 3D laser writing (unique in Finland), and helium and neon ion beam lithography and milling (HIM, unique in Finland).  A wide variety of techniques exist for material deposition and etching, such as evaporation, atomic layer deposition, pulsed laser deposition, molecular beam epitaxy and reactive ion etching. Sub-nanometer scale imaging is available using helium ion microscopy (HIM) or scanning electron microscopy. (SEM) Outside the cleanroom, advanced atomic force microscopy and transmission electron microscopy are also available.

Points of contact:

• Laboratory Manager Kimmo Kinnunen
• Prof. Ilari Maasilta

NSC also houses a cryolab, where sensitive electrical and thermal measurements are performed at cryogenic temperatures in shielded room environments. A wide variety of refrigeration setups exist, ranging from a 10 K probe station, liquid helium dipsticks to several dilution refrigerators reaching base temperatures down to 10 mK, and a liquid-helium-free adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator with a base temperature below 40 mK with an integrated high-resolution superconducting TES X-ray spectrometer. In-house expertise allows us to build our own compact dilution refrigerators reaching below 40 mK. An open access dilution refrigerator-based measurement setup for quantum technology and related measurements is being built and is expected to be ready in 2024.

Points of contact:

• Laboratory Manager Kimmo Kinnunen
• Prof. Ilari Maasilta

The biosafety level 2 cell culturing facility and the virus lab are directly connected with fluorescence confocal microscopy setups including Leica SP8 Lightning confocal microscope for live cell imaging using fluorescence lifetime microscopy (FLIM) and fluorescence lifetime correlation spectroscopy (FLCS). This allows for a seamless working environment for virus-cell interactions. Also transmission electron, helium ion and atomic force microscopes are available for the biological research within the NSC. Furthermore, possibilities to use next generation sequencing exist, and new BSL3 facilities are available off-campus.

Point of contact:

• Prof. Varpu Marjomäki

JYU has been the member of the Finnish Grid and Cloud Infrastructure (FGCI) consortium (2014-2021), and since 2021 one of the 10 partners in the Finnish Computing Competence Infrastructure (). The funding comes from the Research Council of Finland and the partner universities. JYU purchased two clusters in 2016 and 2019, in total 70 nodes and 2200 cores.

The local clusters are a joint facility of the Faculty of Mathematics and Science and the Faculty of Information Technology. They are intermediate scale Tier-2 clusters that aim to fill the gap between single workstations and the large-scale supercomputing Tier-1 facilities of the national IT Center For Science (), and the Tier-0 computational resources (EuroHPC, LUMI at CSC, and ). FCCI is on the roadmap for national research infrastructures (FIRI) 2021-2024.

Point of contact:

• Senior Researcher Vesa Apaja

The X-ray Diffraction Facility (XRDF) of the Chemistry Department is a shared facility housed both in the Chemistry Department and in the Nanoscience Center. The facility's hardware, four single crystal diffractometers and one powder diffractometer, situated in two laboratories, enables a very broad range structural chemistry and nanoscience solid-state research. The XRDF, one of the three core research infrastructure facilities of the Chemistry Department, with wide range of structural chemistry and nanoscience research involving the use of X-rays is conducted here. The X-ray Diffraction Facility offers research and collaboration opportunities to scientists and access is provided to world-class X-ray diffraction research facilities.

The Mass Spectrometry laboratory of the Chemistry Department is a shared facility serving research groups at Nanoscience Center, Chemistry Department, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences as well as external users. The facility consists of several mass spectrometers to resolve variety of analytical problems. Our  instrumentation covers wide range of ionization options (ESI, nanoESI, EI, CI, FI, FD) enabling analysis of wide range of compounds from organic and inorganic compounds to biomolecules. We focus especially on structural chemistry analysis of supramolecular and coordination chemistry products and other fragile molecules by using MS/MS and ion mobility mass spectrometry techniques (DT-IM with direct calculation of CCS values). Analysis of complicated mixtures (proteomics, metabolomics) and intact biomolecules are also possible with LC-MS and UHPLC/SFC-MS instrumentation.

Points of contact:

• Head of Laboratory Elina Kalenius
• Laboratory Technician Johanna Lind