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Münster Nanofabrication Facility (MNF)

Status: Organisation is active
Phone number: +49 251 83 34498
Email address: mnfadmin@uni-muenster.de
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Busso-Peus-Straße 10
48149 Münster
Germany

Profile

The Münster Nanofabrication Facility (MNF) is a Core Science Facility administrated by the University of Münster (WWU) and operates two cleanrooms in CeNTech and the Center for Soft Nanoscience (SoN). A state-of-the-art machine park for advanced nanofabrication, the MNF is an internal service provider offering cleanroom laboratory space to an interdisciplinary research community of graduate students, postdocs and research associates in chemistry, physics and biology. The initial cleanroom in CeNTech was completed in 2003 and serves a diverse research community in nanophysics, nanobiology, nanochemistry and materials science. Following the University's expanding presence in nanoscience, the original facility required significant upgrades to meet the needs of researchers and remain competitive with peer institutions. Through the approval of the SoN research program, the WWU received a multimillion euro investment including capital equipment upgrade, as well as several large instrument grants. In 2017 the MNF expanded into brand new cleanroom facilities in the SoN building.

Publications

Kinetic Inductance and Jitter Dependence of the Intrinsic Photon Number Resolution in Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors
Jaha, Roland; Graham-Scott, Connor A.; Abazi, Adrian S.; Pernice, Wolfram; Schuck, Carsten; Ferrari, Simone (2025)
In: Optics Express, 33(20), 41869-41880. doi:10.1364/OE.564311
Research article (journal) | Peer reviewed | Published
General Design Flow for Waveguide Bragg Gratings
Brückerhoff-Plückelmann, Frank; Buskasper, Tim; Römer, Julius; Krämer, Linus; Malik, Bilal; McRae, Liam; Kürpick, Linus; Palitza, Simon; Schuck, Carsten; Pernice, Wolfram (2025)
In: Nanophotonics, 14(3), 297-304. doi:10.1515/nanoph-2024-0498
Research article (journal) | Peer reviewed | Published
Multi-photon enhanced resolution for Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detector-based Time-of-Flight lidar systems
Abazi, Adrian S.; Jaha, Roland; Graham-Scott, Connor A.; Pernice, Wolfram H. P.; Schuck, Carsten (2025)
In: Physical Review Research, 7(3), 033124. doi:10.1103/sv4y-qps6
Research article (journal) | Peer reviewed | Published
Directional Whispering Gallery Mode in Microring Lasers Enabled by Tilted Azimuthal Gratings
Chen J; Abazi A; Schoonhoven F; Oki Y; Yamamoto Y; Schuck C; Yoshioka H (2025)
In: Advanced photonics research, online first, 2400172. doi:10.1002/adpr.202400172
Research article (journal) | Peer reviewed | Published
Activation Functions in Non-Negative Neural Networks
Becker M; Drees D; Brückerhoff-Plückelmann F; Schuck C; Pernice W; Risse B (2025)
In: IEEE Access
Research article in digital collection | Peer reviewed | Published
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Projects

MNF-Day 2024 (MNF Day)
Duration: 07/11/2024 - 07/11/2024
Funded by: DFG - Core Facilities
Type of project: Scientific Event
MNF-Day 2023 (MNF Day)
Duration: 19/10/2023 - 19/10/2023
Funded by: DFG - Core Facilities, Pixel Photonics GmbH
Type of project: Scientific Event
Münster Nanofabrication Facility (MNF)
Duration: 01/03/2020 - 31/12/2025
Funded by: DFG - Core Facilities
Type of project: Individual project

Vorträge

Differentiable Nano-Photonics: Physics Informed Learning and Inverse Design
Schuck, Carsten (21/05/2025)
Photonics North 2025, Ottawa
Type of talk: scientific talk
Quantum technology with photonic integrated sources, circuits, & superconducting detectors
Schuck, Carsten (14/03/2024)
IPHT Colloquium, Jena
Type of talk: scientific talk

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