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Focus On Materials
Materials Research Facilities
Shared User Facilities 
MRI coordinates, administers, and supports several state-of-the-art research, fabrication, and characterization facilities at Penn State that are available to the academic and non-academic research communities. These shared facilities are staffed with full-time technical personnel who train researchers to use the instrumentation and tools themselves or assist researchers with their charcterization and fabrication needs.
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Materials Characterization Laboratory (MCL) - a fully staffed analytical laboratory offering a range of state-of-the-art characterization techniques and tools including microscopy, surface and thin film analysis, optical spectroscopy, structural analysis, chemical analysis, physical property determination, and materials processing.
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National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) at Penn State - facilities that enable fabrication of a wide range of electrical, optical, and micromechanical devices; focus is on materials and chemical technologies at the molecular scale with unique strengths that include surface chemistry, self-assembly, and the fabrication and processing of complex oxide materials.
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W. M. Keck Smart Materials Integration Laboratory (Keck SMIL) - a facility that allows scientists to create a new generation of smart integrated components; this lab enables the integration of devices with electrical, mechanical, and optical functions and is able to characterize the resulting materials and devices.
