The metal evaporator installed in 2023 is now ings between the head of the Nano Fabrication Lab, Dr. Gerard a much-used device at the Nano Fabrication Gadea, and D-BSSE’s clean room managers. Regular discussions Lab and requires frequent cleaning and ser- also take place within the team, with all of the lab’s users, and vicing by NF Lab staff so that it is available to users at all times. with the professors from the Department of Physics, helping the NF Lab team to ensure that they can respond quickly to un- resolved questions, problems and requirements. The lab has also succeeded in improving its visibility and presenting itself as an “We’re one of the main users open platform for collaboration by publishing a price list setting of the NF Lab, and our out the costs of using its instruments for external users and by research is dependent on the introducing a new team email address ([email protected]) as lab. We particularly benefit well as a shorter website URL (nanofabrication.unibas.ch). from the opportunities Researchers use the Nano Fabrication Lab to work on provided by the new instru- wide-ranging projects. Although they use various different in- ments for electron beam struments and require different forms of assistance, the NF Lab lithography and metal team is on hand to help all of them with a view to creating the evaporation.” best possible conditions for their work. Professor Andrea Hofmann, The group led by Professor Sonja Schmid (Department of Department of Physics, Chemistry) produces chips with glass nanopores at the NF Lab University of Basel in order to investigate the dynamics of individual molecules. Although there are established, standard nanofabrication pro- cedures for silicon chips, these procedures have several disad- vantages when it comes to the desired applications. Producing the nanopore chips from glass requires a certain degree of ad- aptation, which the NF Lab helps the researchers achieve. The team led by Professor Andrea Hofmann (Department of Physics) uses the NF Lab to produce various nanoscale samples, which they then put to use in their quantum research. These samples include semiconductor quantum dots, Josephson junc- SNI Annual Report 2024 55