Affiliated Research Facilities

A more comprehensive listing of equipment, facilities, and services available to the UW research community can be found on the UW Office of Research’s website.

Research Training Testbed

The Clean Energy Institute’s Research Training Testbed (RTT), located on the 1st floor of the Nanoengineering and Sciences Building, is an interdisciplinary energy lab that provides UW students access to research-quality instruments.

Photonics Research Center

The Photonics Research Center houses state-of-the-art equipment for fabrication, materials characterization, and testing of devices such as thin-film transistors, energy efficient light-emitting diodes, and solar cells.

Washington Nanofabrication Facility

The Washington Nanofabrication Facility (WNF) is the largest publicly accessible micro and nanotechnology fabrication facility in the region, with 15,000 square feet of laboratory, clean room, and user spaces for basic and applied research, advanced research and development, and prototype production.

Washington Clean Energy Testbeds

The Washington Clean Energy Testbeds (WCET) is an open- access facility in Seattle offering customized training and use of instruments for fabricating prototypes, testing devices and modules, and integrating systems.