UW News
Michael Khbeis
August 3, 2015
UW to invest $37 million in nanofabrication lab critical to researchers, start-ups
![Photo of UW students learning microfabrication techniques in the Washington Nanofabrication Facility.](https://uw-s3-cdn.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2015/07/04165759/WNF-people-tile-150x150.jpg)
The UW is investing up to $37 million in the Washington Nanofabrication Facility, which makes things for researchers and outside companies that aren’t practical, economical or possible to fabricate at commercial foundries: inconceivably tiny devices, chips made from unconventional materials that industrial factories won’t touch and devices that probe the boundaries of our universe.