Wallonia Infrastructure for Micro- et Nano-FABrication (WINFAB)
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Picture credits : Yvan Flamant
Technical and scientific expertise
- Thin film deposition, etching and lithography
- Semiconductor physics
- Vacuum technology
- Clean room design
- Technical advice and consultancy
- Complete device development
- Access to clean room facilities and equipment rental
Main equipment
- Chemical vapour deposition
- Lasers
- Optical lithography
- eBeam
- Metalisers
Get an overview of the platform’s facilities via a virtual tour.
Applications
- Solar cells
- Sensors (stress, humidity, etc.)
- Batteries
- Mechanical properties of thin films
- 2D materials (graphene, hBN, etc.)
- Substrates for RF applications
Services available to
- UCLouvain researchers
- Non-UCLouvain parties
Testimonial
March 2024 - M. Yann Danlée - Co-Founder and CSO -, and M. Gaël Hamoir - Senior Sensor Engineer - at VOCSens, a spin-off from UCLouvain that creates gas sensors to measure environmental pollution, talk in a video about their collaboration with the WINFAB platform.
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29 March 2024Farm for Good, GSK, Isomatex and VOCSens : testimonialsWatch the video testimonials of Farm for Good about its collaboration with the Fermes universitaires, Isomatex about its collaboration with P2C, GSK about its collaboration with SMCS and VOCSens about its collaboration with WINFAB. -
19 July 2023Minister Willy Borsus and the Deputies of the Province of Walloon Brabant visit the WINFAB and WELCOME platformsThe Minister and the Provincial Deputies were able to assess the first effects of the Plan de relance, as well as those of the Province's impetus credits for platforms allocated as part of the BW2030 strategy. -
9 December 2022Nanolithography: draw patterns down to 10 nmThe micro- and nano-fabrication platform - WINFAB - has acquired a new Ultra high-resolution Electron Beam Lithography (EBL) equipment. The system consists in a high resolution Scanning Electron Microscope equipped with an additional lithography module allowing an accurate control of the electron beam scanning. -
1 December 2022Composites: a world first to measure deformations at the nanoscale !This new method will hopefully help shed light on the local deformation and fracture behaviour of composites at the fibre scale, which is crucial for designing accurate finite element models of these materials throughout the lengthscales.