CNI Labs External User Program

CNI welcomes External Users (non Columbia affiliates) who wish to use our uniquely equipped Shared Facilities.

Our user rates for Industry and Private Companies can be found here.

External Academic users pay Columbia internal rates plus and administrative fee of 20%. Price list can be found here.

Invoices and activity reports are sent monthly. Payment can be only made via checks and is due 30 days past invoice receipt. A monthly membership fee of $75 per academic research group and $150 for industry is applied to each invoice (for months of lab usage only). The revenue from the membership fee will be used for equipment refresh and replacement.

Cleanroom user operating the wire bonder, looking through its microscope to align fine wires for microelectronic device packaging.
User receiving hands-on training on the Raman spectrometer in the Shared Materials Characterization Lab, learning to perform vibrational spectroscopy measurements.
Group of users in cleanroom attire receiving training from staff on operating the Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), focusing on nanoscale imaging techniques.