Facilities and Infrastructure
Georgia Tech operates state-of-the-art electronics and nanotechnology core facilities, offering a broad range of fabrication and characterization capabilities for activities from basic discovery to prototype realization.
Georgia Tech fosters a research environment positioned to advance quantum science, engineering, and applications across the full quantum stack. Across campus and the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), researchers have access to shared facilities, fabrication tools, characterization platforms, cryogenic systems, photonics and electronics infrastructure, computing resources, and applied research environments. Together, these capabilities support research from fundamental discovery and quantum materials to device development, system integration, testing, and deployment. They also provide researchers, students, industry partners, and government collaborators with the tools to move quantum ideas toward practical applications and future shared testbeds.
Fabrication, Characterization, and Manufacturing Facilities
Micro/Nano Fabrication Facility
Georgia Tech’s Micro/Nano Fabrication Facility provides shared cleanroom infrastructure for advanced device development in the Marcus Nanotechnology Building and the Pettit Microelectronics Building. The facility supports work in microelectronics, nanoelectronics, MEMS, photonics, materials, and sensor technologies, including quantum-relevant photonic components, nanoscale sensors, electronic interfaces, test structures, and integrated device platforms.
Materials Characterization Facility
Georgia Tech’s Materials Characterization Facility adds advanced tools and technical expertise for materials analysis, helping researchers connect material quality, interfaces, defects, device structure, and performance across academic, industry, and government research.
3D Systems Packaging Research Center
The Georgia Tech 3D Systems Packaging Research Center (3D PRC) is a leading university driven center that focuses on advanced packaging using 2.5D and 3D heterogeneous integration technologies. The center conducts research and education in all aspects of advanced packaging and heterogeneous integration that includes materials, design, processes, thermal management, power delivery, and assembly and integration driven by applications that include high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, automotive, mm-wave communication, and photonic connectivity.
Advanced Manufacturing Pilot Facility
The Georgia Tech Advanced Manufacturing Pilot Facility (AMPF) is a 20,000 square foot reconfigurable research and development high bay manufacturing facility in Midtown Atlanta supporting industrial, academic, and government stakeholders that also serves as a teaching laboratory. AMPF is a resource and key partner for SBIR/STTR development.
Cryogenics, Photonics, Electronics, and Computing
Many quantum systems require low-temperature environments, highly sensitive measurement, optical control, and low-noise electronics. Georgia Tech’s research infrastructure includes cryogenic systems, advanced physics, optics, and photonics labs, electronic measurement tools, and device testing environments that support quantum sensing, quantum communication, integrated photonics, quantum materials, and quantum device research. Campus computing resources also support simulation, modeling, data analysis, machine learning, and hybrid quantum-classical workflows, helping researchers model materials and devices, test algorithms, process large datasets, develop control systems, and connect quantum hardware with software and applications. Together, these capabilities form the conventional and systems-building layer needed to make quantum technologies more controllable, scalable, reliable, and application-ready.
Applied Research at the Georgia Tech Research Institute
Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) connects scientific and engineering advances to applications in sensing, secure communication, timing, navigation, defense, and national security. Its strengths in systems engineering, prototyping, testing, and mission-focused research help move quantum work beyond the laboratory and create a path from early discovery to usable technologies that can be tested in real-world conditions.