Knight Campus Core Facilities

The Knight Campus Core Research Facilities offer extraordinary access to top-end research equipment, overseen by expert staff to facilitate use to all user types across academic, commercial and government industries.

Knight Campus Clean Room

A research fabrication facility for micro and nano-scale processing. Infrastructure enables etching and deposition with traditional material systems and innovations into novel materials for advanced semiconductor and bioengineering applications.

Located in Building 1

Learn more about the Clean Room.

Knight Campus X-Ray Imaging

Versatile non-destructive X-ray based imaging systems and quantitative analysis for biological samples, biomaterials, natural materials, and synthetic materials at high spatial resolution.

Located in Building 1

Learn more about X-Ray Imaging Services.

Oregon Fabrication and Design

Our modern and traditionally equipped, high-precision machine shop with leading-edge equipment for the design and fabrication of novel parts, and specialized research equipment. The shop staff can integrate your vision into a working design and build it.

Located in Building 1

Learn more about Fabrication and Design Services.

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We offer extraordinary access to top-end research equipment, overseen by expert staff that support users across the state of Oregon.

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Knight Campus BioFoundry

Instrumentation and cell culture facility designed to support the development and fabrication of next generation biomaterial products, as well as support the characterization of cells, cellular matrixes, cellular processes.

Coming Soon, located in Building 2.

Knight Campus Electronics Core

A core facility designed to support your electronic needs.

Coming Soon, located in Building 2.

Knight Campus Makerspace

A new facility for students and trainees to tinker, and learn.

Coming Soon, located in Building 2.

Knight Campus Core Facilities News

Lin Receives the 2025 OVPRI Career Research Faculty Award

Angela Lin, senior research engineer in the Guldberg Lab at the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact and the director of the X-ray Imaging Research Core Facility, is recognized for the 2025 OVPRI Career Research Faculty Award.

KCGIP Benefits from $2 Million Semiconductor Grant

A new $2 million investment from the Oregon state legislature will allow the UO to raise enrollment in the semiconductor track of the Knight Campus Graduate Internship Program, an accelerated applied master’s program that provides a pipeline to industry jobs.