Facilities and Buildings at CHTM

Key components of CHTM's vertically integrated structure are its specialized facilities.  In 1987 the Crystal Growth Facility became operational, focussing on MOCVD epitaxial growth for advanced semiconductor device structures. Shortly after this CHTM's' first cleanroom was built in the basement of the EECE building. The new Cleanroom (which is now located in the new CHTM building) allows the fabrication of advanced semiconductor devices from epitaxial structures grown at CHTM. The Computer Facility (which is also located in the new CHTM building) is a further evolution, providing investigators with a centralized facility for tasks requiring extensive computing power, such as the numerical methods simulation of beam propagation in laser cavities. By 1992 CHTM had outgrown its original accommodation and in that year the State of NM approved a $9.5M bond issue for a new CHTM Building. Groundbreaking was in 1995, and the building was dedicated in 1997.