The microelectronics industry in the race of shrinking the size of the components and the increase of the density of transistors in the chip have driven a impressive progress in the techniques of nanofabrication. this effort has been also relayed by the scientific community of the more fundamental research to take advantage of these techniques to produce small objects at the interface between the atomic (or molecular) and the macroscopic world to understand the transition between these two worlds.

The techniques developped to attained these goals are very expensive and also need a clean costly environment (clean room). Moreover the skill and know-how developped by the team working in these domains are also very precious and represent a long period of training.
All these points ride the importance of cooperation, the sharing of the equipments and the know-how for the nanotechnologies challenges.

NanoManufacturing and NanoStructuring transverse axis try to answer to these important points by fulfilling the following tasks :

• Promoting the sharing and coordination of the technological equipments in IdF
• Enabling to offer the tools needed for innovative research
• Helping to develop new techniques to over achieve breaktrough in various domains
• And establishing a data base off all technological equipments and know-how in IdF to favor the dissimination of the technology and help people seeking for skill.