Boston University Laboratory for Microsystems Technology (LMST), directed by Professor Xin Zhang, was founded in January 2002 as a new interdisciplinary program in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Division of Materials Science and Engineering within the University's College of Engineering.

LMST is dedicated to interdisciplinary research in the design, fabrication, characterization, packaging, and operation of nano and microsystems for biomedical, energy, and defense applications, including research topics on "Lab in a Cell", Power and Energy, Sensing and Imaging, and Fabrication and Materials.

LMST is located in the Fraunhofer USA Center for Manufacturing Innovation (Director: Dr. Andre Sharon) at Boston University. Professor Zhang holds the Fraunhofer Professorship through association and collaboration with the Fraunhofer that has significant experience in developing new machining technologies and production processes for biotechnology, optoelectronics, semiconductor, and MEMS/NEMS applications.

LMST is a cleanroom that provides resources for the design, fabrication, characterization, and testing of MEMS/NEMS devices and systems. LMST is also a general biochemistry laboratory that has a strong collaboration with the cardiovascular researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Tufts Medical Center, and Vanderbilt Medical Center.

LMST's MEMS/NEMS devices are mainly fabricated at the Photonics Center at Boston University (Director: Dr. Thomas Bifano), which has 235,000 net square foot, $100 million facilities and equipment as well as 10 floors of state-of-the-art research laboratories. Professor Zhang holds a Photonics Faculty position, where she serves in the executive committee and chairs the facility and equipment committee. LMST members have a full access to all the equipment and facilities at the Center.

In addition, LMST members has general accesses to many other unique micro- and nano- fabrication and characterization equipment and facilities owned and maintained by our collaborators at Boston University.

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