Oregon Process Innovation Center
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Facility Description
OPIC is located within the Microproducts Breakthrough Institute (MBI), a 55,000 square foot high-tech product development facility on the Hewlett Packard campus in Corvallis, Oregon. The MBI is a joint partnership between the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Oregon State University (OSU) to research, develop and commercialize microreactor technologies for process intensification. PNNL and OSU are international leaders in the science and engineering of advanced processes with a focus on the interface of micro- and nanotechnology. A key example is the development of patent-pending microreactor-assisted nanomaterial deposition processes (Figure 1), which are at the core of a strategy for displacing expensive vapor-phase process steps within PV manufacturing. As part of the MBI, OPIC will provide desk and laboratory space for industry and academic researchers to physically locate themselves together. Equipment within OPIC and the MBI will be made available to these researchers through the capabilities of the MBI staff.
Key Contacts
- Chih-hung Chang, OPIC Director
- Greg Herman, OPIC Associate Director
Microproducts Breakthrough Institute