Rancho Santa Margarita, CA (November 2026) \u2013 American Cleanroom Systems has been awarded a contract to build a cleanroom cabin for the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York. The cabin will enclose the INF beamline, where scientists will study materials for quantum computing and information science. This is our third cleanroom project at Brookhaven National Laboratory.<\/p>\n
NSLS-II is a U.S. Department of Energy user facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Its electron storage ring produces X-rays more than 10,000 times brighter than the laboratory's original light source. Because the beam delivers so many photons, researchers can collect data in milliseconds and record 3D video of physical and chemical reactions, such as lithium ions moving inside a battery while it charges.<\/p>\n
Scientists use these X-rays and infrared light at individual experiment lines called beamlines. Each beamline ends in one or more end stations where samples are measured.<\/p>\n
The INF beamline's main scientific focus is the study of materials relevant to quantum computing and quantum information science. It will also be used for electronic characterization at a scale of about 10 nanometers, roughly 10,000 times thinner than a human hair.<\/p>\n
Measurements at that scale are easily disturbed. A small temperature swing can expand or shift equipment. Vibration can blur results. Airborne particles can land on samples. That is why the beamline needs its own controlled environment.<\/p>\n
A beamline cleanroom cabin is an enclosure built around a section of a beamline and its end stations. It works like a room inside the experimental hall, with its own filtered air supply and its own temperature and humidity control. It isolates the experiment from the surrounding hall, which is a large open space with heat sources, foot traffic and changing conditions.<\/p>\n
The Brookhaven cabin will control five conditions:<\/p>\n
The cabin will use four main components:<\/p>\n
Every element is designed, manufactured and installed by American Cleanroom Systems, so one team is responsible for the cabin from drawings to final testing. Learn more about our modular cleanrooms<\/a>.<\/p>\n Brookhaven National Laboratory selected American Cleanroom Systems for our experience building technically demanding cleanrooms that control noise, temperature, humidity, vibration and particles. Our earlier Brookhaven work includes an ISO-7 temperature and humidity controlled cleanroom.<\/p>\n Over the past 30 years we have built cleanrooms for Brookhaven, Lawrence Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, Sandia and SLAC national laboratories, along with NASA JPL, NASA Cape Canaveral, NIST, the Naval Research Laboratory, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and NOAA. See the full list and project photos in Cleanrooms for US National Laboratories<\/a>.<\/p>\nOur third project at Brookhaven National Laboratory<\/h2>\n
Video: American Cleanroom Systems National Lab Projects<\/h2>\n