The addition will connect to the existing lab facility, the university says in a news release.
The new three-floor building will house lab and office space for about 110 scientists and lab personnel. It will have a class 1000 target fabrication lab and thin film coating lab, a laser computing facility, and several other wet lab and general lab spaces.
The largest lab space will house the AMICA laser system, a high-energy, long-pulse laser that scientists are assembling for Stanford University’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Matter at Extreme Condition Upgrade.