The research building was funded by the state of Lower Saxony and, after a successful evaluation by the German Council of Science and Humanities (pursuant to Article 91b, para. 1, no. 3 of the German Basic Law), by the federal government. After a two-year construction period, the keys were ceremoniously handed over on 20 November 2009. At that time, it was the first research building at Leibniz University Hannover to be built using this then-new procedure.
In the LNQE research building, equipment and technologies are made centrally available to employees and students from the working groups and institutes of the Leibniz Research Centre LNQE. This includes, in particular, many equipment and processes in the 409 square metre clean room with ISO5 clean room class, a transmission electron microscope and high-quality laboratories as well as open office space.
