Our facilities

We have a continuous programme of infrastructure refurbishment to ensure that our research is not only competitive internationally, but leading internationally. Our facilities include:

• Two-storey class-100 nanotechnology cleanroom
• A new world-leading £4.5m electron-beam lithography facility capable of sub-10-nm patterning will be commissioned in 2011
• III-V semiconductor Molecular Beam Epitaxy facility to fabricate advanced compound semiconductor optoelectronic devices
• One of the worlds largest and best-equipped terahertz photonics laboratories
• The RF and microwave facilities include a range of network analysers, operating to 325 GHz, wafer probing, RF and microwave circuit laser prototyping, and ceramic circuit fabrication facilities
• Bio-electronics laboratory
• A wireless communications laboratory
• Traffic generators and analysers, FPGA development tools, sensor network test beds and motorway-deployed test-beds
• Ultrasound laboratory fitted with state-of-the-art equipment for ultrasound development and testing of biomedical applications