Our facilities

Our School is purpose-built, self-contained, and offers a pleasant and friendly environment for study, with central University facilities just a few minutes walk away.

You will have access to specialist facilities and laboratories that are equipped with the latest technology including:

• Agilent Technologies Wireless Communications Laboratory, equipped with the very latest state-of-the-art electronic teaching equipment comprising of Agilent’s bench top spectrum analysers, signal generators and 6000 series Scopes.
• Two-storey class-100 nanotechnology cleanroom
• £4.5m electron-beam lithography facility capable of sub-10-nm patterning
• 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
• 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
• An embedded systems laboratory equipped with the latest embedded system development tools sponsored by Farnell