Facilities

The MINDs Lab has comprehensive access to fabrication, materials-characterisation, and device-testing facilities through the Southampton Nanofabrication Centre (Zepler cleanrooms) - an 820 m² purpose-built cleanroom with production capability ranging from 200 mm (8") pilot-line wafer batches to single-chip devices. Available tools include Atomic Layer Deposition, Chemical Vapour Deposition, electron-beam evaporation, DC/RF sputtering, electron-beam lithography, photolithography, SEM with FIB, and a Bruker Dimension Icon SPM (including piezoresponse mode).

Through the Sustainable Electronic Technologies Research Group, we also access an HQ Graphene automated 2D transfer station, a Lakeshore cryogenic probe station with horizontal magnetic field, Renishaw micro-Raman/PL spectroscopy, and a NanoMOKE2 magneto-optic Kerr effect system.

The ECS Centre for Neuromorphic Technologies provides a broad suite of electronic instrumentation for DC and high-frequency characterisation of electronic and optoelectronic devices.

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