Our facilities

The Southampton Nanofabrication Centre houses a fully featured suite of semiconductor processing tools up to 200 millimetre wafer scale.

We specialise in the manufacture and research of doped and structured fibres.

Our electron beam lithography facility creates new opportunities for fine-geometry capability in novel device fabrication, across electronics, photonics, and bio-nano technology.

We specialise in rapid nanostructuring of materials and devices, from nanomembranes to semiconductor multilayer structures and optical fibres for nanophotonics, electronics, metamaterials and plasmonics research.

We deposit optical fibre grade glass on silicon wafers, from 1 to 100 micrometres thickness.

We offer specialised glass making using glovebox systems for batching, melting, annealing and casting of glass under dry inert atmosphere.

We specialise in processing and characterisation of thin film materials from solution, such as those employed in flexible or wearable optoelectronic devices and battery research.

Our deep-ultraviolet scanner is a unique capability within UK academic research. It gives a 248 nanometre (nm) laser source, which gives a critical dimension of 180nm over a 200 millimetre wafer. It has a throughput of 120 wafers per hour.