Facilities

Nanotechnology and Electronics Research Group
Wolfson Laboratory

Wolfson Laboratory

The research programme of the Nanotechnology and Electronics Research Group is underpinned by the cleanroom-based Wolfson Laboratory for nanomaterials and devices.

The lab has extensive facilities for the design, fabrication and characterisation of graphene (and 2D related materials) devices and sensors (including bio-sensors), high-speed electronics, solar cells, brain tumour treating fields, thin-films and composites.

These facilities include, class-100 clean room, sputtering machines, optical microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, surface plasmon resonance (SPR) system, Scanning (SEM) and Transmission (TEM) Electron microscopy (within the Plymouth Electron Microscopy Centre), atomic force microscopy (AFM), electrical, impedance and magnetic measurement systems.

Deposition tools

  • 6-target and load-locked Nordiko 9550 UHV thin film deposition system
  • 8” Nordiko RF/DC magnetron sputtering system
  • 6” Nordiko RF/DC magnetron sputtering system.

Cleanroon 

Microfabrication

OAI 500 mask aligner, an ion miller, photoresist spinner and wet benches for the fabrication of submicron feature sized devices.

Wolfson Laboratory -  Microfabrication

Characterisation

  • Nano-R 3D atomic force microscope (AFM)
  • Horiba XploRA Raman station
  • Cascade Microtech MPS 150 4-probe station
  • Olympus confocal laser microscope.

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Magnetic and magneto-transport measurements

  • 4-probe MR measurement system
  • Vibrating Sample Magnetometer (VSM) – running under LabVIEW control.

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4 point probe system        
4 point probe system        
Raman spectrometer
Raman spectrometer

Surface Plasmon Resonance

Running under LabVIEW control.


Wolfson Laboratory