Our Materials Department consists of a Class 100 (ISO5) cleanroom with state-of-the-art synthesis equipment capable of producing novel nanomaterials, and electrical characterisation equipment capable of measuring the properties of these materials.

This is in addition to our standard materials lab which features with two box furnaces, one tube furnace, and a VSP300 Bio-Logic Potentiostat capable of measuring the electrical properties of supercapacitors.

Equipment:

– Picosun R200 Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) Reactor. Capable of depositing sub-nanometer layers in a controlled manner conformally over 200 mm diameter wafers.
– Probe Station with vibration table, 4294A HP impedance analyser, and 2601B Keithley SMU. Capable of measuring the dielectric and IV response of materials.
– M2000V Woollam Rotating Compensator Ellipsometer with automated mapping table. Capable of measuring nanometric thin films accurately; can also be used in-situ with the ALD reactor to measure growth of thin films during depositing process.
– M307 Moorfield thermal evaporator. Used for depositing metal electrodes on samples.

Research into energy storage (including static, low to high density, batteries to capacitors) is at the forefront of our development and has been for many years – we support this work with theoretical and experimental physicists. We specialise in understanding the relationship between process and application, meaning we don’t need a specific brief – just an outline of the challenge at hand.