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A free one-hour tour of the capabilities of the Royce Institute's Electrical Characterisation Suite within the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Cambridge. Discover more about this open access equipment and Royce funding opportunities for your research.

This equipment can be used to characterise devices in detail both at wafer level and in packaged form enabling the enhancement of product performance.

This suite includes: a Cascade Tesla, 200 mm, high voltage, high current semiautomatic probe station, a Keysight B1505A Semiconductor Parametric Analyser/Curve Tracer, number of stand-alone, high precision Source Measure Units (SMUs) and a high voltage capable, Keysight 2 GHz Oscilloscope.

This set of equipment allows testing and characterisation of devices and materials in wafer, die or packaged forms, very accurately from -55 °C to +300 °C. Ratings of the equipment are up to 200 A and 3 kV for wafer level measurements using the probe station and 0.01 fA to 1500 A and 10 kV for packaged samples. B1505A also has C-V capability from 1 kHz to 5 MHz with a combined DC voltage rating of 3 kV. The oscilloscope with the high voltage probe can capture switching transients up to 4 kV.

For more information about Royce Facilities at Cambridge please contact royce@maxwell.cam.ac.uk and see our full equipment listing at: https://www.maxwell.cam.ac.uk/programmes/henry-royce-institute

A free one-hour tour of the Royce Institute's Magnetic Property Management System in the Maxwell Centre at the University of Cambridge.

If your research interests require detailed measurements of advanced functional magnetic materials, devices, and circuits, in which magnetic,
electronic, optical and thermal properties are strongly coupled the Quantum Design cryogen-free Magnetic Property Measurement System (MPMS) may be of interest. The MPMS has an operational temperature range of 1.8-400 K, 7 Tesla magnet, and modules for the application of multiple external fields, including: magnetic, electric, mechanical, thermal, and optical fields.

The system has a magnetic moment sensitivity of better than 10-8 emu and enables detailed, long-duration, measurements and testing of magnetic phenomena in materials and devices that exhibit a strong coupling between their magnetic and electronic/thermal/optical properties.

This tour will give an overview of the capabilities of the Magnetic Property Management System as well as information on booking, funding opportunities and the work of the Royce Institute.

Additionally tours of the Royce Magnetic Property Management System and the High Vacuum and the Environmental XPS will also be taking place at this time at the Maxwell Centre. If you're interested please book a tour for these facilities here;

Magnetic Property Management System https://app.tickettailor.com/events/roycecambridge/1202721

High Vacuum and the Environmental XPS https://app.tickettailor.com/events/roycecambridge/1202754

For more information about Royce Facilities at Cambridge please contact royce@maxwell.cam.ac.uk and see our full equipment listing at: https://www.maxwell.cam.ac.uk/programmes/henry-royce-institute

A free one-hour tour of the Royce Institute's Ambient Processing Cluster Tool Facility in the Maxwell Centre at the University of Cambridge.

The Royce Institute's Ambient Processing Cluster Tool is a custom-built glovebox cluster tool that integrates different vacuum and liquid-based deposition technologies for a wide range of functional materials into a common inert glove box atmosphere. It comprises ten glove box modules that are interconnected by a semi-automated inert atmosphere transfer system and includes Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD), Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD), Aerosol Jet Printing, Slot Die Coating, Organic Thermal Evaporator, Perovskite/Hybrid Evaporator, as well as modules for metrology, thin film encapsulation and packaging.

This open access tool can be used by both academia and industry and gives access to a wide range of functional materials, including transition metal oxides for battery and other applications, organic and hybrid organic-inorganic semiconductors, two-dimensional materials, polymer composites and other associated materials.

Its unique configuration allows integration of these different classes of materials into novel hetero-architectures and but also fabrication of a wide range of devices including solar cells, batteries, mechanical or thermoelectric energy harvesters as well as integrated energy systems for energy–efficient ICT applications.

This tour will give an overview of the capabilities of the Ambient Processing Cluster Tool as well as information on booking, funding opportunities and the work of the Royce Institute.

Additionally tours of the Royce Magnetic Property Management System and the High Vacuum and Environmental XPS will also be taking place at this time at the Maxwell Centre. If you're interested please book a tour for these facilities here;

Magnetic Property Management System https://app.tickettailor.com/events/roycecambridge/1202721

Environmental XPS and the High Vacuum XPS https://app.tickettailor.com/events/roycecambridge/1202754

For more information about Royce Facilities at Cambridge please contact royce@maxwell.cam.ac.uk and see our full equipment listing at: https://www.maxwell.cam.ac.uk/programmes/henry-royce-institute

A free one-hour tour of the Royce Institute's Environmental XPS and the High Vacuum  XPS in the Maxwell Centre at the University of Cambridge.

The ultra high-vacuum photoemission instrument, an Escalab 250Xi runs alongside the near ambient pressure (NAP) X-ray photoemission
spectroscopy (XPS) system as a combined joint facility, their capabilities are:

• X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS) for chemical analysis of surfaces under inert, UHV conditions
• Ultra-violet photoemission spectroscopy (UPS) for measurements of valence bands and work functions with a 21.2eV excitation source
• Angle resolved x-ray photoemission spectroscopy (ARXPS) by varying the angle that the sample is held at and in this way varying the analysis depth down to a few nanometers. This is a non-destructive technique.
•  Depth profiling x-ray photoemission spectroscopy (DPXPS) which combines a sequence of argon ion gun etch cycles with XPS analysis. This is a destructive technique.

This tour will give an overview of the capabilities of the Environmental XPS and the high Vacuum XPS as well as information on booking, funding opportunities and the work of the Royce Institute.

Additionally tours of the Royce Magnetic Property Management System and the Ambient Processing Cluster Tool will also be taking place at this time at the Maxwell Centre. If you're interested please book a tour for these facilities here;

Ambient Processing Cluster Tool https://app.tickettailor.com/events/roycecambridge/1202524

Magnetic Property Management System https://app.tickettailor.com/events/roycecambridge/1202721

For more information about Royce Facilities at Cambridge please contact royce@maxwell.cam.ac.uk and see our full equipment listing at: https://www.maxwell.cam.ac.uk/programmes/henry-royce-institute

Following on from the success of last year’s seminar series, we are pleased to announce that the NanoDTC will be running a free half-day (hybrid) session on Life Cycle Assessment. 

This workshop will introduce the technique of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to Physical Sciences researchers who are keen to evaluate the use of this technique for their work. With the increasing emphasis on sustainability from all fronts, researchers are now expected to reflect on the sustainability impact of their work and understand the choices that might be available to them. This half day workshop will introduce the use of EcoInvent software for conducting these LCA analyses.

The workshop will be led by NanoDTC alumnus Dr Taylor Uekert, who is currently at the Circular Economy for Energy Materials Team at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado. 

If you would like to attend, please register here:

In Person: University of Cambridge training - Physics: LifeCycle Assessment (In Person Face To Face) - Wed 22 May 2024

Online: University of Cambridge training - Physics: LifeCycle Assessment (Live Online Using Zoom) - Wed 22 May 2024

Contact: Helen Llewelyn nanodtc.admin@phy.cam.ac.uk