Fabrication Clean Rooms
The Fabrication Lab provides an excellent learning environment for both teaching and research. Work in the lab includes development in semiconductor device physics and technology.
This lab includes two class 100-10000 clean rooms (CRL1 and CRL4).
The labs are equipped with controlled temperature and humidity (21±1°C; 50±5% RH). They cover a total area of 120 sq m.
The Fabrication Lab is serviced regularly. This includes upgrading equipment and replenishing chemicals and gases.
Regular maintenance ensures that we utilise funds efficiently. This minimises the risk of any project delays due to facility fault or unavailability.
This facility is supported solely by the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Its use is charged at a flat rate per hour.
Find out more about the and see what microfabrication equipment is available.
CRL1 Clean Room
The CRL1 class 100-10000 clean room houses an Oxford Instruments 200mm cluster tool.
This tool combines ALD and metal deposition for novel gate stacks.
The CRL1 clean room is also equipped with Picosun ALD for the following tasks:
- high-temperature film deposition
- RTP bench-top rapid thermal processor
- wet chemical workstation
- Bruker X-ray diffractometer
CRL4 Clean Room
The CRL4 class 100-1000 clean room is specialised in silicon carbide device processing and interconnection research.
The CRL4 clean room is equipped with:
- thermal and e-beam evaporators
- RIE machine
- photolithography facilities
- JIPELEC furnace for SiC post-implantation annealing and graphene growth
Other facilities
The School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering also has access to a 400 m2 class 100 clean room facility.
This allows for device fabrication, packaging and characterisation at INEX Microtechnology.
It also allows for X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) facility at NEXUS.