The London Centre for Nanotechnology is a joint enterprise between University College London and Imperial College. It brings together around 200 researchers from the disciplines of physics, engineering, medicine, chemistry and the life sciences to deliver internationally-leading interdisciplinary nanoscience. Facilities include a class 100 cleanroom for nanodevice fabrication and three focussed-ion-beam instruments in a dedicated class 10,000 cleanroom.
Network Role: The London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) is an expert in the fabrication and measurement of nanoelectronic devices, growing functional semiconducting and superconducting thin films and nanowires using molecular-beam epitaxy and/or sputtering. Within PicoFIB, the LCN will provide novel materials for testing nanodevice fabrication methodologies by He/Ne lithography, with the UK's first neon-beam FIB facility. The LCN can perform electrical measurements of these patterned devices at temperatures from 20 mK to 300 K and at frequencies from d.c. to tens of GHz to correlate nanoscale ion beam processing/patterning to (quantum) device performance.
Deputy Director
Nanoelectronics
Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 3971
Email: p.warburton@ucl.ac.uk