Facilities
The School of Applied Sciences operates facilities and associated equipment which are often unique to Cranfield. Microsystems & Nanotechnology MSc students also benefit from our state-of-the-art infrastucture, designed to support both students and our industrial partners.
We have exceptional materials preparation and characterisation equipment. This includes focused ion beam (FIB), analytical transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and field emission gun scanning electron microscope (FEG-SEM), scanning probe microscopes (SPM), hot stage nanoindentation, surface analysis and mechanical testing. There are also over 100m2 of clean rooms.
Where processing is concerned we support:
- Spin coating
- Sputtering
- Photolithographic processing
- Reactive and deep reactive ion etching
- Rapid thermal annealing with furnaces
- Screen printing
- Tapecasting
- Corona & contact poling
- Chemical stations
In terms of characterisation we cover:
- Dielectric, piezoelectric, ferroelectric, pyroelectric
- Impedance analysis
- Network analysis
- Interferrometry
- Polytec 3D Micro-motion Analyser
- Atomic force microscopy
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