CEIS Research Facilities

The Schools have extensive and excellent facilities for research and student projects. Each research group has its own laboratory with all the necessary equipments for electrical and electronics, mechanical engineering, computer, mathematics and information science research.

Energy Systems and Advanced Materials

• Northumberland Building PV Facade:
  40 kW façade with associated monitoring equipment is used for ongoing “building integrated photovoltaic” studies.
• Photovoltaic Cell Test Facility:
  Class A terrestrial solar simulator and a close matched simulator (for multi-junction studies). There are only 2 facilities of this type in the UK.
• Nordiko RF Magnetron Sputtering Facility:
  Large area ( > 400 cm2) deposition of up to 3 materials sequentially. This can be used to produce photovoltaic solar cell mini-modules.
• Kurt J Lesker Deposition System:
  Sequentially and co-depositing up to 4 materials using sputtering (RF/DC), thermal evaporation and/or electron evaporation without breaking vacuum. 
• Thermal Evaporation Systems
• Wet Processing Facilities
• AnnealSys AS-ONE Rapid Thermal Processor 
• Carbolite Annealing Furnace
• Shimadzu Solidspec-3700 UV-VIS-NIR Spectrophotometer (300n m to 2500 nm)
• Ocean optics Spectrometer and optical apparatus 
• Millbrook MiniSIMS
• Oxford Instruments Close Cycle Cooler Cryostat
• HP LCR Meter and Boontoon Capacitor Meter
• SIMA-PRO7 Specialist Software
• High Temperature Corrosion Facility
• High Temperature TGA/DTA/DSC Thermo-gravimetric Facility
• TECVAC ECU700 Dual Electron Beam Evaporation /Triode ion Plating / reactive Deposition System:
  To deposit layers onto flat and 3-D objects
• Teer UDP 350 Deposition System:
  Closed field unbalanced magnetron DC/ RF sputtering system
• FEI (Philips) Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope (ESEM)
• Hitachi SEM
• Siemens D-5000 X-Ray Diffractometer
• Omicron Ultra High Vacuum  Atomic Force Microscope) / Scanning Tunnelling Microscope
• Veeco Ambient  Atomic Force Microscope
• Veeco Ambient  Multimode Atomic Force Microscope
• Scanning Vibration Electrode Technique.
  

NCRLab: Optical and Microwave Test and Measurement

• Free Space Optical Communications link at 155 Mbps
• Modulated Signal Source for Active Circuits
• 15 GHz optical / 20 GHz Electrical Module
• 28 GHz optical / 40 GHz Electrical Module (1000-1600 nm (SMF only))
• True Differential Input and Fast Eye Measurement
• Bit Error Rate Tester (12.5 Gbits)
• CDR and Extended Frequency Range (150Mb/s - 12.5 Gb/s)
• Broadband Light Source
• Optical Amplifier
• Lightwave Measurement System
• Triggering Wide-bandwidth Sampling Oscilloscopes (13 GHz)
• Compact high Performance Tunable Laser (S+C, and C+L bands)
• Optical Spectrum Analyser
• Agilent 50 GHz PNA
• Near  and Far Fields  Antenna  Measuring  System
• Agilent  Dielectric  Measuring  System
• Microwave Anechoic Chamber (2 – 40 GHz)
• Vector Network Analysers (100 kHz – 40 GHz)
• Semi-automated Antenna Measurement Facility
• Spectrum Analyser (40 GHz)
• HP Digital Storage Oscilloscope (20 GHz)
• Microwave Circuit Manufacturing Facility
• Lasers and Associated Optoelectronic Equipment:
  Nd:YAG, argon ion laser, carbon dioxide laser, Fabry-Perot Interferometer, laser power meters, beam profiling measuring equipment, optical fibre positioning equipment, EBERT monochromator, opt-mechanical apparatus including vibration isolation tables.
• Software:
  Matlab, Ensemble, Microstripes, HFSS, Micro-Wave Office, Virtual Photonics, Mathematica and Propagation Beam)

Manufacturing and Design

• Rapid Prototyping Systems
  -  Z-Crop Spectrum Colour 3D Printer
  -  Perfactory Digital Prototyping System
  -  Z-Crop Z402 3 D Printer
  -  Laminated Object Manufacturing Machine
• Measurement and Reverse Engineering Systems
  -  Impact Coordinate Measuring Machine
  -  Renishaw Cyclone
  -  Minicribe Arm
  -  Roland Laser Scanner
• 4 Axis Unimatic CNC System
• Simulation Test Rig
• Mechanics and Metal Cutting
  -  Specially adapted Testing for evaluating Cutting Tools
• Simulation Test rig for accessing Advanced Coatings
• SEM and associated Characterising facilities
• 3-axis Kistler force Dynamameter for Milling, Drilling and turning associated electronic equipment

Mathematics and Computer Science

• Mathematical Modeling Laboratory:
  SOFTWARE:-  MATLAB  with Simulink and a wide range of  toolboxes:  Bioinformatics, Communications, Control System, Financial derivatives, Fuzzy Logic, GARCH, Genetic Algorithm and Direct Search, Image Processing, Neural Networks, Optimization, Signal Processing, Statistics, Symbolic Math, System Identification, Wavelet;  SimpowerSystems, Mathematica, Maple, GeneSpring and GeneStats; MOLPRO is a complete system of ab initio programs for molecular electronic structure calculations;  specialized software for maximal entropy calculations.
• Computer Network Laboratory