The Angström Laboratory at Uppsala University
| Institute: | Uppsala University |
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| Address: |
The Angstrom Laboratory SE-751 2 Uppsala Sweden |
| Website: | http://www.angstrom.uu.se/ |
| Contact person | Nikolajeff Fredrik |
| Presentation: | UPU.pdf (384.92 kB) |
Description
Uppsala universitet (UPU) is a large-sized university covering most scientific disciplines. Founded in 1477, being the oldest university in Scandinavia, Uppsala universitet has hosted such well-renowned professors as Celsius, Linnaeus and Ångstrom. Today, the university educates more than 38,000 students and employs a staff of around 5600 people. Uppsala universitet has a long and rich tradition of interaction with other international universities and routinely both accepts and sends students from/to other universities. Many of the classes taught are given in English, and because of the high rank that Uppsala universitet typically receives in various bench marketing tests many students are attracted to study and live in Uppsala.
The top-class facility Ångstrom Laboratory was inaugurated in 1996, and assembles the Physics, Chemistry and Materials Science disciplines, centered around a core of a 2000 sqm clean-room. The cleanroom, and its annexed facilites, accomodate absolutely state-of-the-art equipment for microfabrication in different kinds of materials, surface analysis and testing. The equipment park includes for instance several inductively coupled plasma (ICP) etching systems, focused ion beam (FIB) etching systems, transmission electron microscopes (TEM) and scanning electron microscopes (SEM). A complete line of equipment for processing of six-inch silicon wafers in also included, as is equipment for polymer microreplication such as electroplating and embossing.
The Micro-Optics Group, headed by Assoc. Prof. Fredrik Nikolajeff, belongs to the Department of Engineering Sciences (formerly named the Dept. of Materials Science), and counts around 10 researchers. The group is addressing various aspects of micro-optics and photonics. In particular, the group is active in the interdisciplinary area between materials science-microstructuring-photonics-biotechnology. In recent years, the group has been internationally recognized for the their work on diamond micro-optics. Starting in 1998, the group has established itself as a leading authority in semiconductor micro-optics and biophotonics. The financial situation is very good, and thanks to collaboration with research groups in other disciplines the Micro-Optics group benefits from front-line know-how and experimental work in other niche areas. To date, this collaboration has been more on the national level except for a few personal contacts in the U.S. NEMO will provide the group with a very strong platform for interaction also with top-ranked research groups within Europe.
