Our facilities

The Southampton Space Institute brings together a wide-range of facilities and capabilities.

Nanofabrication cleanrooms
The Southampton Nanofabrication Centre houses a fully featured suite of semiconductor processing tools up to 200 millimetre wafer scale.

Deep-ultraviolet projection lithography facility
Our deep-ultraviolet scanner is a unique capability within UK academic research.

Electron beam lithography facility
Our electron beam lithography facility creates new opportunities for fine-geometry capability in novel device fabrication.

Hybrid materials and devices facility
We specialise in processing and characterisation of thin film materials from solution, such as those employed in flexible or wearable optoelectronic devices and battery research.

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National Electron Diffraction facility
The electron diffraction facility, part of the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, enables single-crystal structure analysis of crystallites too small for single-crystal X-ray diffraction experiments.

Geospatial computing facility
The geospatial computing facility is a specialised IT facility for Geospatial data used for teaching, research and enterprise in Geography and Environmental Science.

High energy laboratory
The high energy laboratory provides additional off-campus space to allow testing and operation of high voltage and power energy storage and production systems. It is mainly used for testing renewable energy generation systems and energy storage systems.

Iridis research computing facility
Iridis, the University’s high performance computing system, has dramatically increased computational performance and reach. Iridis is currently in its fifth generation and remains one of the largest computational faculties in the UK.

Material innovation laboratory
The material innovation laboratory facility offers a range of capabilities ranging from synthesis and characterisation to full research projects focusing on high-throughput methodology.

Printed electronics and materials laboratory
This research laboratory produces novel thick-film electronic sensors, actuators, circuits and systems.

Testing and structures research laboratory
The testing and structures research laboratory is a regional and national centre for experimental mechanics research.