Our Group is a centre of excellence that transcends all aspects of detector development. Our workshop provides precision engineering of tooling and detector housings in a variety of materials including metals, plastics, and carbon fibre. Several clean rooms are available, one for photolithography of substrates and one for device testing and characterisation. We have several testing laboratories, that include thermal imaging, coordinate metrology equipment, and electrical test equipment. This includes the usual array of CAMAC, NIM, and VME modules expected from a particle or nuclear physics group as well as more modern solutions for data acquisition.
Our novel material and organic semiconductor development programme make extensive use of wet chemistry laboratories and glovebox fabrication units. We collaborate with partners in the School of Engineering and Material Science who have in-house perovskite thin and thick film fabrication facilities and the School of Biology and Behavioural Sciences that produce high purity organic semiconductors. The Materials Research Institute at QMUL enables the group to access other specialist equipment as required, including scanning electron microscopes, x-ray diffractometers etc. for detailed material studies.
The multidisciplinary nature of our well-equipped group combined with our network of contacts elsewhere in the University means that we have a wide range of cutting-edge tools and equipment to enable detector development, testing and instrument construction. We use our expertise to make one-off microscopic devices for testing through to large area precision instruments.
Our links to the Particle Physics Research Centre provides us with large high throughput and GPU computing resources for data processing, and where time is critical for the problem, we have hardware experts who work with FPGAs for the LHC calorimeter trigger.