🔬 After coating the wafer with resist, it’s time to transfer the design into the photosensitive film. Here we see a resist-coated wafer being mounted and loaded into the VB6 Electron Beam Lithography tool ahead of the process.

🧪Lithography is a crucial step in any micro or nanofabrication process. It’s how patterns from a design are precisely transferred onto a chip or wafer. Here, we capture the spin-coating of a resist film onto a 150mm wafer.
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Have you signed up for the XRD Training Workshop at Royce Cambridge yet?
Join our one-week, hands-on course (24–28 November 2025) at the Maxwell Centre, and learn how to analyse X-ray Diffraction patterns from the experts. Book your place : www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/royce-xrd-...

From chip-scale experiments to wafer-level innovation💫
Our new Nanofabrication Cleanrooms at the Ray Dolby Centre are equipped to support it all.
Here, a researcher runs a 200 mm wafer through the Oxford Instruments ICPCVD tool - used to deposit uniform, dielectric films onto wafers and chips.

New from CORDE 👨🔬 — Ben Collishaw has developed a modular kinetic Monte Carlo simulation to model sulphur diffusion on Ni(111) surfaces.

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🎓 Ethan Cantor (Manchester @OfficialUoM) explored Haralick texture analysis on SHeM data — building a Python tool to detect subtle surface changes and joining us at the UK SHeM conference in Durham. A fantastic contribution from a first-year student! #UndergraduateResearch #STEM #SHeM

New paper out: Surface visualisation of bacterial biofilms using neutral helium microscopy.
Led by Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellow Prof. Paul Dastoor with the CORDE Characterisation team, this international collaboration used the UK’s only SHeM to image biofilms — no coating, no damage.

🌟 Cambridge’s Collaborative R&D Environment (CORDE) is your gateway to world-class #nanofabrication, #characterisation, and precision fabrication. Our mission is to power your future physics research with flexible support and collaboration. Explore the CORDE offer: corde.phy.cam.ac.uk

Join one-week course on the fundamentals of X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern analysis, running from 24–28 November 2025. More details 👇

We’re wrapping up an inspiring summer with our undergrad researchers 🎓✨ Meet Ethan Cantor (Manchester) & Ben Collishaw (Cambridge), two of our brilliant students. Videos of their reflections coming next week — stay tuned! #UndergraduateResearch #STEM

✨ Step inside the future of innovation ✨ Our CORDE Nanofabrication Cleanrooms are state-of-the-art facilities, equipped with advanced tools and exceptional flexibility, turning the most ambitious research ideas into reality. Details on ways to work with us: corde.phy.cam.ac.uk/nanofabricat...

Fantastic to host 40+ researchers & students at Durham for the 7th Surfaces, Interfaces & Thin Films Day with @IoPThinFilmsAndSurfacesGroup.Thanks to Jack Kelsall , Daniel Dobrowolski & Kislon Voitchovsky. Stay tuned for #TFSGSummerSchool2026 corde.phy.cam.ac.uk/research-sup...

At CORDE's #AtomScattering and #AtomMicroscopy Facility, we’re pushing the boundaries of what’s possible✨

Using helium atom scattering the researchers can carry out ultra-sensitive structural and dynamic analysis of 2D materials and surfaces.

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Among the many capabilities that #CORDE offers, here are 5 that can advance your research and innovation! 👇
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