The infrastructure of the laboratory can be divided into three categories:
- Thin film and epitaxial growth
- Fabrication and lithographic patterning
- Electrical characterization
The laboratory will have a state-of-the-art cleanroom for nanofabrication, and characterization rooms for ultra precise electrical measurements. The construction process of a new building (2400 m2) dedicated to quantum research is underway at UME. The new building will also house a 700 m2 clean room, a large number of diluted refrigerators and other low temperature measurement systems.
Some of the areas of interest of the UME Quantum Metrology Laboratory as well as manufacturing and measurement capabilities will include, but are not limited to:
- Quantum Transport: DC and AC resistance standards (quantum Hall effect); semiconductor quantum dot and quantum wire thermometers for temperature standards (new kelvin), integer and fractional quantum Hall effect, many-body interactions in two-dimensional electron gases (2-DEG), charge and spin-based transport in GaAs / AlGaAs structures, InAs based single electron devices, semiconductor charge and spin qubits, quantum transport in one (nanowires) and two dimensional (2-DEG) nanostructures, quantum adiabatic transport.
- Superconductor Electronics: DC Voltage standards (Josephson junctions), AC Josephson devices, temperature standards (Coulomb blockade thermometers), solid-state qubits (charge, flux and transmon), superconducting bolometers and detectors for radio astronomy and space applications, nano-SQUID sensors , design of readout circuits for superconducting devices and detectors (RSFQ) and low temperature measurements.
- Semiconductor Electronics: High speed and/or low power III-V devices for electronics and optoelectronics applications. Epitaxial III-V materials and nanostructures.
- Nanomagnetism and Spintronics: Spin waves and magnonics, spin torque oscillators and devices, AMR/GMR/TMR and Hall sensors, magnetic tunneling junctions, magnetic memory devices, domain walls, skyrmions, magnetic vortices, broadband FMR, on-chip magnetic devices for DC and RF/microwave electronics (filters), bioelectronics applications and spintronics for sensors.