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Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Engineering on a molecular scale, nanoscience merges disciplines including applied physics and electronic engineering and is a rapidly growing in terms of applications.
Several Edinburgh companies have successfully collaborated with the academic sectors in this field including; Wolfson Microelectronics, working with local universities on a £5.3m research project into nano-transistors and Lab901, working closely with the Division of Pathway Medicine at The University of Edinburgh to create pioneering nano-products and processes.
The Scottish Microelectronics Centre (SMC)
A world-class centre for incubation and research and development in the semiconductor sector. The Centre produced the first ever 512_512 CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) liquid crystal microdisplay, capable of displaying full colour moving images.
The MIAC (Microelectronics Imaging & Analysis Centre - based within the SMC provides state of the art microscopy and micro analytical techniques to assist in the design, manufacture and evaluation of microelectronic and other high tech products.
University of Edinburgh Institute for Integrated Micro and Nano Systems
Research areas - IC Design/System-Level Intergration, including Neural & Neuromorphic Computation, VLSI (Very Low Scale Integration), and CMOS Image Sensing and Image Processing; Micro and Nano Fabrication, including IC/Microelectronics Process Development, MEMS, Microelectronic Test Structures, Miniature Displays and Applied Optics and Technology Computer Aided Design (TCAD).
Universtiy of Edinburgh - Institute for Materials and Process
Research areas - design, synthesis, processing, properties and applications of materials including nanostructured materials and nanomechanics
Universtiy of Edinburgh - DTI Beacon Project
Research areas – development of genomic nanoprocessors which will become a platform for future health care.
Heriot Watt University – Nano Optics Group
Research areas - combining semiconductor physics with novel ideas in optics. Recently funded to research laser cooling and spin resonance of a single spin in a quantum dot.