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Facilities
are located in a 9,000 sq. ft. building with easy
access and include class 100,000 clean room areas
with wet stations, and computer and conference
rooms. Equipment includes two Riber molecular beam
epitaxy machines, photolithography equipment,
fabrication and characterization equipment, a
photoluminescence laboratory, a laser/LED waveguide
characterization laboratory, and a device modeling
laboratory. The
Center has established strong working relationships
with local industries and has organized regional
research conferences, such as the Ninth New England
Molecular Beam Epitaxy Workshop and a conference on
Advanced Trends in Photonics Systems and
Materials. Recent
projects include work on a railroad anti-collision
system; developing a helical resonator based ESR
spectrometer for low-field studies of heavily doped
metallic semiconductors at low temperatures to
investigate the critical behavior of ESR linewidth;
and a collaboration with the Submillimeter
Radiation Laboratory to develop frequency selective
surfaces and a novel far-infrared quantum well
detector.
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The
Center‚s mission is to support regional
industries and start-ups, perform sponsored
research, and form a core of design and fabrication
technology to support initiatives requiring
innovative semiconductor-based device technologies.
Research is dedicated to the design and fabrication
of a variety of photonic and optoelectronic devices
that operate in various bands of the far-infrared
to the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum. Current
work includes the fabrication of nanostructures,
the photoluminescence of semiconductors and
polymers, packaging reliability, thermal modeling,
waveguide optics, radar-sensitive surfaces, and
semiconductor quantum well
physics. 