Research Facilities

ECS has some of the best research facilities in the UK and Europe. The research ethos of the School has always depended on providing its researchers with the best possible environment in which to undertake their research.

The New Mountbatten Building

The new Mountbatten Building which opened in October 2008 is one of Europe’s leading multidisciplinary state-of-the-art cleanroom complexes, providing flexible research space for nanotechnology and photonics. The building provides a research base for the ECS Nano research group, for the Southampton Nanofabrication Centre, and for the Optoelectronics Research Centre.

Tony Davies High Voltage Laboratory

One of the best-equipped and most modern facilities of its kind in Europe, the HV lab provides the high specification equipment, test facilities, and expertise to meet the research and consultancy requirements of the electrical power supply industry worldwide.

Bioelectronics Laboratory

The Bioelectronics group, part of the Nanoscale Systems Integration group, has its own laboratory and clean room in the University’s Chemistry Building. The group, led by Professor Hywel Morgan, is developing optical bio-sensing techniques, including surface Plasmon resonance miscroscopy (SPRM) to measure and image the interaction of proteins and cells with surfaces.

Biometrics Laboratory

ECS has played a central role in pioneering biometrics research and has a worldwide reputation for gait analysis, which is one of the most promising areas of biometric identification. Led by Professor Mark Nixon in the ISIS group, much of the research takes place in the Biometrics Lab, which includes a biometrics ‘tunnel’.

Computing facilities

The School has its own wireless network and provides all its postgraduate students with excellent computing equipment and facilities