Leeds to takes up terahertz opto R&D
Dr Edmund Linfield will take up a professorial chair at the University of Leeds in August 2004. Initial research will focus on growth of mid-infrared and terahertz quantum cascade lasers in the GaAs-AlGaAs materials system.
This follows pioneering work previously undertaken on developing the first terahertz quantum cascade lasers on a V80H system in Cambridge (through the European Commission Framework V "WANTED" programme co-ordinated by Professors Linfield and Giles Davies). In the future, this system will be used for the growth of other III-V materials.
The V80H is designed to handle up to 75mm wafers. VG Semicon originally developed the tool in 1982 and since then the system has been installed at more than 200 sites. VG Semicon has existed as a business unit producing MBE systems since 1984. The company is now part of Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology.
