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How we support the Electronics industry

The electronics sector continuously strives to develop and launch new high-technology products that advance society. Being able to manipulate nanoparticles and study magnetism on the nanoscale has potential for building materials atom by atom, allowing engineering with unprecedented precision. Therefore, understanding matter at the nanometre scale is crucial for the design of electronic materials and devices with finely tuned properties and behaviours for a huge range of applications.

Diamond’s facilities are unique in the world, providing a range of research techniques that will enable electronics companies to exploit fully the new and emerging technologies of the 21st century.

Electronic Structures

  • Investigate the electronic properties of surfaces and interfaces of thin film materials;
  • Study spin, charge and orbital ordering on single crystal samples;
  • Explore segregation and the influence of the substrate on alloying behaviour and electronic structure;
  • Understand electronic phenomena in novel crystalline materials.

Magnetism

  • Probe the structure-function relationship of nanostructures applied as sensors, high density visual displays, memory storage devices under environmental control (e.g. temperature, magnetic field);
  • Investigate magnetic anisotropy in materials over a wide range of different elements;
  • Explore dynamics of magnetisation.

Composition

  • Detect trace metal contamination in materials and components;
  • Examine structure of multilayered systems and buried interfaces, e.g. quantum dots;
  • Probe the electronic properties and chemical composition of composite or complex materials.

Organic Electronics

  • Characterise the behaviour of novel liquid crystals for brighter and faster display materials;
  • Study the microstructure of organic semiconductors;
  • Investigate surface structure and ordering in thin films and coatings e.g. polymer photovoltaic devices.
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High mobility transparent conductors

Researchers from the University of Liverpool used hard X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (HAXPES) at Diamond Light Source to study dopant behaviour in transparent conducting oxides—revealing why molybdenum-doped In₂O₃ outperforms ITO in conductivity and cost-efficiency.

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