The Nanometer Structure Consortium at Lund University

Since about 20 years, Lund University has been hosting a major interdisciplinary research environment in Nanoscience, with more than 100 scientists covering research ranging from Materials Science and Quantum Physics to applications in the areas of Electronics, Photonics and the Life Sciences. This is a Centre for the development of nanotechnology and fields of science & applications based on the unique properties and opportunities offered at the nanometer length scale. At present we are in the process of extending the scope of our research by creating focus areas in Nano-Energy and Nano-Safety.

A strong focus of the research and the related technologies is on semiconductor nanowires, i.e. one-dimensional semiconductors formed by directed self-assembly and which allow otherwise impossible combinations of materials and formation of atomically abrupt heterostructure interfaces.

In 2007 we inaugurated the Lund Nano Lab which is a central nanofabrication facility used by scientists and students from many different scientific disciplines and by R&D personnel from many high-tech companies.

We are actively engaged in the undergraduate and postgraduate education. We run an International Master program in Nanoscience and we are strongly involved in the 5-year “Engineering Nanoscience” education program at LTH.

We hope you will find the presentation of our research and education interesting and we welcome you to contact us.



Lars Samuelson
Director of the Nanometer Structure Consortium at Lund University – nmC@LU