Equipment to increase the productivity and quality of electro-optical or superconductive devices of the Nanofabrication Center

Operation co-funded by EU cohesion policy (European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)) under the programme Multi-regional Spain - ERDF (2014ES16RFOP002), managing authority: Subdirección General de Gestión del FEDER, de la Dirección General de Fondos Europeos del Ministerio de Hacienda.. The source names no beneficiary for this operation. Location: Spain. Budget: total eligible expenditure EUR 397,000; EU co-financing EUR 198,500 (co-financing rate 50%), as stated by the source. Runs 2018-01-01 to 2020-12-31. Source: Kohesio, EU cohesion policy projects managed by national and regional authorities (not CORDIS); selected because its summary names quantum technology. Summary from Kohesio (English machine translation by the source): The Centre for Nanofabrication is a joint venture between the CEI UAM+CSIC and the Institute IMDEA-Nanoscience to provide a service of nanofabrication of devices to the reaserch groups and enterprises of the region. It is located in a >200m2 clean room at the basement of the premises of the IMDEA-Nano building. It is also part of the Laboratory Network of the Comunidad de Madrid (#363 NanoFabLab). It has been producing devices since the end of 2014 and it is equipped with state of the art nanofabrication tools for device nanomanufacturing in areas such space, materials science, functional surfaces or quantum technologies. The two main bottlenecks limiting the quality and productivity of this facility are: The very limited resources to evaporate metals; and the lack of equipment to characterise optically and/or electrically the produced devices under vacuum and low temperature conditions. With the aim of tackling this limiting factors and enhance the production yield and quality of the produced devices, this proposal request funding for: ¿ A high quality e-gun metal evaporator working under ultra high vacuum conditions and capable of producing high quality thin films over 4 inch wafers. ¿ A close circuit cryogenic¿free system with ultra-low vibrations, equipped with positioning motors and XYZ scanners to characterise devices both electrically and optically, working under high vacuum conditions and temperatures between 4.2 and 320K.

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Source: Kohesio (EU cohesion policy projects), European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO). Retrieved 2026-10-21. Licence: CC0 1.0 (Cohesion Open Data Platform, dataset 2014-2020 Kohesio projects). Selected metadata, adapted presentation; the publisher's record is authoritative. No endorsement by the source is implied. Licence: public domain dedication (CC0 1.0).

AI-assisted summary: The Nanofabrication Center in Spain, co-funded by the EU with a budget of EUR 397,000, focuses on enhancing electro-optical and superconductive devices. It operates from 2018 to 2020 and serves regional research groups and enterprises. Suggested technology pillar: enabling. Generated by AI from the public source text; it may contain errors and the original source is authoritative.