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Welcome to the Collaborative R&D Environment for Physics

There is a scheduled maintenance between 19:00 to 21:00 BST on 28 June 2024. During this time the website is unavailable.

If you wish to contact us, please email corde@phy.cam.ac.uk. The booking system is still available for existing users.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Part of the world-renowned Cavendish Laboratory, and open to university and industry researchers, CORDE provides access to our equipment, resources and knowledge base – giving you the chance to conduct research using facilities and expertise unique to Cambridge. 

We are currently offering a limited set of CORDE capabilities in advance of our full launch in 2025, after the Department of Physics has moved into the newly built Ray Dolby Centre.

CORDE is a national facility supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). Read a welcome from our Director, Prof. Andy Jardine.

Tour CORDE

State-of-the-art cleanrooms and device fabrication capabilities, including MBE Growth and E-Beam Lithography.

For real and reciprocal space structural imaging as well as physical and material property measurements, including optoelectronic, x-ray and atom-probe instrumentation.

Specialising in full product design, development and manufacturing of precision scientific equipment.

Royce-funded Physics facilities for advanced materials science research and innovation.

You access the facility directly as an equipment user and we’ll provide you with the training and on-boarding to get going.

You supply samples or bare material and CORDE scientists undertake the work. Or you can come to us with a concept and we will work with you to turn it into a reality.

Quick Links

Booking System

For existing CORDE users only

Equipment Directory

A searchable list of CORDE capabilities and equipment

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Find Us

CORDE
Cavendish Laboratory
Ray Dolby Centre
JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge
CB3 0US, UK