Welcome to the Collaborative R&D Environment for Physics

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.

CORDE is a national facility based in the Ray Dolby Centre, 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