Nikalyte have recently used the facilities at Royce at Imperial to support their company. In this blog post, they share more about their company and the facilities they have used at Royce.
Can you tell us more about your startup/company?
Nikalyte is a nanomaterials company based near Oxford and provides deposition equipment and research services to the academic and industrial research community. The experienced team develops functional materials for photonics, sensing and electronics using its own PVD deposition equipment.
Why did you choose to use the Royce facility?
Nikalyte’s expertise covers a range of vacuum deposition coating techniques. The development of these functional coatings requires regular microscopy analysis to understand the properties of the coatings and enable improvements to be made.
What facilities do you use/did you use at the Royce facility?
Nikalyte used the Scanning Electron Microscope at Royce and plans to use the ICP etch tool in the future.
What has been your biggest learning curve since starting the business?
Since starting the business five years ago, we have learned many lessons. The biggest learning curve has been understanding how to best match our expertise to our customers’ needs.