Space Vacuum Epitaxy Center is the 8000 square feet (743.2 m²) of laboratory space in 3 buildings on the University of Houston

University of Houston

The University of Houston is a state research university, and is the flagship institution of the University of Houston System. Founded in 1927, it is Texas's third-largest university with nearly 40,000 students. Its campus spans 667 acres in southeast Houston, and was known as University of...

 campus. The SVEC facilities contains equipment dedicated to thin film deposition, processing and characterization of III-V compound semiconductor

Semiconductor

A semiconductor is a material with electrical conductivity due to electron flow intermediate in magnitude between that of a conductor and an insulator. This means a conductivity roughly in the range of 103 to 10−8 siemens per centimeter...

, high temperature superconductor and ferroelectric oxide material systems. The Wake Shield Facility

Wake Shield Facility

]Wake Shield Facility is an experimental science platform that was placed in low-earth orbit by the Space Shuttle. It is a 3.7 meter diameter, free-flying stainless steel disk....

was developed at this center.

External links

• http://www.svec.uh.edu/
• http://www.svec.uh.edu/index_02.html link to the old SVEC website.