There is currently spare capacity for the preparation of advanced electronic devices at the Particle Physics Silicon Laboratory at Birmingham University, UK.

The facility was created to build hybrid silicon pixel detectors for the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at CERN.

Facilities include:

- Delvotec automatic ultrasonic wire bonding machine
- Bond pull tester
- Design Environmental environmental test chamber, with N2 supply
- Manual probe station
- Dotmaster automated dispensing machine
- Manual die bonder
- Hybrid/PCB cleaning system
- Oven
- Stereo microscopes

The laboratory at Birmingham has been dedicated to the LHC task and has two very experienced technicians but is now under utilised and Birmingham are wondering if there are any other institutes or industrial concerns that could make use of the facility.  

There are several schemes run by their research council which give incentives for this sort of knowledge exchange, both to the university and an industrial partner.