Kollberg Laboratory 2.0

The Kollberg Laboratory’s mission is to continuously maintain, develop and support access to state-of-the-art instrumentation for electromagnetic characterization over a wide frequency range, from DC to terahertz and far infrared, and to offering this instrumentation under open-access conditions to Swedish researchers and industrial actors.

The mission is not limited to supplying equipment, equally important is to support with unique competence in measurement and characterization techniques.With state-of-the-art equipment and competence offered under open access terms, the Kollberg Laboratory forms a unique and important node for Swedish researchers and industry with needs in advanced and high-frequency electromagnetic characterization.

It lowers the threshold for multi-disciplinary research with experimental needs for electromagnetic characterization and allows organizations without their own experimental resources to enter large research projects that rely on expensive equipment that cannot be funded in a single research application.The Kollberg laboratory infrastructure delivers Science in several large research projects on National, European and International level.

The infrastructure is used in characterization of components for, e.g., Space exploration (satellites and telescopes), Quantum Computers, meteorology and life Science, but also in the next generation telecom infrastructure and radar sensors for defense, automation, and security applications.The Kollberg laboratory is geographically and organizationally established at Chalmers with a steering document following Chalmers guidelines for infrastructures regulating development and access terms to guarantee compliance with the requirements for national infrastructures according to the Swedish Research Council’s definitions.This project applies for funding of instrumentation that is critical to maintain the Kollberg Laboratory state of the art for the coming five to ten years.