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How Europe’s semiconductor factory is being built in Kista – Carina Zaring is in control of a machine park worth billions

Carina Zaring, Lab manager | Photo: Impact Loop

For nearly four decades, the Myfab KTH / Electrum Laboratory in Kista has been at the forefront of research and development—especially in semiconductors, an increasingly critical component in everything from mobile phones to electric cars. As Europe ramps up its efforts to strengthen regional value chains, Electrum is taking on a key role.

But what does it really take to build a lab of this scale? To find out, we went to Kista, put on protective gear, and got a behind-the-scenes look at the work in progress.

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The conceptual image shows how the researchers’ sculpted pattern of tiny hills and valleys – smaller than one millionth of a hair’s thickness – on the substrate (MgO, at the bottom) guides how the atoms in the superconducting material (YBCO, on top) settle. At the interface between the two layers, an electronic landscape allows superconductivity to occur at higher temperatures than previously possible – even when high magnetic fields were are applied. Credit: Chalmers University of Technology / Riccardo Arpaia
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