NTNU

NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) is the largest university in Norway and it has currently more than 40 000 students and 8 000 employees. The main campus is in Trondheim and smaller campuses in Gjøvik and Ålesund. NTNU has the main national responsibility for education and research in natural science, engineering, and technology. In addition, the university also offers higher education and research in disciplines like medicine, psychology, social sciences, the arts, teacher education, architecture and fine art. The university has roots dating back to 1760.

The Department of Physics has about 40 academic staff members and employs in total 160 people (as of Mar 2020). The central research areas of the department are materials science, nanoscience, surface physics, modern optics, astrophysics, solar energy, biophysics, and medical technology.

The prime role of NTNU in the project is to develop the theoretical framework for the solid mask calculations and to use it to propose mask structures that will be manufactured and tested experimentally by other project partners.
This work is demanding computationally and will, therefore, be performed at high performance computer facilities.