University of Southampton has officially opened its electronics and electro-optics research centre, replacing the building that burned down three years ago.
"The new Mountbatten Building on the Highfield Campus occupies the same footprint as its predecessor," said the University. 
"The £55m building is one of Europe's leading multidisciplinary and state-of-the-art clean room complexes and provides flexible research space for technology development in nanotechnology and photonics for the University's School of Electronics and Computer Science and the Optoelectronics Research Centre."
Southampton ranks among the top electronics research universities, 
and is arguably the best optoelectronics University, in the country.
Staff and students have moved back into the building from temporary accommodation and the fitting out of the clean rooms is under way.
The old and new Mountbatten Buildings are named after Earl Mountbatten of Burma, a Past-President of the Institution of Electrical Engineering.
The building's lower floors are glass-walled and decorated with the Peano-Gosper fractal used in research undertaken by Professor Darren Bagnall, Dr Adrian Potts, and Professor Nikolay Zheludev of the University.