A Focused Ion Beam Microscopy Facility for Advanced Materials Analysis
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Glasgow
Department Name: School of Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
Ion beam preparation and the ability to use it for precision lithography has made it one of the most interesting and useful tools in materials science. It is key to the preparation of high quality site-specific specimens for transmission electron microscopy and scanning transmission electron microscopy and its versatility as a nanoscale scalpel makes it an essential tool for nanostructuring shapes and designs that are often difficult or impossible to realise otherwise. Building upon our long track record in focused ion beam preparation and expertise in materials characterisation we will commission a 3rd generation focused ion beam instrument. This design replaces the gallium beam used in the 1st and 2nd generation instruments with a noble gas beam for milling. The use of noble gas beams has major advantages over gallium in reducing chemical reactions, implantation and surface damage. In consequence we will be able to extract the greatest possible information from advanced high-resolution electron microscopy by reducing artefacts and ambiguities when preparing cross sections and lift outs. Moreover, with the 3rd generation machine our ability to define features lithographically will benefit from a significant improvement in definition. This will allow us to create and study functional nanostructures in a greater range of material systems than currently possible. The addition of this state of the art tool to the Kelvin Nanocharacterisation Centre at Glasgow will add value to numerous projects and collaborations at the University of Glasgow, across Scotland and throughout the north of the UK, a noble gas FIB that is optimised for the liftout of high quality TEM/STEM specimens will be of especial national importance as the first instrument of its kind funded by the EPSRC anywhere in the UK. Access mechanisms will be put in place to allow users from across the UK to use this facility, as detailed elsewhere. We will track the significant industrial impact this instrument will have, including with existing industrial partners on advanced materials development, as well as in collaboration with the instrument suppliers to further develop usage modes and protocols with a clear benefit to future users of such technology. This will also benefit the training of a future generation of scientists and technologists through its explicit linkage to two Centres for Doctoral Training.
Planned Impact
The College of Science and Engineering at the University of Glasgow has an excellent track record of creating significant impact from research performed within the schools, and this is assisted by dedicated support staff. The Kelvin Nanocharacterisation Centre is part of this success story and has worked with many companies productively over the past 15 years or more. Some of our developments in the area of DualEELS were featured in a REF case study for 2014. The proposed FIB facility is a unique, timely tool that will enable a range of new investigations with UK partners which will have industrial, societal, people and knowledge impacts.
There will be industry impacts through working with a range of companies on development of a range of materials, structures and devices, including through contract research and through longer term research collaborations (e.g. with EU funding). There will also be impact back to the suppliers of the equipment in terms of collaborative developments of new protocols and techniques with the equipment. These impacts will be disseminated to other users of the equipment through use of trade journals, application notes and webinars.
Since some of our research is specifically focussed on topics concerning Energy and Healthcare, this investment will contribute Societal benefits including contributing to the sustainability of our energy supply, and through better understanding of the nanoscale processes involved in virus infection enabling improvements in healthcare.
This equipment will be included in Masters level training courses, which support two CDTs, in "Integrative Sensing and Measurement", and "Photonic Integration and Advanced Data Storage", as well as widely used by PhD students and early career researchers. It will therefore contribute to the supply of highly skilled persons to the knowledge economy.
It will also provide significant knowledge impacts, as summarised separately in "Academic Beneficiaries", and delivered by a range of traditional and emerging dissemination routes.
There will be industry impacts through working with a range of companies on development of a range of materials, structures and devices, including through contract research and through longer term research collaborations (e.g. with EU funding). There will also be impact back to the suppliers of the equipment in terms of collaborative developments of new protocols and techniques with the equipment. These impacts will be disseminated to other users of the equipment through use of trade journals, application notes and webinars.
Since some of our research is specifically focussed on topics concerning Energy and Healthcare, this investment will contribute Societal benefits including contributing to the sustainability of our energy supply, and through better understanding of the nanoscale processes involved in virus infection enabling improvements in healthcare.
This equipment will be included in Masters level training courses, which support two CDTs, in "Integrative Sensing and Measurement", and "Photonic Integration and Advanced Data Storage", as well as widely used by PhD students and early career researchers. It will therefore contribute to the supply of highly skilled persons to the knowledge economy.
It will also provide significant knowledge impacts, as summarised separately in "Academic Beneficiaries", and delivered by a range of traditional and emerging dissemination routes.
Publications
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Barczak S
(2019)
Suppression of thermal conductivity without impeding electron mobility in n-type XNiSn half-Heusler thermoelectrics
in Journal of Materials Chemistry A
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Barczak SA
(2018)
Grain-by-Grain Compositional Variations and Interstitial Metals-A New Route toward Achieving High Performance in Half-Heusler Thermoelectrics.
in ACS applied materials & interfaces
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Fallon K
(2020)
Controlled Individual Skyrmion Nucleation at Artificial Defects Formed by Ion Irradiation.
in Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
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Ferluccio D
(2019)
Low thermal conductivity and promising thermoelectric performance in A x CoSb (A = V, Nb or Ta) half-Heuslers with inherent vacancies
in Journal of Materials Chemistry C
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Halpin JE
(2019)
An in-situ approach for preparing atom probe tomography specimens by xenon plasma-focussed ion beam.
in Ultramicroscopy
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Halpin JE
(2022)
A Correlative Study of Interfacial Segregation in a Cu-Doped TiNiSn Thermoelectric half-Heusler Alloy.
in ACS applied electronic materials
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He H
(2021)
Atom Probe Tomography of a Cu-Doped TiNiSn Thermoelectric Material: Nanoscale Structure and Optimization of Analysis Conditions.
in Microscopy and microanalysis : the official journal of Microscopy Society of America, Microbeam Analysis Society, Microscopical Society of Canada
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Macauley G
(2020)
Tuning magnetic order with geometry: Thermalization and defects in two-dimensional artificial spin ices
in Physical Review B
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MacLaren I
(2019)
Liftout of High-Quality Thin Sections of a Perovskite Oxide Thin Film Using a Xenon Plasma Focused Ion Beam Microscope.
in Microscopy and microanalysis : the official journal of Microscopy Society of America, Microbeam Analysis Society, Microscopical Society of Canada
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Webster R
(2020)
Epitaxial vanadium nanolayers to suppress interfacial reactions during deposition of titanium-bearing Heusler alloys on MgO(0 0 1)
in Applied Surface Science
Description | The instrument has been an excellent workhorse for the preparation of transmission electron microscope specimens from a wide variety of different types of material, including semiconductors, metallic alloys, functional thin films (both oxide and non-oxide), functional ceramics, geomaterials, and catalysts. It has also been excellent for the preparation of needle specimens of most of these kinds of materials for atom probe tomography. It has also been excellent for the preparation of complex, 3D magnetic nanostructures using electron beam induced deposition of cobalt. This has fed into a wide variety of our research programmes. |
Exploitation Route | Work enabled by this instrument is now being featured in talks and conference presentations, including at the International Microscopy Congress in Sydney, Australia in 2018. The first articles arising from this are now being submitted. |
Sectors | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Electronics,Energy,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology |
Description | This is now contributing to industrially funded or industrially linked work, including with Wood Group, National Nuclear Laboratory, and Johnson Matthey. This has mainly been in the form of the preparation of samples for TEM/STEM investigations, or the preparation of needles for atom probe tomography (APT). Additionally, it has been used in an industrially part-funded PhD on Ti-V-Al alloys for both the preparation of liftout specimens for STEM analysis, and for the surface polishing, backscatter imaging, and EBSD of the micro- and nano-structure. It has also been heavily used for the preparation of TEM/STEM specimens and APT specimens with commercial partners in EU-funded steel research. And has been used in TEM/STEM preparation for semiconductor samples from industrial partners in the Scottish Enterprise / CENSIS funded MIRAGE programme. |
First Year Of Impact | 2018 |
Sector | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Electronics,Energy |
Impact Types | Economic |
Title | Antiferromagnetic-ferromagnetic phase domain development in nanopatterned FeRh islands |
Description | 4D STEM data set |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | 4 downloads in 2019 |
URL | http://researchdata.gla.ac.uk/683/ |
Title | Grain-by-Grain Compositional Variations and Interstitial Metals - A New Route toward Achieving High Performance in Half-Heusler Thermoelectrics |
Description | Dataset to support the associated paper. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Title | Heisenberg pseudo-exchange and emergent anisotropies in field-driven pinwheel artificial spin ice |
Description | Source simulation and experimental data files for the associated paper. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | 7 downloads since publication |
URL | http://researchdata.gla.ac.uk/900/ |
Title | Low thermal conductivity and promising thermoelectric performance in AxCoSb (A = V, Nb or Ta) half-Heuslers with inherent vacancies |
Description | |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Title | Order and Disorder in the Magnetisation of the Chiral Crystal CrNb3S6 |
Description | Source differential phase contrast data showing the chiral soliton lattice dislocation magnetic configuration at low and high applied fields. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | 25 downloads have been logged on the repository system |
URL | http://researchdata.gla.ac.uk/829/ |
Title | Supplementary Data, APL Materials paper on TiNiSn deposition |
Description | Data in support of the publication APL Materials 7 (2019) 013206, "Spontaneous formation of nanostructures during pulsed laser deposition of epitaxial half-Heusler TiNiSn on MgO(001)," by RWH Webster, JE Halpin, SR Popuri, J-WG. Bos, and DA MacLaren. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Data provided as supporting evidence for publication. It is anticipated to inform research in the area of thin film deposition of heusler alloys. |
URL | http://researchdata.gla.ac.uk/711 |
Title | Suppression of thermal conductivity without impeding electron mobility in n-type XNiSn half-Heusler thermoelectrics |
Description | Electron microscopy images and electron spectroscopy spectrum image datasets. The raw SEM spectrum image used for figure 3 is available on request as its too big to download from this page (>6GB). Please use the 'Request Data' button above to be sent a copy of the data. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | http://researchdata.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/912 |
Description | Oxford Atom Probe Group |
Organisation | University of Oxford |
Department | Atom Probe Research Group |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Time offered on Glasgow PFIB instrument as part of new access arrangements established as part of the funding. |
Collaborator Contribution | In-kind 'beam-time' on the Oxford 3DAP instrument. |
Impact | Joint conference presentations. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Tokyo Institute of Technology |
Organisation | Tokyo Institute of Technology |
Country | Japan |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Preparation of samples for scanning transmission electron microscopy analysis |
Collaborator Contribution | Deposition of multilayer thin film samples, general characterisation, superconducting property measurement. |
Impact | Conference talks and papers. A journal paper is now in preparation. Further funding will be sought to continue this work. |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | University of Cambridge |
Organisation | University of Cambridge |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Preparation of samples for scanning TEM analysis |
Collaborator Contribution | Provision of materials, time with us doing the analysis, analysis of the resulting data, and work on a publication (in progress) Only ceased in this form as the key person moved to another University (Imperial College London). But continuing in that new form. |
Impact | Work in preparation for publication |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Wood plc |
Organisation | Wood Group |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Preparation of samples for Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope Analysis |
Collaborator Contribution | Provision of funding and samples for analysis, as well as technical expertise and collaboration with publication of the scientific (non-commercial) outcomes |
Impact | At present, mostly in reports to the company, although some work is in preparation for publication. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | 11th International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (Singapore) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation of work at this conference. The conference comprises of the International Conference on Mechanics for Global Challenges, 31 technical symposia, plenary and theme lectures, special activities, exhibition as well as keynote, invited, oral and poster presentations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | http://icmat2023.mrs.org.sg |
Description | 14th Joint MMM-Intermag Conference, Washington DC |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Major international magnetism conference. Oral presentations by S McVitie (Skyrmions) and PG student G Macauley (Spin Ice). Both session well attended and significant interest shown. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://magnetism.org/past-conferences |
Description | 19th International Microscopy Congress (IMC19), Sydney Australia |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Major international microscopy conference that takes place ever 4 years. Representatives from Glasgow made ~10 presentations at this conference. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://imc19.com/ |
Description | 69TH LINDAU NOBEL LAUREATE MEETING, Germany |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Closed event for postgraduate students to meet Nobel laureates and also present their work. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/meetings/2019 |
Description | Colloquium at University of Dundee |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Talk to mainly undergraduate and postgraduate students taking physics degrees at the University of Dundee. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.dundee.ac.uk/physics/ |
Description | Colloquium at University of St Andrews |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Colloquium to staff and students in Physics at the University of St Andrews. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://talks.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php?talks/talk_details/1152 |
Description | Core to Core meeting in Jaca, Spain |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Oral presentations and discussion sessions for project partners on chiral science. Delegates from Japan, UK, Russia and Spain. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~kotai/chiral/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Meeting-JACA-2019_Final.pdf |
Description | Core2core progress meeting, Glasgow |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Meeting of colleagues on core2core project from Japan, Russia and UK. Presentations, discussions and outline of plans for future. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/physics/research/groups/mcmp/researchareas/core2core/sept2017meeting/ |
Description | Frontiers in Artificial Spin Ice, Bad Zurzach, Switzerland |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Closed workshop of experts to discuss aspects of artificial spin ice work. Representatives from University of Glasgow spoke at this event R Macedo (Fellow) and G Macauley (PG). Future collaborations were explored. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://indico.psi.ch/event/6589/overview |
Description | IMC 2018, Sydney |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | International Microscopy Congress, Sydney. Digital poster and talk presentation to international audience. Presentation initiated discussion and ideas for future research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://imc19.com/ |
Description | IOP Magnetism Winter School (York, UK) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Expert presentations in various fields of magnetism, engagement with PG students. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.york.ac.uk/physics/magnetism-winter-school/programme/ |
Description | IOP Magnetism Winter School, York |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | School for UK PG students. Two presetnations from Glasgow (D McGrouther and S McVitie) on FIB methods and Loretnz microscopy. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.york.ac.uk/physics/magnetism-winter-school/ |
Description | Insitute of Physics Magnetism conference (Manchester, UK) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation of work at this event. Magnetism 2023 is the premier conference organised by the UK and RoI magnetism community. The conference encourages participation from across the breadth of magnetism and has included oral sessions on a range of subjects including spintronics, 2D physics, domain walls, dynamics, vortices, skyrmions and topological systems, intelligent computing, spin ice, biological and organic magnetism, superconductors, magnetocalorics and ab initio theory. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.iop.org/events/magnetism-2023 |
Description | International Symposium on Chiral Magnetism (?-mag 2018), Nara, Japan |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Symposium of international co-workers in the field of chiral materials and phenomena. Representatives from Glasgow gave 3 talks and 5 posters at this meeting. Useful discussions for next steps in research areas arose. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://www2.pe.osakafu-u.ac.jp/pe8/kai_mag2018/kai_magn2018_index.html |
Description | International Workshop at Ringberg Castle, Germany |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Workshop on "Current Topics in Transmission Electron Microscopy" to discuss methods of electron microscopy. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.fkf.mpg.de/6833185/2019-ringberg-workshop |
Description | Invited Research Visit, National Central University of Taiwan |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited research visit hosted by the National Central University of Taiwan and including invited talks at other external institutions. The purpose was to build new collaborative links and subsequent research discussions have taken place. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Joint European Magnetic Symposia (JEMS), Uppsala Sweden |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | International conference on magnetism, parallel sessions of talks and posters |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2019 |
URL | https://jems2019.se/ |
Description | Leeds Uni. seminar |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Leeds Uni. Condensed Matter Physics group seminar. Talk led to lively discussions of future research activities and collaborations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Leipzig BuildMoNa Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Winter school on nanotechnology focused on postgraduate training. Followed by lively discussion session and impacts on attendees' future research activities. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://www.buildmona.de/events/docs/Agenda_Conference_2018.pdf |
Description | MMC2021 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited talk at the biennial Microscopy and Microanalysis Congress (MMC), held online in July 2021. The congress typically attracts over 1000 delegates and the session in which I delivered my talk reached > 200 delegates. The talk, entitled "Improved thermoelectric design through multi-lengthscale structural analysis" was in the general area of energy materials and disseminated results of funded research, including the development of new nanoanalytical methodologies that have now been adopted by researchers elsewhere. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.mmc-series.org.uk/mmc2021/ |
Description | MagicSky FET-OPEN European Consortium Project meeting, Leeds |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Oral presentation from University of Glasgow partner detailing work on chiral materials and initial results using FIB instruments |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://magicsky-fet.eu/ |
Description | MagicSky project meeting, Paris |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Meeting of project partners in EC MagicSky consortium Paris, June. Presentation made by SMcVitie at the meeting on work with aspects related to chiral materials research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://magicsky-fet.prod.lamp.cnrs.fr/ |
Description | Magnetism 2018, Manchester |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Attended this UK conference in Manchester, April 2018, (with overseas delegates also) with PG students two of whom made presentations: Exploring interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction for in-plane thin film permalloy nanostructures using micromagnetic simulations and Lorentz microscopy (Kayla Fallon) Macro-ferromagnetism in a novel artificial spin ice (Gavin Macauley) Both talks were well received with questions and interest form the audience. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://magnetism2018.iopconfs.org/home |
Description | Magnetism 2019 (Leeds, UK) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentations and posters by national and a few international speakers on magnetism research in the UK. Lot of networking activity between participants. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | http://magnetism2019.iopconfs.org/home |
Description | Materials Research Exchange (London) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation of poster at event. The event was organised and run by Innovate UK KTN and Innovate UK at the Business Design Centre in London, and was full of new insights about what materials research and innovations are taking place to help the UK recover, become more resilient and grow. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://iuk.ktn-uk.org/events/materials-research-exchange-mre-2022/ |
Description | Microscience Microscopy Congress 2019, Manchester |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Microscopy congress with parallel sessions and public awareness activities and exhibitions. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.mmc-series.org.uk/general-information/previous-congresses.html |
Description | Microstructure, Magnetic and Electronic Ordering: Interplay and Interactions (Bad Honnef, Germany) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presented 30 min seminar at this workshop. Materials seminar workshop dedicated to a specialized public and is restricted to 80 participants among which there are around 15 invited speakers and several contributed speakers, as well as poster presentations. Emphasis is set on giving young investigators at the PhD or PostDoc level the opportunity to participate. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.we-heraeus-stiftung.de/veranstaltungen/microstructure-magnetic-and-electronic-ordering-i... |
Description | Newcastle NSW seminar |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Research talk at University of Newcastle, New South Wales. Primarily academic in nature and led to discussions for future research activities. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Research visit to Uppsala University, Sweden |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Visit to Uppsala University to discuss possible collaboration. Presentations on Glasgow work by S McVitie and G Macauley. Useful discussion on samples of mutual interest to be investigated using techniques at Glasgow. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://katalog.uu.se/profile/?id=XX3296 |
Description | STEM for Britain at Houses of Parliament |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Poster presentation on Spin Ice, including chirality effects, for general audience in UK House of Parliament. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Scottish University Physics Alliance promotional video |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Participated in promotional video for the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA) to be shown at the American Physical Society meeting in Boston March 2019. I (S McVitie) took part as theme leader for Materials and Condensed Matter Science theme. As well as being shown at the meeting, the video will be widely available on the internet after the meeting. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.supa.ac.uk/ |
Description | Seminar at Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions, University of Edinburgh |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited to give seminar at the University of Edinburgh and have discussions with colleagues there from Physics and Chemistry. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.csec.ed.ac.uk/seminars |
Description | St Petersburg Winter School |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Around 50 international postgraduate students and researchers working in the area of magnetic materials attended a winter school and received training in state-of-the-art synthesis, characterisation and modelling techniques. Presenters were drawn internationally and talks were followed by lively discussions. The attendees will have used the training to advance their own research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://hepd.pnpi.spb.ru/WinterSchool/archive/2018/ |
Description | The Glasgow experience with Xe PFIB |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited talk at the PicoFIB Network Meeting in Sheffield in July 2018 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.uk/picofib/home |
Description | Thermoelectric Network UK Meeting 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | invited research talk entitled "Multi-length Scale Characterisation of Half-Heusler Thermoelectrics" to UK forum on thermoelectrics. The audience was primarily academic researchers but also included industrialists with interests in the research field. The aim of the forum was disseminate recent research advances, including materials discovery. After the talk, other delegates requested further information on the materials described and on the techniques used to prepare them, most notably the use of our PFIB instrument. Some delegates expressed an interest in making use of our equipment. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.thermoelectricnetwork.com/ |
Description | UK Skyrmion Project Workshop, Cambridge |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Workshop organised by the UK Skyrmion project. Oral presentation (S McVitie) on work in this area which was well received. Useful discussion with colleagues working in the field. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.skyrmions.ac.uk/index |
Description | Visit by UK Member of Parliament to University of Glasgow |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Following on from event earlier in the year (STEM for Britain) at the UK houses of parliament, the local UK MP visited the Materials and Condensed Matter Research group at the University of Glasgow to see the facilities and talk to researchers about activities in materials science in Glasgow. MP indicated meeting was very helpful and informative. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.parliament.uk/biographies/commons/patrick-grady/4432 |
Description | When your materials don't like your wet vacuum system in your FIB |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A talk at a PicoFIB Network Meeting at UCL in February 2019 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.uk/picofib/events/annual-meeting-2019?authuser=0 |
Description | Winter School on Condensed State Physics, St Petersburg, Russia |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This workshop was part of Winter School on Condensed State Physics 2018 held in St Petersburg Russia. A presentation was given entitled "An introduction to the methods of TEM for materials characterization". This was to inform the audience of the TEM and FIB capability at the University of Glasgow and the areas of materials science being undertaken. The audience was mostly Russian and so allowed a large group of people to be made aware of the work at Glasgow. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://www.fks2018.ru/fks_program/ |
Description | York-Tohoku Summer School in Spintronics |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Program of expert talks to mostly PG students most from York and Tohoku Universities. Presentation from University of Glasgow on facilities including TEM and FIB. Questions and discussions. Met with colleagues in Japan (Tohoku) and have explored some collaborative possibilities. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://yorktohoku2017.wixsite.com/summerschool |
Description | York-Tohoku-Kaiserslautern Research Symposium on "New-Concept Spintronics Devices" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Meeting of international scientists to report on work in spintronics. Discussion and networking activities. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www-users.york.ac.uk/~ah566/symposium/ |