Wearable and flexible technologies enabled by advanced thin-film manufacture and metrology
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Oxford
Department Name: Materials
Abstract
Wearable technologies such as smart glasses have recently caused much excitement in the business and technology spheres. However, these examples use relatively conventional technologies. The real breakthrough in wearable technologies will come when we can manufacture materials and components that are flexible and non-intrusive enough to be integrated into everyday items, such as our clothes. The main challenges to achieving this are the lack of reliability, performance limitations of (opto)electronics on flexible substrates, and the lack of flexible power sources. Much of the necessary device technology exists in some nascent form; our proposal will provide the technological innovation to allow its manufacture in a form compatible with wearable technology. In this project we aim to solve a key technological challenge in wearable technologies, namely that of scalable and cost-effective manufacturing by taking advantage of the following areas of UK technological excellence in components and scale-up technologies:
1) The assembled consortium has an emphasis on inventing and demonstrating the key wearables technologies required on flexible substrates for displays, energy harvesting and sensing.
2) The consortium consists of key researchers in the fields of modeling prediction, metrology, systems integration and design for reliability, all required to complement the device engineering.
3) Importantly, by integrating, right from the word go, the aspect of Roll-to-Roll (R2R) scale-up of manufacturing such flexible technologies, we will create the manufacturing know-how to allow fundamental science to translate into manufacturing.
The deposition processes for all wearables face similar challenges such as low material yield, high waste (important for functional films where minimizing waste saves costs substantially) and lack of in-situ process monitoring. Additionally, for our targeted applications, there is currently no scalable cost-effective manufacturing technology. Roll-to-roll processing fulfills this crucial need and our aim will be to enable this scalable manufacturing technology for inexpensive production on flexible substrates, an area very much underexplored in terms of advanced functional materials, but one with huge potential.
1) The assembled consortium has an emphasis on inventing and demonstrating the key wearables technologies required on flexible substrates for displays, energy harvesting and sensing.
2) The consortium consists of key researchers in the fields of modeling prediction, metrology, systems integration and design for reliability, all required to complement the device engineering.
3) Importantly, by integrating, right from the word go, the aspect of Roll-to-Roll (R2R) scale-up of manufacturing such flexible technologies, we will create the manufacturing know-how to allow fundamental science to translate into manufacturing.
The deposition processes for all wearables face similar challenges such as low material yield, high waste (important for functional films where minimizing waste saves costs substantially) and lack of in-situ process monitoring. Additionally, for our targeted applications, there is currently no scalable cost-effective manufacturing technology. Roll-to-roll processing fulfills this crucial need and our aim will be to enable this scalable manufacturing technology for inexpensive production on flexible substrates, an area very much underexplored in terms of advanced functional materials, but one with huge potential.
Planned Impact
In its latest report on manufacturing in the UK, the Foresight report concludes that "Manufacturing is no longer about 'production'"and that "39% of UK manufacturers with 100 or more employees derived value from 'manufacturing services' related to their products." These are important numbers and no technology embodies these aspects more than wearable and flexible technologies. By 2024, the market for wearable technology will reach $70 billion, according to IDTechEx. Initially photovoltaics, OLEDs and e-paper displays will grow rapidly, followed by thin-film transistor circuits, sensors and batteries. Even agriculture is expected to be a growth sector for wearables, as outlined in another IDTechEx report, "Wearable Technology for Animals 2015-2025," which covers the needs, technologies and markets of wearable electronics for livestock, pets and wild animals. It forecasts that the global market will grow from $910 million in 2014 to $2.6 billion in 2025. Thus enabling the manufacture of these devices and systems can produce huge economic benefits to the UK economy. In addition to our industrial partners, there are many other UK firms that we plan to engage with such as Oxford & Paisley, Cambridge Materials, Sheffield Materials etc. There is also significant activity in machine development in the UK (Bobst Manchester, Timpson, Double R Controls, Ultraprecision Engineering, Gencoa etc.), film converting (Ultimet, Camvac, Tertrapak) and substrates (Innovia films, DuPont Teijin etc.), all of whom would experience benefits when we enable the manufacturing of truly wearable and flexible technologies. Moreover, the provision of wearable technologies provides opportunities for follow-on services such as automatic health monitoring with automated links to the medical professions, which could add significant value to the UK economy.
As EPSRC's own Materially Better report outlines the UK is particularly strong in key areas of research such as in the understanding of complex inorganic materials, organic electronics, theory and simulation of materials and functional devices. In our project, we address each of those issues. Thus, this is evidence that our highly interdisciplinary proposal plays to the strengths of UK's Advanced Materials base. The call document states "to enable advanced functional materials to thrive in the industrial world, we need to understand the integration of these materials with components, the demands for performance and reliability, and the requirements for new assembly processes and manufacturing techniques to realise this." Our proposal addresses these very needs in the context of wearable and flexible technologies by marrying materials development with upscaling processes suitable for large area deposition. The general technological know-how that we will develop is however applicable to other industries such as antireflection coatings, smart windows and rigid solar cells that are outside of wearable and flexible technologies and we will actively seek to engage with them.
As EPSRC's own Materially Better report outlines the UK is particularly strong in key areas of research such as in the understanding of complex inorganic materials, organic electronics, theory and simulation of materials and functional devices. In our project, we address each of those issues. Thus, this is evidence that our highly interdisciplinary proposal plays to the strengths of UK's Advanced Materials base. The call document states "to enable advanced functional materials to thrive in the industrial world, we need to understand the integration of these materials with components, the demands for performance and reliability, and the requirements for new assembly processes and manufacturing techniques to realise this." Our proposal addresses these very needs in the context of wearable and flexible technologies by marrying materials development with upscaling processes suitable for large area deposition. The general technological know-how that we will develop is however applicable to other industries such as antireflection coatings, smart windows and rigid solar cells that are outside of wearable and flexible technologies and we will actively seek to engage with them.
Organisations
- University of Oxford (Lead Research Organisation)
- Msolv Ltd (Collaboration)
- Fraunhofer Society (Collaboration)
- Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) (Collaboration)
- IBM (Collaboration)
- Thales Group (Collaboration)
- Heliatek GmbH (Collaboration)
- Emerson & Renwick Limited (Collaboration)
- SONY (Collaboration)
- University of Pennsylvania (Collaboration)
- University of Bath (Collaboration)
- Sharp Laboratories of Europe (United Kingdom) (Collaboration)
- Pragmatic Printing Ltd (Collaboration)
- Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (Collaboration)
- Kurt J Lesker Company (Collaboration)
- Oxford Instruments Asylum Research (Collaboration)
- BASF (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON (Collaboration)
- Bodle Technologies Ltd (Collaboration)
- Eckersley O'Callaghan (Collaboration)
- Plasma Quest (Collaboration)
- Oxford Photovoltaics (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EXETER (Collaboration)
- Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (Collaboration)
- National Center for Scientific Research (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS) (Collaboration)
- Interuniversity Micro-Electronics Centre (Collaboration)
- CreaPhys GmbH (Collaboration)
- Ilika (Collaboration)
- Plasma App Ltd (Collaboration)
- M-Solv (Collaboration)
- Oxford Instruments (United Kingdom) (Collaboration)
- University of Münster (Collaboration)
Publications
Aggarwal S
(2022)
Antimony as a Programmable Element in Integrated Nanophotonics.
in Nano letters
Aggarwal S
(2022)
Design for Robust and Efficient Neuromorphic Photonic Accelerator
Aladool A
(2017)
Understanding the importance of the temperature dependence of viscosity on the crystallization dynamics in the Ge2Sb2Te5 phase-change material
in Journal of Applied Physics
Aladool A
(2019)
Understanding the Influence of Initial Cluster Size Distribution On Crystallization Dynamics in The Ge 2 Sb 2 Te 5 Phase-Change Alloy
in physica status solidi (b)
Ali U
(2022)
A Universal Pick-and-Place Assembly for Nanowires
in Small
Ali UE
(2022)
Real-time nanomechanical property modulation as a framework for tunable NEMS.
in Nature communications
Armitage B
(2020)
Conducting polymer percolation gas sensor on a flexible substrate
in Journal of Materials Chemistry C
Arseny Alexeev
(2017)
Tunable Dielectric Metadevices Enabled by Phase-Change Materials
Arseny Alexeev
(2017)
Tunable Dielectric Metadevices Enabled by Phase-Change Materials
| Title | E\PCOS 2022 - Art & Engineering - An exhibition of visual art |
| Description | For E\PCOS 2022 at Wolfson College Oxford, Artist in Residence, Méadhbh O'Connor, in collaboration with Harish Bhaskaran and his research group, is delighted to present an exhibition of visual art. This interim exhibition by Méadhbh marks an artist's impression from the many conversations shared on creativity, the role of the engineer in society and on teamwork. The genesis of anything new - a tool to be used, a work of art to be observed, an idea to be put into action - begins with the act of creation. Creativity, the fusion of two or more previously unrelated things, a reconfiguring of existing parts, the constant cycle of revision, improvement and invention, lies at the core of human endeavour. There is an association between high creativity and engineering that is sometmes not apparent in the minds of those outside the field. We want to change this perception and have begun with the help of an artst. Plotted in various points throughout the conference venue, the artworks take the form of textiles, flags, seating and abstract sculptures made using materials such as ribbon cable, copper and aluminium tape, cable sheathing, composite scientific and abstract imagery, Rexroth components and other parts. The work is intended as a playful take on the lab environment, the Advanced Nanoscale Engineering Group as a team in the historic setting of Oxford and creativity as an enduring, evolving process. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Discussion, requests for artworks to utilised further within the University as a whole. |
| Description | The program has been completed and we are compiling the ongoing outcomes of this funded work, and completing it through COVID-related delays. The key findings so far for this are: 1) World first areas: Ultimate Limit of Scaling Nanoscale Devices, Flexible Phase-Change Memory; Truly Flexible 2D materials, Conducting Polymer Networks at the Percolation Threshold for Chemiresistors on Flexible Substrates , On-chip photonics synapse; Thermo-electric Energy Harvesting; Organic Photovoltaic Energy-Harvesting; Enhanced printing resolution on flexible substrates with self-assembled monolayer surface modification, Dynamically tunable color filters based on Phase change materials, Patterned metallisation process; Roll-to-roll manufacture of OTFT sensors based on PVDF; Infrared Phase-Change Metadevices with in-situ Switching; Towards A Phase-Change Metamaterial CMY Subtractive Display; Phase-Change Reflectarrays; In-situ Film Growth Monitoring; High-throughput manufacture of flexible electronics; Holographic Display Concepts. 2) Interlock research areas; leveraging fundings: EPSRC Manufacturing Fellowship, EC ICT31, EPSRC IAA, Global Challenge Research Fund 3) Staffing complete - all postdoc positions filled in 4) Closer cooperation with Industrial Partners. The number of engaged industrial partners increased to 20. New, active partners: PragmatIC, Eckersley O'Callaghan, Plasma App Ltd, M-Sov Ltd, Sony. 5) In the past year thhere have been the following outcomes: Metrology: Stress and Strain at the Nanoscale; Metrology using mass maufacturable probes - high resolution conductive AFM measurements enabled by phase change material coated probes. Nanomanufacturing: Bilayer lithography - a flexible way to control the mechanical force to avoid under-cutting and over-cutting. the approach is friendly to flexible substrates, becuase only water gets involved in the fabrication process; Ammonia gas sensor printed on flexible stubstrates - printed conducting polymer based chemiresistors approach detection of 1.6ppm for ammonia gas. Scale-Up and R2R Processing: In-line patternered metallization - High-throughput =25m/min roll-to-roll deposition of electrode materials for flexible devices. Applied various devices in WAFT: OTFTs, thermoelectrics sensors, metamaterials. Route to high-resolution (potentially EBL resolution), using surface modification, has been identified and patented; OTFT-Based sensor circuits - Circuits based on OTFTs manufactured by high-throughput R2R evaporation process coupled to flexible sensors for biomedical chemicals and ECG measurement; Thermoelectric generators (TEGS) - Deposition of thin film TEGs on polymer substrates which, in array, would produce enough power to run e.g. OTFT sensor circuit. Flexible electronic devices: multiple papers published.ChAMP/WAFT Collaboration Funds - "Scalable Flexible Ion sensors for Wearable Electrolyte Monitoring", £23,500 & "Inline patterning of thermoelectric devices onto flexible substrates: a solution to large area manufacturing of wearable electronics", £18,350 Smart2Go: Flexible thermoelectric results from WAFT fed into project funded from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 825143, project Smart2Go (€4 million) Chemiresistive vapour sensors based on percolation networks: By using a percolation network of conductive polymers a significantly higher sensitivity can be achieved compared to more traditional conductive polymer thin film based sensors. Using a percolation network of polypyrrole we've achieved sensitivities as low as 9 ppb ammonia. Using the same percolation principle high sensitivities analyte materials can also be achieved using different conductive polymers or for example the metal-organic-frameworks shown here. Flexible Memory Devices: Development of non-volatile memories for flexible electronics applications. Led also to Innovate UK grant and follow-on PhD studentship funded by PragmatIC (starting 2020). Highly sensitive vapour sensors were also successfully created on flexible substrates. A small integrated device, capable of measuring the signal of four chemiresistive sensors, as well as temperature and humidity sensors was developed. This demonstrator uses Bluetooth to communicate with a mobile phone, eliminating large laboratory setups and ensuring portability, as well as allowing our sensors to be used in an electronic-nose type setup. In Situ optical monitoring and process control: In situ monitoing using spectroscopic ellipsometry - Vacuum deposition system for organic semiconductors with in situ monitoring using a spectroscopic ellipsometer; process control software for monitoring thickness and optical properties of the thin films during deposition; monitoing of multiple layer deposition - Using an organic solar cell, with a power conversion efficiency of ~6%, as a model system, methodology for monitoring thickness of multiple layers developed; Powering of low-power electronics - demonstrating the powering oflow-power electronics, a temperature sensor in this case, using a flexible organic solar cell. |
| Exploitation Route | There are very significant ways in which many of the findings here are already being taken forward through IAA funding as well as Innovate UK and other industry funding. Significant impact routes can be accessed at www.waftcollaboration.org under newsletters. Our latest newsletter describes how new industrial partners have found our research relevant to their challenges. |
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| URL | http://www.waftcollaboration.org/ |
| Description | The Wearable and Flexible Technologies consortium (WAFT) provided a new and important impetus to the manufacturing technologies of the future in the space of wearable and flexible technologies at a time when such processes were still largely unknown. The grant was extremely successful - starting with just 7 industrial partners, the grant had 15 industrial partners before it ended. Several postdocs who worked on the project have gone on to substantial positions in industry and academia, including professorships worldwide. The grant resulted in spawning brand new ideas and technologies, some of which are listed further below. Small scale SME's that became members of the consortium have since been sold, or their assets acquired by larger companies that are now investing even more into the ecosystem in the UK. The grant has resulted in low-term partnerships that generated brand new knowledge and ideas for the new sustainability agenda - for example through the development of a brand new "smart window" which was widely profiled worldwide (e.g. in The Times, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/turn-on-the-windows-to-keep-warm-zd7052xld); this research was done in collaboration with three industrial participants including Eckersley O'Callaghan, the large architectural engineering firm. Projects thus spawned are still ongoing, and have secured new partnerships or funding. The group of researchers involved have in all cases have continued highly productive research careers at all career stages. The grant website will be mainatained for several more years and a lot of information is on the website (www.waftconsortium.org). The findings of this award has contributed to several non-academic outputs specifically towards developing tools and techniques to commercialize displays, especially by the involvement of Bodle Technologies Limited. Furthermore, a materials list was compiled via the Co-I at Southampton which has been circulated to industrial partners keen ti take up any materials deposition on their chips for further integration. This could lead to breakthroughs in disruptive optoelectronic devices. The presentations of the WAFT Co-Investigators and the scientific discussions in the WAFT Poster Session demonstrated good progress within WAFT in October 2017 and again in February 2019 and in August 2019. Interlock of device development and modelling advanced rapidly over the last 18 months of the program leading to some very interesting demonstrations of wearable ammonia sensors on flexible substrates as well well as on polymer fibers. Individual exchanges between research groups and industry as well as scientific interactions with IAB partners were highlighted at the last IAB meeting and it was remarked that this programme was "one of the best uses of £2.5 million, they hav ever seen" by one IAB member. The Industrial Partners were encouraged to follow up on scientific discussions and research collaborations under individual NDA's even after the impending end of the programme. New partnerships have been created and Innovate UK funding was procured. It is likely the the potential impact of this programme will continue into the next few years. April 2020: Prof. Moritz Riede & Sameer Kesava (PDRA) - IP developed Title: Analysing real-time spectroscopic ellipsometry data for characterising optoelectronic quality Our invention relates to a method of and a system for processing spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE) data, in particular for monitoring interfacial processes. Ellipsometry is used to characterise properties of thin films such as thickness, roughness, optical constants, composition, crystallinity, quality and concentration, and may obtain sub-nanometre surface sensitivity. When light, including polarisation components in both the s- and p- planes, interacts with a substrate, the relative ratio of the polarisation components may change. Ellipsometry determines the change in polarisation by measuring the amplitude ratio, and phase difference, of the reflected or transmitted light. The "ellipsometric ratio (ER)", (related to the changes in polarisation) may then be calculated to be tan(). This data is then typically fitted to a model that has been constructed to describe the sample in order to extract parameters of interest such as optical constants and layer thickness. Model analysis for complex materials, such as organic semiconductors, becomes increasingly computationally expensive and time consuming with an increasing numbers of layers. The application of SE to in situ, real-time analysis of thin films, as the layers are being deposited, for example, may be limited to determining the thickness of the sample only, owing to the increased complexity of the resultant spectra due to absorption of the incident radiation by multiple layers of the substrate. This results in manufacturers often relying on thickness monitoring (which provides no information on the optical parameters or layer quality) as the only form of quality control of thin film devices in situ, followed by intensive post- production quality testing. As a result, product defects are not identified until post-production, resulting in high material wastage and process inefficiency. The present invention aims to provide an improved method of processing SE data (e.g. in real-time) without such model dependence. |
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| Impact | Some of our recommendations on early stage researchers and women in research to the G7 Science Ministers' meeting made it into the Final Tsukuba Communiqué |
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| Description | The role of Young Academies in achieving the UN SDGs, 10/17 |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Impact | taken up and promoted by several senior science academies |
| URL | https://globalyoungacademy.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Statement-RoleYoungAcademies-SDGs-Oct2017.... |
| Description | All-dielectric beam control using dynamically-tuneable metasurfaces |
| Amount | £52,700 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2019 |
| End | 09/2023 |
| Description | Chalcogenide Photonic Technologies |
| Amount | £594,605 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/M008487/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2015 |
| End | 04/2018 |
| Description | Chalcogenide-based memory and logic for flexible electronics applications Read more at http://www.exeter.ac.uk/studying/funding/award/?id=3447#qpQPkbQAvClARAq4.99 |
| Amount | £40,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Pragmatic Printing Ltd |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2019 |
| End | 09/2023 |
| Description | Designing Nanosystems: the CMOS Way; Standard Research - NR1 |
| Amount | £298,001 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/N010159/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2016 |
| End | 11/2017 |
| Description | Development and Application of Non-Equilibrium Doping in Amorphous Chalcogenides |
| Amount | £261,632 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/N020278/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2016 |
| End | 03/2019 |
| Description | Dynamically-tuneable optical metasurfaces for laser implosion fusion applications Read more at http://www.exeter.ac.uk/studying/funding/award/?id=3450#HiB6zfH5jew10Mf0.99 |
| Amount | £52,700 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Atomic Weapons Establishment |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2019 |
| End | 09/2023 |
| Description | EPSRC Capital Award in Support of Early Career Researchers |
| Amount | £21,684 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/S017658/1 |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2019 |
| End | 03/2020 |
| Description | Feasibility of a novel low cost technique to deposit chalcogenides |
| Amount | £111,001 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 132374 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2016 |
| End | 09/2017 |
| Description | Fun-COMP |
| Amount | € 3,999,999 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 780848 |
| Organisation | European Commission H2020 |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 03/2018 |
| End | 02/2022 |
| Description | ICT31: Fun-Comp |
| Amount | £3,996,951 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 780848 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 03/2018 |
| End | 02/2022 |
| Description | Industrial Funding Toyota for potential development |
| Amount | € 50,000 (EUR) |
| Organisation | Toyota Motor Corporation |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Japan |
| Start | 11/2016 |
| End | 10/2017 |
| Description | Industrial funding |
| Amount | £60,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Camvac Ltd |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2017 |
| End | 09/2018 |
| Description | Infrared light control using phase-change metadevices |
| Amount | $444,000 (USD) |
| Funding ID | N-00014-16-R-BA01 |
| Organisation | ONRG Office of Naval Research Global |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 07/2017 |
| End | 08/2020 |
| Description | Invited Renewal - EPSRC Manufacturing Fellowship |
| Amount | £1,116,378 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/R001677/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 01/2022 |
| Description | Microsoft EMEA Studentship |
| Amount | £108,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Microsoft Research |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Global |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 01/2024 |
| Description | Next Generation Chalcogenides (ChAMP); MaFuMa grant |
| Amount | £2,508,176 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/M015130/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2015 |
| End | 01/2020 |
| Description | Next generation computer memories - using light to store data; IAA grant |
| Amount | £93,886 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/R511742/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2017 |
| End | 03/2020 |
| Description | TEAM-A: The tailored electromagnetic and acoustic materials accelerator |
| Amount | £2,433,195 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/R004781/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2017 |
| End | 09/2023 |
| Title | High current conductive AFM |
| Description | Our set-up on an Asylum MFP 3D atomic force microscope allows us to induce up to 1 mA of current through a conductive AFM tip. This allows us to probe the nanoscale electrical properties of functional materials at current densities commonly used in real world devices, helping accelerate real-world usability of such materials in devices that have dimensions of devices, eliminating the need for lithographic patterning in order to screen novel materials. We have successfully used this to characterize phase change materials, and more recently are adapting this for 2D materials. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | A spin out company Bodle. Several papers and patents resulting from the development of this technique. |
| Title | Optoelectronic testing station - Fiber Coupling with nanometer precision |
| Description | Set-ups used for combined optoelectronic testing of nanoscale and microscope devices have several limitations with respect to mechanical, electrical and optical operation properties. Therefore, in order to continue with the study of mixed mode electro-optical operation of functional materials, a new experimental set-up with better characteristics was required. The following features were identified. In order to aim the laser accurately on the device, a raster reflectivity scan was necessary. This, in turn, called for the improvement in reproducibility of the stage position, as well as a reduction of the drift due to thermal expansion and mechanical relaxation of the components. Additionally, by reducing mechanical drift, the time available to perform the test would also increase, allowing for better focusing and aiming into the area of interest. Improvement in the scan step resolution was also required, in comparison to the 100nm step resolution provided by the pico-motors of the former setup. Also, nano-second range optical and electrical pulses were needed to induce amorphization of GST devices. All of the before mentioned requirements were subsequently incorporated into a new experimental setup in a way which is described in detail in a thesis submitted by Gerardo Rodriguez Henandez whilst working in Harish Bhaskaran's laboratory. The requirements for the optical component of the experimental setup corresponded closely to a laser-scanning microscope. Such an instrument produces images by raster scanning a focused laser beam on a given sample and acquiring the intensity of the reflected signal at every point during the scan. However, higher power than that required to simply acquire reflectance scans (3mW) was also needed to optically induce phase changes of phase change materials (~60mW). One important feature in the current design was the use of fibre-coupled optical components. Such components allow a reduction of the setup footprint, simplify the alignment and improve the sensitivity to vibration and are generally safer to use. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | A paper and a research thesis was published. 2 new patents have been filed. |
| Title | Our Group's Github Page |
| Description | Following Open Science/Innovation approaches, we put all our code, procedures and design up on github |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Code, procedures and designs available online, this webpage is continuously updated and as such the outcome date is always moved to the most recent year. |
| URL | https://github.com/AFMD |
| Description | Atomistic potential development for thermoelctrics |
| Organisation | University of Bath |
| Department | Department of Chemistry |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have developed a first principle model system to estimate the SPin-Seebeck effect for BiTh2 systems. Currently we are working on including different doping materials to the system to enhance the SPin-Seebeck effect. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners have brought in their expertise in potential development and system analysis. |
| Impact | We have started to formulate a joined paper and conference contribution for the MMM 2016 in New Orleans USA |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Development of an ultra sensitive molecular detector |
| Organisation | Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | A PhD student in Oxford is carrying out research into a new kind of sensor for the detection of low concentrations of vapours of explosive materials. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our partners (Dstl) are sponsoring the project and will provide access to material that are not available in Oxford. |
| Impact | We have published a paper on explosives vapour sensing. The collaboration has also led to two further grants, one EPSRC, and a further Dstl grant. |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Fun-Comp |
| Organisation | IBM |
| Department | IBM Research Zurich |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Functionally scaled computing technology: From novel devices to non-von Neumann architectures and algorithms for a connected intelligent world. The Fun-COMP project aims to develop a new wave of industry-relevant technologies that will extend the limits facing mainstream processing and storage approaches. We will do this by delivering innovative nanoelectronic and nanophotonic devices and systems that fuse together the core information processing tasks of computing and memory, that incorporate in hardware the ability to learn adapt and evolve, that are designed from the bottom-up to take advantage of the huge benefits, in terms of increases in speed/bandwidth and reduction in power consumption, promised by the emergence of Silicon photonic systems. We will develop basic information processing building blocks that draw inspiration from biological approaches, providing computing primitives that can mimic the essential features of brain-like synapses and neurons to deliver a new foundation for fast, low-power, functionally-scaled computing based around non-von Neumann approaches. We will combine such computing primitives into reconfigurable integrated processing networks that can implement in hardware novel, intelligent, self-learning and adaptive computational approaches - including spiking neural networks, computing-in-memory and autonomous reservoir computing - and that are capable of addressing complex real-world computational problems in fast, energy-efficient ways. We will address the application of our novel technologies to future computing imperatives, including the analysis and exploitation of 'big data' and the ubiquity of computing arising from the 'Internet of Things'. To realise our goals we bring together a world-leading consortium of industrial and academic researchers whose current work in the development of future information processing and storage technologies defines the state-of-the-art. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Fun-Comp |
| Organisation | Interuniversity Micro-Electronics Centre |
| Country | Belgium |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Functionally scaled computing technology: From novel devices to non-von Neumann architectures and algorithms for a connected intelligent world. The Fun-COMP project aims to develop a new wave of industry-relevant technologies that will extend the limits facing mainstream processing and storage approaches. We will do this by delivering innovative nanoelectronic and nanophotonic devices and systems that fuse together the core information processing tasks of computing and memory, that incorporate in hardware the ability to learn adapt and evolve, that are designed from the bottom-up to take advantage of the huge benefits, in terms of increases in speed/bandwidth and reduction in power consumption, promised by the emergence of Silicon photonic systems. We will develop basic information processing building blocks that draw inspiration from biological approaches, providing computing primitives that can mimic the essential features of brain-like synapses and neurons to deliver a new foundation for fast, low-power, functionally-scaled computing based around non-von Neumann approaches. We will combine such computing primitives into reconfigurable integrated processing networks that can implement in hardware novel, intelligent, self-learning and adaptive computational approaches - including spiking neural networks, computing-in-memory and autonomous reservoir computing - and that are capable of addressing complex real-world computational problems in fast, energy-efficient ways. We will address the application of our novel technologies to future computing imperatives, including the analysis and exploitation of 'big data' and the ubiquity of computing arising from the 'Internet of Things'. To realise our goals we bring together a world-leading consortium of industrial and academic researchers whose current work in the development of future information processing and storage technologies defines the state-of-the-art. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Fun-Comp |
| Organisation | National Center for Scientific Research (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS) |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Functionally scaled computing technology: From novel devices to non-von Neumann architectures and algorithms for a connected intelligent world. The Fun-COMP project aims to develop a new wave of industry-relevant technologies that will extend the limits facing mainstream processing and storage approaches. We will do this by delivering innovative nanoelectronic and nanophotonic devices and systems that fuse together the core information processing tasks of computing and memory, that incorporate in hardware the ability to learn adapt and evolve, that are designed from the bottom-up to take advantage of the huge benefits, in terms of increases in speed/bandwidth and reduction in power consumption, promised by the emergence of Silicon photonic systems. We will develop basic information processing building blocks that draw inspiration from biological approaches, providing computing primitives that can mimic the essential features of brain-like synapses and neurons to deliver a new foundation for fast, low-power, functionally-scaled computing based around non-von Neumann approaches. We will combine such computing primitives into reconfigurable integrated processing networks that can implement in hardware novel, intelligent, self-learning and adaptive computational approaches - including spiking neural networks, computing-in-memory and autonomous reservoir computing - and that are capable of addressing complex real-world computational problems in fast, energy-efficient ways. We will address the application of our novel technologies to future computing imperatives, including the analysis and exploitation of 'big data' and the ubiquity of computing arising from the 'Internet of Things'. To realise our goals we bring together a world-leading consortium of industrial and academic researchers whose current work in the development of future information processing and storage technologies defines the state-of-the-art. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Fun-Comp |
| Organisation | Thales Group |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Functionally scaled computing technology: From novel devices to non-von Neumann architectures and algorithms for a connected intelligent world. The Fun-COMP project aims to develop a new wave of industry-relevant technologies that will extend the limits facing mainstream processing and storage approaches. We will do this by delivering innovative nanoelectronic and nanophotonic devices and systems that fuse together the core information processing tasks of computing and memory, that incorporate in hardware the ability to learn adapt and evolve, that are designed from the bottom-up to take advantage of the huge benefits, in terms of increases in speed/bandwidth and reduction in power consumption, promised by the emergence of Silicon photonic systems. We will develop basic information processing building blocks that draw inspiration from biological approaches, providing computing primitives that can mimic the essential features of brain-like synapses and neurons to deliver a new foundation for fast, low-power, functionally-scaled computing based around non-von Neumann approaches. We will combine such computing primitives into reconfigurable integrated processing networks that can implement in hardware novel, intelligent, self-learning and adaptive computational approaches - including spiking neural networks, computing-in-memory and autonomous reservoir computing - and that are capable of addressing complex real-world computational problems in fast, energy-efficient ways. We will address the application of our novel technologies to future computing imperatives, including the analysis and exploitation of 'big data' and the ubiquity of computing arising from the 'Internet of Things'. To realise our goals we bring together a world-leading consortium of industrial and academic researchers whose current work in the development of future information processing and storage technologies defines the state-of-the-art. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Fun-Comp |
| Organisation | University of Exeter |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Functionally scaled computing technology: From novel devices to non-von Neumann architectures and algorithms for a connected intelligent world. The Fun-COMP project aims to develop a new wave of industry-relevant technologies that will extend the limits facing mainstream processing and storage approaches. We will do this by delivering innovative nanoelectronic and nanophotonic devices and systems that fuse together the core information processing tasks of computing and memory, that incorporate in hardware the ability to learn adapt and evolve, that are designed from the bottom-up to take advantage of the huge benefits, in terms of increases in speed/bandwidth and reduction in power consumption, promised by the emergence of Silicon photonic systems. We will develop basic information processing building blocks that draw inspiration from biological approaches, providing computing primitives that can mimic the essential features of brain-like synapses and neurons to deliver a new foundation for fast, low-power, functionally-scaled computing based around non-von Neumann approaches. We will combine such computing primitives into reconfigurable integrated processing networks that can implement in hardware novel, intelligent, self-learning and adaptive computational approaches - including spiking neural networks, computing-in-memory and autonomous reservoir computing - and that are capable of addressing complex real-world computational problems in fast, energy-efficient ways. We will address the application of our novel technologies to future computing imperatives, including the analysis and exploitation of 'big data' and the ubiquity of computing arising from the 'Internet of Things'. To realise our goals we bring together a world-leading consortium of industrial and academic researchers whose current work in the development of future information processing and storage technologies defines the state-of-the-art. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Fun-Comp |
| Organisation | University of Münster |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Functionally scaled computing technology: From novel devices to non-von Neumann architectures and algorithms for a connected intelligent world. The Fun-COMP project aims to develop a new wave of industry-relevant technologies that will extend the limits facing mainstream processing and storage approaches. We will do this by delivering innovative nanoelectronic and nanophotonic devices and systems that fuse together the core information processing tasks of computing and memory, that incorporate in hardware the ability to learn adapt and evolve, that are designed from the bottom-up to take advantage of the huge benefits, in terms of increases in speed/bandwidth and reduction in power consumption, promised by the emergence of Silicon photonic systems. We will develop basic information processing building blocks that draw inspiration from biological approaches, providing computing primitives that can mimic the essential features of brain-like synapses and neurons to deliver a new foundation for fast, low-power, functionally-scaled computing based around non-von Neumann approaches. We will combine such computing primitives into reconfigurable integrated processing networks that can implement in hardware novel, intelligent, self-learning and adaptive computational approaches - including spiking neural networks, computing-in-memory and autonomous reservoir computing - and that are capable of addressing complex real-world computational problems in fast, energy-efficient ways. We will address the application of our novel technologies to future computing imperatives, including the analysis and exploitation of 'big data' and the ubiquity of computing arising from the 'Internet of Things'. To realise our goals we bring together a world-leading consortium of industrial and academic researchers whose current work in the development of future information processing and storage technologies defines the state-of-the-art. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Fun-Comp |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Functionally scaled computing technology: From novel devices to non-von Neumann architectures and algorithms for a connected intelligent world. The Fun-COMP project aims to develop a new wave of industry-relevant technologies that will extend the limits facing mainstream processing and storage approaches. We will do this by delivering innovative nanoelectronic and nanophotonic devices and systems that fuse together the core information processing tasks of computing and memory, that incorporate in hardware the ability to learn adapt and evolve, that are designed from the bottom-up to take advantage of the huge benefits, in terms of increases in speed/bandwidth and reduction in power consumption, promised by the emergence of Silicon photonic systems. We will develop basic information processing building blocks that draw inspiration from biological approaches, providing computing primitives that can mimic the essential features of brain-like synapses and neurons to deliver a new foundation for fast, low-power, functionally-scaled computing based around non-von Neumann approaches. We will combine such computing primitives into reconfigurable integrated processing networks that can implement in hardware novel, intelligent, self-learning and adaptive computational approaches - including spiking neural networks, computing-in-memory and autonomous reservoir computing - and that are capable of addressing complex real-world computational problems in fast, energy-efficient ways. We will address the application of our novel technologies to future computing imperatives, including the analysis and exploitation of 'big data' and the ubiquity of computing arising from the 'Internet of Things'. To realise our goals we bring together a world-leading consortium of industrial and academic researchers whose current work in the development of future information processing and storage technologies defines the state-of-the-art. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Heliatek GmbH |
| Organisation | Heliatek GmbH |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Discussions about the photophysics of organic solar cells |
| Collaborator Contribution | Discussions about the industrial relevance & direction of research |
| Impact | in preparation |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Invited Manufacturing Fellowship Extension |
| Organisation | IBM |
| Department | IBM Research Zurich |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | industrial collaboration |
| Collaborator Contribution | industrial advice |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Roll-to-roll manufacture of flexible thermoelectric generators for powering wearable technologies |
| Organisation | Plasma Quest |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Sample manufacture and testing |
| Collaborator Contribution | Access to deposition facilities and know-how of deposition technology. Intellectual input in understanding the manufacturing process. |
| Impact | Demonstrator devices Anticipated two publications in preparation |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Scale-up Manufacturing of OTFT Circuits for Medical Sensing |
| Organisation | Emerson & Renwick Limited |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Coatings and materials characterisation, expertise of OTFTs and R2R processing for flexible electronics |
| Collaborator Contribution | Roll-to-roll coating expertise and facilities |
| Impact | Demonstration of manufacturing routes for flexible OTFT circuits |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Smart Materials for Data Storage |
| Organisation | Ilika |
| Department | Ilika Technologies Ltd. |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | HAMR is a technology designed to enable the next big increase in the amount of data that can be stored on a hard drive. It uses a new kind of media magnetic technology on each disk that allows data bits, or grains, to become smaller and more densely packed than ever, while remaining magnetically stable. A small laser diode attached to each recording head heats a tiny spot on the disk, which enables the recording head to flip the magnetic polarity of each very stable bit, enabling data to be written. Our research team provided expertise in our knowledge of advanced materials to the industrial partner Seagate to help them indentify materials more suitable in the hard drives they were developing. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Nanomaterials for Data Storage project has successfully demonstrated new materials with new capabilities to improve read write transducer reliability and performance in next generation hard drive products. High thermal conductivity materials have been processed at Seagate's wafer fabrication facility with follow on electrical testing to verify that the nitride based materials have enabled reduced thermal effects in the transducer, translating into a 25% gain in the ability to set the distance between the head and the disk. This will enable reduced time to product launch for the Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) hard drive technology due to reach the market in early 2019. Advanced material synthesis and test capability at the partner organisations, Ilika and University of Southampton was used to facilitate material optimisation and exploration with many alternative options. The Nanomaterials for Data Storage has resulted in strong working relationship between Seagate, llika and the University of Southampton. As a result of this another Innovate UK funded project, Photonic Material Process for Data Storage, is underway. The aim of this project is to put in place a mechanism for continued business interaction between Seagate and Ilika. Also, the University of Southampton has been able to quickly demonstrate material properties and measurements in several areas that are of interest to Seagate. It is hoped that one of these areas can become the focus on a future Innovate UK funded project. The partners are actively working on this at the moment. |
| Impact | Ellipsometry of 2D materials Improved annealing processes for 2D materials Processes for lower temperature deposition of 2D materials Invited to Participate Knowledge Transfer Network, UK led workshop: Contact: Monika Dunkel monika.dunkel@ktn-uk.org Participated in Flexible and Printed Electronics, Displays & Photonics demonstrator workshop, 21 November 2017, Cambridge |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | UltraSRD - Innovate UK |
| Organisation | Bodle Technologies Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | UltraSRD - Designing a proof of concept ultra-low power, solid-state reflective colour display using novel phase change materials. The technological challenge of successfully implementing colour & video capability within a reflective (non-backlit) display has been challenging the display industry for years. Reflective E-reader displays are slow to refresh and only available in black and white, whilst backlit LCD and emissive OLED screens consume high rates of power: this limits the information display applications that these technologies can be applied to. Development of a feasible low power, Cookies on the GtR website multi-colour display technology could see many new avenues of opportunity open for new reflective information displays including in wearable devices and the internet of things. UltraSRD addresses this unsatisfactory compromise on colour, speed and energy consumption: based on research completed at the University of Oxford and with industry support, Bodle Technologies intends to investigate the feasibility of developing a commercially viable, high resolution, bistable, rapid refresh, colour reflective display by 2020 using novel phase change materials. |
| Collaborator Contribution | phase change material display research |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | UltraSRD - Innovate UK |
| Organisation | M-Solv |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | UltraSRD - Designing a proof of concept ultra-low power, solid-state reflective colour display using novel phase change materials. The technological challenge of successfully implementing colour & video capability within a reflective (non-backlit) display has been challenging the display industry for years. Reflective E-reader displays are slow to refresh and only available in black and white, whilst backlit LCD and emissive OLED screens consume high rates of power: this limits the information display applications that these technologies can be applied to. Development of a feasible low power, Cookies on the GtR website multi-colour display technology could see many new avenues of opportunity open for new reflective information displays including in wearable devices and the internet of things. UltraSRD addresses this unsatisfactory compromise on colour, speed and energy consumption: based on research completed at the University of Oxford and with industry support, Bodle Technologies intends to investigate the feasibility of developing a commercially viable, high resolution, bistable, rapid refresh, colour reflective display by 2020 using novel phase change materials. |
| Collaborator Contribution | phase change material display research |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | UltraSRD - Innovate UK |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | UltraSRD - Designing a proof of concept ultra-low power, solid-state reflective colour display using novel phase change materials. The technological challenge of successfully implementing colour & video capability within a reflective (non-backlit) display has been challenging the display industry for years. Reflective E-reader displays are slow to refresh and only available in black and white, whilst backlit LCD and emissive OLED screens consume high rates of power: this limits the information display applications that these technologies can be applied to. Development of a feasible low power, Cookies on the GtR website multi-colour display technology could see many new avenues of opportunity open for new reflective information displays including in wearable devices and the internet of things. UltraSRD addresses this unsatisfactory compromise on colour, speed and energy consumption: based on research completed at the University of Oxford and with industry support, Bodle Technologies intends to investigate the feasibility of developing a commercially viable, high resolution, bistable, rapid refresh, colour reflective display by 2020 using novel phase change materials. |
| Collaborator Contribution | phase change material display research |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | UltraSRD - Innovate UK |
| Organisation | University of Southampton |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | UltraSRD - Designing a proof of concept ultra-low power, solid-state reflective colour display using novel phase change materials. The technological challenge of successfully implementing colour & video capability within a reflective (non-backlit) display has been challenging the display industry for years. Reflective E-reader displays are slow to refresh and only available in black and white, whilst backlit LCD and emissive OLED screens consume high rates of power: this limits the information display applications that these technologies can be applied to. Development of a feasible low power, Cookies on the GtR website multi-colour display technology could see many new avenues of opportunity open for new reflective information displays including in wearable devices and the internet of things. UltraSRD addresses this unsatisfactory compromise on colour, speed and energy consumption: based on research completed at the University of Oxford and with industry support, Bodle Technologies intends to investigate the feasibility of developing a commercially viable, high resolution, bistable, rapid refresh, colour reflective display by 2020 using novel phase change materials. |
| Collaborator Contribution | phase change material display research |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | WAFT Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | BASF |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The WAFT Research Team works in four research strands contributing to experimental research in metrology for process control and waste reduction, developing the flexible and functional components integration, focusing on modelling and reliability and scale-up via Roll-to-Roll process development. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The WAFT IAB's purpose is to strengthen the WAFT research project by advising, assisting, supporting and advocating on the formulation of goals, objectives, priorities and plans for this exploratory programme and research. The WAFT IAB has no legislative, administrative or programmatic authority and is advisory only. Members are volunteers who share expert knowledge of the research or product development tasks and competency requirements for specific research outputs. The role of the Industry Advisory Board is to facilitate the exchange of ideas between the board members, the academic staff and the students in the WAFT Project. The WAFT IAB members bring a wide range of backgrounds and real-world experience to the table; these can be applied to situations faced by the team. The IAB members can also act as mentors to students in specific areas. In addition to their expertise and advice, IAB members can provide a wealth of other resources such as networking contacts, sponsorship, employment/volunteer experiences, access to facilities or equipment to name a few. |
| Impact | Industrial Advisory Board Meeting with Science Meeting was held in October 2015 with 33 delegates. The WAFT Scientific Meeting was held in October 2016 with 55 delegates from the academic and industrial partners. The number of industrial partner companies increased from 8 to 17 over a year, and 15 industrial partner representatives attended the WAFT Industrial Advisory Board Meeting on 21 October 2016. The number of industrial partner increased to 20 in 2017. The WAFT Annual Meeting showcased 10 academic talks and 3 presentations from Industrial Partners: BASF, Oxford Instruments (Asylum Research), Fraunhofer FEPP and closed with a poster session. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | WAFT Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | Bodle Technologies Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The WAFT Research Team works in four research strands contributing to experimental research in metrology for process control and waste reduction, developing the flexible and functional components integration, focusing on modelling and reliability and scale-up via Roll-to-Roll process development. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The WAFT IAB's purpose is to strengthen the WAFT research project by advising, assisting, supporting and advocating on the formulation of goals, objectives, priorities and plans for this exploratory programme and research. The WAFT IAB has no legislative, administrative or programmatic authority and is advisory only. Members are volunteers who share expert knowledge of the research or product development tasks and competency requirements for specific research outputs. The role of the Industry Advisory Board is to facilitate the exchange of ideas between the board members, the academic staff and the students in the WAFT Project. The WAFT IAB members bring a wide range of backgrounds and real-world experience to the table; these can be applied to situations faced by the team. The IAB members can also act as mentors to students in specific areas. In addition to their expertise and advice, IAB members can provide a wealth of other resources such as networking contacts, sponsorship, employment/volunteer experiences, access to facilities or equipment to name a few. |
| Impact | Industrial Advisory Board Meeting with Science Meeting was held in October 2015 with 33 delegates. The WAFT Scientific Meeting was held in October 2016 with 55 delegates from the academic and industrial partners. The number of industrial partner companies increased from 8 to 17 over a year, and 15 industrial partner representatives attended the WAFT Industrial Advisory Board Meeting on 21 October 2016. The number of industrial partner increased to 20 in 2017. The WAFT Annual Meeting showcased 10 academic talks and 3 presentations from Industrial Partners: BASF, Oxford Instruments (Asylum Research), Fraunhofer FEPP and closed with a poster session. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | WAFT Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | Bodle Technologies Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Discussions of samples (architecture/design, materials, properties) and experimental methods, in particular optical thin film monitoring |
| Collaborator Contribution | Discussions of samples (architecture/design, materials, properties) and experimental methods, in particular optical thin film monitoring and industrial needs |
| Impact | better thin film measurements during growth of organic semiconductors |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | WAFT Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The WAFT Research Team works in four research strands contributing to experimental research in metrology for process control and waste reduction, developing the flexible and functional components integration, focusing on modelling and reliability and scale-up via Roll-to-Roll process development. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The WAFT IAB's purpose is to strengthen the WAFT research project by advising, assisting, supporting and advocating on the formulation of goals, objectives, priorities and plans for this exploratory programme and research. The WAFT IAB has no legislative, administrative or programmatic authority and is advisory only. Members are volunteers who share expert knowledge of the research or product development tasks and competency requirements for specific research outputs. The role of the Industry Advisory Board is to facilitate the exchange of ideas between the board members, the academic staff and the students in the WAFT Project. The WAFT IAB members bring a wide range of backgrounds and real-world experience to the table; these can be applied to situations faced by the team. The IAB members can also act as mentors to students in specific areas. In addition to their expertise and advice, IAB members can provide a wealth of other resources such as networking contacts, sponsorship, employment/volunteer experiences, access to facilities or equipment to name a few. |
| Impact | Industrial Advisory Board Meeting with Science Meeting was held in October 2015 with 33 delegates. The WAFT Scientific Meeting was held in October 2016 with 55 delegates from the academic and industrial partners. The number of industrial partner companies increased from 8 to 17 over a year, and 15 industrial partner representatives attended the WAFT Industrial Advisory Board Meeting on 21 October 2016. The number of industrial partner increased to 20 in 2017. The WAFT Annual Meeting showcased 10 academic talks and 3 presentations from Industrial Partners: BASF, Oxford Instruments (Asylum Research), Fraunhofer FEPP and closed with a poster session. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | WAFT Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | CreaPhys GmbH |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The WAFT Research Team works in four research strands contributing to experimental research in metrology for process control and waste reduction, developing the flexible and functional components integration, focusing on modelling and reliability and scale-up via Roll-to-Roll process development. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The WAFT IAB's purpose is to strengthen the WAFT research project by advising, assisting, supporting and advocating on the formulation of goals, objectives, priorities and plans for this exploratory programme and research. The WAFT IAB has no legislative, administrative or programmatic authority and is advisory only. Members are volunteers who share expert knowledge of the research or product development tasks and competency requirements for specific research outputs. The role of the Industry Advisory Board is to facilitate the exchange of ideas between the board members, the academic staff and the students in the WAFT Project. The WAFT IAB members bring a wide range of backgrounds and real-world experience to the table; these can be applied to situations faced by the team. The IAB members can also act as mentors to students in specific areas. In addition to their expertise and advice, IAB members can provide a wealth of other resources such as networking contacts, sponsorship, employment/volunteer experiences, access to facilities or equipment to name a few. |
| Impact | Industrial Advisory Board Meeting with Science Meeting was held in October 2015 with 33 delegates. The WAFT Scientific Meeting was held in October 2016 with 55 delegates from the academic and industrial partners. The number of industrial partner companies increased from 8 to 17 over a year, and 15 industrial partner representatives attended the WAFT Industrial Advisory Board Meeting on 21 October 2016. The number of industrial partner increased to 20 in 2017. The WAFT Annual Meeting showcased 10 academic talks and 3 presentations from Industrial Partners: BASF, Oxford Instruments (Asylum Research), Fraunhofer FEPP and closed with a poster session. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | WAFT Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | CreaPhys GmbH |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Discussions of samples (architecture/design, materials, properties) and experimental methods, in particular optical thin film monitoring |
| Collaborator Contribution | Discussions of samples (architecture/design, materials, properties) and experimental methods, in particular optical thin film monitoring and industrial needs |
| Impact | better thin film measurements during growth of organic semiconductors |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | WAFT Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The WAFT Research Team works in four research strands contributing to experimental research in metrology for process control and waste reduction, developing the flexible and functional components integration, focusing on modelling and reliability and scale-up via Roll-to-Roll process development. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The WAFT IAB's purpose is to strengthen the WAFT research project by advising, assisting, supporting and advocating on the formulation of goals, objectives, priorities and plans for this exploratory programme and research. The WAFT IAB has no legislative, administrative or programmatic authority and is advisory only. Members are volunteers who share expert knowledge of the research or product development tasks and competency requirements for specific research outputs. The role of the Industry Advisory Board is to facilitate the exchange of ideas between the board members, the academic staff and the students in the WAFT Project. The WAFT IAB members bring a wide range of backgrounds and real-world experience to the table; these can be applied to situations faced by the team. The IAB members can also act as mentors to students in specific areas. In addition to their expertise and advice, IAB members can provide a wealth of other resources such as networking contacts, sponsorship, employment/volunteer experiences, access to facilities or equipment to name a few. |
| Impact | Industrial Advisory Board Meeting with Science Meeting was held in October 2015 with 33 delegates. The WAFT Scientific Meeting was held in October 2016 with 55 delegates from the academic and industrial partners. The number of industrial partner companies increased from 8 to 17 over a year, and 15 industrial partner representatives attended the WAFT Industrial Advisory Board Meeting on 21 October 2016. The number of industrial partner increased to 20 in 2017. The WAFT Annual Meeting showcased 10 academic talks and 3 presentations from Industrial Partners: BASF, Oxford Instruments (Asylum Research), Fraunhofer FEPP and closed with a poster session. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | WAFT Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | Eckersley O'Callaghan |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The WAFT Research Team works in four research strands contributing to experimental research in metrology for process control and waste reduction, developing the flexible and functional components integration, focusing on modelling and reliability and scale-up via Roll-to-Roll process development. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The WAFT IAB's purpose is to strengthen the WAFT research project by advising, assisting, supporting and advocating on the formulation of goals, objectives, priorities and plans for this exploratory programme and research. The WAFT IAB has no legislative, administrative or programmatic authority and is advisory only. Members are volunteers who share expert knowledge of the research or product development tasks and competency requirements for specific research outputs. The role of the Industry Advisory Board is to facilitate the exchange of ideas between the board members, the academic staff and the students in the WAFT Project. The WAFT IAB members bring a wide range of backgrounds and real-world experience to the table; these can be applied to situations faced by the team. The IAB members can also act as mentors to students in specific areas. In addition to their expertise and advice, IAB members can provide a wealth of other resources such as networking contacts, sponsorship, employment/volunteer experiences, access to facilities or equipment to name a few. |
| Impact | Industrial Advisory Board Meeting with Science Meeting was held in October 2015 with 33 delegates. The WAFT Scientific Meeting was held in October 2016 with 55 delegates from the academic and industrial partners. The number of industrial partner companies increased from 8 to 17 over a year, and 15 industrial partner representatives attended the WAFT Industrial Advisory Board Meeting on 21 October 2016. The number of industrial partner increased to 20 in 2017. The WAFT Annual Meeting showcased 10 academic talks and 3 presentations from Industrial Partners: BASF, Oxford Instruments (Asylum Research), Fraunhofer FEPP and closed with a poster session. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | WAFT Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | Fraunhofer Society |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The WAFT Research Team works in four research strands contributing to experimental research in metrology for process control and waste reduction, developing the flexible and functional components integration, focusing on modelling and reliability and scale-up via Roll-to-Roll process development. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The WAFT IAB's purpose is to strengthen the WAFT research project by advising, assisting, supporting and advocating on the formulation of goals, objectives, priorities and plans for this exploratory programme and research. The WAFT IAB has no legislative, administrative or programmatic authority and is advisory only. Members are volunteers who share expert knowledge of the research or product development tasks and competency requirements for specific research outputs. The role of the Industry Advisory Board is to facilitate the exchange of ideas between the board members, the academic staff and the students in the WAFT Project. The WAFT IAB members bring a wide range of backgrounds and real-world experience to the table; these can be applied to situations faced by the team. The IAB members can also act as mentors to students in specific areas. In addition to their expertise and advice, IAB members can provide a wealth of other resources such as networking contacts, sponsorship, employment/volunteer experiences, access to facilities or equipment to name a few. |
| Impact | Industrial Advisory Board Meeting with Science Meeting was held in October 2015 with 33 delegates. The WAFT Scientific Meeting was held in October 2016 with 55 delegates from the academic and industrial partners. The number of industrial partner companies increased from 8 to 17 over a year, and 15 industrial partner representatives attended the WAFT Industrial Advisory Board Meeting on 21 October 2016. The number of industrial partner increased to 20 in 2017. The WAFT Annual Meeting showcased 10 academic talks and 3 presentations from Industrial Partners: BASF, Oxford Instruments (Asylum Research), Fraunhofer FEPP and closed with a poster session. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | WAFT Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | Heliatek GmbH |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The WAFT Research Team works in four research strands contributing to experimental research in metrology for process control and waste reduction, developing the flexible and functional components integration, focusing on modelling and reliability and scale-up via Roll-to-Roll process development. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The WAFT IAB's purpose is to strengthen the WAFT research project by advising, assisting, supporting and advocating on the formulation of goals, objectives, priorities and plans for this exploratory programme and research. The WAFT IAB has no legislative, administrative or programmatic authority and is advisory only. Members are volunteers who share expert knowledge of the research or product development tasks and competency requirements for specific research outputs. The role of the Industry Advisory Board is to facilitate the exchange of ideas between the board members, the academic staff and the students in the WAFT Project. The WAFT IAB members bring a wide range of backgrounds and real-world experience to the table; these can be applied to situations faced by the team. The IAB members can also act as mentors to students in specific areas. In addition to their expertise and advice, IAB members can provide a wealth of other resources such as networking contacts, sponsorship, employment/volunteer experiences, access to facilities or equipment to name a few. |
| Impact | Industrial Advisory Board Meeting with Science Meeting was held in October 2015 with 33 delegates. The WAFT Scientific Meeting was held in October 2016 with 55 delegates from the academic and industrial partners. The number of industrial partner companies increased from 8 to 17 over a year, and 15 industrial partner representatives attended the WAFT Industrial Advisory Board Meeting on 21 October 2016. The number of industrial partner increased to 20 in 2017. The WAFT Annual Meeting showcased 10 academic talks and 3 presentations from Industrial Partners: BASF, Oxford Instruments (Asylum Research), Fraunhofer FEPP and closed with a poster session. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | WAFT Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | IBM |
| Department | IBM Research Zurich |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The WAFT Research Team works in four research strands contributing to experimental research in metrology for process control and waste reduction, developing the flexible and functional components integration, focusing on modelling and reliability and scale-up via Roll-to-Roll process development. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The WAFT IAB's purpose is to strengthen the WAFT research project by advising, assisting, supporting and advocating on the formulation of goals, objectives, priorities and plans for this exploratory programme and research. The WAFT IAB has no legislative, administrative or programmatic authority and is advisory only. Members are volunteers who share expert knowledge of the research or product development tasks and competency requirements for specific research outputs. The role of the Industry Advisory Board is to facilitate the exchange of ideas between the board members, the academic staff and the students in the WAFT Project. The WAFT IAB members bring a wide range of backgrounds and real-world experience to the table; these can be applied to situations faced by the team. The IAB members can also act as mentors to students in specific areas. In addition to their expertise and advice, IAB members can provide a wealth of other resources such as networking contacts, sponsorship, employment/volunteer experiences, access to facilities or equipment to name a few. |
| Impact | Industrial Advisory Board Meeting with Science Meeting was held in October 2015 with 33 delegates. The WAFT Scientific Meeting was held in October 2016 with 55 delegates from the academic and industrial partners. The number of industrial partner companies increased from 8 to 17 over a year, and 15 industrial partner representatives attended the WAFT Industrial Advisory Board Meeting on 21 October 2016. The number of industrial partner increased to 20 in 2017. The WAFT Annual Meeting showcased 10 academic talks and 3 presentations from Industrial Partners: BASF, Oxford Instruments (Asylum Research), Fraunhofer FEPP and closed with a poster session. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | WAFT Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | Kurt J Lesker Company |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The WAFT Research Team works in four research strands contributing to experimental research in metrology for process control and waste reduction, developing the flexible and functional components integration, focusing on modelling and reliability and scale-up via Roll-to-Roll process development. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The WAFT IAB's purpose is to strengthen the WAFT research project by advising, assisting, supporting and advocating on the formulation of goals, objectives, priorities and plans for this exploratory programme and research. The WAFT IAB has no legislative, administrative or programmatic authority and is advisory only. Members are volunteers who share expert knowledge of the research or product development tasks and competency requirements for specific research outputs. The role of the Industry Advisory Board is to facilitate the exchange of ideas between the board members, the academic staff and the students in the WAFT Project. The WAFT IAB members bring a wide range of backgrounds and real-world experience to the table; these can be applied to situations faced by the team. The IAB members can also act as mentors to students in specific areas. In addition to their expertise and advice, IAB members can provide a wealth of other resources such as networking contacts, sponsorship, employment/volunteer experiences, access to facilities or equipment to name a few. |
| Impact | Industrial Advisory Board Meeting with Science Meeting was held in October 2015 with 33 delegates. The WAFT Scientific Meeting was held in October 2016 with 55 delegates from the academic and industrial partners. The number of industrial partner companies increased from 8 to 17 over a year, and 15 industrial partner representatives attended the WAFT Industrial Advisory Board Meeting on 21 October 2016. The number of industrial partner increased to 20 in 2017. The WAFT Annual Meeting showcased 10 academic talks and 3 presentations from Industrial Partners: BASF, Oxford Instruments (Asylum Research), Fraunhofer FEPP and closed with a poster session. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | WAFT Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | Kurt J Lesker Company |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Discussions of samples (architecture/design, materials, properties) and experimental methods, in particular optical thin film monitoring |
| Collaborator Contribution | Discussions of samples (architecture/design, materials, properties) and experimental methods, in particular optical thin film monitoring and industrial needs |
| Impact | better thin film measurements during growth of organic semiconductors |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | WAFT Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | Msolv Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The WAFT Research Team works in four research strands contributing to experimental research in metrology for process control and waste reduction, developing the flexible and functional components integration, focusing on modelling and reliability and scale-up via Roll-to-Roll process development. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The WAFT IAB's purpose is to strengthen the WAFT research project by advising, assisting, supporting and advocating on the formulation of goals, objectives, priorities and plans for this exploratory programme and research. The WAFT IAB has no legislative, administrative or programmatic authority and is advisory only. Members are volunteers who share expert knowledge of the research or product development tasks and competency requirements for specific research outputs. The role of the Industry Advisory Board is to facilitate the exchange of ideas between the board members, the academic staff and the students in the WAFT Project. The WAFT IAB members bring a wide range of backgrounds and real-world experience to the table; these can be applied to situations faced by the team. The IAB members can also act as mentors to students in specific areas. In addition to their expertise and advice, IAB members can provide a wealth of other resources such as networking contacts, sponsorship, employment/volunteer experiences, access to facilities or equipment to name a few. |
| Impact | Industrial Advisory Board Meeting with Science Meeting was held in October 2015 with 33 delegates. The WAFT Scientific Meeting was held in October 2016 with 55 delegates from the academic and industrial partners. The number of industrial partner companies increased from 8 to 17 over a year, and 15 industrial partner representatives attended the WAFT Industrial Advisory Board Meeting on 21 October 2016. The number of industrial partner increased to 20 in 2017. The WAFT Annual Meeting showcased 10 academic talks and 3 presentations from Industrial Partners: BASF, Oxford Instruments (Asylum Research), Fraunhofer FEPP and closed with a poster session. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | WAFT Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | Oxford Instruments |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The WAFT Research Team works in four research strands contributing to experimental research in metrology for process control and waste reduction, developing the flexible and functional components integration, focusing on modelling and reliability and scale-up via Roll-to-Roll process development. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The WAFT IAB's purpose is to strengthen the WAFT research project by advising, assisting, supporting and advocating on the formulation of goals, objectives, priorities and plans for this exploratory programme and research. The WAFT IAB has no legislative, administrative or programmatic authority and is advisory only. Members are volunteers who share expert knowledge of the research or product development tasks and competency requirements for specific research outputs. The role of the Industry Advisory Board is to facilitate the exchange of ideas between the board members, the academic staff and the students in the WAFT Project. The WAFT IAB members bring a wide range of backgrounds and real-world experience to the table; these can be applied to situations faced by the team. The IAB members can also act as mentors to students in specific areas. In addition to their expertise and advice, IAB members can provide a wealth of other resources such as networking contacts, sponsorship, employment/volunteer experiences, access to facilities or equipment to name a few. |
| Impact | Industrial Advisory Board Meeting with Science Meeting was held in October 2015 with 33 delegates. The WAFT Scientific Meeting was held in October 2016 with 55 delegates from the academic and industrial partners. The number of industrial partner companies increased from 8 to 17 over a year, and 15 industrial partner representatives attended the WAFT Industrial Advisory Board Meeting on 21 October 2016. The number of industrial partner increased to 20 in 2017. The WAFT Annual Meeting showcased 10 academic talks and 3 presentations from Industrial Partners: BASF, Oxford Instruments (Asylum Research), Fraunhofer FEPP and closed with a poster session. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | WAFT Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | Oxford Instruments Asylum Research |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The WAFT Research Team works in four research strands contributing to experimental research in metrology for process control and waste reduction, developing the flexible and functional components integration, focusing on modelling and reliability and scale-up via Roll-to-Roll process development. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The WAFT IAB's purpose is to strengthen the WAFT research project by advising, assisting, supporting and advocating on the formulation of goals, objectives, priorities and plans for this exploratory programme and research. The WAFT IAB has no legislative, administrative or programmatic authority and is advisory only. Members are volunteers who share expert knowledge of the research or product development tasks and competency requirements for specific research outputs. The role of the Industry Advisory Board is to facilitate the exchange of ideas between the board members, the academic staff and the students in the WAFT Project. The WAFT IAB members bring a wide range of backgrounds and real-world experience to the table; these can be applied to situations faced by the team. The IAB members can also act as mentors to students in specific areas. In addition to their expertise and advice, IAB members can provide a wealth of other resources such as networking contacts, sponsorship, employment/volunteer experiences, access to facilities or equipment to name a few. |
| Impact | Industrial Advisory Board Meeting with Science Meeting was held in October 2015 with 33 delegates. The WAFT Scientific Meeting was held in October 2016 with 55 delegates from the academic and industrial partners. The number of industrial partner companies increased from 8 to 17 over a year, and 15 industrial partner representatives attended the WAFT Industrial Advisory Board Meeting on 21 October 2016. The number of industrial partner increased to 20 in 2017. The WAFT Annual Meeting showcased 10 academic talks and 3 presentations from Industrial Partners: BASF, Oxford Instruments (Asylum Research), Fraunhofer FEPP and closed with a poster session. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | WAFT Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | Oxford Photovoltaics |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The WAFT Research Team works in four research strands contributing to experimental research in metrology for process control and waste reduction, developing the flexible and functional components integration, focusing on modelling and reliability and scale-up via Roll-to-Roll process development. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The WAFT IAB's purpose is to strengthen the WAFT research project by advising, assisting, supporting and advocating on the formulation of goals, objectives, priorities and plans for this exploratory programme and research. The WAFT IAB has no legislative, administrative or programmatic authority and is advisory only. Members are volunteers who share expert knowledge of the research or product development tasks and competency requirements for specific research outputs. The role of the Industry Advisory Board is to facilitate the exchange of ideas between the board members, the academic staff and the students in the WAFT Project. The WAFT IAB members bring a wide range of backgrounds and real-world experience to the table; these can be applied to situations faced by the team. The IAB members can also act as mentors to students in specific areas. In addition to their expertise and advice, IAB members can provide a wealth of other resources such as networking contacts, sponsorship, employment/volunteer experiences, access to facilities or equipment to name a few. |
| Impact | Industrial Advisory Board Meeting with Science Meeting was held in October 2015 with 33 delegates. The WAFT Scientific Meeting was held in October 2016 with 55 delegates from the academic and industrial partners. The number of industrial partner companies increased from 8 to 17 over a year, and 15 industrial partner representatives attended the WAFT Industrial Advisory Board Meeting on 21 October 2016. The number of industrial partner increased to 20 in 2017. The WAFT Annual Meeting showcased 10 academic talks and 3 presentations from Industrial Partners: BASF, Oxford Instruments (Asylum Research), Fraunhofer FEPP and closed with a poster session. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | WAFT Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | Oxford Photovoltaics |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The WAFT Research Team works in four research strands contributing to experimental research in metrology for process control and waste reduction, developing the flexible and functional components integration, focusing on modelling and reliability and scale-up via Roll-to-Roll process development. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The WAFT IAB's purpose is to strengthen the WAFT research project by advising, assisting, supporting and advocating on the formulation of goals, objectives, priorities and plans for this exploratory programme and research. The WAFT IAB has no legislative, administrative or programmatic authority and is advisory only. Members are volunteers who share expert knowledge of the research or product development tasks and competency requirements for specific research outputs. The role of the Industry Advisory Board is to facilitate the exchange of ideas between the board members, the academic staff and the students in the WAFT Project. The WAFT IAB members bring a wide range of backgrounds and real-world experience to the table; these can be applied to situations faced by the team. The IAB members can also act as mentors to students in specific areas. In addition to their expertise and advice, IAB members can provide a wealth of other resources such as networking contacts, sponsorship, employment/volunteer experiences, access to facilities or equipment to name a few. |
| Impact | Industrial Advisory Board Meeting with Science Meeting was held in October 2015 with 33 delegates. The WAFT Scientific Meeting was held in October 2016 with 55 delegates from the academic and industrial partners. The number of industrial partner companies increased from 8 to 17 over a year, and 15 industrial partner representatives attended the WAFT Industrial Advisory Board Meeting on 21 October 2016. The number of industrial partner increased to 20 in 2017. The WAFT Annual Meeting showcased 10 academic talks and 3 presentations from Industrial Partners: BASF, Oxford Instruments (Asylum Research), Fraunhofer FEPP and closed with a poster session. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | WAFT Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | Plasma App Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The WAFT Research Team works in four research strands contributing to experimental research in metrology for process control and waste reduction, developing the flexible and functional components integration, focusing on modelling and reliability and scale-up via Roll-to-Roll process development. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The WAFT IAB's purpose is to strengthen the WAFT research project by advising, assisting, supporting and advocating on the formulation of goals, objectives, priorities and plans for this exploratory programme and research. The WAFT IAB has no legislative, administrative or programmatic authority and is advisory only. Members are volunteers who share expert knowledge of the research or product development tasks and competency requirements for specific research outputs. The role of the Industry Advisory Board is to facilitate the exchange of ideas between the board members, the academic staff and the students in the WAFT Project. The WAFT IAB members bring a wide range of backgrounds and real-world experience to the table; these can be applied to situations faced by the team. The IAB members can also act as mentors to students in specific areas. In addition to their expertise and advice, IAB members can provide a wealth of other resources such as networking contacts, sponsorship, employment/volunteer experiences, access to facilities or equipment to name a few. |
| Impact | Industrial Advisory Board Meeting with Science Meeting was held in October 2015 with 33 delegates. The WAFT Scientific Meeting was held in October 2016 with 55 delegates from the academic and industrial partners. The number of industrial partner companies increased from 8 to 17 over a year, and 15 industrial partner representatives attended the WAFT Industrial Advisory Board Meeting on 21 October 2016. The number of industrial partner increased to 20 in 2017. The WAFT Annual Meeting showcased 10 academic talks and 3 presentations from Industrial Partners: BASF, Oxford Instruments (Asylum Research), Fraunhofer FEPP and closed with a poster session. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | WAFT Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | Pragmatic Printing Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The WAFT Research Team works in four research strands contributing to experimental research in metrology for process control and waste reduction, developing the flexible and functional components integration, focusing on modelling and reliability and scale-up via Roll-to-Roll process development. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The WAFT IAB's purpose is to strengthen the WAFT research project by advising, assisting, supporting and advocating on the formulation of goals, objectives, priorities and plans for this exploratory programme and research. The WAFT IAB has no legislative, administrative or programmatic authority and is advisory only. Members are volunteers who share expert knowledge of the research or product development tasks and competency requirements for specific research outputs. The role of the Industry Advisory Board is to facilitate the exchange of ideas between the board members, the academic staff and the students in the WAFT Project. The WAFT IAB members bring a wide range of backgrounds and real-world experience to the table; these can be applied to situations faced by the team. The IAB members can also act as mentors to students in specific areas. In addition to their expertise and advice, IAB members can provide a wealth of other resources such as networking contacts, sponsorship, employment/volunteer experiences, access to facilities or equipment to name a few. |
| Impact | Industrial Advisory Board Meeting with Science Meeting was held in October 2015 with 33 delegates. The WAFT Scientific Meeting was held in October 2016 with 55 delegates from the academic and industrial partners. The number of industrial partner companies increased from 8 to 17 over a year, and 15 industrial partner representatives attended the WAFT Industrial Advisory Board Meeting on 21 October 2016. The number of industrial partner increased to 20 in 2017. The WAFT Annual Meeting showcased 10 academic talks and 3 presentations from Industrial Partners: BASF, Oxford Instruments (Asylum Research), Fraunhofer FEPP and closed with a poster session. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | WAFT Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | SONY |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The WAFT Research Team works in four research strands contributing to experimental research in metrology for process control and waste reduction, developing the flexible and functional components integration, focusing on modelling and reliability and scale-up via Roll-to-Roll process development. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The WAFT IAB's purpose is to strengthen the WAFT research project by advising, assisting, supporting and advocating on the formulation of goals, objectives, priorities and plans for this exploratory programme and research. The WAFT IAB has no legislative, administrative or programmatic authority and is advisory only. Members are volunteers who share expert knowledge of the research or product development tasks and competency requirements for specific research outputs. The role of the Industry Advisory Board is to facilitate the exchange of ideas between the board members, the academic staff and the students in the WAFT Project. The WAFT IAB members bring a wide range of backgrounds and real-world experience to the table; these can be applied to situations faced by the team. The IAB members can also act as mentors to students in specific areas. In addition to their expertise and advice, IAB members can provide a wealth of other resources such as networking contacts, sponsorship, employment/volunteer experiences, access to facilities or equipment to name a few. |
| Impact | Industrial Advisory Board Meeting with Science Meeting was held in October 2015 with 33 delegates. The WAFT Scientific Meeting was held in October 2016 with 55 delegates from the academic and industrial partners. The number of industrial partner companies increased from 8 to 17 over a year, and 15 industrial partner representatives attended the WAFT Industrial Advisory Board Meeting on 21 October 2016. The number of industrial partner increased to 20 in 2017. The WAFT Annual Meeting showcased 10 academic talks and 3 presentations from Industrial Partners: BASF, Oxford Instruments (Asylum Research), Fraunhofer FEPP and closed with a poster session. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | WAFT Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The WAFT Research Team works in four research strands contributing to experimental research in metrology for process control and waste reduction, developing the flexible and functional components integration, focusing on modelling and reliability and scale-up via Roll-to-Roll process development. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The WAFT IAB's purpose is to strengthen the WAFT research project by advising, assisting, supporting and advocating on the formulation of goals, objectives, priorities and plans for this exploratory programme and research. The WAFT IAB has no legislative, administrative or programmatic authority and is advisory only. Members are volunteers who share expert knowledge of the research or product development tasks and competency requirements for specific research outputs. The role of the Industry Advisory Board is to facilitate the exchange of ideas between the board members, the academic staff and the students in the WAFT Project. The WAFT IAB members bring a wide range of backgrounds and real-world experience to the table; these can be applied to situations faced by the team. The IAB members can also act as mentors to students in specific areas. In addition to their expertise and advice, IAB members can provide a wealth of other resources such as networking contacts, sponsorship, employment/volunteer experiences, access to facilities or equipment to name a few. |
| Impact | Industrial Advisory Board Meeting with Science Meeting was held in October 2015 with 33 delegates. The WAFT Scientific Meeting was held in October 2016 with 55 delegates from the academic and industrial partners. The number of industrial partner companies increased from 8 to 17 over a year, and 15 industrial partner representatives attended the WAFT Industrial Advisory Board Meeting on 21 October 2016. The number of industrial partner increased to 20 in 2017. The WAFT Annual Meeting showcased 10 academic talks and 3 presentations from Industrial Partners: BASF, Oxford Instruments (Asylum Research), Fraunhofer FEPP and closed with a poster session. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | WAFT Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The WAFT Research Team works in four research strands contributing to experimental research in metrology for process control and waste reduction, developing the flexible and functional components integration, focusing on modelling and reliability and scale-up via Roll-to-Roll process development. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The WAFT IAB's purpose is to strengthen the WAFT research project by advising, assisting, supporting and advocating on the formulation of goals, objectives, priorities and plans for this exploratory programme and research. The WAFT IAB has no legislative, administrative or programmatic authority and is advisory only. Members are volunteers who share expert knowledge of the research or product development tasks and competency requirements for specific research outputs. The role of the Industry Advisory Board is to facilitate the exchange of ideas between the board members, the academic staff and the students in the WAFT Project. The WAFT IAB members bring a wide range of backgrounds and real-world experience to the table; these can be applied to situations faced by the team. The IAB members can also act as mentors to students in specific areas. In addition to their expertise and advice, IAB members can provide a wealth of other resources such as networking contacts, sponsorship, employment/volunteer experiences, access to facilities or equipment to name a few. |
| Impact | Industrial Advisory Board Meeting with Science Meeting was held in October 2015 with 33 delegates. The WAFT Scientific Meeting was held in October 2016 with 55 delegates from the academic and industrial partners. The number of industrial partner companies increased from 8 to 17 over a year, and 15 industrial partner representatives attended the WAFT Industrial Advisory Board Meeting on 21 October 2016. The number of industrial partner increased to 20 in 2017. The WAFT Annual Meeting showcased 10 academic talks and 3 presentations from Industrial Partners: BASF, Oxford Instruments (Asylum Research), Fraunhofer FEPP and closed with a poster session. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | WAFT Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | University of Münster |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The WAFT Research Team works in four research strands contributing to experimental research in metrology for process control and waste reduction, developing the flexible and functional components integration, focusing on modelling and reliability and scale-up via Roll-to-Roll process development. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The WAFT IAB's purpose is to strengthen the WAFT research project by advising, assisting, supporting and advocating on the formulation of goals, objectives, priorities and plans for this exploratory programme and research. The WAFT IAB has no legislative, administrative or programmatic authority and is advisory only. Members are volunteers who share expert knowledge of the research or product development tasks and competency requirements for specific research outputs. The role of the Industry Advisory Board is to facilitate the exchange of ideas between the board members, the academic staff and the students in the WAFT Project. The WAFT IAB members bring a wide range of backgrounds and real-world experience to the table; these can be applied to situations faced by the team. The IAB members can also act as mentors to students in specific areas. In addition to their expertise and advice, IAB members can provide a wealth of other resources such as networking contacts, sponsorship, employment/volunteer experiences, access to facilities or equipment to name a few. |
| Impact | Industrial Advisory Board Meeting with Science Meeting was held in October 2015 with 33 delegates. The WAFT Scientific Meeting was held in October 2016 with 55 delegates from the academic and industrial partners. The number of industrial partner companies increased from 8 to 17 over a year, and 15 industrial partner representatives attended the WAFT Industrial Advisory Board Meeting on 21 October 2016. The number of industrial partner increased to 20 in 2017. The WAFT Annual Meeting showcased 10 academic talks and 3 presentations from Industrial Partners: BASF, Oxford Instruments (Asylum Research), Fraunhofer FEPP and closed with a poster session. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | WAFT Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | University of Pennsylvania |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The WAFT Research Team works in four research strands contributing to experimental research in metrology for process control and waste reduction, developing the flexible and functional components integration, focusing on modelling and reliability and scale-up via Roll-to-Roll process development. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The WAFT IAB's purpose is to strengthen the WAFT research project by advising, assisting, supporting and advocating on the formulation of goals, objectives, priorities and plans for this exploratory programme and research. The WAFT IAB has no legislative, administrative or programmatic authority and is advisory only. Members are volunteers who share expert knowledge of the research or product development tasks and competency requirements for specific research outputs. The role of the Industry Advisory Board is to facilitate the exchange of ideas between the board members, the academic staff and the students in the WAFT Project. The WAFT IAB members bring a wide range of backgrounds and real-world experience to the table; these can be applied to situations faced by the team. The IAB members can also act as mentors to students in specific areas. In addition to their expertise and advice, IAB members can provide a wealth of other resources such as networking contacts, sponsorship, employment/volunteer experiences, access to facilities or equipment to name a few. |
| Impact | Industrial Advisory Board Meeting with Science Meeting was held in October 2015 with 33 delegates. The WAFT Scientific Meeting was held in October 2016 with 55 delegates from the academic and industrial partners. The number of industrial partner companies increased from 8 to 17 over a year, and 15 industrial partner representatives attended the WAFT Industrial Advisory Board Meeting on 21 October 2016. The number of industrial partner increased to 20 in 2017. The WAFT Annual Meeting showcased 10 academic talks and 3 presentations from Industrial Partners: BASF, Oxford Instruments (Asylum Research), Fraunhofer FEPP and closed with a poster session. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Title | DISPLAY |
| Description | A display is described which comprisesa plurality of pixels (12), wherein each pixel (12) comprises a plasmonic resonator (26) including first and second metallic material elements (16, 22) and incorporatinga layer (18) of a phase change material, the plasmonic resonator (26) being arranged such that in one material state of the phase change material (18) the electric field coupling between the second metallic material element (22) and the phase change material layer (18) is strong and so strong absorption of selected wavelengths of the incident light occurs, whereas in another state of the phase change material (18) the electric field coupling between the metallic material elements (16, 22) and the phase change material layer (18), and between the first and second metallic material elements (16, 22) is weak and so re-radiation of incident light occurs, the pixel (12) being of high reflectance. |
| IP Reference | WO2019038559 |
| Protection | Patent application published |
| Year Protection Granted | 2019 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | None so far |
| Title | H Bhaskaran 1509992.2 |
| Description | Patent Application Status: File, Type: Priority. Application Date: 9 June 2015. |
| IP Reference | GB1509992.2 |
| Protection | Patent application published |
| Year Protection Granted | 2015 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | No impact yet. |
| Title | H Bhaskaran 1512914.1 |
| Description | Patent Application Status: File, Type: Priority. Application Date: 22 July 2015. |
| IP Reference | GB1512914.1 |
| Protection | Patent application published |
| Year Protection Granted | 2015 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | No impact yet. |
| Title | H Bhaskaran 1516579.8 |
| Description | Patent Application Status: File, Type: Priority. Application Date: 18 Sept 2015 |
| IP Reference | GB1516579.8 |
| Protection | Patent application published |
| Year Protection Granted | 2015 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | No impact yet. |
| Title | H Bhaskaran 1518371.8 |
| Description | Patent Application Status: File, Type: Priority. Application Date: 16 Oct 2015. |
| IP Reference | GB1518371.8 |
| Protection | Patent application published |
| Year Protection Granted | 2015 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | No impact yet. |
| Title | PHASE CHANGE SWITCHING |
| Description | A device (200) comprising: a PCM region (213), a first electrode (211), a second electrode (212), and an insulating region (215) disposed between the PCM region (213) and the first electrode (211) to prevent direct electrical contact between the first electrode (211) and PCM region (213), wherein a capacitor structure is formed by the first electrode (211), second electrode (212), PCM region (213) and insulating region (215). A controller is disclosed, configured to: control the phase of the PCM region (213) by applying an alternating voltage across the capacitor structure so as to at least partially change the phase of the PCM region (213) by causing an AC current to flow through the PCM region (213); and/or read the state of the PCM region (213) by applying an alternating voltage across the capacitor structure so as to detect the phase of the PCM region (213) from the impedance of the capacitor structure. |
| IP Reference | WO2018224807 |
| Protection | Patent application published |
| Year Protection Granted | 2018 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | The development of this patent has provided a better understanding of large area switching of phase-change materials for applications requiring electrical control over bi-stable optical devices. |
| Title | PRINT HEAD |
| Description | A print head for use in a flexographic process, the print head comprising a flat surface having a first portion with a first surface energy and a second portion with a second surface energy that is different from the first surface energy. |
| IP Reference | WO2021069868 |
| Protection | Patent application published |
| Year Protection Granted | 2021 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | Further development of IP |
| Title | Thermoelectric generator device |
| Description | Multiple layered thermoelectric generator for flexible devices |
| IP Reference | 2101922.9 |
| Protection | Patent application published |
| Year Protection Granted | 2021 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | Follow-on project |
| Title | Tuneable Optical Coatings |
| Description | A new concept for tuneable optical coatings based on lossless phase change materials that show strong coupling between their structural and optical properties. |
| IP Reference | United Kingdom Patent Application No. 1908145.4 |
| Protection | Patent application published |
| Year Protection Granted | 2019 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | Nothing yet. |
| Title | Group Code on Github |
| Description | Code, procedures and designs available online, this webpage is continuously updated and as such the outcome date is always moved to the most recent year. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | research and open science community |
| URL | https://github.com/orgs/AFMD/dashboard |
| Company Name | Bodle Technologies |
| Description | Bodle Technologies is developing a type of smart material technology that can be used in windows to control how much light enters a room and in media displays to allow them to be seen in bright sunlight. |
| Year Established | 2015 |
| Impact | Bodle's core technology is about the creation and manipulation of colour that is reflected off a surface by changing the refractive index of ultra-thin functional layers. The technology is completely revolutionary, as it can achieve all of the following: • Extremely high resolution, with pixel sizes of sub-100 nm already demonstrated (compared to several micrometers for the best current technology). • Capable of very deep colour hues matching and even exceeding the range of colours possible by the latest technologies in displays • Can be clearly viewed in bright lighting conditions • Eye fatigue minimal as displays similar to paper • Very low power similar to electrochromic displays • Extremely high speed switching capable of video rendition in reflective mode, and even holographic displays possible as switching speeds are much lower than microseconds. |
| Website | http://www.bodletechnologies.com |
| Description | 12th International Workshop on Materials Behaviour at the Micro and nano Scale, China |
| 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 | Faciliated discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | 2022 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit, May 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Presentation: On-Demand Modifications of Thin-Film Transistors for Label-Free Biosensing Applications. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | 2nd Workshop on Neuromorphic Photonics and Applications |
| 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 | This is the workshop that many professionals from academia and industry attend and discuss the state-of-the-art neuromorphic computing and photonic nanotechnology. This is the international workshop, so it can initiate a number of collaborative research work afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://neoterich2020.eu/2023/03/01/2nd-workshop-on-neuromorphic-photonics-and-applications/ |
| Description | 6th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Electronics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Invited Speaker: Photonic Computing - Devices for future systems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ieee-icee.org/ |
| Description | 6th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Electronics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Design for Robust and Efficient Neuromorphic Photonic Accelerator (Oral) Samarth Aggarwal, Bowei Dong, June Sang Lee and Mengyun Wang (University of Oxford, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Andrew Katumba (Gent University & IMEC, Belgium); Peter Bienstman (Gent University - imec, Belgium); Harish Bhaskaran (Oxford University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ieee-icee.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Final-Detailed-IEEE-ICEE-Program-and-Abstract-Bookl... |
| Description | A talk or presentation - A talk or presentation - International Workshop of Physical Computing, Italy - Poster Presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Samarth Aggarwal, Yuhan He, Iman Esmaeil Zadeh, Harish Bhaskaran* Reconfigurable Silicon Carbide photonics using Phase change materials |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | A talk or presentation - International Workshop of Physical Computing, Italy - Poster Presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Utku Emre Ali, Gaurav Modi, Ritesh Agarwal and Harish Bhaskaran* Phase Change Nanowires as Tunable NEMS Sparked discussion and questions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Article Chemistry World 06/16 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Mentioning of research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.chemistryworld.com/feature/the-next-generation/1010134.article |
| Description | Artist in Residence Meadhbh O'Connor's Insight Blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On Mark Making: An artist's Impression from insitde Oxford's Bhaskaran Lab |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/features/mark-making-artist-s-impression-inside-oxford-s-bhaskaran-lab?fbc... |
| Description | Cambridge Graphene CDT Adv. Tech Lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A high profile talk discussing the fundamentals of the research condcuted in the Advanced Nanoscale Engineering Group for the past decade - for those interested in the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Trainng in Graphene Technology. Sparked questions and discussions afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.graphene.cam.ac.uk/files/ea2022.pdf |
| Description | Co-organisation of Session at World Chemistry Congress, Paris, 07/19 |
| 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 | Co-organiser of session " Toward multi-terawatt clean photovoltaic energy conversion - grand chemical challenges" at the IUPAC World Chemistry Congress |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.iupac2019.org/ |
| Description | Collaboration agreement with Digital University Kerala Oxford - Kerala Agreement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Press release: On 11 October 2022 the University of Oxford entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Kerala University of Digital Sciences, Innovation and Technology (DUK), to advance research and academic exchange in the fields of nanotechnology, AI, sustainability, digital health and innovation. Professor Harish Bhaskaran has been leading this initiative, and can be seen to the far left hand side of the photograph showing representatives* from the two institutions displaying the signed copies of the MoU. You can read more about this exciting development on the MPLS website: 'Oxford to collaborate with Digital University Kerala on nanotechnology, AI, sustainability, digital health, and innovation'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.mpls.ox.ac.uk/latest/news/university-of-oxford-to-collaborate-with-digital-university-ke... |
| Description | Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics 03/17 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Labtour to the participants of the Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/AFMDGroup/status/845663190503604232 |
| Description | Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | M. Wang† , J. S. Lee† , S. Aggarwal, N. Farmakidis, Y. He, T. Cheng and H. Bhaskaran* Reconfigurable metasurfaces based on low-loss phase change material Sb2Se3, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, USA, 7-12 May 2022. Oral presentation (online). Spaked discussion and questions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Gave a talk online in CLEO conference with over 50 participants from industry and academia. Ultrafast Switching in Integrated Photonics using Antimony Questions and discussions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9891445 |
| Description | Discovery of new nanowire assembly process could enable more powerful computer chips |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Researchers from Oxford University's Department of Materials have developed a technique to precisely manipulate and place nanowires with sub-micron accuracy. This discovery could accelerate the development of even smaller and more powerful computer chips. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2022-09-29-discovery-new-nanowire-assembly-process-could-enable-more-power... |
| Description | ECOC 2020 - Virtual Workshop: Functional materials enable superior tensor cores to back propagation free photonic computing hardware |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion from industry/academic experts to spark discussion around the topic of Pathway to Bring Photonics in High Performance Computing: from Materials to Applications |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://ecoco2020.org/index.php/programme/sunday-workshops |
| Description | EPCOS 2022 Poster Presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Poster presentation at EPCOS conference , presented a paper title Reconfigurable Silicon Carbide Photonics using Phase Change Materials |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | EPCOS 2022 Poster Presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Yuhan He, Nikolaos Farmakidis, Samarth Aggarwal, June Sang Lee, Mengyun Wang, Harish Bhaskaran1* Ultra-Efficient Plasmonic Phase-Change Devices by Improved Mode Coupling, E\PCOS 2022, Oxford, UK, 13 - 19 September 2022. Poster presentation. Sparked discussion and questioning |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | EPCOS 2022 Presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | "Polarization-selective tunability in phase-change nanowires", June Sang Lee, Nikolaos Farmakidis, C David Wright, and Harish Bhaskaran, EPCOS 2022, 18-21st September 2022, Oxford, UK (Oral presentation) Sparked discussion and questions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | ESA Science Coffee - Invited Talk to the Advanced Concepts Team |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Space Exploration needs new nanoengineering concepts. Followed by Q&A and discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.esa.int/gsp/ACT/coffee/2021-12-10-%20Harish%20Bhaskaran/ |
| Description | E\PCOS 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited speaker, hosting the 2020 E\PCOS Conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://epcos2019.cea.leti.fr/Documents/Final%20program%20EPCOS2019.pdf |
| Description | E\PCOS 2022, Oxford |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | M. Wang, J. S. Lee, S. Aggarwal, N. Farmakidis, Y. He, T. Cheng and H. Bhaskaran* Reconfigurable metasurfaces using lossless phase-change material, E\PCOS 2022, Oxford, UK, 13 - 19 September 2022. Oral presentation. Sparked discussion and questions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Engagement with Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi - Interaction with Indian-Origin Academics and Researchers - 2 October 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of research and engagement routes to the Prime Minister of India during a presentation to him of research of Academics and Researchers from around the UK. Regarding the importance of India with the development of research. Video published on You Tube - Harish Bhaskaran's presentation is from 1 hr 22mins into the video. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFVBe0IkaLo |
| Description | FunComp Review Meetings x 3: Oxford, Belgium & Zurich (latter web based) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion of current outcomes and progress, sharing of ideas for future development and direction |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| Description | Future Directions of Chalcogenides Research Workshop |
| 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 | Facilitated discussions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Guest Lecture at EPFL: In-Memory Computing - An Optical Perspective |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | In-Memory Computing - An Optical Perspective - Q&A Session afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Harish Bhaskaran: Reflecting on Displays - the future of colour - TEDxEton talk, video on youtube.com |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | How phase change materials and the development of nano-scale components will change the nature of colour displays. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3oBBMxX-u8 |
| Description | Hosted Conversations in Photonics Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Hosted the Conversations in Photonics Workshop, with invited speakers the purpose of the workshop was to spark questions and debate. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Hosted the online European Phase-Change & Ovonic Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Hosted the online conference. Over 200 attendees,13 invited speakers, 24 oral presentations, 37 posters. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://epcos2021.materials.ox.ac.uk/ |
| Description | ICSE Poster Sameer 06/16 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Sameer's poster on "In situ monitoring of key thin film parameters of vacuum deposited organic photovoltaic devices" at the "7th International Conference on Spectroscopic Ellipsometry in Berlin" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | IEEE CASS Intelligence in Chips: Integrated Sensors and Memristive Computing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Invited Talk: In memory photonic computing - a new paradigm for accelerators. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.intelligentchip.org/?fbclid=IwAR2chzzecLi3o1-BZryEr43uXqid1IO54w1UhCxEr3aoSoT-fi3zNOy57B... |
| Description | IEEE Nano 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | "Polarization-selective electro-optical tunability in phase-change nanowires", June Sang Lee, Nikolaos Farmakidis, C David Wright, and Harish Bhaskaran, IEEE Nano, 4-8th July 2022, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (Oral presentation) Sparked questions and further discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://2022.ieeenano.org/ |
| Description | IOP Photon 2022 - Nottingham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Photonic non-von Neumann computing using functional materials for next generation AI hardware. Plenary Speaker. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.photon.org.uk/plenary-speakers |
| Description | In-memory signal processing and computing based on the integrated phase-change photonic platform Presented in SPIE Optics & photonics August 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | It is a research dissemination for the photonic society, and discussed with experts and postgraduates students with the similar research fields. It is also a dissemination to the public and industry for better understanding of our work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/11469/114690H/In-memory-signal-pro... |
| Description | Innolae Conference 20223 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Invited speaker: Novel nanomanufacturing processes for next-generation devices |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://innolae.org/invited-speakers |
| Description | Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon and nanophotonics (IPR) Symposium: Machine Learning with Photonic Systems II - presentation |
| 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 latest research to experts from both academia and industry, followed by discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | International Workshop of Physical Computing, Italy - Poster Presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | M. Wang, J. S. Lee, S. Aggarwal, N. Farmakidis, Y. He, T. Cheng and H. Bhaskaran* Reconfigurable metasurfaces using lossless phase-change materials Sparked discussion and questions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | International Workshop on Physical Computing, Italy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | International Workshop of Physical Computing, Erice, Italy, 29 October - 6 November 2022. Oral presentation. Cheng, Zengguang, Tara Milne, Patrick Salter, Judy S. Kim, Samuel Humphrey, Martin Booth, and Harish Bhaskaran. 2021. "Antimony Thin Films Demonstrate Programmable Optical Nonlinearity." Science Advances 7 (1). American Association for the Advancement of Science. doi:10.1126/sciadv.abd7097. Sparked discussion and questions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | International Workshop on Physical Computing, Italy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Reconfigurable nano-photonics using phase-change materials, Nikolaos Farmakidis, and Harish Bhaskaran Oral presentation, sparked discussion and questions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | International Workshop on Physical Computing, Italy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | In-memory photonic-electronic computing platform for convolutional processing - oral presentation. Sparked questions and discussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | International Workshop on Physical Computing, Italy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Attended as an invited speaker and took part in discusions and debates. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.phoenixd.uni-hannover.de/en/about/news/physical-computing-2022 |
| Description | International Workshop on Physical Computing, Italy - Poster |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Yuhan He, Nikolaos Farmakidis, Samarth Aggarwal, June Sang Lee, Mengyun Wang, Harish Bhaskaran1* Ultra-Efficient Plasmonic Phase-Change Devices by Improved Mode Coupling, International Workshop of Physical Computing, Erice, Italy, 29 October - 6 November 2022. Poster presentation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited Lecture at St Paul's Girls School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Inted lecture as part of the Friday Lecture Programme, requested following a previous Lecture given to the Science Society. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Invited Presentation CPE Symposium, London, 06/17 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited presentation at the Centre for Plastic Electronics Symposium 2017, London |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Invited Seminar ICCAS, CN, 08/2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | invited seminar |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Invited Seminar Moritz Riede, AMOLF, NL, 03/2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited Seminar at AMOLF in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and meeting with academics there |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Invited Seminar Moritz Riede, Abo Akademy University, FI, 06/2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited seminar |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Invited Seminar Moritz Riede, OSCAR Opening, CN, 11/2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited Seminar as part of the OSCAR opening |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Invited Seminar Moritz Riede, Tianjin University, CN, 03/2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited Seminar |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Invited Seminar: IIT Bombay - Photonics and neuromorphic computing 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Lab visit & talks by IITB faculty members & graduate students on photonics and neuromorphic computing, answered questions and had discussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Invited Talk Institute of Physics, Beijing, 03/19 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk at IOP |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited Talk at International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics - 2021 Summer School, IEEE Photonics Society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited Talk: Non-von Neumann photonic computing for machine learning and artificial intelligence, as part of the Reconfigurable Photonic Computing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Invited Talk: 2021 Intelligence in Chip: Tomorrow of Integrated Circuits (ICTIC) - IEEE CASS Seasonal School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of talk: Photonic Neural Networks, followed by questions and discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ic-tic.org/ |
| Description | Invited Talk: 2023 MRS Spring Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited Talk: Phase Change NEMS - A New Paradigm for Phase Change Materials in Nanomechanics Harish Bhaskaran; University of Oxford, United Kingdom Phase change materials have been widely used in optical discs, electronic memories and more recently in emerging optoelectronic applications such as displays and neuromorphic photonic computing. Yet, in spite of the widespread use of these materials, the change in their mechanical properties had not yet been exploited. In this talk, I shall present recent work on the use of phase change nanowires in mechanical tuning applications - both electronic and photonic, showing that in the unique nanowire configuration, these devices present extraordinary quality factors and tunability. References: [1] Utku E Ali et al, Nature communications 13 (1), 1-8 (2022) [2] Utku E Ali et al., Small 18 (38), 2201968 (2022) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013,2023 |
| URL | https://www.mrs.org/meetings-events/spring-meetings-exhibits/past-spring-meetings/2023-mrs-spring-me... |
| Description | Invited Talk: European Phase-Change and Ovonic Symposium (EPCOS) 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation title: Phase Change Tunable NEMS |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | http://epcos2023.artov.imm.cnr.it/programme |
| Description | Invited Talk: European Phase-Change and Ovonic Symposium (EPCOS) 2023 (Yuhan He) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Mixed-Mode Phase-Change Devices with Picojoule Switching Energy. Yuhan He |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | http://epcos2023.artov.imm.cnr.it/documents/epcos_program_2023.pdf |
| Description | Invited Talk: Microsoft Analog Optical Computing Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An invite-only workshop: As Moore's Law is reaching its limits, the potential benefits of large-scale artificial intelligence and optimization workloads to modern society could be undermined by their sustainability - economic and environmental - when using traditional computing technologies and architectures. This has sparked a growing interest in non-traditional compute technologies such as analog and optical computing. The purpose of this workshop is to gather experts in analog and optical hardware development and practitioners and researchers from various industries who are pioneering the use of AI and optimization workloads. The workshop aims to facilitate a dialogue between technology and application experts about the role of non-traditional computing hardware in industry, and by exchanging experiences, we hope to bridge the gap between technology trends and practical applications in the post-CMOS era. Presentation Title: Integrated photonic and optoelectronic computing concepts |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/event/analog-optical-computing-workshop/ |
| Description | Invited Talk: XXII International Workshop on Physics of Semiconductor Devices 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Title : Optoelectronics for AI hardware and neuromorphic processing Recent work on photonic neuromorphic computing and its interface with electronics. Using new techniques available to enable sub-wavelength light matter interactions, techniques to programme nanoscale memories electronically while reading them optically will also be discussed, setting the stage for next generation, high throughput in-memory computing paradigms. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://mems.iitm.ac.in/iwpsd2023/program |
| Description | Invited presentation at the 61 st London International Youth Science Forum (LIYSF), London, 07/19 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk at the LIYSF |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.liysf.org.uk/ |
| Description | Invited presentation, F-Pi14, Berlin, 06/19 |
| 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 | invited presentation F-Pi14 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited presentation, SPIE optics + photonics, San Diego, 08/19 |
| 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 | Invited presentation SPIE |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://spie.org/conferences-and-exhibitions/past-conferences-and-exhibitions/optics-and-photonics-2... |
| Description | Invited seminar ICCAS, Beijing, 04/19 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited seminar ICCAS |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited seminar Nano Center, Suzhou, 04/19 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited seminar at Nano Centre in Suzhou |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited seminar Peking University, Beijing, 04/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | invited presentation at Peking University |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited seminar at XJTLU, Suzhou, 03/19 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | invited talk at XJTLU |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited seminar, University of Bern, 06/19 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited seminar, Uni Bern |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | JSPS Presentation Josue 11/16 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Josue's presentation "In-situ X-ray and Optical Characterisation of Vacuum-Deposited Organic Semiconductors" at the JSPS event at the Japanese Embassy London |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Lighting up artificial neural networks |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | A team of international scientists have performed difficult machine learning computations using a nano-scale device, named an "optomemristor". The chalcogenide thin-film device uses both light and electrical signals to interact and emulate multi-factor biological computations of the mammalian brain while consuming very little energy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/950994 |
| Description | MEMRISYS 2022 Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Invited Talk - Optical Memristors and their Applications in photonic computing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.memrisys2022.com/ |
| Description | META 2022 Torremolinos - Spain |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Reconfigurable nano-photonics enabled by electrically and optically active phase-change materials, presentation of latest findings to postgrads, industry and academic peers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://metaconferences.org/META/index.php/META2022/index |
| Description | META 2022 Torremolinos - Spain |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk Reconfigurable nano-photonics enabled by electrically and optically active phase-change materials. Nikolaos Farmakidis, Harish Bhaskaran Oxford University (United Kingdom) Photonic circuits have the potential to transform the way we process information through data multiplexing and parallelisation of computational tasks. Yet, the ability to electrically program, reconfigure and store information in conventional dielectric photonics remains challenging. Here we explore hybrid structures combining electrically and optically active phase-change materials, with nanoplasmonic components which are designed to enhance light-matter interactions and confine optical fields to dimensions compatible with CMOS nanoelectronics. Sparked discussion and questions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | META Materials Inc Lunch & Learn March 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk: Switchable Surfaces, sparked questions and discussions relevant to the field of work for the business. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | MIT Colloquium Dec 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited Colloquium sparked discussions and questions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | MME 2019 Conference, Oxford |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hosted the well established European annual workshop on microtechnology. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | MRS Fall Meeting 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | "Polarization-selective tunability in hybrid phase-change nanowires", June Sang Lee, Nikolaos Farmakidis, C David Wright, and Harish Bhaskaran, 2022 MRS Fall meeting, 27th November - 2nd December 2022, Boston, Massachusetts (Oral presentation) Sparked discussion and questions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | MRS Fall Meeting Dec 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote speaker: Optoelectronic Applications of Phase Change Materials, faciliated discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.mrs.org/fall2019/activities-events/other/electronics-and-photonics-workshop |
| Description | Machine Learning Photonics, Italy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecturer: Interfacing optics and electronics on a chip. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://mlph2022.lakecomoschool.org/confirmed-lecturers/ |
| Description | Media Interview BBC World Service Radio: Digital Planet |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Following publication of paper: Plasmonic nanogap enhanced phase-change devices with dual electrical-optical functionality Nikolaos Farmakidis, Nathan Youngblood, Xuan Li, James Tan, Jacob L. Swett1, Zengguang Cheng, C. David Wright, Wolfram H. P. Pernice, Harish Bhaskaran published in Science Advances, 29 November 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Nature Publication: Research Highlight in response to press release |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Responded to request for information for a Research Highlight Article regarding paper Plasmonic nanogap enhanced phase change devices with dual electrical-optical functionality published in Science Advances, 29 November 2019. Nikolaos Farmakidis, Nathan Youngblood, Xuan Li, James Tan, Jacob L. Swett, Zengguang Cheng, C. David Wright, Wolfram H. P. Pernice, Harish Bhaskaran |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | OPIC 2021 ICNN Keynote Speaker: In-memory Photonic Computing Approaches to Photoinc Tensor Cores |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited Talk given at ICNN 2021, part of the Optics & phtoonics International Congress 2021. Virtual presentation which presented knowledge and invited discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | On-chip photonics synapse - Overview of attention for article published in Science Advances - 18 news stories from 18 outlets |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Photonic microchips will process information like the human brain (Digital Journal, 08 Oct 2017); On-Chip Photonic Synapse Mimics Neural Synapse (Photonics.com, 04 Oct 2017); Researchers Have Developed Microchips That Behave Like Brain Cells (True Viral News, 02 Oct 2017; Phase-change material makes first on-chip photonics synapse (Nanotechweb, 29 Sep 201); Brain-like photonic microchips developed (The Hindu Business Line, 29 Sep 2017); ?????? ??????? ?????????? ????? ????? ????????? ? ??????? ????????? ????????? (Vesti.ru, 29 Sep 201); Brain-like photonic microchips developed (The Financial Express (IND), 29 Sep 2017); Brain-like photonic microchips developed (Business Standard, 29 Sep 2017); "Brain-like" photonic microchips may lead to new generation of computing: research (China.org, 28 Sep 2017); Scientists Make a Crucial Step Towards Unlocking the "Holy Grail" of Computing (Azooptics.com, 28 Sep 2017); Microchip Concept That Mimics Brain Cells Could Change The Future Of Computers (International Business Times, 28 Sep 2017); Photonics takes a step towards creating brain-like photonics microchips (MWEE, 28 Sep 2017); Researchers Have Developed Microchips That Behave Like Brain Cells (Science Alert, 28 Sep 2017); Move Towards 'Holy Grail' of Computing by Creation of Brain-like Photonic Microchips (Science Newsline, 27 Sep 2017); Scientists move step towards "holy grail" of computing by creating brain-like photonic microchips (University of Exeter, 27 Sep 2017); Move towards 'holy grail' of computing by creation of brain-like photonics microchips (Long Room, 27 Sep 2017); Move towards 'holy grail' of computing by creation of brain-like photonics microchips (EurekAlert!, 27 Sep 2017); Move towards 'holy grail' of computing by creation of brain-like photonics microchips (Phys.org, 27 Sep 2017) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/9/e1700160 |
| Description | Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics (OMN) Summer School, Invited Talk: Non-von Neumann photonic computing for machine learning and artificial Intelligence |
| 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 | Invited speaker for the Reconfigurable Photonic Computing portion of the Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics (OMN) Summer School. Presentation of research, followed by Q&A and discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://omn2021.org/speakers/ |
| Description | Oral Paper presented at EPCOS 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Mimicking biphasic synapses on a photonic platform |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Oral Paper presented at EPCOS 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Demonstration of over 108 cycling endurance in the nonvolatile photonic memory cells |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Oral Paper presented at EPCOS 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Electrically Programmable Integrated Plasmonic Phase-Change Memories with Optoelectronic Readout |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Oral Presentation at CLEO Conference Laser Science to Photonic Applications |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ultra-Efficient Plasmonic Phase-Change Devices on SOI Platform. Yuhan He, Nikolaos Farmakidis, Samarth Aggarwal, June Sang Lee, Mengyun Wang, Wen Zhou, and Harish Bhaskaran Small footprints and low energy consumption are the long-seeking metrics for photonic computing. Here, we combine grating structures with plasmonic nanogap devices and demonstrate less than 4pJ optical switching energy with stable multilevel performance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| Description | Oral Presentation: SPIE APP 2023 (Guoce Yang) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Reconfigurable nonlocal metasurface based on phase change materials. Guoce Yang, Mengyun Wang, June Sang Lee, Nikolaos Farmakidis, Harish Bhaskaran Nonlocal metasurfaces, which have uniform geometric arrangements but respond to incident angles differently, are uniquely capable of processing images. Phase change materials are promising functional building blocks to make metasurfaces reconfigurable owing to the significant refractive index contrast between amorphous and crystalline states. This presentation shows a novel tunable nonlocal metasurface based on the lossless phase change material Sb2Se3. It demonstrates the integration of two on-demand switchable functions, bright field imaging and second-order spatial differential imaging, on a single device. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/PC12647/PC126470Y/Reconfigurable-n... |
| Description | Oral Presentation: SPIE Photonics West 2024 (Yi Zhang) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Bosonic control in integrated photonics. Yi Zhang, Nikolaos Farmakidis, June Sang Lee, Bowei Dong, Samarth Aggarwal, Yuhan He, Harish Bhaskaran Cascaded linear and non-linear operations form the basis for all integrated photonic applications ranging from routing to computations. Because of the weak interaction between photons, achieving substantial optical nonlinearities at low power remains challenging. In this work, we demonstrate a new photonic framework where signals carried in different wavelengths can be added and encoded in a new wavelength with low optical loss. Using this approach, we can realize highly nonlinear all-optical neurons operated fully in the near-infrared domain at low power. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://spie.org/photonics-west/presentation/Bosonic-control-in-integrated-photonics/PC12889-43?enab... |
| Description | Oral presentation MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit (June Sang Lee) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MRS meeting is the international conference in materials science, physics, chemistry and nanoscience which consists of various symposiums and tutorial. I have attended this conference to present my recent research in nanophotonics, and I have discussed with many experts and professionals for the state-of-the-art nanotechnology. On-Chip Wavelength-Selective and Non-Volatile Reconfigurability in a Single Photonic Element. June Sang Lee, Nikolaos Farmakidis, Samarth Aggarwal, Wen Zhou, Wolfram Pernice, Harish Bhaskaran The functionality of photonic circuits relies on their ability to process multiplexed information in wavelength, polarization and phase. While optical signals can carry such multidimensional information, independent modulation of multi-wavelength signals in a single carrier has been challenging. Here, we demonstrate independent and non-volatile modulation of wavelength-multiplexed optical signals within a single photonic element. Our chips rely on the formation of standing wave patterns in a microring resonator which can be individually addressed according to their mode number (i.e. wavelength). By combining this concept with phase-changing nanoantennas, we demonstrate for the first time non-volatile, wavelength-selective modulation. This allows realizing an on-chip, reconfigurable and multi-spectral filter operating within a single element. This novel approach provides a pathway for exploring additional degrees-of-freedom in tunable photonic networks and provides a compact photonic framework for optical storage, routing, and neuromorphic/inmemory computing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.mrs.org/docs/default-source/meetings-events/spring-meetings/2023/s23-program-final.pdf?s... |
| Description | Oral presentation at SPIE Photonic West 2024 (Yuhan He) |
| 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 by Yuhan He and the related abstract is published in the conference proceeding Electro-optical phase-change devices approaching single pico-joule switching. Yuhan He, Nikolaos Farmakidis, Samarth Aggarwal, June Sang Lee, Mengyun Wang, Bowei Dong, Yu Shu, Yi Zhang, Francesca Parmigiani, Harish Bhaskaran Electro-optical computing systems are promising for future energy-efficient computing, while scalable, dual electrical-optical functionality and low energy-consumption electrical-optical devices are not yet implemented on-chip. In this work, with a tailored design for better heat confinement, we implement scalable phase-change devices with dual electrical-optical functionality. They show ultralow programming energy for both electrical and optical switching in a pico-joule scale, which is orders lower than other integrated electro-optical phase change devices, multilevel switching until 20% contrast, good cyclability, and readout in both electrical and optical domains. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://spie.org/photonics-west/presentation/Electro-optical-phase-change-devices-approaching-single... |
| Description | Oxford Photonics Day 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | "Hybridized-Active-Dielectric (HAD) nanowires for polarization-selective memory", June Sang Lee, Nikolaos Farmakidis, C David Wright, and Harish Bhaskaran, Oxford Photonics Day 2022, 28th September 2022, Oxford, UK (Oral presentation) Sparked discussion and questions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Oxford Photonics Day 2022 Poster Presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Yuhan He, Nikolaos Farmakidis, Samarth Aggarwal, June Sang Lee, Mengyun Wang, Harish Bhaskaran1* Ultra-Efficient Plasmonic Phase-Change Devices by Improved Mode Coupling, Oxford Photonics Day, Oxford, UK, 28 September 2022. Poster presentation. Sparked discussion and questions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Oxford Photonics Day 2022 Poster Presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | M. Wang, J. S. Lee, S. Aggarwal, N. Farmakidis, Y. He, T. Cheng and H. Bhaskaran* Reconfigurable metasurfaces using lossless phase-change materials, Oxford Photonics Day, Oxford, UK, 28 September 2022. Poster presentation. Sparked discussion and questions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Oxford Photonics Day 2023 Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Nearly 100 students, researchers, and professors attended this workshop, where several professional presentations and many poster exhibitions were shown, it provided a platform for the communication among a broad range of photonics research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.photonics.ox.ac.uk/event/oxford-photonics-day-2023 |
| Description | Oxford Physics Industry Day Sameer 09/16 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presenting Poster at the Oxford Physics Industry Day |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/AFMDGroup/status/779428417334808576 |
| Description | Oxford Prospects Programme Summer School Lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Lecture and discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | PhD Workshop at Microsoft Research Cambridge |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation and discussions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Phemotronics School Presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Perspective of PCM applications: A company vision - virtual presentation at the PHEMTRONICS organised the 1st European School on Plasmonic and Phase Change Materials. Resulted in teaching, questions and discussions for students interested in the area of study. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Photonics Conference |
| 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 | Conversations in Oxford - Future of Integrated Photonics in Computing, attracted global keynote speakers, and stemmed the beginning of additional events to continue to the conversation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://mme2019.manucodiata.org/index.php/future-of-photonic-computing |
| Description | Plenary Speaker: International Conference Neuromorphic, Natural and physical 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Plenary Presentation title: Higher-dimensional processing using a photonic tensor core with continuous-time data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://nnpc-conference.com/ |
| Description | Poster Presentation at EPCOS 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Dynamic modulation of low-loss phase change materials on photonic waveguides |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Poster presentation at MRS Fall 2023 Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Poster presented by Maxine Ong: Additive manufacturing in Flexible Photonics. Maxine Ong, yu Shu, Utku E. Ali, Max Jenkins, Peter G. Bruce, Harish Bhaskaran Research exposure to people of similar field |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.mrs.org/meetings-events/fall-meetings-exhibits/2023-mrs-fall-meeting |
| Description | Presentation Moritz Riede, F-Pi 13, Hongkong, 06/17 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Contributed presentation at the 13th International Symposium on Pi-conjugated systems |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presentation/Seminar: Thales Group, Paris, |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Title: Photonics using functional materials for computing Seminar Abstract: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence would be possible without the fantastic advances in electronics, but surprisingly, new techniques and architectures for hardware engineering of such devices has only recently become an important topic. In this talk, I shall talk about how both device concepts and new materials can bring about a step change in this field. Photonics and Optoelectronics will become mainstream in the next few years, and I hope to convince you that whatever route these technologies take, a class of materials known as phase change materials will play a key role in their commercialization. I shall give an overview of these with a view towards their near-term applications in displays, and their medium-to-long-term potential in integrated photonic memories to photonic machine-learning hardware components, with a few of our recent results in this area. To encourage discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Press Release announcing Phoenics Project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Breaking Moore's Law: New Photonic computing project aims to speed up artificial intelligence computing power to petascale processing levels |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.mpls.ox.ac.uk/latest/news/breaking-moore2019s-law-new-photonic-computing-project-aims-to... |
| Description | Press Release: Nanoscale films of a pure metal exist in two stable optically distinguishable states |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Press release distributed to international press list regarding paper publication. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Press Release: Science Advances Article Announcement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Press interest resulting in radio and magazine interviews. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Press release announcing paper publish in ACS Photonics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | New adaptable smart window coating could help heat or cool a home and save energy Press release picked up in many news outlets including International, consumer, trade, science news sites and print. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2022-02-07-new-adaptable-smart-window-coating-could-help-heat-or-cool-home... |
| Description | Press release announcing paper published in Journal of Microsystems and nanoengineering |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Art of Calligraphy Inspires new nanomanufacturing technique |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.mpls.ox.ac.uk/latest/news/the-art-of-calligraphy-inspires-new-nanomanufacturing-techniqu... |
| Description | QuEEN Advisory Board Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Faciliated discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | RANK Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Lead Speaker: Photonic Neuromorphic computing using functional materials |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Rank Symposium Neuromorphic Photonics Feb 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Hybrid nanophotonic systems for in-memory computing at the interface of optics and electronics, Nikolaos Farmakidis, and Harish Bhaskaran Sparked discussion and questions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Rank Symposium Neuromorphic Photonics Feb 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | "Exploiting degrees of freedom in active nanophotonic devices", June Sang Lee, Nikolaos Farmakidis, C David Wright, and Harish Bhaskaran, Rank Symposium Neuromorphic Photonics, 6-9th February 2023, Grasmere, Cumbria, UK (Oral presentation) Sparked discussions and questions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Regional School Physicist of the Year Event Sameer 10/16 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Engagement with students during the Regional School Physicist of the Year Event hosted by the Physics Department in Oxford, judging of the posters presented by the students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/AFMDGroup/status/792047256631246848 |
| Description | Researchers develop the world's first ultra-fast photonic computing processor using polarisation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | New research uses multiple polarisation channels to carry out parallel processing - enhancing computing density by several orders over conventional electronic chips. In a paper published today in Science Advances, researchers at the University of Oxford have developed a method using the polarisation of light to maximise information storage density and computing performance using nanowires. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2022-06-16-researchers-develop-worlds-first-ultra-fast-photonic-computing-... |
| Description | Researchers develop world's first power-free frequency tuner using nanomaterials |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | In a paper published today in Nature Communications, researchers at the University of Oxford and the University of Pennsylvania have found a power-free and ultra-fast way of frequency tuning using functional nanowires. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2022-03-18-researchers-develop-worlds-first-power-free-frequency-tuner-usi... |
| Description | SPIE Active Photonic Platforms Optics & Photonics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Invited Talk: Integrated photonic components for computing and beyond. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | SPIE Conference Presentation, Baltimore April 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited presentation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/10982/109820P/Phase-change-photoni... |
| Description | SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco Jan/Feb 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | M. Wang, J. S. Lee, S. Aggarwal, N. Farmakidis, Y. He, T. Cheng and H. Bhaskaran* Tunable metasurfaces using ultralow-loss phase-change materials, SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, USA, 28 January - 2 February 2023. Oral presentation. Sparked discussion and questions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://spie.org/conferences-and-exhibitions/photonics-west/photonics-west-exhibition?SSO=1 |
| Description | Seeing the light: researchers develop new AI system using light to learn associatively |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Researchers at Oxford University's Department of Materials, working in collaboration with colleagues from Exeter and Munster have developed an on-chip optical processor capable of detecting similarities in datasets up to 1,000 times faster than conventional machine learning algorithms running on electronic processors. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2022-07-27-seeing-light-researchers-develop-new-ai-system-using-light-lear... |
| Description | St Paul's Girls School - Physics Society Talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Invited to give a presentation to the St Paul's Girl's School Physics Society. A Q&A panel session followed with great interest. "Thank you so much for taking the time to give us such an engaging talk on Wednesday! It was fascinating to hear about natural resonance frequencies, nanobridges, NEMs and more - using the guitar really helped us understand and visualise these concepts which take place on a nanoscale. Others told me how much they enjoyed learning about how crucial nanotechnology is in devices we use all the time, and your emphasis on the need for creativity in STEM was truly inspiring. I imagine how busy you must be and am very grateful that you were able to give us an insight into nanoengineering, a topic I'm sure will only increase in relevance! With many thanks from all of us at St Paul's," |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | The Future of Materials for Low Loss Electronics - HRS Roadmapping Workshops April 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Discussion and development of a roadmap that will be coming out in due course. ROYCE. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | UBC ECE Presentation 11/16 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | invited seminar "Organic Solar Cells: a disruptive Technology?" in the department "Electrical and Computer Engineering" at UBC |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Ultra SRD (Innovate UK) Progress Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Faciliated discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Uni Glasgow 03/16 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | invited seminar "Vacuum-processed Organic Solar Cells" at Uni Glasgow |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Visit MP Blackwood Ivan 12/16 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presenting a Poster during Symposium on 2nd December for Ms Nicola Blackwood MP |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/nicolablackwood/status/804781026765578241 |
| Description | WAFT Annual Meetings |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | We organized WAFT Annual meetings of industrial partners. More details at http://www.waftcollaboration.org |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2016,2017 |
| URL | http://www.waftcollaboration.org |
| Description | WAFT Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hosted the WAFT Annual Meeting which featured presentations and discussions to share, learn and foster new strategic partnerships. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://mme2019.manucodiata.org/index.php/wearable-flexible-tech |
| Description | Workshop Participation, GOSH, CN, 010/2018 |
| 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 | Gathering of Global Open Science Hardware (GOSH) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Yu Shu's Science Blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | New Water-based Approach to manufacturing Semiconductors |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/features?search=Yu+Shu&field_news_classification_tid=All |