EPSRC Fellowships in Manufacturing: Additive nanomanufacturing via probe-based pick-and-place nanoparticle assembly
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Oxford
Department Name: Materials
Abstract
The United Nations University in Tokyo estimates that an average 2g silicon chip costs 1.6kg of fossil fuel, 73g of chemicals and 32 kg of water. This is primarily because the nanomanufacturing technology used thus far is a layer-by-layer additive and subtractive process. Innovations thus far in nanomanufacturing have focused mostly on reducing feature sizes, which have now reached remarkably small dimensions; further scaling will not necessarily deliver increased performance. This opens up the possibility of updating existing electronics, as functionality rather than scaling (or the feature size node) is the main driver. Meanwhile in academia, considerable research into self-assembly of nanoscale particles has also been of interest. These techniques have been very important in understanding how to use chemistry to make particles arrange themselves in pre-determined patterns. In this fellowship, I intend to advance these developments towards a directed, additive nanomanufacturing technique using nanoscale probes to pick and place nanoparticles. The proposed research aims to have nanoscale robotic arms picking and placing nanoparticles to manufacture new devices with increased functionality, update nanoscale devices and to reduce the subtractive waste generated in nanomanufacturing.
Planned Impact
The global market for semiconductors is estimated to be worth $279 billion. In contrast to heavy manufacturing areas, a standard silicon fabrication plant costs in excess of $1.5 billion and has immense running costs in terms of the scientists required to operate them. This market is reliant on the use of these specialised and highly expensive fabrication plants. This drives up the cost of development and limits innovation in this sector. Furthermore, this industry has traditionally had the perception of being a 'clean' industry environmentally, and they have a large impetus to adapt technologies that are more environmentally friendly. The reduction in costs of water waste that is a result of the frequent cleansing requirements in a layer-by-layer subtractive manufacturing process will be an obvious impact of the proposed process.
Whist the manufacturing plants are predominantly in the US and Far East, the design and development of silicon chips is concentrated first in the US and then in Europe. In fact the South West of England is home to the biggest silicon design cluster outside of Silicon Valley. The region is home to over 200 design and development companies including major internationals such as ST Microelectronics, Broadcom, Nvidia and Infineon. Such a fundamental change in the manufacturing process has significant potential for impact improving their bottom line through cheaper processes. Smaller design houses could bring products to market far more quickly and cheaply should the process be validated, opening up the market to greater innovation and growth potential. Therefore, this cluster has a direct interest in the research project and in order to use their knowledge I intend to work with the Microelectronics iNet (support letter attached), a network dedicated to this cluster. With the additional involvement of global semiconductor firms, this will ensure the explicit involvement on the industry, as this is essential to establish impact.
The proposed project is ambitious, and has the potential for very high impact in an industry that the PI is very familiar with. In addition to the industrial advisory committee, impact activities including presenting research at conferences attended by the industry and government stakeholders such as the Materials Research Society meetings and IEEE Nanotechnology Conferences will be undertaken. Peer reviewed research articles in journals such as Nanotechnology, Nano Letters and IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology will also be submitted.
The University of Exeter's Business School is actively pursuing research on, and has practical commitments with regard to responsible innovation, in particular on how impact is achieved by scientific research and technological innovation stemming from emerging techno-scientific fields, such as nanotechnology. Dr Elena Simakova, Lecturer of Management and a Social Scientist at the University of Exeter, will thus dedicate 5% of her time to study the societal relevance of the research of this project. Given public concerns over the potential ill effects of nanomanufacturing using nanoparticles, such a cross-disciplinary approach to impact is timely and innovative.
Whist the manufacturing plants are predominantly in the US and Far East, the design and development of silicon chips is concentrated first in the US and then in Europe. In fact the South West of England is home to the biggest silicon design cluster outside of Silicon Valley. The region is home to over 200 design and development companies including major internationals such as ST Microelectronics, Broadcom, Nvidia and Infineon. Such a fundamental change in the manufacturing process has significant potential for impact improving their bottom line through cheaper processes. Smaller design houses could bring products to market far more quickly and cheaply should the process be validated, opening up the market to greater innovation and growth potential. Therefore, this cluster has a direct interest in the research project and in order to use their knowledge I intend to work with the Microelectronics iNet (support letter attached), a network dedicated to this cluster. With the additional involvement of global semiconductor firms, this will ensure the explicit involvement on the industry, as this is essential to establish impact.
The proposed project is ambitious, and has the potential for very high impact in an industry that the PI is very familiar with. In addition to the industrial advisory committee, impact activities including presenting research at conferences attended by the industry and government stakeholders such as the Materials Research Society meetings and IEEE Nanotechnology Conferences will be undertaken. Peer reviewed research articles in journals such as Nanotechnology, Nano Letters and IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology will also be submitted.
The University of Exeter's Business School is actively pursuing research on, and has practical commitments with regard to responsible innovation, in particular on how impact is achieved by scientific research and technological innovation stemming from emerging techno-scientific fields, such as nanotechnology. Dr Elena Simakova, Lecturer of Management and a Social Scientist at the University of Exeter, will thus dedicate 5% of her time to study the societal relevance of the research of this project. Given public concerns over the potential ill effects of nanomanufacturing using nanoparticles, such a cross-disciplinary approach to impact is timely and innovative.
Organisations
- University of Oxford (Fellow, Lead Research Organisation)
- Msolv Ltd (Collaboration)
- Fraunhofer Society (Collaboration)
- Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) (Collaboration)
- IBM (Collaboration)
- Thales Group (Collaboration)
- Heliatek GmbH (Collaboration)
- SONY (Collaboration)
- Sharp Laboratories of Europe (United Kingdom) (Collaboration)
- University of Pennsylvania (Collaboration)
- Pragmatic Printing Ltd (Collaboration)
- Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (Collaboration)
- Kurt J Lesker Company (Collaboration)
- BASF (Collaboration)
- Oxford Instruments Asylum Research (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON (Collaboration)
- iNets South West (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Bodle Technologies Ltd (Collaboration)
- Eckersley O'Callaghan (Collaboration)
- Oxford Photovoltaics (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EXETER (Collaboration)
- National Center for Scientific Research (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS) (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (Collaboration)
- Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) (Collaboration)
- Interuniversity Micro-Electronics Centre (Collaboration)
- CreaPhys GmbH (Collaboration)
- Plasma App Ltd (Collaboration)
- M-Solv (Collaboration)
- Oxford Instruments (United Kingdom) (Collaboration)
- University of Münster (Collaboration)
- Oxford Instruments (United States) (Project Partner)
- IBM Research - Zurich (Project Partner)
People |
ORCID iD |
Harish Bhaskaran (Principal Investigator / Fellow) |
Publications
Xu W
(2018)
Large Dendritic Monolayer MoS2 Grown by Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition for Electrocatalysis.
in ACS applied materials & interfaces
Wuttig M
(2017)
Phase-change materials for non-volatile photonic applications
in Nature Photonics
Wright C
(2019)
Integrated phase-change photonic devices and systems
in MRS Bulletin
Wang X
(2017)
Oligomeric aminoborane precursors for the chemical vapour deposition growth of few-layer hexagonal boron nitride
in CrystEngComm
Wang S
(2014)
Shape Evolution of Monolayer MoS 2 Crystals Grown by Chemical Vapor Deposition
in Chemistry of 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 | We have developed Kelvin Force Mircroscopy methods out of necessity as we existing methods were deemed insufficient for the purposes of verifying nanoparticle charges. Specifically, we were unable to replicate past experiments by other groups on charge-drive nanoparticle assembly and suspected that nanoparticle charge was the issue. However, this led to an entirely new enquiry into the exact mechanism that drives nanoparticle assembly and recently we have found evidence that the Janus interface drives such assembly. This in an entirely new finding for nanoparticles, and we are now in the process of verifying this new finding thoroughly. Having also carried out the most comprehensive survey of Additive Nanomanufacturing methods, we also have started a substantial program to build an Electrohydrodynamic Jet Printing set-up to print 300 nm or smaller lines to enable true additive nanomanufacturing. This is an ongoing grant that has resulted in influencing many tangential research areas, particularly in the areas of solid state displays, where our group's results have captured a lot of world-wide attention and have resulted in some IP generation and £137,000 in seed-funding to allow for commercialization. We have also so far developed an EHD based nano patterning system, as well as advanced modelling techniques to enable the prediction of nano particle movement in charged liquids. Going into more detail, our capability regarding EHD nanopatterning allows us to pattern self-assembled monolayer compounds on surfaces, thus enabling further functionalization -particularly with nanoparticles. This has implications for SERS devices, single particle implications and nanoplasmonic structure formation. We are also able to demonstrate local resist deposition to enable further manufacturing goals. Recently, we demonstrated that PMMA can be printed using EHD with dimensions of up to 700 nm. In order to achieve fully the objective of flexible electronic devices, a lot of attention has been given to developing conductive polymeric inks. Traditional conductive inks used have been metal based. Whilst these provide good performance, they fracture very easily and do not survive extended stress due to bending. Polymer inks are more mechanically able to withstand strain and bending. A good understanding of their physical properties is necessary for optimal printing using EHD. Fundamental study into how surfaces can be tailored to enhance the resolution of printed structures has been a major effort. Whilst lithography is not traditionally considered an additive technique, it can be exploited to enable better additive processing. By modifying a surface with a series of channels, or nanopores, we have demonstrated a drastic improvement in the resolution achievable with EHD, more so when self-assembled monolayers are utilizing in controlling the surface wetting.With the use of self-assembled monolayers, surface energy control is afforded (hydrophobicity). This is a well-documented process. However, the electrical properties of these monolayers is less well known. We have sought to understand the dielectric breakdown points of these monolayers in order to know the safe-operating limits of EHD without damaging the films, thus limiting the resolution achievable. We have observed that under extreme electric fields, such as those generated during EHD, the contact angle of water droplets changes drastically after exposure of the monolayers to the fields. In additional we have also developed processes for self-aligned graphene electrodes with nanometer dimensions, and showed (unexpectedly) that there is a scaling limit to these. This work was published and well received by the scientific community. In addition, we have also shown significant progress in metrology, work that has led on to elucidate mechanisms in subsequent work done the the EPSRC funded WAFT program. |
Exploitation Route | Our findings have been used to develop a spin-out company to develop displays (www.bodletechnologies.com); They have resulted in advanced metrology techniques that are now being used to help a range of 2D materials characterization at the nanoscale by other groups; Our findings on the scaling limits of nano gaps are helping guide predictions on how graphene electrodes can be scaled (i.e. there is a limit), but importantly sheds potential problems in molecular measurements using nanoscale graphene electrodes (i.e. are you measuring what you think you are?). These are important scientific results that can help guide future work in this area. We developed other tools including optoelectronic measurement tools which can be used by many other fields and we will actively investigate how to continue to improve on that new added capability which was a result of this grant. |
Sectors | Aerospace Defence and Marine Chemicals Creative Economy Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Electronics Energy Healthcare Manufacturing including Industrial Biotechology Culture Heritage Museums and Collections |
URL | http://nanoeng.materials.ox.ac.uk/Advanced_Nanoscale_Engineering_at_Oxford/Home.html |
Description | New program grant (WAFT). Spinouts in the long term out of this long-term support. |
First Year Of Impact | 2014 |
Sector | Chemicals,Communities and Social Services/Policy,Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Electronics,Energy,Healthcare,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology,Pharmaceuticals and Medical Biotechnology |
Impact Types | Cultural Societal Economic Policy & public services |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Wearable and Flexible Technologies (WAFT); MaFuMa grant |
Amount | £2,476,881 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/M015173/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 04/2015 |
End | 04/2020 |
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. |
Description | EPSRC Fellow in Manufacturing - Industrial Partners |
Organisation | IBM |
Department | IBM Research Zurich |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | My Advanced Nanoscale Engineering Group researches the self-assembly of nanoscale particles and develops techniques using chemistry to make particles arrange themselves in pre-determined patterns. In this fellowship, I intend to advance these developments towards a directed, additive nanomanufacturing technique using nanoscale probes to pick and place nanoparticles. The Industrial Partners show interest in the manufacture of new devices with increased functionality. |
Collaborator Contribution | The nanomanufacturing technology used thus far is a layer-by-layer additive and subtractive process. Innovations in nanomanufacturing have focused mostly on reducing feature sizes, which have now reached remarkably small dimensions; further scaling will not necessarily deliver increased performance. This opens up the possibility of updating existing electronics, as functionality rather than scaling (or the feature size node) is the main driver. These Industrial Partners conduct state-of-the-art research in this direction and support me with discussions, industrial and market insights. |
Impact | High standard journal papers and invited talks in prestigious conferences. |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | EPSRC Fellow in Manufacturing - Industrial Partners |
Organisation | Oxford Instruments Asylum Research |
Country | United States |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | My Advanced Nanoscale Engineering Group researches the self-assembly of nanoscale particles and develops techniques using chemistry to make particles arrange themselves in pre-determined patterns. In this fellowship, I intend to advance these developments towards a directed, additive nanomanufacturing technique using nanoscale probes to pick and place nanoparticles. The Industrial Partners show interest in the manufacture of new devices with increased functionality. |
Collaborator Contribution | The nanomanufacturing technology used thus far is a layer-by-layer additive and subtractive process. Innovations in nanomanufacturing have focused mostly on reducing feature sizes, which have now reached remarkably small dimensions; further scaling will not necessarily deliver increased performance. This opens up the possibility of updating existing electronics, as functionality rather than scaling (or the feature size node) is the main driver. These Industrial Partners conduct state-of-the-art research in this direction and support me with discussions, industrial and market insights. |
Impact | High standard journal papers and invited talks in prestigious conferences. |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | EPSRC Fellow in Manufacturing - Industrial Partners |
Organisation | iNets South West |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | My Advanced Nanoscale Engineering Group researches the self-assembly of nanoscale particles and develops techniques using chemistry to make particles arrange themselves in pre-determined patterns. In this fellowship, I intend to advance these developments towards a directed, additive nanomanufacturing technique using nanoscale probes to pick and place nanoparticles. The Industrial Partners show interest in the manufacture of new devices with increased functionality. |
Collaborator Contribution | The nanomanufacturing technology used thus far is a layer-by-layer additive and subtractive process. Innovations in nanomanufacturing have focused mostly on reducing feature sizes, which have now reached remarkably small dimensions; further scaling will not necessarily deliver increased performance. This opens up the possibility of updating existing electronics, as functionality rather than scaling (or the feature size node) is the main driver. These Industrial Partners conduct state-of-the-art research in this direction and support me with discussions, industrial and market insights. |
Impact | High standard journal papers and invited talks in prestigious conferences. |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | H Bhaskaran 1321429.1 |
Description | Patent Application Status: File. Type: Priority. Application Date: 4 Dec 2013. |
IP Reference | GB1321429.1 |
Protection | Patent application published |
Year Protection Granted | 2013 |
Licensed | No |
Impact | No impact yet. |
Title | H Bhaskaran 1322912.5 |
Description | Patent Application Status: File. Type: Priority. Application Date: 23 Dec 2013. |
IP Reference | GB1322912.5 |
Protection | Patent application published |
Year Protection Granted | 2013 |
Licensed | No |
Impact | No impact yet. |
Title | H Bhaskaran 1322917.4 |
Description | Patent Application Status: File. Type: Priority. Application Date: 23 Dec 2013. |
IP Reference | GB1322917.4 |
Protection | Patent application published |
Year Protection Granted | 2013 |
Licensed | No |
Impact | No impact yet. |
Title | H Bhaskaran 1417974.1 |
Description | Patent Application Status: File. Type: Priority. Application Date: 10 Oct 2014. |
IP Reference | GB1417974.1 |
Protection | Patent application published |
Year Protection Granted | 2014 |
Licensed | No |
Impact | No impact yet. |
Title | H Bhaskaran 1417976.6 |
Description | Patent Application Status: File. Type: Priority. Application Date: 10 Oct 2014 |
IP Reference | GB1417976.6 |
Protection | Patent application published |
Year Protection Granted | 2014 |
Licensed | No |
Impact | No impact yet. |
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 | 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. |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 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 |
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 European Phase-Change and Ovonics Symposium in Oxford. A three-day event with lectures and poster presentations including a dinner. Attended by over 200 both in person and virtually. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://epcos2020.web.ox.ac.uk/ |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 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 | 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 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 Colloquium UPenn |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | discussion and questions. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.physics.upenn.edu/events/2019/04/17/special-meammse-seminar-scalable-functional-phase-ch... |
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 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 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 | 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 | 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 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 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 | Electrically Programmable Integrated Plasmonic Phase-Change Memories with Optoelectronic Readout |
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 | 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 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 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/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 | "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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
Description | eFutures: Brain-inspired (neuromorphic) computing meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Workshop and discussion on the UK's current capabilities and future potential in energy efficient neuromorphic computing. Participation contributed to a report which currently being drafted. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://efutures2.com/events-2/past-events/ |