Sir Henry Royce Institute - Cambridge Equipment
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Cambridge
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
As a national institute, The Sir Henry Royce Institute (SHRI) for Advanced Materials, will provide the missing 'link' in the UK innovation chain allowing the iterative design of advanced materials for various applications, at speed and reasonable cost, providing a critical component to delivering on the government's economic strategy. The Institute will reduce the time-scales to translate discoveries to applications, provide strategic leadership together with training and career development in areas of particular need.
The aim is to establish the Sir Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials as an 'An international flagship for the accelerated discovery and development of new materials systems for the economic and societal benefit of the UK.'.
The SHRI will cover the invention and manufacture of Soft Materials; Functional Materials; Structural Engineering Materials and Energy Materials along with the necessary facilities to test and characterise them within a framework that emphasises the sustainable use of materials.
Initially there will be 9 core material areas led by founding partners.
Chemical Materials Discovery
Biomedical Materials and Devices
Materials for Energy Efficient ICT
Atoms to Devices
2D Materials Systems
Advanced Metals Processing
Materials systems for Demanding Environments
Energy Storage
Nuclear materials
The Cambridge spoke of the Sir Henry Royce Institute is based at the Maxwell Centre at the University of Cambridge. The Cambridge Sir Henry Royce Institute activity will focus on Materials for Energy Efficient ICT, which has three overarching themes:
1. Materials for Energy Efficient Energy Generation with a focus on new materials and devices that are able to power autonomous devices by harnessing energy from the environment.
2. Materials for Energy Efficient Energy Storage with a focus on significant improvements in the energy density, longevity, cost and compatibility of the various energy storage technologies required to power the next generation of ICT devices.
3. Materials for Energy Efficient Use with a focus on radical approaches to reduce power consumption in processing and memory, towards the theoretical limits that are many orders of magnitude below current silicon-based technology (and are approached in biological systems).
The aim is to establish the Sir Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials as an 'An international flagship for the accelerated discovery and development of new materials systems for the economic and societal benefit of the UK.'.
The SHRI will cover the invention and manufacture of Soft Materials; Functional Materials; Structural Engineering Materials and Energy Materials along with the necessary facilities to test and characterise them within a framework that emphasises the sustainable use of materials.
Initially there will be 9 core material areas led by founding partners.
Chemical Materials Discovery
Biomedical Materials and Devices
Materials for Energy Efficient ICT
Atoms to Devices
2D Materials Systems
Advanced Metals Processing
Materials systems for Demanding Environments
Energy Storage
Nuclear materials
The Cambridge spoke of the Sir Henry Royce Institute is based at the Maxwell Centre at the University of Cambridge. The Cambridge Sir Henry Royce Institute activity will focus on Materials for Energy Efficient ICT, which has three overarching themes:
1. Materials for Energy Efficient Energy Generation with a focus on new materials and devices that are able to power autonomous devices by harnessing energy from the environment.
2. Materials for Energy Efficient Energy Storage with a focus on significant improvements in the energy density, longevity, cost and compatibility of the various energy storage technologies required to power the next generation of ICT devices.
3. Materials for Energy Efficient Use with a focus on radical approaches to reduce power consumption in processing and memory, towards the theoretical limits that are many orders of magnitude below current silicon-based technology (and are approached in biological systems).
Planned Impact
The Pathways to Impact for this funding will be realised through the collective benefits management activity for the Sir Henry Royce Institute.
The Materials for ICT facilities hosted at the University of Cambridge but linking the other Royce nodes, will provide a focal point for industry to identify the breadth and strength of the Royce 'Materials for ICT' activity. It will be designed to provide interaction between all TRLs from 1 to 5. It will provide an 'elevator' through the TRLs with the aim of creating a high knowledge throughput to accelerate the historically slow penetration of new materials. It will allow the chance to cross-fertilise knowledge between users of the facility from many departments, the ability to showcase the research to industry and to other top international ICT institutes. There are excellent opportunities for complementarity in facilities and research programmes across all Royce nodes.
The Materials for ICT facilities hosted at the University of Cambridge but linking the other Royce nodes, will provide a focal point for industry to identify the breadth and strength of the Royce 'Materials for ICT' activity. It will be designed to provide interaction between all TRLs from 1 to 5. It will provide an 'elevator' through the TRLs with the aim of creating a high knowledge throughput to accelerate the historically slow penetration of new materials. It will allow the chance to cross-fertilise knowledge between users of the facility from many departments, the ability to showcase the research to industry and to other top international ICT institutes. There are excellent opportunities for complementarity in facilities and research programmes across all Royce nodes.
Publications
Chiang YH
(2020)
Multisource Vacuum Deposition of Methylammonium-Free Perovskite Solar Cells.
in ACS energy letters
Choi F
(2018)
Vertical leakage mechanism in GaN on Si high electron mobility transistor buffer layers
in Journal of Applied Physics
Cirillo C
(2020)
Magnetotransport and magnetic properties of amorphous [Formula: see text] thin films.
in Scientific reports
Coak M
(2021)
Emergent Magnetic Phases in Pressure-Tuned van der Waals Antiferromagnet FePS 3
in Physical Review X
Dai L
(2021)
Slow carrier relaxation in tin-based perovskite nanocrystals
in Nature Photonics
Doherty TAS
(2020)
Performance-limiting nanoscale trap clusters at grain junctions in halide perovskites.
in Nature
Dose W
(2022)
Electrolyte Reactivity at the Charged Ni-Rich Cathode Interface and Degradation in Li-Ion Batteries
in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Dose WM
(2022)
Onset Potential for Electrolyte Oxidation and Ni-Rich Cathode Degradation in Lithium-Ion Batteries.
in ACS energy letters
Fang X
(2020)
A three-dimensional hybrid electrode with electroactive microbes for efficient electrogenesis and chemical synthesis.
in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
| Description | This capital-only grant for the Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials has been used to support new equipment facilities for the processing and characterisation of materials in the broad field of 'Materials for Energy Efficient ICT'. These have been brought into full operation during the course of 2018. Facilities are now available for use by internal researchers, other UK academic researchers, and by industry. Details for accessing these can be found at https://www.maxwell.cam.ac.uk/programmes/henry-royce-institute and as listed below: AJA UHV magnetron sputter system Zeiss Cross-Beam dual-beam FIB-SEM system Prevac MBE chamber and thermal/e-beam evaporator-based PVD system Bruker Dimension Icon 8-inch Wafer Scale AFM Mbraun ten-glovebox Ambient Processing Suite SPECS EnviroESCA near-ambient-pressure Environmental XPS Raith E-beam Lithography system Karl Suss 4th generation UV Mask Aligner Protochips in-situ TEM Holder, Gatan OneView camera and Gatan vacuum pumping station Zeiss Xradia 3D X-ray CT Biolin QSense electronic quartz crystal microbalance Energy Storage Test Equipment Linseis Thermoelectric analyser Energy Harvest Test Equipment Cascade HV probe station HF Antenna Test Equipment Quantum Design Magnetic Property Measurement System Asylum Research Magnetic and Thermal Imaging System Oxford Instruments ICE 12 Tesla Wide Bore Magnet |
| First Year Of Impact | 2018 |
| Sector | Chemicals,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Electronics,Energy |
| Impact Types | Economic |
| Description | Cabinet Office/GO-Science |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Phase 3 of UK NQTP |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Royce/IOP "Materials for the Energy Transition" 2020 Roadmapping |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | In response to the Committee on Climate Change's 2019 "Net Zero" Report, the Henry Royce Institute Partners at the Universities of Cambridge, Imperial, Leeds and Manchester, in collaboration with the Institute of Physics, engaged with over 220 participants from academic and industrial materials research communities to explore solutions to the grand challenge of "Materials for the Energy Transition." Through roadmapping workshops and associated community-led activities, energy technologies were identified where materials research can make a significant impact on greenhouse gas emissions. The following four areas were identified where materials science is critical to enabling a step-change in greenhouse gas reduction: (1) Materials for photovoltaic systems, (2) Materials for low-carbon methods of hydrogen generation, (3) Materials for decarbonisation of heating and cooling (split into thermoelectric and caloric energy conversion materials) and (4) Materials for low-loss electronics. Outcomes of these roadmapping exercises were (1) an executive summary report highlighting the main findings of the four roadmapping activities, and (2) five materials development roadmaps towards achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 were published in September 2020. All documents were made publicly available free of charge for research communities, the public, funding bodies, government, policy-makers and industry leaders. Influence: (1) Roadmaps have been cited in academic journals, influencing research communities towards mission-driven activities (2) roadmaps have begun to influence position papers and policy documents for organisations to inform government, (3) roadmaps have influenced funding bodies to shape future funding opportunities in the "Materials for the Energy Transition" research space (4) EPSRC have requested Royce to facilitate creation of further roadmapping activities towards zero-carbon goals and sustainable UK manufacturing, beginning in 2021. |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/materials-for-the-energy-transition/ |
| Description | Barocaloric materials for zero-carbon heat pumps |
| Amount | £1,392,100 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/V042262/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2021 |
| End | 11/2024 |
| Description | Centre for Advanced Materials for Integrated Energy Systems (CAM-IES) |
| Amount | £2,098,617 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/P007767/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2016 |
| End | 11/2020 |
| Description | Engineering low power tunnel transistors based on two-dimensional semiconductors 2D-LOTTO |
| Amount | € 2,400,000 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 101019828 |
| Organisation | European Research Council (ERC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 09/2021 |
| End | 08/2026 |
| Description | Expanding the Environmental Frontiers of Operando Metrology for Advanced Device Materials Development |
| Amount | £1,026,620 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/T001038/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2020 |
| End | 01/2023 |
| Description | Sir Henry Royce Institute - recurrent grant |
| Amount | £23,057,010 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/R00661X/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2016 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | SuperSolar Hub Extension |
| Amount | £856,808 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/P02484X/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2017 |
| End | 10/2018 |
| Description | The Royce: Capitalising on the investment |
| Amount | £1,006,681 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/S019367/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2018 |
| End | 10/2021 |
| Title | Research data supporting "Collective Mid-Infrared Vibrations in Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering" |
| Description | This data set contains the experimental and simulation data for the manuscript. This includes SERS spectra and data, XPS data, and simulations. All files are given in .txt. Please see the read me file for further information how the repository is organized. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/340442 |
| Description | MATcelerate |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Department | Cambridge Enterprise |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Cambridge Royce is working closely with the MATcelerate initiative, a project led by Cambridge Enterprise aimed at accelerating the commercialisation of innovations in the field of Materials with a specific focus on Energy. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Only minor progress so far. |
| Impact | None. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | UK Atomic Energy Agency collaboration |
| Organisation | UK Atomic Energy Authority |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Cambridge together with A2D partners facilitated a meeting with the UKAEA Control Systems Software Engineering team to explore the use of new materials to be used in the extreme environment of a fusion reactor (e.g. radiation-hardened materials) and to understand if this could be a potential area of research and collaboration for the sector. The collaboration also aims at the organisation of an academic workshop to discuss challenges and streams of research on these topics. The workshop aims at presenting and discussing advances of fusion environment in on and off states; space applications environment, theoretical approaches (challenges of simulating the environment) and material options. The discussion will also provide elements to draft a plan for moving forward and to eventually open the discussion to a wider audience in the future. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Further meetings were arranged locally with relevant academics to follow up on points raised during the meeting. |
| Impact | Further meetings were arranged locally with relevant academics to follow up on points raised during the meeting. The organisation of an academic workshop is likely to happen in the coming month once the challenges become clearer and better defined. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | "Energy & Light" Symposium, presenting research performed in the Royce Ambient Cluster here at the Maxwell Centre, Cambridge University. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Local and regional SMEs were invited to learn more about the Royce Ambient Cluster Tool located in the Maxwell Centre at Cambridge. Approximately 50 delegates attended the meeting either online or physically. The physical attendees were given a tour of the facility. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | 2022 Advanced Materials Show |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Cambridge attended the AMS and engaged with the exhibiting SMEs and equipment manufacturers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | 2022 Impulse Entrepreneurship Programme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Cambridge Royce has sponsored five places on the Impulse 2022 programme. The same is expected to be continued in 2023. Any University of Cambridge researcher (including PhD students and postdoctoral researchers) working in materials science was offered the opportunity to apply. Candidates were required to have a business idea that has potential for commercialisation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022,2023 |
| URL | https://www.maxwell.cam.ac.uk/programmes/impulse |
| Description | 2022 Materials Research Exchange |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Cambridge attended the MRE and engaged with the exhibiting RTOs as well as helping to arrange some of the programme of speakers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://iuk.ktn-uk.org/events/materials-research-exchange-mre-2022/ |
| Description | 2022 Maxwell Showcase |
| 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 | An overview of the materials science research being undertaken across West Cambridge, much of which involves the use of Royce facilities at Cambridge. This event attracted a wide range of attendees including postgraduate students giving short talks on their research; local SMEs involved in academic-industry research at Cambridge; the Academic Director of R&D at NSG Pilkington speaking on work on decarbonising glass. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018,2019,2022 |
| URL | https://www.maxwell.cam.ac.uk/programmes/annual-research-showcase-2022 |
| Description | 2022 SPIE - Advanced Electronic and Photonic Materials (Manchester, 7th-8th September 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Cambridge together with A2D hosted the Advanced Electronic and Photonic Materials meeting from the 7th-8th of September. This two-day meeting is organised in partnership with SPIE and sought to connect experts, industry members, and students focused on the enabling role of advanced functional materials in future technologies. Leading experts addressed topics ranging from plasmonic materials and devices through to materials and systems for low-loss electronics, including advanced characterisation and the modelling and simulation of these systems. More than 100 researchers from industry and academia attended the conference, in addition to representatives from Photonic Solutions, Inseto (UK) Ltd and Pro-Lite Technology Ltd. This event forms a key component of our national engagement and followed on from discussions between Royce and SPIE about establishing a broader (inter)national annual meeting in the UK. The session titles for the 2022 edition were the following: Day 1: Plasmonic Structures and Devices; Defect and Impurity Engineering; Plenary on Materials for Quantum; Poster session, Day 2: Material for Future Batteries; Materials Modelling Methods; Systems for Low Loss Electronics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://optics.org/events/2022/956 |
| Description | 2022 UK Chapter of the World Materials Forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The World Materials Forum is an initiative founded in 2015 in France in order to decouple economic growth and materials consumption, while creating value for industry. The aims include using materials smarter, using them less and for longer, and developing breakthrough technologies and new business models. The event comprised three focused small-group discussion sessions between senior decision-makers, involving company CEOs, academics and entrepreneurs. 2020's three topics were: decarbonising bulk materials (with focus on steel and glass); stationary batteries for storage performance; and energy efficient electronics. The event held in Cambridge included an academic and business delegation from France, along with the CEO's of CRU, Polysolar, Nyobolt; deputies for the CEO's of Tata and E.ON; CTO's of NSG Pilkington, the Materials Processing Institute, and Paragraf; as well as other UK based researchers and companies. Royce@Cambridge helped facilitate this event, with Royce researchers taking part in the discussion sessions and the attendees given tours of the Royce facilities in West Cambridge along with an introduction to the research work being completed on Royce equipment and the wider aims of the UK Royce Institute. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://sway.office.com/D1jW1Ado6CmNRRAw |
| Description | BT Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | A one-day in-person workshop involving a team of 17 research staff from BT and several PIs from across the West Cambridge departments exploring possible new research avenues in materials for telecommunications. Two follow-up meetings have been arranged which will include researchers from the wider Royce network. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| Description | Cambridge Biomaterials event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A small event to showcase biomaterials and chemical engineering projects across West Cambridge. Royce@Cambridge facilitated part of the activities and exhibited a poster at the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Cleanroom Training Course (16th-20th January 2023) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Cambridge co-organised the three-day in-person training event held in Leeds in January 2023. The training course will be replicated at other Royce partners. Cambridge is expected to host the event in 2025. Hosted at the University of Leeds' state-of-the-art nanotechnology cleanroom, in collaboration with Swansea University and the University of Cambridge, this technically focussed course will explore basic practices and techniques for cleanroom use. Through a combination of taught lectures, discussion sessions, and practical training participants will gain fundamental skills for working in 'clean-fab' cleanrooms. The content will develop theoretical and practical knowledge in processes such as lithography, deposition, and etching; by the end of the week attendees will have made a Field Effect Transistor. This course is suitable for any new user of cleanrooms. This includes those currently undertaking a PhD or postdoctoral research, working in academia or within the semiconductor industry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/royce-training-micro-and-nano-fabrication/ |
| Description | Cluster Tool Open day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A small event to raise awareness of the Cambridge Cluster Tool. 8 attendees from the local Cambridge area. This led to several projects being proposed that were funded by Royce@Cambridge. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Colchester Sixth Form |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | As part of an introduction to university courses for lower sixth students, Andrew Dobrzanski promoted materials science courses and Discover Materials. Flyers and resources were provided by Royce (Tom Hancocks) with much interest from students on a subject they'd not previously heard about. Reach 30+ students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | EMAG 2022 - Electron Microscopy and Analysis Group (EMAG) Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | EMAG 2022 was a biennial meeting of the EMAG group of the IOP held Imperial College London focusing on multidimensional electron microscopy research. The conference included academic talks from students and established researchers as well as a table-top trade exhibition for industry. A2D sponsored the early career section of the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://iop.eventsair.com/emag2022 |
| Description | Energy and Light: Cluster Tool Symposium (3rd Annual) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The third annual symposium for the Royce Ambient Pressure Cluster Tool. This one-day in-person event at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge showcased recent results from the growth, characterisation, testing and packaging of novel devices. The symposium also explored potential new ideas and research directions for the Cluster Tool. There were 53 attendees from both academia and industry with at least one new company aiming to start work on the tool in 2023 and others expressing support for the facility. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021,2022 |
| URL | https://www.maxwell.cam.ac.uk/programmes/henry-royce-institute/cluster-tool-symposium-october-2022 |
| Description | Henry Royce Institute stands at MRE2020 exhibition in London, February 2020 |
| 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 | The MRE2020 exhibition showcased UK materials research undertaken within academia and industry, with a large presence from the Henry Royce Institute, and an opportunity to forge links with businesses, other HEIs, research training organisations and media organisations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Henry Royce Institute talk, posters, tours and promotional materials CAM-IES Industry Workshop, May 2019 |
| 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 | Henry Royce Institute talk, posters, tours and promotional materials at the CAM-IES Industry workshop, featuring talks from Arm, Talga, NPL, CDT Sumitomo, SwiftSolar, Chromosol, Perpetuum, Lightricity, and with participation from Dyson, Shell, Johnson Matthey, Eight19, Tata Steel. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Henry Royce Institute talk, posters, tours and promotional materials at CAM-IES Workshop: Multi-Modal Characterisation of Energy Materials, November 2019 |
| 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 | Henry Royce Institute talk, posters, tours and promotional materials at CAM-IES Workshop: Multi-Modal Characterisation of Energy Materials, November 2019. This workshop featured talks from many members of the energy materials community undertaking research using Royce equipment, and wishing to engage with Royce members. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Henry Royce Institute talk, posters, tours and promotional materials at the APL Horizons Meeting on Interfaces in Energy Materials, April 2018 |
| 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 | Henry Royce Institute talk, posters, tours and promotional materials at the APL Horizons Meeting on Interfaces in Energy Materials, April 2018. This two-day event was organised by APL at Trinity College, Cambridge, and featured international academic experts in energy materials research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Henry Royce Institute talk, posters, tours and promotional materials at the Bruker Microscopy Seminar, Nov 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Henry Royce Institute talk, posters, tours and promotional materials at the Bruker Seminar, which presented the Royce AFM, located at the Department of Materials Science at Cambridge, to the local research community, with hands-on demonstrations and talks on equipment capabilities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Henry Royce Institute talk, posters, tours and promotional materials at the CAM-IES Launch Workshop, May 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Henry Royce Institute talk, posters, tours and promotional materials at the kickoff meeting of the CAM-IES EPSRC Centre Grant, held in Cambridge in May 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Henry Royce Institute talk, posters, tours and promotional materials at the Diamond Light Source Workshop on Operando and In Situ Characterisation of Energy Materials, July 2019 |
| 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 | Henry Royce Institute talk, posters, tours and promotional materials at the Diamond Light Source Workshop on Operando and In Situ Characterisation of Energy Materials, July 2019. Talks included those from many Royce equipment leads and affiliates on new equipment suites e.g. Prof Sarah Haigh, Prof Sven Schroeder, Dr Alex Walton, Dr Rob Weatherup etc. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Henry Royce Institute talk, posters, tours and promotional materials at the Maxwell Centre Showcase, April 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Henry Royce Institute talk, posters, tours and promotional materials at the annual Maxwell Centre Showcase, April 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Henry Royce Institute talk, posters, tours and promotional materials at the official opening of the Cambridge Royce facilities, November 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Henry Royce Institute talk, posters, tours and promotional materials at the official opening of the Cambridge Royce facilities, held at the Maxwell Centre, Cambridge in November 2018. The facilities were officially unveiled by Julia King, the Baroness Brown of Cambridge, and an introductory speech was given by the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Stephen Toope. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | North East Advanced Material Electronics cluster group (NEAME) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement with the NEAME Cluster over the summer to encourage use of the Cluster Tool facilities to solve industrial problems. The North East Advanced Material Electronics cluster group (NEAME) is made up of businesses developing new forms of semiconductor technologies which go beyond conventional, high-volume compound alternatives. Among the companies involved are: PragmatIC; Filtronic; and Evince. Contacts will be followed up on in the new year. NEAME is a dynamic cluster of leading-edge companies using advanced electronic materials technologies at the core of what they do. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Southern Counties Materials, Minerals & Mining Society - Online Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A joint online event, chaired by Prof Serena Best, featuring two speakers from Cambridge presenting their research involving Royce equipment along with one further speaker from NPL. The event had 73 registrations from 7 different countries with a peak audience of 43. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Stabilizing organic transistors in water for bioelectronic applications (IoP) - Online 25th May 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On 25th May, Royce Cambridge in Partnership with the Institute of Physics (IOP) held a webinar on the subject of stabilizing organic transistors in water for bioelectronic applications. Organic bioelectronics is an emerging field - whereby organic materials seem ideal candidates for bioelectronics due to their softness, biocompatibility, stretchability, and their ability to conduct both electrons and ions. Dr Dimitrios Simatos outlined important research which used an additives-based approach to stabilize Organic Field E?ect Transistor (OFETs) immersed in Deionized (DI) water and saline solution, for periods up to a month, making the first high-performance water-stable OFETs reported in the literature. Dr Simatos received his PhD degree in Physics from the University of Cambridge, in 2022 and is currently a post-doctoral research associate at the University. His current research interests include wearables, implantable electronics, and the integration of organic and inorganic materials within the same device (hybrid systems). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.iop.org/events/stabilizing-organic-transistors-water-bioelectronic-applications |
| Description | Tata Steel - Royce 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 | Several Cambridge attendees took part in the Tata Biomaterials event in Manchester. This links into wider work in Cambridge that ties into the Royce Biomaterials theme that Cambridge is cultivating locally. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| Description | Terahertz Microscopy meeting (Manchester, 4th-5th April 2022) |
| 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 | A meeting of UK researchers involved in THz imaging and spectroscopy was held in Royce Institute on 4th-5th April in Manchester. This event was held as a hybrid meeting and was attended by over 45 people. We were pleased to attract 33 in-person attendees and 15 virtual attendees. The event was attended by a good number of ECRs ( including 9 PhDs, postdocs and research fellows), in addition to senior members of the UK community, some international attendees (McMaster, MIT) and industry representation (e.g. Samsung, Malvern Pananalytical). This follows on from previous meetings (pre-COVID) and is having a positive impact on drawing this community together. In particular, the network meeting hosted a live demonstration of the cyroSNOM and room-temperature SNOM systems within the CUSTOM facility by Dr Lars Mester from neaspec gmbh. The meeting included researchers from Warwick and Sheffield who were just about to acquire microscopes, who found this demonstration and the event as a whole especially useful for learning techniques from experts in the field. Attendees are drawing up agreed follow-up actions, with the transfer of samples and access requests to Royce Facilities in progress. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | The Armourers and Brasiers' Cambridge Forum 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In June 2022, Royce has supported the Armourers and Brasiers' Cambridge Forum, which brought together researchers from universities, industry and research funding bodies to hear about the latest developments in Materials Science. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| Description | UHV Photoemission UPS/XPS & Environmental XPS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A two-day online and in-person workshop on the instrumentation, theory and practice of XPS, along with a session on data analysis and an opportunity to speak to XPS facility staff. This event was held in conjunction with XPS facilities in Leeds, Manchester, Oxford and Imperial. 2022 edition: 18th-20th January 2022 2023 edition: 24th-25th January 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/royce-training-introduction-to-xps-at-royce/ |
| Description | • 2021 Impulse Entrepreneurship Programme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Royce in Cambridge sponsored three participants whose projects involved: viral testing services - evaluating the efficacy of various test materials for their anti-viral properties; 'smart insoles' to provide the user with real-time information on their walking and running style; and securing the electronics supply chain. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | • Operando Workshop, 21st September 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This 1-day, in-person symposium focussed on the latest advances in the use of operando techniques to gain deeper understanding of the growth, processing, functionality and performance of novel energy and device materials. Organised by Prof Robert Weatherup, University of Oxford, Royce Research Area Lead for Electrochemical Systems, and Prof Stephan Hofmann, University of Cambridge. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/advanced-operando-studies-for-energy-materials/ |
| Description | • The Armourers and Brasiers' Cambridge Forum 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On the 23rd June 2021 The University of Cambridge hosted a virtual stand at The Armourers and Brasiers' Cambridge Forum, which brought together researchers from universities, industry and research funding bodies to hear about the latest developments in Materials Science. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |