Nanoscale Advanced Materials Engineering
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Manchester
Department Name: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Abstract
Development of materials has underpinned human and societal development for millennia, and such development has accelerated as time has passed. From the discovery of bronze through to wrought iron and then steel and polymers the visible world around has been shaped and built, relying on the intrinsic properties of these materials. In the 20th century a new materials revolution took place leading to the development of materials that are designed for their electronic (e.g. silicon), optical (e.g. glass fibres) or magnetic (e.g. recording media) properties. These materials changed the way we interact with the world and each other through the development of microelectronics (computers), the world wide web (optical fibre communications) and associated technologies.
Now, two decades into the 21st century, we need to add more functionality into materials at ever smaller length-scales in order to develop ever more capable technologies with increased energy efficiency and at an acceptable manufacturing cost. In pursuing this ambition, we now find ourselves at the limit of current materials-processing technologies with an often complex interdependence of materials properties (e.g. thermal and electronic). As we approach length scales below 100s of nanometres, we have to harness quantum effects to address the need for devices with a step-change in performance and energy-efficiency, and ultimately for some cases the fundamental limitations of quantum mechanics.
In this programme grant we will develop a new approach to delivering material functionalisation based on Nanoscale Advanced Materials Engineering (NAME). This approach will enable the modification of materials through the addition (doping) of single atoms through to many trillions with extreme accuracy (~20 nanometres, less than 1000th the thickness of a human hair). This will allow us to functionalise specifically a material in a highly localised location leaving the remaining material available for modification. For the first time this will offer a new approach to addressing the limitations faced by existing approaches in technology development at these small length scales. We will be able to change independently a material's electronic and thermal properties on the nanoscale, and use the precise doping to deliver enhanced optical functionality in engineered materials. Ambitiously, we aim to use NAME to control material properties which have to date proven difficult to exploit fully (e.g. quantum mechanical spin), and to control states of systems predicted but not yet directly experimentally observed or controlled (e.g. topological surface states). Ultimately, we may provide a viable route to the development of quantum bits (qubits) in materials which are a pre-requisite for the realisation of a quantum computer. Such a technology, albeit long term, is predicted to be the next great technological revolution
NAME is a collaborative programme between internationally leading UK researchers from the Universities of Manchester, Leeds and Imperial College London, who together lead the Henry Royce Institute research theme identified as 'Atoms to Devices'. Together they have already established the required substantial infrastructure and state-of-the-art facilities through investment from Royce, the EPSRC and each University partner. The programme grant will provide the resource to assemble the wider team required to deliver the NAME vision, including UK academics, research fellows, and postdoctoral researchers, supported by PhD students funded by the Universities. The programme grant also has significant support from wider academia and industry based both within the UK and internationally.
Now, two decades into the 21st century, we need to add more functionality into materials at ever smaller length-scales in order to develop ever more capable technologies with increased energy efficiency and at an acceptable manufacturing cost. In pursuing this ambition, we now find ourselves at the limit of current materials-processing technologies with an often complex interdependence of materials properties (e.g. thermal and electronic). As we approach length scales below 100s of nanometres, we have to harness quantum effects to address the need for devices with a step-change in performance and energy-efficiency, and ultimately for some cases the fundamental limitations of quantum mechanics.
In this programme grant we will develop a new approach to delivering material functionalisation based on Nanoscale Advanced Materials Engineering (NAME). This approach will enable the modification of materials through the addition (doping) of single atoms through to many trillions with extreme accuracy (~20 nanometres, less than 1000th the thickness of a human hair). This will allow us to functionalise specifically a material in a highly localised location leaving the remaining material available for modification. For the first time this will offer a new approach to addressing the limitations faced by existing approaches in technology development at these small length scales. We will be able to change independently a material's electronic and thermal properties on the nanoscale, and use the precise doping to deliver enhanced optical functionality in engineered materials. Ambitiously, we aim to use NAME to control material properties which have to date proven difficult to exploit fully (e.g. quantum mechanical spin), and to control states of systems predicted but not yet directly experimentally observed or controlled (e.g. topological surface states). Ultimately, we may provide a viable route to the development of quantum bits (qubits) in materials which are a pre-requisite for the realisation of a quantum computer. Such a technology, albeit long term, is predicted to be the next great technological revolution
NAME is a collaborative programme between internationally leading UK researchers from the Universities of Manchester, Leeds and Imperial College London, who together lead the Henry Royce Institute research theme identified as 'Atoms to Devices'. Together they have already established the required substantial infrastructure and state-of-the-art facilities through investment from Royce, the EPSRC and each University partner. The programme grant will provide the resource to assemble the wider team required to deliver the NAME vision, including UK academics, research fellows, and postdoctoral researchers, supported by PhD students funded by the Universities. The programme grant also has significant support from wider academia and industry based both within the UK and internationally.
Planned Impact
Who might benefit from this research?
NAME focuses on 4 areas of science and engineering: the development of new nanoscale instrumentation; its use to develop new photonic devices; thermal management to reduce energy consumption; and manipulation of defects to develop quantum devices (e.g. low noise amplification and qubits). The economic and societal beneficiaries of the research are in the area of photonics, energy and quantum. Each of these sectors have wide economic potential with a broad range of beneficiaries. The Photonics market is projected to grow to $780.4BN by 2023, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.0 % (www.marketsandmarkets.com/PressReleases/photonic.asp), but investment in the UK has weakened and the CAGR in the UK is around 2.3% (www.photonics21.org/ppp-services/photonics-downloads.php). Reducing energy demand by improved efficiencies/thermal management will contribute to a current market of $310BN pa (www.energylivenews.com/2014/10/08/global-energy-efficiency-market-worth-310bn-a-year/), whilst the low-noise amplifier market, where we expect maser amplification to play a significant role, is estimated to see CAGR of 11% to reach a total market size of $2.965BN by 2023 (www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180802005594/en/Global-Low-Noise-Amplifier-Market-Analysis-Forecasts-2018-2023).
A 2018 IoP report states 'the UK needs to invest more in bringing novel technology to market if it is to compete globally in the future' (/www.iop.org/publications/iop/2018/file_71498.pdf). In the same report it is noted that increasing precision manufacturing is seen as a key enabler for increased productivity. Precision manufacturing is exactly what NAME will achieve. Our project partners have interests spanning materials and device development, characterisation and lithographic techniques as well as end users of the devices. We expect a significant increase in collaborators as the PG progresses beyond our strongly supportive initial team.
How might they benefit from this research?
In preparation for this PG we have had extensive discussions with industrial partners who seek realistic applications of the science and technology proposed. Our partners have an interest in the area of quantum technologies and in methods to reduce energy demand in ICT devices, and these are longer term goals. However, we have been set specific goals too. We have industrial input regarding phase noise at specific carrier offsets in measurement systems for communications at rf/microwave frequencies and specific targets for noise in low noise amplifiers: to exceed the performance of cryogenic HEMTs. The primary industrial application for silicon photonics is in optical switching for telecomms and computing; with the promise of faster, lower energy-per-bit data transmission. The rapidly expanding energy demand, driven by the colossal growth in internet traffic is bringing this into sharp focus. (https://physicsworld.com/a/the-promise-of-silicon-photonics/). The research in NAME also has application in the healthcare sector, for example in "...DNA sequencing, miniaturized diagnostic testing using disposable photonic chips, accurate body monitoring sensors, brain stimulation probes...",
(https://www.imec-int.com/en/articles/chip-technology-and-photonics-enable-smaller-faster-and-cheaper-medical-devices). Our research objectives comprise 16 ambitious targets, providing us with a set of SMART goals, achievable as research outcomes for which down-selection will lead to proof of principle devices within 5 years.
We also expect impact to arise from attraction of investment from both UK and global firms and through the development of new processes through the science developed. The technology as noted above has broad economic and societal benefit through applications in photonics, energy and quantum. We will ensure that the NAME team including PhD students and PDRAs work closely with industrial partners to enable technology development.
NAME focuses on 4 areas of science and engineering: the development of new nanoscale instrumentation; its use to develop new photonic devices; thermal management to reduce energy consumption; and manipulation of defects to develop quantum devices (e.g. low noise amplification and qubits). The economic and societal beneficiaries of the research are in the area of photonics, energy and quantum. Each of these sectors have wide economic potential with a broad range of beneficiaries. The Photonics market is projected to grow to $780.4BN by 2023, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.0 % (www.marketsandmarkets.com/PressReleases/photonic.asp), but investment in the UK has weakened and the CAGR in the UK is around 2.3% (www.photonics21.org/ppp-services/photonics-downloads.php). Reducing energy demand by improved efficiencies/thermal management will contribute to a current market of $310BN pa (www.energylivenews.com/2014/10/08/global-energy-efficiency-market-worth-310bn-a-year/), whilst the low-noise amplifier market, where we expect maser amplification to play a significant role, is estimated to see CAGR of 11% to reach a total market size of $2.965BN by 2023 (www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180802005594/en/Global-Low-Noise-Amplifier-Market-Analysis-Forecasts-2018-2023).
A 2018 IoP report states 'the UK needs to invest more in bringing novel technology to market if it is to compete globally in the future' (/www.iop.org/publications/iop/2018/file_71498.pdf). In the same report it is noted that increasing precision manufacturing is seen as a key enabler for increased productivity. Precision manufacturing is exactly what NAME will achieve. Our project partners have interests spanning materials and device development, characterisation and lithographic techniques as well as end users of the devices. We expect a significant increase in collaborators as the PG progresses beyond our strongly supportive initial team.
How might they benefit from this research?
In preparation for this PG we have had extensive discussions with industrial partners who seek realistic applications of the science and technology proposed. Our partners have an interest in the area of quantum technologies and in methods to reduce energy demand in ICT devices, and these are longer term goals. However, we have been set specific goals too. We have industrial input regarding phase noise at specific carrier offsets in measurement systems for communications at rf/microwave frequencies and specific targets for noise in low noise amplifiers: to exceed the performance of cryogenic HEMTs. The primary industrial application for silicon photonics is in optical switching for telecomms and computing; with the promise of faster, lower energy-per-bit data transmission. The rapidly expanding energy demand, driven by the colossal growth in internet traffic is bringing this into sharp focus. (https://physicsworld.com/a/the-promise-of-silicon-photonics/). The research in NAME also has application in the healthcare sector, for example in "...DNA sequencing, miniaturized diagnostic testing using disposable photonic chips, accurate body monitoring sensors, brain stimulation probes...",
(https://www.imec-int.com/en/articles/chip-technology-and-photonics-enable-smaller-faster-and-cheaper-medical-devices). Our research objectives comprise 16 ambitious targets, providing us with a set of SMART goals, achievable as research outcomes for which down-selection will lead to proof of principle devices within 5 years.
We also expect impact to arise from attraction of investment from both UK and global firms and through the development of new processes through the science developed. The technology as noted above has broad economic and societal benefit through applications in photonics, energy and quantum. We will ensure that the NAME team including PhD students and PDRAs work closely with industrial partners to enable technology development.
Organisations
- University of Manchester (Collaboration, Lead Research Organisation)
- National Physical Laboratory (Collaboration)
- University of Warwick (Collaboration)
- Ionoptika (Collaboration)
- QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON (Collaboration)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- Australian National University (ANU) (Collaboration)
- Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (Collaboration)
- University of Waterloo (Collaboration)
- University of Melbourne (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) (Collaboration)
- Institute of Physics (IOP) (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW (Collaboration)
- Ceres Power (Collaboration)
- University of Toronto (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Seagate (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Qinetiq (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Compound Semiconductor Centre (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- DNA Electronics (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Carl Zeiss (Germany) (Project Partner)
- École Normale Supérieure - PSL (Project Partner)
- Hitachi High-Technologies Europe GmbH (Project Partner)
- Henry Royce Institute (Project Partner)
- Australian National University (Project Partner)
- Keysight Technologies (United States) (Project Partner)
- National Physical Laboratory (Project Partner)
- Ionoptika (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Airbus (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Element Six (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Oxford Instruments (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Ericsson (Sweden) (Project Partner)
- BAE Systems (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
Publications
Ng W
(2024)
"Maser-in-a-shoebox": A portable plug-and-play maser device at room temperature and zero magnetic field
in Applied Physics Letters
Adshead M
(2023)
A High-Resolution Versatile Focused Ion Implantation Platform for Nanoscale Engineering
in Advanced Engineering Materials
Sun R
(2023)
Assembly of Fillable Microrobotic Systems by Microfluidic Loading with Dip Sealing.
in Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Attwood M
(2021)
Asymmetric N -heteroacene tetracene analogues as potential n-type semiconductors
in Journal of Materials Chemistry C
Kim SH
(2022)
Atom probe analysis of electrode materials for Li-ion batteries: challenges and ways forward.
in Journal of materials chemistry. A
Wu H
(2021)
Bench-Top Cooling of a Microwave Mode Using an Optically Pumped Spin Refrigerator.
in Physical review letters
Ramadan S
(2021)
Carbon-Dot-Enhanced Graphene Field-Effect Transistors for Ultrasensitive Detection of Exosomes.
in ACS applied materials & interfaces
Shukla A
(2023)
Carrier density tuning in CuS nanoparticles and thin films by Zn doping via ion exchange.
in Nanoscale
Moore K
(2022)
Charged Domain Wall and Polar Vortex Topologies in a Room-Temperature Magnetoelectric Multiferroic Thin Film.
in ACS applied materials & interfaces
Li Y
(2023)
Confocal Microscopy for In Situ Multi-Modal Characterization and Patterning of Laser-Reduced Graphene Oxide
in Advanced Functional Materials
Yao Q
(2023)
Crystalline AuNP-Decorated Strontium Niobate Thin Films: Strain-Controlled AuNP Morphologies and Optical Properties for Plasmonic Applications.
in ACS applied nano materials
Guo L
(2021)
Degradation in lithium ion battery current collectors
in Journal of Physics: Energy
Wang Y
(2023)
Deposition of Nanocrystalline Multilayer Graphene Using Pulsed Laser Deposition
in Crystals
Kaur A
(2023)
Development of Nanopackaging for Storage and Transport of Loaded Lipid Nanoparticles.
in Nano letters
Knox C
(2022)
Effects of structural ordering on infrared active vibrations within Bi 2 ( Te ( 1 - x ) Se x ) 3
in Physical Review B
Nilforoushan N
(2023)
Efficient THz generation from low-temperature-grown GaAs photoconductive antennas driven by Yb-doped fiber amplifier at 200 kHz repetition rate
in Applied Physics Letters
Li Y
(2022)
Electrostatically Driven Polarization Flop and Strain-Induced Curvature in Free-Standing Ferroelectric Superlattices.
in Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Lehane RA
(2022)
Electrosynthesis of Biocompatible Free-Standing PEDOT Thin Films at a Polarized Liquid|Liquid Interface.
in Journal of the American Chemical Society
Sathian J.
(2019)
Enhancing performance of Ce:YAG luminescent concentrators for high power applications
in Optics InfoBase Conference Papers
Ramadan S
(2021)
Enhancing Structural Properties and Performance of Graphene-Based Devices Using Self-Assembled HMDS Monolayers
in ACS Omega
Wen Y
(2023)
Exploring the spin dynamics of a room-temperature diamond maser using an extended rate equation model
in Journal of Applied Physics
Ng W
(2021)
Exploring the Triplet Spin Dynamics of the Charge-Transfer Co-crystal Phenazine/1,2,4,5-Tetracyanobenzene for Potential Use in Organic Maser Gain Media
in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Altynnikov A
(2021)
Formation of Millimeter Waves with Electrically Tunable Orbital Angular Momentum
in Coatings
Garcia-Gil A
(2022)
Growth and analysis of the tetragonal (ST12) germanium nanowires.
in Nanoscale
Doiron B.
(2020)
Hot Carrier Optoelectronics with Titanium Nitride
in Conference Proceedings - Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting-LEOS
Douglas JO
(2023)
In Situ Sputtering From the Micromanipulator to Enable Cryogenic Preparation of Specimens for Atom Probe Tomography by Focused-Ion Beam.
in Microscopy and microanalysis : the official journal of Microscopy Society of America, Microbeam Analysis Society, Microscopical Society of Canada
Douglas, J. O.
(2022)
In-situ sputtering from the micromanipulator to enable cryogenic preparation of specimens for atom probe tomography by focused-ion beam
in Pre-print Arxiv
Westhead O
(2021)
Is lithium the key for nitrogen electroreduction?
in Science (New York, N.Y.)
Barrio J
(2022)
Metal coordination in C2N-like materials towards dual atom catalysts for oxygen reduction.
in Journal of materials chemistry. A
Kluge R
(2021)
Monitoring the active sites for the hydrogen evolution reaction at model carbon surfaces
in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Ng W
(2023)
Move Aside Pentacene: Diazapentacene-Doped para-Terphenyl, a Zero-Field Room-Temperature Maser with Strong Coupling for Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics.
in Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Attwood M
(2023)
N-heteroacenes as an organic gain medium for room temperature masers
Attwood M
(2023)
N-heteroacenes as an organic gain medium for room temperature masers
Attwood M
(2023)
N-Heteroacenes as an Organic Gain Medium for Room-Temperature Masers.
in Chemistry of materials : a publication of the American Chemical Society
Maharjan R
(2021)
Non-diffracting beam generated from a photonic integrated circuit based axicon-like lens.
in Optics express
Dion T
(2022)
Observation and control of collective spin-wave mode hybridization in chevron arrays and in square, staircase, and brickwork artificial spin ices
in Physical Review Research
Knox C
(2024)
Optical conductivity of a Bi 2 Se 3 topological insulator with a THz transparent top gate
in Nanophotonics
Doiron B
(2023)
Optimizing Hot Electron Harvesting at Planar Metal-Semiconductor Interfaces with Titanium Oxynitride Thin Films.
in ACS applied materials & interfaces
Luo H
(2021)
Progress and Perspectives in Photo- and Electrochemical-Oxidation of Biomass for Sustainable Chemicals and Hydrogen Production
in Advanced Energy Materials
| Title | Crystal Creation |
| Description | Maker kits that can be used to learn about science through an artistic/craft activity. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | The kit are going to be used a various community and festival events. |
| URL | https://www.creatematerialsinnovation.com/post/crystal-creations |
| Description | The award is still in progress and a full description will be added when concluded. We have however published a number of research articles resulting from this work and engaged in a significant programme of outreach and engagement activities. See our website for further details www.name-pg.uk |
| Exploitation Route | The award is still in progress. A number of grants have been submitted and awarded based upon the work delivered by this award. |
| Sectors | Aerospace Defence and Marine Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Electronics Energy |
| URL | http://www.name-pg.uk |
| Description | Substantial outreach and engagement activities have been delivered. Award is still active. See www.name-pg.uk |
| First Year Of Impact | 2022 |
| Sector | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Electronics,Energy |
| Description | BEIS Workshop on the UK's position in Quantum Technologies Research |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Citation in EPSRC EDI Action Plan |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
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| Description | Citation in evidence submission from TigersinSTEMM for DIV0071 - Diversity in STEM Flag for UK Parliament Select Committee |
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| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | TigersinSTEMM and NADSN STEMM group were both invited to present evidence at parliament to influence policy. |
| Description | EPSRC Engineering New Quantum Devices Workshop, Manchester |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | EPSRC Meeting, Sept 2022 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Institute of Physics Quantum Strategy Engagement Event |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Invitation to UKRI Strategy Launch - Stakeholder |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Meeting with Cabinet Office/GO-SCience |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Nanoscale Engineering workshop, King's College London |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | National Quantum Strategy, Manchester |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Royce/IOP "Materials for the Energy Transition" 2020 Roadmapping Activity |
| 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 | Workshop on the National Quantum Technologies Programme (NQTP) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | A Smart Automated TEM Facility for Large Scale Analysis of Atomic Structure and Chemistry |
| Amount | £5,857,335 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/X041204/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2023 |
| End | 08/2025 |
| Description | Atomic qubits by ion implantation: towards very large-scale quantum devices |
| Amount | £108,040 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | RSWVF\211016 |
| Organisation | The Royal Society |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2021 |
| End | 07/2023 |
| Description | CSC - UoM Joint Scholarship |
| Amount | £157,600 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Chinese Scholarship Council |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | China |
| Start | 08/2022 |
| End | 09/2026 |
| Description | Direct Writing of Nanodevices: A Sustainable Route to Nanofabrication |
| Amount | £1,405,952 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/X016404/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2023 |
| End | 04/2026 |
| Description | High-specification nanofabrication equipment: enabling increased capability and capacity for electronics, spintronics, photonics, and bioelectronics. |
| Amount | £2,587,981 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/W006472/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 12/2024 |
| Description | High-specification nanofabrication equipment: enabling increased capability and capacity for electronics, spintronics, photonics, and bioelectronics. |
| Amount | £2,587,981 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/W006472/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 12/2024 |
| Description | New perspectives in photocatalysis and near-surface chemistry: catalysis meets plasmonics |
| Amount | £7,902,074 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/W017075/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2022 |
| End | 07/2028 |
| Description | Non-volatile programmable components for the superconducting computer |
| Amount | £513,531 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/V028138/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2021 |
| End | 05/2024 |
| Description | Research Fellows Enhanced Research Grant |
| Amount | £170,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | RF\ERE\210200 |
| Organisation | The Royal Society |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | Research Fellows Enhanced Research Grant |
| Amount | £270,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | The Royal Society |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2023 |
| End | 12/2025 |
| Description | Synthesis of enriched silicon for long-lived donor quantum states |
| Amount | $513,395 (AUD) |
| Funding ID | ARC DP220103467 |
| Organisation | Australian Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Australia |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 12/2024 |
| Description | University of Manchester and University of Melbourne Joint PhD Studentship |
| Amount | £140,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2021 |
| End | 03/2025 |
| Description | UoM A*Star Singapore Joint PhD studentship |
| Amount | £140,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2022 |
| End | 04/2027 |
| Description | UoM Internal Strategic Equipment Call |
| Amount | £160,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 02/2022 |
| Description | UoM PhD Studentship |
| Amount | £130,400 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2022 |
| End | 04/2026 |
| Description | UoM-TAU Joint Research Seed Fund - Engineering telecom emitters in LiNbO3 nanophotonic waveguides |
| Amount | £9,851 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2022 |
| End | 08/2023 |
| Title | Q-One (Platform for Nanoscale Advanced Materials Engineering |
| Description | The research tool developed 'Platform for Nanoscale Advanced Materials Engineering' has been commercialised by Ionoptika Ltd and is marketed as the Q-One. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Ionoptika Ltd has sold instrument to other purchasers. |
| URL | https://ionoptika.com/products/q-one/ |
| Title | Dataset Associated with Optical Conductivity of a Bi2Se3 Topological Insulator with a THz Transparent Top Gate |
| Description | This is the dataset associated with the study performed on the transport and FIR properties of a a Topologically insulating Bi2Se3 sample. It contains THz and DC conductivity data that show the change in conductivity as a function of gate bias, displaying the robustness of the topological surface states against external perturbation. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/1241/ |
| Title | Dataset associated with Effects of Structural Ordering on IR Active Vibrations Within Bi2(Te?1???Se?)3 |
| Description | This is the dataset associated with the materials study performed on the IR active E1u phonon within the Bi2(Te?1???Se?)3 alloy system. It contains THz and DC conductivity data that show the change in phonon dynamics over a wide range of temperatures and stoichiometries. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/1047/ |
| Title | Dataset exploring the use of quasi-harmonic approximation to understand the thermal properties of Bi2Se3 |
| Description | This data set contains input and output files for DFT calculations on Bi2Se3 for a number of different fixed unit cells with calculations performed using VASP and Phonopy. At each fixed volume, optimisations and phonon calculations have been performed. These have been used to understand the thermal properties of the material using the quasi-harmonic approximation. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/8199623 |
| Description | ANU Collaboration (since 2019) |
| Organisation | Australian National University (ANU) |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We contribute by providing optoelectronic characterisation of semiconductor nanostructures via terahertz spectroscopy and microscopy. We also design terahertz devices based on semiconductor nanowires (single-nanowire emitters). |
| Collaborator Contribution | The group at ANU are experts in nanowire growth and provide nanowires samples to these research programmes. |
| Impact | -Test nanowire samples for SNOM measurements. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Ceres Power Workshop on Impedance; 25th September 2023: |
| Organisation | Ceres Power |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Organised by Ceres Power and hosted by A2D and Royce Imperial, the Workshop on Impedance brought together experts in Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy to discuss how these measurements can be of use to Ceres Power. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research discussion |
| Impact | Collaborative work |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Collaboration with JB Waterloo |
| Organisation | University of Waterloo |
| Country | Canada |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Provision of unique samples for device fabrication and testing |
| Collaborator Contribution | Device fabrication and testing. |
| Impact | Confidential. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Collaboration with JM at UCL |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Provision of unique samples for device fabrication. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Device fabrication and testing. |
| Impact | Work undertaken with materials transfer agreement in place that include confidentiality clauses. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Collaboration with NPL |
| Organisation | National Physical Laboratory |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Exchange of samples and staff; materials development and characterisation |
| Collaborator Contribution | Measurement of samples and staff exchange |
| Impact | Purchase of capital research equipment by NPL and placement at UoM Funding of researcher |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Collaboration with Oxford Uni. (diamond) |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | P-NAME facility (experimental capability and sources developed in WP1) materials development and characterisation |
| Collaborator Contribution | materials development and characterisation |
| Impact | not yet applicable |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Collaboration with Queen Mary University London |
| Organisation | Queen Mary University of London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | P-NAME facility (experimental capability and sources developed in WP1) materials development and characterisation |
| Collaborator Contribution | materials development and characterisation |
| Impact | not yet applicable |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Collaboration with Uni. of Cambridge (diamond) |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | P-NAME facility (experimental capability and sources developed in WP1) materials development and characterisation |
| Collaborator Contribution | materials development and characterisation |
| Impact | not yet applicable |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Collaboration with Uni. of Glasgow |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | P-NAME facilities (experimental capabilities and sources developed in WP1) Mn Ion implantation on GaAs material with InAs QD's |
| Collaborator Contribution | GaAs material |
| Impact | Collaborator moved to University of Cambridge. New collaboration established. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Collaboration with Uni. of Melbourne |
| Organisation | University of Melbourne |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | P-NAME facility (experimental capabilities and sources developed in WP1) materials development |
| Collaborator Contribution | materials development |
| Impact | not yet applicable |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Collaboration with Uni. of Southampton |
| Organisation | University of Southampton |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Use of P-NAME (experimental capabilities and sources developed in WP1) Photonics materials development and characterisation |
| Collaborator Contribution | Photonics materials development and characterisation |
| Impact | Not yet applicable |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Collaboration with University of Cambridge (Epitaxial QDs) |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Doping and photonics characterisation of epitaxial QDs |
| Collaborator Contribution | Supply of QD samples for doping, |
| Impact | None reported yet. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | DJ Melbourne |
| Organisation | University of Melbourne |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration on research relating to impurity ions in solid-state materials for quantum technologies. Research exchange visits and access to facilities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaboration on research relating to impurity ions in solid-state materials for quantum technologies. Research exchange visits and access to facilities. |
| Impact | Collaborative research proposals developed for funding. Dual-award University of Manchester and University of Melbourne PhD studentship secured. Royal Society Wolfson International Fellowship secured for Prof. Jamieson to spend extended visits to the UK in 2022/23. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | EPFL Collaboration (since 2019) |
| Organisation | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We have provided access to our terahertz characterisation facility; conducted terahertz characterisation of thin film samples for single photon avalanche diodes. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners have provided thin film samples for measurement, they are growth experts and have optimised growth parameters for application in single photon avalanche diodes. They have also provided complimentary optoelectronic characterisation (PL) |
| Impact | This collaboration has led to a publication in Materials Advances (DOI: 10.1039/d1ma00922b) and presentation at international conference. The project is ongoing and forms part of a PhD studentship project. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Institute of Physics |
| Organisation | Institute of Physics (IOP) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Learned Society |
| PI Contribution | roadmapping |
| Collaborator Contribution | roadmaps Materials for Photovoltaic Systems Materials for Low-Carbon Production of Hydrogen and Related Energy Carriers and Chemical Feedstocks Thermoelectric Energy Conversion Materials Caloric Energy Conversion Materials Materials for Low Loss Electronics |
| Impact | Materials for Photovoltaic Systems Materials for Low-Carbon Production of Hydrogen and Related Energy Carriers and Chemical Feedstocks Thermoelectric Energy Conversion Materials Caloric Energy Conversion Materials Materials for Low Loss Electronics |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Ionoptika (P-NAME) |
| Organisation | Ionoptika |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Development of enhanced tool for ion-doping and funding through RCUK and Institutional sources. Development of new alloy materials and sources for use in doping technologies. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Commercialisation of enhanced tool for ion-doping and new ion sources. |
| Impact | Commercial tool now developed (Q-One) by UK SME. New software for ion control developed. New ion sources developed. Interdisciplinary: metallurgy, physics, engineering |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Leeds Collaboration |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | - Expertise in development of scattering-type near-field microscopy in the terahertz range (THz-SNOM) and analysis and interpretation of SNOM results. - Characterisation of topological materials using broadband room-temperature and cryogenic THz-SNOM systems. - Access to ultrafast laser facility and CUSTOM facility (EP/T01914X/1) |
| Collaborator Contribution | - Provision of topological insulator thin films for characterisation - Expertise in THz characterisation and topological behaviour - Provision of designer THz-QCLs for use with SNOM - Access to QCL-based THz SNOM and ultrafast THz characterisation facilities |
| Impact | - Collaboration on work packages in EPSRC Programme Grant (EP/V001914/1). - Submission of invited contribution on THz near-field imaging for publication '2023 Terahertz Science and Technology Roadmap' in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | NPL Collaboration |
| Organisation | National Physical Laboratory |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | - Expertise in development of THz scattering near-field optical microscopy (THz-SNOM) systems, analysis and interpretation of results - Contribution to development of metrology for SNOM techniques - Access to ultrafast laser facility in Photon Science Institute at University of Manchester - Access to CUSTOM facility (EP/T01914X/1) - room-temperature and cryogenic SNOM systems with preliminary measurements on topological insulator nanowires |
| Collaborator Contribution | - Access to microscopy systems within NPL, including room-temperature SNOM systems with variety of sources (QCL and broadband), Kerr microscopy and TERS - Expertise in metrology of microscopy techniques - Expertise topological systems, graphene and 2D materials |
| Impact | - Two joint PhD studentships between NPL, UCL and Manchester, funded through EPSRC-funded CDT working on terahertz microscopy of low-dimensional materials: the first started in October 2021 and is co-supervised by Dr Olga Kazakova; the 2nd starts in October 2022 and is co-supervised by Dr Mira Naftaly. - University of Manchester hosting NPL equipment alongside CUSTOM facility to provide expertise in its installation and operation. - Visiting research positions in progress for Dr Olga Kazakova and Dr Jess Boland |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Oxford Collaboration (Topological Insulator Materials and Terahertz Characterisation) |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Department of Physics |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have characterised the provided materials using ultrafast terahertz spectroscopy and microscopy, providing access to ultrafast laser facilities and the recently-funded CUSTOM facility (EP/T01914X/1) within the Photon Science Institute at University of Manchester to conduct these measurements. |
| Collaborator Contribution | One research group in Oxford (Prof Thorsten Hesjedal) have provided topological insulator and Dirac semi-metal nanowire samples for optoelectronic characterisation. Another research group (Prof. Michael Johnston) have provided access to terahertz characterisation facilities and expertise in terahertz spectroscopy. |
| Impact | - Oral presentation at IRMMW-THz 2020 on experimental results on these materials (DOI: 10.1109/IRMMW-THz46771.2020.9370806) - Manuscript submission to Nature Communications |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Toronto Collaboration |
| Organisation | University of Toronto |
| Country | Canada |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have provided access to CUSTOM facility for preliminary terahertz nanoscale characterisation of nanoparticle metamaterial structures. We have also provide access to other optoelectronic characterisation techniques, including photoluminescence, Raman and FTIR spectroscopy. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The group in Toronto (Prof. Kherani) have provided nanoparticle metamaterials structures for characterisation. They also form part of a feedback loop between sample growth, nanoscale doping and nanoscale characterisation. |
| Impact | - MITACS exchange grant to support a researcher from Toronto visiting Manchester (CUSTOM facility) to conduct terahertz characterisation of nanoparticle samples. - Pump-prime funded access to CUSTOM for initial measurements on nanoparticle samples. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | TwinTeam IGIC |
| Organisation | Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry |
| Country | Bulgaria |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Delivered guest lectures at IGIC organised events. Hosted guest researchers at Imperial College White City Campus. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Hosted guest lecturers at IGIC events. Hosted guest ICL researchers at IGIC. |
| Impact | Invited talks delivered at TwinTeam conference at IGIC. Paper accepted at European MRS Conference. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | University of Cambridge |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Undertook roadmapping "Materials for the Energy Transition |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaborations between Manchester, Imperial, Leeds, Cambridge, Institute for Manufacturing and Institute of Physics to produce 5 roadmaps Materials for Photovoltaic Systems Materials for Low-Carbon Production of Hydrogen and Related Energy Carriers and Chemical Feedstocks Thermoelectric Energy Conversion Materials Caloric Energy Conversion Materials Materials for Low Loss Electronics |
| Impact | 5 roadmaps Materials for Photovoltaic Systems Materials for Low-Carbon Production of Hydrogen and Related Energy Carriers and Chemical Feedstocks Thermoelectric Energy Conversion Materials Caloric Energy Conversion Materials Materials for Low Loss Electronics |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | University of Manchester |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration on a Programme Grant |
| Collaborator Contribution | Scientific research |
| Impact | No outputs yet |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Warwick Collaboration |
| Organisation | University of Warwick |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The terahertz group in Warwick have provided pump-prime funded access to their ultrafast spectroscopy facility and expertise in terahertz and ultrafast optoelectronic characterisation. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We are providing access to the CUSTOM facility for proof-of-concept measurements and expertise in nanoscale terahertz and ultrafast optoelectronic characterisation. |
| Impact | - Currently have 2 PhD students working together on GeSn project. - Publication generated from use of Warwick facility (DOI: 10.1039/D1MA00922B (Paper) Mater. Adv., 2022, 3, 1295-1303). - Members from Warwick have also joined annual meetings for UK Network on THz microscopy and quantum materials. - Worked on invited section on roadmap article together (J Lloyd-Hughes et al 2021 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 33 353001). |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | collaboration with Leeds University |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration within Royce and a new Programme Grant |
| Collaborator Contribution | Scientific research |
| Impact | Multidisciplinary Physics, Materials, Chemistry, Electrical engineering |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Title | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING QUANTUM OSCILLATIONS |
| Description | Apparatus (10) for establishing quantum oscillations at room temperature, the apparatus comprising: a cavity having a resonator structure therein, the resonator structure comprising a resonant element (18) and a gain medium (16), a species of the gain medium having an electronic spin multiplicity capable of supporting a two-level spin system; and optical pumping means (24) arranged to pump the resonator structure and thereby generate microwave output power through stimulated emission of thermal photons; wherein said species of the gain medium is of a sufficiently high concentration such as to have an ensemble spin-photon coupling rate which exceeds both the cavity mode decay rate and the spin-spin decoherence rate; and wherein the optical pumping means is configured to pump the resonator structure using a short pulse of nanosecond duration, or a burst of approximately a millisecond in duration at relatively low instantaneous optical power, to excite said species of the gain medium into a spin-polarized two-level system that exhibits quantum oscillations in the microwave output power. The outer casing (12) may be made from copper and has an inlet (20) for the pump beam (22) and an outlet (28) allowing coupling of the radiation into a transmission line (26).The resonance frequency of the resonator may be controlled with an adjustable top wall (13). A corresponding method for establishing quantum oscillations at room temperature is also provided. |
| IP Reference | WO2018051099 |
| Protection | Patent application published |
| Year Protection Granted | 2018 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | In progress |
| Title | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING STIMULATED EMISSION OF MICROWAVE OR RADIO FREQUENCY RADIATION |
| Description | A device for generating stimulated emission of microwave or radio frequency electromagnetic radiation, the device comprising: a resonator structure;an input source of microwave or radio frequency electromagnetic radiation to be amplified; and an input of energy arranged to pump the resonator structure and thereby cause amplification of the electromagnetic radiation; wherein the configuration of the resonator structure and/or the materials used in its construction give rise to an increase in the magnetic Purcell factor of the resonator structure. Corresponding methods for generating stimulated emission of microwave or radio frequency electromagnetic radiation are also provided. |
| IP Reference | WO2013175235 |
| Protection | Patent granted |
| Year Protection Granted | 2013 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | . These breakthroughs have received significant global attention; the room temperature maser was recognised as one of the top 10 breakthroughs in 2012 by Physics World, celebrated for the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 20th Anniversary in 2014, presented to an international audience at the World Economic Forum by Professor Neil Alford in 2016 and exhibited at the Royal Society Summer Exhibition in 2017. (https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2017/sum |
| Title | ROOM TEMPERATURE MASING USING SPIN-DEFECT CENTRES |
| Description | Apparatus for achieving masing at room temperature, the apparatus comprising: a microwave cavity which exhibits a resonance of sufficiently high Q-factor for maser oscillation; a resonator structure comprising a masing medium located within a resonant element, wherein the masing medium comprises spin-defect centres, the resonator structure being disposed within the microwave cavity; means for applying a magnetic field across the masing medium; an input of microwave radiation to be amplified, the input of microwave radiation being coupled to the resonator structure; and means for optically pumping the masing medium and thereby causing stimulated emission of microwave photons; wherein the microwave cavity has an effective magnetic mode volume matching the volume of the masing medium. A corresponding method for producing masing at room temperature is also provided. |
| IP Reference | WO2019021002 |
| Protection | Patent application published |
| Year Protection Granted | 2019 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | in progress |
| Description | 12th International Conference on HIPIMS - Oral presentation: "Room temperature deposition of plasmonic TiN" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Oral presentation delivered at 12th International Conference on HIPIMS - Sheffield, UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.hipimsconference.com/ |
| Description | Annual topical meeting on terahertz microscopy and quantum materials |
| 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 | Network meeting for UK researchers working on application on terahertz spectroscopy and microscopy on quantum materials. The main aim was to present current research in this field in the UK; share details of terahertz characterisation and material growth capability at each institution; to forge new collaborations and research activity within the network that could form the basis for future programme grants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020,2022 |
| Description | Be Curious 2022 |
| 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 | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Stall with scientific demos at a festival showing research at the University of Leeds to the public. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.leeds.ac.uk/becurious |
| Description | Be Curious 2023 |
| 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 | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Be Curious festival is the University of Leeds annual public open day. Members of the public (mostly families from the Leeds/West Yorkshire area) come to see stands and performances related to research for across the university. We had a stand about crystal structures. This included Crystal Creation maker kits and demonstrations of how we use X-rays to find the structures of materials. We gave out over 200 maker kits on the day. Feedback from the audience included a school librarian who said she took away inspiration and ideas, and a family we met at a later event told us that their child kept the crystal structure that they made by their bed. A lot of people had a go at the craft activity in the maker kit then came back to as us more about the related science. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.leeds.ac.uk/becurious |
| Description | Blog about the capabilities of PNAME |
| 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 | Blog post on the capabilities of PNAME, through the release of small implanted pumpkin image. Blog post explained in simple terms what PNAME is and its core capabilities. Associated ticktok has had over 3500 views. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk/science-engineering/2023/10/31/less-than-the-width-of-a-human-h... |
| Description | Bradford Science Festival 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Bradford Science Festival is a celebration of science based at the Science and Media Museum in Bradford. Members of the public (mostly families from the Bradford/West Yorkshire area) come to see stands and performances and take part in activities. We had a stand about crystal structures on 3rd and 4th June 2023. The stand included Crystal Creation maker kits and demonstrations of how we use X-rays to find the structures of materials. We gave out over 300 maker kits at the event and had interactions with 500 people over the two days. Many people had a go at the craft activity in the maker kit then came back to as us more about the related science. Most said that they were learning something new and found the ideas interesting. We also talked to other exhibitors and staff at the museum. The museum staff also told us they were learning something new and it gave them different perspective. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Brian Hickey - Pure Spin Currents and impurities in Metals |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Advanced Electronic and Photonic Materials Conference - SPIE/Royce 7 - 8 September 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://spie.org/conferences-and-exhibitions/advanced-electronic-and-photonic-materials?SSO=1 |
| Description | British Science Week Stall at Manchester Museum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | To mark British Science Week, a mixture of staff and student volunteers went to Manchester Museum to take part in a science fair. We spent two days speaking to members of the public and local schools who visited about the research done in the NAME project. Demonstrations included the Lego atomic force microscope demonstrating the basic of surface characterisation, optical microscopes of everyday materials and a demon of how light can be used to transmit information. Had engagement form adults and undergrad students as well, who asked many questions pertaining to our research and were interested in collaborating/joining our group in the future. Students generally engaged well with the stall once we got them to look. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Career Speed Networking event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Aim Aim was a career speed networking event, so that pupils can talk to people in the world of work. Attended a school in Bury to meet with pupils and talk to them about my job. For some of these pupils this was their first opportunity of talking to somebody who works in STEM industries. Had quick fire questions and talked about how I got to where I am today and my current role and what we do. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Careers and science presentation to new physics teacher- Odgen Trust |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | 60 early career physics teachers, supported by Odgen trust scheme. Gave a presentation on career and insight into the science that is undertaken as a materials scientist. Discussions were had on the physics behind the materials as well as how to engage younger audiences. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Careers day Q and A at the Science and Industry Museum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Q and A session with 2 primary schools at the science and industry museum in Manchester. The location was open to the public so had some engagement with passing visitors as well. The purpose was to provide an insight into scientists from different background and humanise them. Students showed good engagement with the activity and came up with a variety of different questions through the session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Careers day at IOP |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Was invited to give 30min talk on my career and science that I do to primary school children, partake in role model musical chairs (quick fire Q and A session) and role model bingo (children had to find scientists with a given attribute). Day involved 4 schools from the local London area, with approximately 120 children total. The intended purpose was to humanise scientists, give primary school children role models in science and exposure to different scientific careers. Teachers have already reported good engagement from the students, and in increase in interest from students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Celebration of Physics IOP |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Open free event at Bristol Aerospace, where I was at a stand with the #limtless campaign with Lego AFM and atom smash demos. Multiple schools visited the stands through the morning (approx. 30) who engaged with the demos and content, questions about atoms and devices. Afternoon engagement with the physics community with regard to outreach and physics of the demos. Contacts made with regard to further outreach opportunities. Many conversations on quantum and its applications with other members of IOP. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.iop.org/events/celebration-physics#gref |
| Description | Co-organised a 'Workshop on Functional Materials Applications: From Energy to Sensing' at SPIE Photonex 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 | A session on topological materials was organised within the 'Workshop on Functional Materials and Applications' for SPIE Photonex 2022. This involved liaising with SPIE organisers and inviting speakers for the session. The talks were given to an audience of ~30 in the focused sessions and they sparked interest in current research in NAME programme grant and CUSTOM facility and potential future collaborations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Community Day Manchester 2023 |
| 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 | A one day free festival at the university of Manchester, offering inviting, informal space for visitors to meet our staff and students and community partners, and for us to take part in conversations that connect and inspire. Over 600 people were documented to have entered the room we were situated in, and 100 creative science kits were handed out. Stall involved microscopes on materials, handing out crystal maker kits with crystal defect demo, lego AFM and sound to light demo. Members of the public from the local community attended, generally in family units with ages ranging from 5+ engaging wit the stall. We had 4 volunteers through out the day offering insight into the science behind the demos. Families seemed engaged, and initial feedback has been positive from feedback forms that were handed back to the university, including some mentioning our stall being a highlight. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.socialresponsibility.manchester.ac.uk/public-engagement/spotlight-events/community-festi... |
| Description | Daan Arroo - Spin-defect masers: nitrogen-vacancies in diamond and beyond? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Advanced Electronic and Photonic Materials Conference Royce/SPIE 7 - 8 September 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://spie.org/conferences-and-exhibitions/advanced-electronic-and-photonic-materials?SSO=1 |
| Description | Daan M. Arroo, Daniel C. Jones, Yongqiang Wen, and Neil McN. Alford Multidimensional spectroscopic and imaging microscope for investigation of point defects in diamond Annual Diamond conference Warwick |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Diamond Conference Warwick |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Deep dive presentation on silicon photonics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Deep dive themed presentation on silicon photonics at my institution, delivered as part of grant quarterly meeting with academics from UoM, Leeds and Imperial as well as PG students involved in the research area |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| Description | Electrons and qubits: Explaining quantum computing |
| 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 | Interview for University of Manchester Blog. Electrons and qubits: Explaining quantum computing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk/science-engineering/2023/02/23/electrons-and-qubits-explaining-... |
| Description | Great Exhibition Road Fesival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Imperial researchers participated in the Great Exhibition Road Festival on the 17th and 18th of June 2023. The Festival is a celebration of science and the arts led by Imperial College London and had an estimated 50,000 attendees. Researchers from the Department of Materials presented their research on nanoscale engineering in the Festival's Smart Machines Zone. Their interactive demonstration included an introduction to the atom scale engineering achieved using the P-NAME ion implantation tool and a discussion of how small scale changes can dramatically alter material properties. The Shoebox Maser was exhibited as an example of how such nanoscale engineering can find practical applications in healthcare and quantum technology. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.greatexhibitionroadfestival.co.uk/ |
| Description | IOP Science for Life Summer Showcase |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Pupils from three Islington primary schools, and students from Arts and Media School Islington (AMSI) and Samuel Rhodes MLD took part in the Science Showcase held at the Institute of Physics. Science Showcase was an event meant to mimic that of a science conference with a key note speaker and students encouraged to present their recent work via talks and poster presentations. Maddison Coke was key note speaker giving an insight into life as a scientist. She spoke about overcoming difficulties such as dyslexia to become a scientist. Maddy told attendees how she was always curious and creative and how she never gave up even when learning became difficult. Going to university taught her a lot of life skills, like how to solve problems and be resilient; as well as, the skills she needed for her profession. Students activity engaged with Maddison after the session with many asking questions in the Q&A and poster session. Pupils reported increased visibility of scientists as viable career prospect. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://sites.google.com/view/scienceforlife/about/science-showcase?authuser=0 |
| Description | IOP summer superheroes exhibition and days |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Having been selected as an IOP "superhero" for their summer exhibition there were a number of events held with scientists on site to target key audiences. Demos of ion implantation and travel to such events to act as an on hand scientist and role model to the children that were attending the events and exhibition were undertaken. The ion implantation took form of a ball pit with different weighted balls to simulate ion implantation and application model was of lasers being used as sound transmitters. One of the key aims of the initiative and events was to demonstrate and celebrate the diversity in physics. As a member of underrepresented demographics in science, it was key to highlight this, from nods to my LGBT identity in the superhero design, visibility of being a women of mixed heritage in STEM and discussing my dyslexia in my profile and in person. For schoolchildren to see a real life scientist who represents these groups I think was important, can challenge some perception of scientists and help widen participation and engagement. The exhibition were targeted at schools in the first week and then the wider community in Islington for the latter month. The events all occurred in and around Islington. The three events that were attended using the funding were; IOP Family Day - launch of exhibition to the public, free to attend Islington Playday - at local adventure play area, targeting groups that would not normally engage with science through play and discussion Summer Reading Challenge @ Islington Library - this year's theme was gadgets to which we bought demos to. With Islington having the tenth highest level of income deprivation affecting children in England, this give children an insight into the science world that they may otherwise not have access to. The demos themselves were aimed at being able to be engaged with children of a wide range of ages with the core of the demo, dropping a ball, being simple, but the explanations and further discussion being led by the children themselves. The application demo of sound and light was interactive and aided by large slinkies, waves could be discussed. The exhibition on a whole engaged with over 2,800 people in its 2-month long run. The initial school visits were targeted to the local area of Islington, being on the Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) 2019, ranked as the 53rd most deprived local authority area in England (out of 317), this is a demographic that would traditionally have less access to STEM activities and role models, so these areas were targeted through location of schools and location of exhibition itself. The visits that I attended in person had attendance of 580 people over the three events. Feedback was mostly anecdotal but IOP also had an enjoyment rating where people at the exhibition could rate their visit and this came out at 84% positive engagement. The average engagement with the exhibition as a whole was about 2 -2.5 hours with on the day event engagement with the demos that I was manning being around 15 mins. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.iop.org/explore-physics/superheroes-unlimited |
| Description | Imperial Invention Rooms - Half Term Workshop |
| 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 | Imperial White City Invention Room provides half term workshops for local families and hope to inspire generations of inventors, entrepreneurs and makers from the local area and beyond. The science workshop introduced the concept of "nano" and highlighted some of the reseach being done by Material Scientists at Imperial through interactive demonstrations. Families then designed and made their own circuits. Median feedback responses (1"disagree" - 5 "agree", n=16) We had fun as a group: 5 The staff were friendly: 5 One day I could be a scientist: 4 Did you feel welcome in the space: 5 Overall session rating out of 5: 5 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/science-workshop-nano-circuits-tickets-736337153247?aff=erelexpmlt |
| Description | Imperial Lates - Space |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Imperial researchers joined Imperial Lates this month, to demonstrate how their research can impact space communications. The evening involved a lively celebration of Space, with researchers showing live demonstrations to an enthusiastic audience, with an estimated 850 attendees. Demonstrations included a light to sound demo and the miniaturised diamond maser. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/169067/imperial-lates-space/ |
| Description | Imperial Lates: Tiny Science |
| 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 | Imperial Lates is a themed outreach evening open to the general public where Imperial College London researchers can present and discuss their research. The theme of the November Lates was Tiny Science. Members of the NAME programme grant discussed the use of ion implantation in maser research through the use of a large scale "ion smash" game which demonstrated the principles and applications of the P-NAME ion implantation tool. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/152709/imperial-lates-tiny-science/ |
| Description | Imperial Lates: Tiny Science |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Imperial Lates is a themed outreach evening open to the general public where Imperial College London researchers can present and discuss their research. The theme of the November Lates was Tiny Science. Members of the NAME programme grant and Cryo EPS discussed the use of ion implantation in maser research through the use of a large scale "ion smash" game which demonstrated the principles and applications of the P-NAME ion implantation tool and the why we need cryogenic atomic scale microscopy to analyse these single ion implantation centres. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/152709/imperial-lates-tiny-science/ |
| Description | Interview for STEMM untapped podcast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Conducted an interview for STEMM untapped podcast about career journey, current research and how disability has affected career. The interview was conducted by school students and recorded for the podcast series. After the interview, the students reported a change in opinions and asked to keep in touch. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited Talk to SPIE Photonex Birmingham- Structural Ordering and IR active Vibrations in Bi2(Te(1-x)Se(x))3 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Research outcomes were presented at the SPIE-Photonex Birmingham conference/trade-show. Research results and methodology was discussed with the audience of academic and industry professionals and seemed well received. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited lecture to the MatSize 4 workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Fourth International Workshop on Size-Dependent Effect in Materials for Environmental Protection and Energy Application (SizeMat 4) organised by the Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry at the Bulgarian Academy of Science. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.bas.bg/?p=44202&lang=en |
| Description | Invited panelist for International Women's Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited to take part in a panel session on 'Building Confidence in Research' for International Women's Day. This was an opportunity to discuss research and inspire undergraduate and postgraduate students to pursue research and discuss ways of navigating academia and dealing with imposter syndrome. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited presentation on 'Topological nanowires as candidates for controllable THz sources' at Rank Prize Symposium on Nanowire Photonics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited presentation at Rank Prize Symposium on Nanowire Photonics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited seminar entitled 'A Journey in Physics' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An invited outreach presentation for the Institute of Physics as part of their branch lecture series. The talk was given at Loretto Sixth From college and attend by ~30 participants including general public, school teachers and school students. There was a lot of discussion and questions after the talk and a few students reported renewed interest in physics and this area of research and kept in contact after the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Invited seminar on 'Revealing the optoelectronic properties of semiconductor nanostructures using terahertz spectroscopy and microscopy' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited seminar on 'Revealing the optoelectronic properties of semiconductor nanostructures using terahertz spectroscopy and microscopy' for University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that advertised the CUSTOM facility and research into terahertz characterisation of nanomaterials. This talk led to discussions around collaboration and use of facility. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited seminar on 'Terahertz, Technology and Telecoil Loops' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited seminar celebrating Disability History Month discussing current research activity on terahertz characterisation of quantum materials and experiences as a disabled academic promoting accessibility in STEM. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited talk at ICMAT 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited oral presentation at the 11th International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT 2023) in Singapore. Presentation was focused on ion beam modification of materials using the P-NAME tool, as part of the NAME grant. Attendees were from various different countries around the world, with a specialisation or interest in ion beam technologies and their applications. Following the presentation, many discussions were had on the specific capabilities of the system, the application of the research presented, and the work underway as part of the NAME programme grant. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://icmat2023.mrs.org.sg/public.asp?page=index.asp |
| Description | Invited talk on 'Non-destructive 3D imaging and spectroscopy of surfaces via near-field optical microscopy' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk at the UK Surface Analysis Forum. This presentation advertised the CUSTOM facility and SNOM capability at Manchester, as well as showing applications of SNOM for characterisation of quantum materials and other advanced functional materials (biomaterials and semiconductors). This presentation sparked interest in new collaborations at the University of Manchester, namely correlation of atomic probe microscopy with SNOM applications. It also sparked interest in terahertz spectroscopy and some industrial work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited talk on 'Non-destructive nanoscale material characterisation via terahertz and midinfrared scattering-type near field optical microscopy (THz s-SNOM)' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited presentation at UK AFM and SPM Meeting to advertise SNOM capability, CUSTOM facility and current quantum materials research at University of Manchester. This has led to further engagement with the community and advertisement of SNOM network. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Jessica Boland - Impurity characterisation on nanometre length scales via near-field terahertz spectroscopy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Advanced Electronic and Photonic Materials Conference Royce/SPIE 7 - 8 September 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://spie.org/conferences-and-exhibitions/advanced-electronic-and-photonic-materials?SSO=1 |
| Description | Joe Barker - Multiscale Modelling of magnetic materials |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Advanced Electronic and Photonic Materials Conference Royce / SPIE 7 - 8 September 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://spie.org/conferences-and-exhibitions/advanced-electronic-and-photonic-materials?SSO=1 |
| Description | Keynote talks on 'Topological Dirac semi-metals as novel, optically-switchable, helicity-dependent terahertz sources' at IRMMW-THz 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation was an invited keynote talk associated with IRMMW-THz Zhenyi Wang award to promote my current research on near-field microscopy and terahertz spectroscopy of topological insulator materials. The talk was well received and the work was promoted for publication and further study with device applications. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology (KIAT) and Director General of the Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) 13 Sept 2023 |
| 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 | KIAT visited Royce Imperial, A2D & Imperial to explore finding partners with whom they can establish Korea-Global Industrial Technology Partnering Centre in Europe. The centre would act as a hub to make strong R&D collaboration between academics and Korean industry. The delegation wished to learn about Imperial's approach to industrial collaboration, how Royce Imperial fostered this and how it could accommodate the needs of Korean industry (joint R&D projects, replacement, and training of industrial researchers etc). Additionally, they wished to discover how Imperial's research excellence aligned with their interest in six key sectors, including semiconductors (not only transitional inorganic semiconductors but also molecular semiconductors), biotechnology, battery, autonomous driving, aeronautics, and robotics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | MRS Fall 2022 meeting symposium organisation and chairing: Higher-Order Topological Structures in Real Space-From Charge to Spin |
| 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 | The increasingly cross-disciplinary worldwide activity in materials research manifests itself every year in the MRS Fall Meetings. Featuring over 50 symposia and attended by as many as 6,000 researchers from every corner of the globe, the annual Fall Meeting in Boston's Hynes Convention Center and Sheraton Boston Hotel is the preeminent annual event for those in the field of materials research. This symposium aims to bring together scientific experts and young scientists with an interest in topologically non-trivial charge and spin textures that arise in real space, fostering interactions and advancing knowledge of higher-order topological structures in ferroelectrics, multiferroics and magnetic materials. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.mrs.org/meetings-events/fall-meetings-exhibits/2022-mrs-fall-meeting/symposium-sessions/... |
| Description | MRS Fall 2023 meeting symposium organisation and chairing: Higher-Order Topological Structures in Real Space-From Charge to Spin |
| 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 | The increasingly cross-disciplinary worldwide activity in materials research manifests itself every year in the MRS Fall Meetings. Featuring over 50 symposia and attended by as many as 6,000 researchers from every corner of the globe, the annual Fall Meeting in Boston's Hynes Convention Center and Sheraton Boston Hotel is the preeminent annual event for those in the field of materials research. This symposium aims to bring together scientific experts and young scientists with an interest in topologically non-trivial charge and spin textures that arise in real space, fostering interactions and advancing knowledge of higher-order topological structures in ferroelectrics, multiferroics and magnetic materials. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.mrs.org/meetings-events/fall-meetings-exhibits/2023-mrs-fall-meeting/call-for-papers/det... |
| Description | MRS Spring 2023 Cryogenic TEM and APT symposium organisation and Chairing |
| 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 | Organised and Chairing the MRS Spring 2023 symposium: Advances in Cryogenic Transmission Electron Microscopy and Spectroscopy for Quantum and Energy Materials |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.mrs.org/meetings-events/spring-meetings-exhibits/2023-mrs-spring-meeting/call-for-papers... |
| Description | Magda Titirici - The next generation of sustainable and performant batteries: challenges, pitfalls, and progress |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Advanced Electronic and Photonic Materials Conference Royce/SPIE 7 - 8 September 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://spie.org/conferences-and-exhibitions/advanced-electronic-and-photonic-materials?SSO=1 |
| Description | Materials for the energy transition Policy workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A two hour workshop was held in collaboration with the energy futures lab at Imperial college London, to scope out policy suggestions to facilitate material science facilitation the energy transition. The workshop outputs are being written into a policy document which will be released in the summer of 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Meeting a group of high school children |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The aim was to to discuss careers in science and engineering with students rom under-represented backgrounds to promote mobility within STEM subjects |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://in2scienceuk.org |
| Description | Member of EPSRC CDT on Compound Semiconductor Manufacturing Education Board |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited as a CDT supervisor to act as a member of the EPSRC CDT on Compound Semiconductor Manufacturing Education board to provide feedback on skills and training for PhD students on CDT. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| Description | Metamaterials for NetZero |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Neil Alford gave a presentation on the possible use of metamaterials to achieve net zero. The four areas covered were Thermoelectrics Solar to radio frequency energy harvesting Structured catalysts for hydrogen Chargeless computing This was followed by a day of discussion of the topics followed by action planning to take projects forward |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://metamaterials.network/home/conference/?highlight=%7Bsearch_term_string%7D%2Fuser%2FEric-Plum |
| Description | Neil Alford - Presentation and lab tour of NAME and Royce to CNRS delegation |
| 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 | Presentation to a delegation from CNRS |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Neil Alford Presentation on Royce and on Quantum to NATO Deputy Permanent Representatives Committee 9 Dec 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation re Royce and on Materials for Quantum |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/royce-facilities/ |
| Description | New Scientist Live |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interactive demonstrations presented to the general public at New Scientist Live event to explain current research activities. Demonstrations included: water droplet demonstration to explain pump-probe experiments, laser maze game to explain spectroscopy, interactive activity throwing toy balls at material, explaining ion implantation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | New Scientist Live |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Demonstrated a laser maze game to the general public, and explained optics lab work. It inspired many kids to be more interested in science. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://live.newscientist.com/ |
| Description | Online interview with Girls in Quantum |
| 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 | Online interview with group "Girls in Quantum" describing my path to my current career and what I currently study. This has now been posted on their social media channels- twitter, linkedin and youtube and is accessible to all. Girls for Quantum is an international group with a focus on getting more girls to consider quantum as a career and be more aware of the different roles in quantum. Engagement with interviewer very positive. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmuw1c_AYgI |
| Description | Opening of Imperial College Quantum Engineering Science and Technology |
| 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 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuxcm9a3sys&ab_channel=ImperialCollegeLondon https://www.imperial.ac.uk/academic-strategy/academic-strategy-projects/centre-for-quantum-engineering-science-and-technology--quest/ https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/getting-to-net-zero-will-take-all-our-ingenuity-btvd0xjcb |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/academic-strategy/academic-strategy-projects/centre-for-quantum-engineeri... |
| Description | Oral Presentation at CLEO Europe 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Research conducted in collaboration with KTH, Stockholm was presented at CLEO Europe in June 2023 (presentation code: CE-9.4) by a PhD student from KTH. The work presented focused on erbium ion implantation of lithium niobate for telecoms applications, with preliminary results of the ion implantation and photoluminescence studies (both conducted at the University of Manchester, UK) with further sample processing and piezoresponse force microscopy conducted at KTH also presented. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.cleoeurope.org/programme-and-app/ |
| Description | Organisation of the International Microscopy Conference EMAG |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | EMAG 2022 is the biennial focused meeting of the EMAG group of the IOP and will be held at Imperial College London. During this meeting, we will also be celebrating the 75th anniversary of the founding of the EM(A)G as an IOP group. This section of the event will be held at the Institute of Physics headquarters. The meeting will focus on multidimensional electron microscopy research. Distinguished invited speakers will present recent advances in multidimensional electron microscopy research, alongside contributed oral presentations, flash talks and poster sessions. EMAG conferences are valued in particular for providing a platform for students to present their work, alongside more established researchers, in a friendly and supportive atmosphere. A table-top trade exhibition will also be held for delegates to explore the latest advances in electron microscopy instrumentation and software. On the 7th of July, EMAG2022 meeting will be immediately followed up a 'town hall' style meeting jointly organized by EMAG, Royal Microscopy Society, SuperSTEM Facility at Daresbury and ePSIC Facility at Diamond. Immediately after hearing the current development in the UK in EMAG2022, the short 'town hall meeting is ideally position to kick start the consultation for a refresh of the UK EM roadmap for electron microscopy in the physical science (see details).' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://iop.eventsair.com/emag2022 |
| Description | Organised a 'Quantum Industry Showcase' event at University of Manchester |
| 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 | Organised a workshop aimed at industry/business to showcase current quantum materials research at Manchester, as well as the research facilities available via the Henry Royce Institute and the university that are open for external access. This was a successful event that has lead to >5 new industry-funded projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Otley Science Cafe |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I gave a talk about research from the Royce Deposition System to a general audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://eps.leeds.ac.uk/physics/news/article/5833/philippa-s-smashing-talk-at-the-science-cafe |
| Description | Outreach stall at February Half term in the Science and Industry Museum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | NAME in collaboration with the PSI put on table top activities for the February half term event at the science and industry museum. This included ion implantation demo, microscopes, light wave demo and LEGO AFM. The event was heavily attended with approximately 2000 interactions through the 3 days. We had audience of mainly young families, with some coming back repeatedly through the day. The audience reported a positive engagement, with many going to all parts of the stall. The audience asked many probing questions, showing an understanding of the content and an active interest. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/whats-on/february-half-term-2024 |
| Description | Outreach to College A Level Students |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | 3 A level students and 1 teacher attended a presentation, experimental demonstrations, and discussion on the topics of university, physical processes pertaining to diamond fluorescence and microscopy, and future career options. There was much discussion about the demonstrated experiments and university life as an undergraduate, postgraduate and post-doctoral life. This lasted for ~2.5 hours. Atleast two of the students stated that they had not considered future research after a degree and would like to investigate that further. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Outreach workshop at School "Petko R Slaveykov", Varna |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Dr Ryan Bower, Dr Daniel Price and Dr Peter Petrov conducted an outreach workshop at School "Petko R Slaveykov" in Varna. The workshop, designed by Dr Eleonora D'Elia, introduced students to materials science at the nano-scale by exploring 'Materials Inspired by Nature'. Following the workshop, the students presented and discussed examples of 'The Magic of Light' from their recent science projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | PNAME talk at UK surface analysis forum meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A talk discussing the capabilities of PNAME with the surface characterisation community held at the Manchester Royce Institute. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/news/uksaf-summer-meeting-2022-takes-place-at-royce-hub-building/ |
| Description | Panel member for EPSRC Core Equipment Award 2022 Expert Prioritisation Panel One |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited to act as a panel member for EPSRC Core Equipment Award 2022 Expert Prioritisation Panel One, rating and providing feedback to proposals for core equipment within universities and research institutes. The decisions of the panel then led to receipt of award to support research in these institutions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Participation in British Science Week festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The entire research group helped with outreach demonstrations at British Science Week festival to showcase current quantum materials and SNOM research. The event was attended by >100 members of the general public and schools. There was good feedback during the event about increased interest. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Peter Haynes - Plenary Lecture: Materials for Quantum Technologies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Advanced Electronic and Photonic Materials Conference Royce/SPIE 7 - 8 September 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://spie.org/conferences-and-exhibitions/advanced-electronic-and-photonic-materials?SSO=1 |
| Description | Peter Petrov - MRS Fall meeting 2022 : Deposition of Multilayer Graphene Using Pulsed Laser Deposition |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.mrs.org/meetings-events/fall-meetings-exhibits/2022-mrs-fall-meeting |
| Description | Peter Petrov - MRS Fall meeting 2022 Barium Titanate Based Materials for Intelligent Thermoelectric Converters with Dynamic Workload Management |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.mrs.org/meetings-events/fall-meetings-exhibits/2022-mrs-fall-meeting |
| Description | Peter Petrov - Presentation and lab tour of Royce and ROMANS to CNRS delegation |
| 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 | Presentation to a delegation from CNRS |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Peter Petrov demonstration of Royce TFDM Facility to NATO Deputy Permanent Representatives Committee 9 Dec 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of Royce TFDM Facility |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/royce-facilities/ |
| Description | Peter Petrov: Invited Talk at IUVSTA Workshop: Plasmonic Thin Films: Theory Synthesis and Applications |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Peter Petrov: Invited Lecture - 95th IUVSTA Workshop: Plasmonic Thin Films: Theory Synthesis and Applications |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.lab4nano.com/home/index.php/95th-iuvsta-workshop |
| Description | Peter Petrov: MetMAT 2022 Invited lecture: "Methods for Thin Films Deposition" |
| 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 | Delivered Invited Lecture "Methods for Thin Films Deposition" at MetMAT 2022 Training School. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://twinteam.igic.bas.bg/speakers/ |
| Description | Poster Presentation at International Ion Beam Conference (IBMM-2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Research outcomes were presented in an academic poster format at the international conference for Ion Beam Modification of Materials (IBMM-2022). Discussions on instrument capabilities and ongoing research areas were well received by the audience of academics, students, and industry professionals. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | http://www.ctn.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/IBMM-2022/ |
| Description | Presentation to DSTL on CUSTOM facility |
| 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 | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | A presentation on the SNOM capability (CUSTOM facility) at University of Manchester and its current application on quantum materials were presented to DSTL at a visit to the University of Manchester. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Public Engagement Talk in Theatre (Nine Lessons and Carols for Curious People) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Nine short presentations on Science interspersed with comedians to a sell out audience of 400 people at Contact Theatre on a Friday night (compered by Robin Ince) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://contactmcr.com/events/nine-lessons-and-carols-for-curious-people |
| Description | Qiaomu Yao 1. Poster presentation "Strain-controlled gold nanoparticle growth and tunable optical responses on SrNbO3 thin films" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | SPIE Royce Conference: Advanced Electronic and Photonic Materials 7th-8th September |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | RMS UK-EM Annual Lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 200 people attended to learn about new capabilities for in situ electron microscopy, the development of which was supported by this grant |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.rms.org.uk/rms-event-calendar/2023-events/em-uk-23.html |
| Description | Radio interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview on BBC Cymru radio show "Yfory Newydd" to discuss my general research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000p5vj |
| Description | Roadmap - Low loss Electronics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Roadmap for the energy transition - Low Loss Electronics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/content/uploads/2020/10/M4ET-Low-Loss-Electronics-Roadmap.pdf |
| Description | Roadmap Materials for the Energy Transition - Calorics |
| 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 | Roadmap and publication |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/content/uploads/2020/10/M4ET-Caloric-Energy-Conversion-Materials-roadmap.pdf |
| Description | Roadmap: Materials for photovoltaic systems |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Raising awareness for the Material community |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/content/uploads/2020/10/M4ET-Materials-for-Photovoltaic-Systems-Roadmap.pdf |
| Description | Roadmapping: Materials for Low-Carbon Production of Hydrogen and Related Energy Carriers and Chemical Feedstocks |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Roadmapping for hydrogen economy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/content/uploads/2020/10/M4ET-Low-Carbon-Production-Hydrogen-Roadmap.pdf |
| Description | Roadmapping: Materials for the Energy Transition- Thermoelectric Materials |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Roadmapping to raise community awareness |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/content/uploads/2020/10/M4ET-Thermoelectric-Energy-Conversion-Materials-Road... |
| Description | Royce TFDM Seminar - 10th June 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 | Presentations from Dr Aleksandar Tsanev Institute of Inorganic and General Chemistry at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences : "Research Topics in the Laboratory of Electron Spectroscopy of Solid Surfaces" and Mohammad Al Thehaiban on thermoelectric capacitive converters. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Royce TFDM Seminar - 11th November 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Royce Thin Films Device Manufacturing Seminar with presentations from Ms Sarah Alodan (Dept of Materials) titled "Fabrication of 2D Material-Based Devices" and from Dr Freya Johnson (Physics Dept) titled "Identifying octupole antiferromagnetic domains by scanning anomalous Nernst effect microscopy". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Royce TFDM Seminar - 17th February 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Royce TFDM Seminar with presentations from Prof Jung-Mu Kim, Full Professor at Jeonbuk National University, S Korea "Fabrication of Surface Plasmon Resonance sensor combined with MEMS actuator" and Dr Sami Ramadan, Dept of Materials, Imperial College London "Sensing of disease biomarkers using graphene field effect transistors". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Royce TFDM Seminar: Operando Characterisation & Thin Films - 20th January 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Royce TFDM Seminar with presentations from Dr. Reshma Rao, Imperial College London: "Operando characterisation of electrochemical interfaces" and Dr Francesco Carlà, Principal Scientist from Beamline I07 at Diamond Light Source: "Surface diffraction and scattering for in situ and operando characterization of surface structure and reactivity". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Ryan Bower "Temperature stability of individual plasmonic Au and TiN nanodiscs" " |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | SPIE Royce Conference: Advanced Electronic and Photonic Materials 7th-8th September |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Ryan Bower - Transition metal nitrides as alternative materials for plasmonic devices SPIE/Royce conference presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Advanced Electronic and Photonic Materials Conference 7 - 8 September 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://spie.org/conferences-and-exhibitions/advanced-electronic-and-photonic-materials?SSO=1 |
| Description | Ryan Bower: Kingsbury High School Careers Week Presentations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Imperial staff (Dr Bruno Rente, Dr Ryan Bower) each gave a 30 minute career presentation discussing their current work and answering questions from students at Kingsbury High School, London. Approximately 15 Year 7/8 students attended each career session. Dr Freya Johnson also provided a brief description of her career that was included in the KHS Career Week bulletin, estimated to be read by ~700 students and staff. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | SUMS Women in Maths event speaker |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | SUMS (Steps to University for Mathematical Students) enrichment day, aims to experience a university environment and engage with current students and staff and to encourage more female students to study mathematics. Maddison Coke gave the end of day talk on her career as a scientists and how she uses maths in her everyday scientific life. Questions were asked about quantum technologies and about how the science will affect people in the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://amsp.org.uk/events/ |
| Description | School visit to AFM lab |
| 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 | Schools |
| Results and Impact | two groups of 14 year old school children participating in organised activities at university spent 25 mins each in AFM lab, with demonstrations of LEGO and Nanosurf AFM on a material of their choice. Discussion on materials and what they are used for were had. Organisers reported increased interest in materials, and students were excited to have been in lab. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Science Stall at BlueDot music festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | NAME had a stall within the larger Royce Marvellous Materials stall at Bluedot music festival over 3 days of engagement we delivered demos and activates for approx. 1000 people. Royce stand 'Mervallous Materials' recorded a significant number of visitors and received very positive feedback. We observed families and visitors returning to our stand multiple times to try the activities over again. Demos included a shoe box MASER where discussions where had on how Jodrell Bank (where the festival was held) could keep time, a LEGO AFM and microscope looking at the characterisation of materials and an outreach optics bench- where we turned light into sound and used various optics to move the light around. Conversations were stimulated with the general public of all ages and had much interest in how we use materials and also the nanoscale. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | ScienceX |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Free in person event at Manchester central library engaging with the families of greater Manchester during 2 days over the half term break. Our researchers demonstrated ion implantation, use of microscopes and how light can be manipulated through laser games and transmission demos. These were well received with interaction on a whole lasting form 5 mins-20 mins and additional questions about the research being asked to our volunteers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk/sciencex/ |
| Description | Scientific Lead for Henry Royce Institute's "Materials for the Energy Transition: Materials for Low Carbon Methods for Generation of Hydrogen and Other Related Energy Carriers and Chemical Feedstocks" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was the Scientific Lead on this activity. I identified and enrolled around 40 participants from 20 academic institutions and six companies from across the UK. I presented the output to a webinar with 400 participants from Government, industry and academia. The output is a report, which was published in September 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/materials-for-low-carbon-production-of-hydrogen |
| Description | Seminar on NAME at University of Bath |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Seminar to researchers at Uni. of Bath on NAME. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Seminar session with Imperial college's centre for plastic electronics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Online seminar discussing the intersection between the Centre for Processible Electronics at imperial college and the Henry Royce Institute. Speakers included; Professor James Durrant, FRS Professor of Photochemistry, Department of Chemistry. Dr Robert Hoye, Lecturer in the Department of Materials, and Dr Amy Nommeots-Nomm Research Development Manager for Department of Materials/Royce Institute |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Speaker at Chemistry in Action Schools Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | 1 hour interactive talk on Materials Characterisation with electron diffraction |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://educationinaction.org.uk/study-day/chemistry-in-action-13-11-2023/ |
| Description | Speed networking at girls' STEM enrichment event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | 2 x 50 min speed networking sessions with approx. 32 Y10 girls in each. Ambassadors will take to the girls in small groups about their background, career pathway, personal experiences and current role. Aim was to introduce girls to a range of female role models and show them some interesting careers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Supporting Oldham library - summer reading challenge celebration day |
| 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 | Supported Oldham Library in celebration of reading challenge, this year being games and sport through bringing scientific games to their celebration day. Demo included laser maze game and sound to light demo. Families of all ages engaged with the stall, using reasoning skills whilst also learning about lasers and waves. Overall aim to engage with local community and show science in a different light which was acheived. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Talk at NPL Quantum technologies industry event - Greater Manchester |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the University of Manchester brought together government, industry and technology leaders to understand and explore quantum technologies and how organisations can prepare and utilise this disruptive technology into strategic plans. Prof. Richard Curry gave a talk to this audience of industry leaders on M4QN and NAME Programme Grant, the expertise and capabilities therein, and how they can be connected. Raised awareness of the network and increased requests for more information with the aim of expanding our partner base. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.npl.co.uk/events/quantum-technologies-industry-manchester |
| Description | Talk given at the opening of EPI2SEM |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A talk given at the opening of EPI2SEM facility at Nottingham, expressing the capabilities and research by PNAME and NAME. Opening was attended by other national facilities where capabilities and research were highlighted as well as university of Nottingham physics department. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Times interview on Quantum at Imperial College |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview by Tom Whipple of the Times |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/inside-the-quantum-research-centre-unlocking-a-new-scientific-fro... |
| Description | Wern Ng Zero-field NV diamond as a benchtop microwave mode cooler for reaching the single-photon limit Annual Diamond Conference at Warwick |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Annual Conference on Diamond |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Wern Ng, Mark Oxborrow, Neil Alford Zero-field NV diamond as a benchtop microwave mode cooler for reaching the single-photon limit, Diamond Conference Warwick |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Diamond Conference Warwick |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Will Parnell - The mathematics of (Meta)materials |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Advanced Electronic and Photonic Materials Conference Royce/SPIE 7 - 8 September 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Yi Cui - Grain refinement of gold alloys by iridium additions 6th International Conference on Advances in Solidification Processes (ICASP6). Le Bischenberg, France, 20th-24th June 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 6th International Conference on Advances in Solidification Processes (ICASP6). Le Bischenberg, France, 20th-24th June 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | conference and panel membership |
| 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 | The Green Future conference theme is incredibly timely and relevant to global society and recognises that now is the time the world needs to go further and faster to tackle climate change. The UK Government has set an ambitious target to reduce all greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2050. Innovation will be crucial in achieving this target and tackling climate change from early-stage R&D to deployment of technology at scale. New knowledge, technologies, skilled people and multi and interdisciplinary partnerships are needed to keep the UK at the forefront of a new, green, industrial revolution. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.shu.ac.uk/business/events/aimday-2022 |