Sir Henry Royce Institute - Imperial Build and Equipment
Lead Research Organisation:
Imperial College London
Department Name: Materials
Abstract
As a national institute, The Sir Henry Royce Institute (SHRI) for Advanced Materials, will provide the missing 'link' in the UK innovation chain allowing the iterative design of advanced materials for various applications, at speed and reasonable cost, providing a critical component to delivering on the government's economic strategy. The Institute will reduce the time-scales to translate discoveries to applications, provide strategic leadership together with training and career development in areas of particular need.
The aim is to establish the Sir Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials as an 'An international flagship for the accelerated discovery and development of new materials systems for the economic and societal benefit of the UK.'.
The SHRI will cover the invention and manufacture of Soft Materials; Functional Materials; Structural Engineering Materials and Energy Materials along with the necessary facilities to test and characterise them within a framework that emphasises the sustainable use of materials.
Initially there will be 9 core material areas led by founding partners.
Chemical materials discovery
Biomedical materials and devices
Materials for energy efficient ICT
Atoms to devices
2D Materials systems
Advanced Metals Processing
Materials systems for demanding environments
Energy Storage
Nuclear materials
The aim is to establish the Sir Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials as an 'An international flagship for the accelerated discovery and development of new materials systems for the economic and societal benefit of the UK.'.
The SHRI will cover the invention and manufacture of Soft Materials; Functional Materials; Structural Engineering Materials and Energy Materials along with the necessary facilities to test and characterise them within a framework that emphasises the sustainable use of materials.
Initially there will be 9 core material areas led by founding partners.
Chemical materials discovery
Biomedical materials and devices
Materials for energy efficient ICT
Atoms to devices
2D Materials systems
Advanced Metals Processing
Materials systems for demanding environments
Energy Storage
Nuclear materials
Planned Impact
The Pathways to Impact for this funding will be realised through the collective benefits management activity for the Sir Henry Royce Institute.
People |
ORCID iD |
| Neil Alford (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Abdelghany T
(2020)
Emerging risk from "environmentally-friendly" solvents: Interaction of methylimidazolium ionic liquids with the mitochondrial electron transport chain is a key initiation event in their mammalian toxicity
in Food and Chemical Toxicology
Abdurakhimov L
(2019)
Magnon-photon coupling in the noncollinear magnetic insulator Cu 2 OSeO 3
in Physical Review B
Adabi M
(2017)
Microwave Study of Field-Effect Devices Based on Graphene/Aluminum Nitride/Graphene Structures.
in Scientific reports
Altynnikov A
(2021)
Formation of Millimeter Waves with Electrically Tunable Orbital Angular Momentum
in Coatings
Arroo D
(2021)
Perspective on room-temperature solid-state masers
in Applied Physics Letters
Attwood M
(2021)
Asymmetric N -heteroacene tetracene analogues as potential n-type semiconductors
in Journal of Materials Chemistry C
Axelsson A
(2018)
Optimisation of SrBi2(Nb,Ta)2O9 Aurivillius phase for lead-free electrocaloric cooling
in Journal of the European Ceramic Society
Barrio J
(2022)
Metal coordination in C2N-like materials towards dual atom catalysts for oxygen reduction.
in Journal of materials chemistry. A
Berenov A
(2021)
Pyroelectric and photovoltaic properties of Nb-doped PZT thin films
in APL Materials
Besteiro L
(2021)
Hot electron physics and applications
in Journal of Applied Physics
| Description | STRATEGIC VISION: To accelerate the discovery, manufacture and translation of functional materials. We will support a vertically integrated programme enabled by a platform of state-of-the-art equipment to position the UK as a world leader in functional materials and their implementation into devices and systems. UK LANDSCAPE AND FIT WITH ROYCE: Atoms to Devices (A2D) is concerned primarily with the deposition and controlled modification of functional films either by vacuum (top down) or solution processes (bottom up) and their utilization in devices. Functional materials are found in all classes of materials: ceramics, metals, polymers and organic molecules. They are often used in electromagnetic applications from kHz to THz, and at optical frequencies where the plasmonic properties of metals assume particular importance. Functional materials are also of critical importance in materials for energy such as thermo-, electro- and magnetocaloric materials, for energy storage and generation and in particular for solar harvesting. The term 'functional materials' is very broad and practically every industrial sector - automotive, marine engineering, aerospace, electronic - rely on them to deliver critical devices and enhanced products. VERTICAL INTEGRATION - FROM ATOMS TO DEVICES: To deliver an accompanying research activity aligned with A2D's strategic vision we will establish a coordinated and world-leading platform delivering functional materials of wide relevance across the engineering and physical sciences research sector. Within the A2D theme we will then seek to apply these to meet the demands of key future technology sectors including: THz materials (TM), Quantum materials (QM) and Electronic & Photonic Materials (EPM). The Roadmapping activities carried out by Leeds, Imperial, Cambridge and Manchester in collaboration with the Institute for Manufacturing and the IoP was remarkably successful. From March 2020 through to June 2020, the materials community convened around this "grand challenge" with a programme of roadmapping exercises on the theme of Materials for the Energy Transition. This has been a far-reaching activity which has brought together over 220 materials science experts. Through workshops, community-led activities and a robust roadmapping methodology developed by experts at the Institute for Manufacturing, five technology roadmaps have been produced, setting out where materials research can make a significant impact on greenhouse gas emissions. The process culminated in a successful webinar in which over 400 individuals participated, and a final consultation exercise with the entire materials community, which saw some final refinements to the penultimate roadmaps. Five technology areas were initially identified as playing a key role in enabling a step-change in greenhouse gas reduction, and the following associated materials roadmaps are now available: Materials for photovoltaic systems Materials for low-carbon methods for generation of hydrogen and other related energy carriers and chemical feedstocks Thermoelectric energy conversion materials Caloric energy conversion materials Materials for Low loss electronics The key recommendations were: KEY RECOMMENDATIONS COMMON TO ALL THE ROADMAPS: Infrastructure: the need for innovation infrastructure to transfer technology from laboratory to prototype devices Facilities: the requirement to establish national facilities for device metrology and degradation testing A national approach: greater UK-wide coordination of industrial and academic research programmes Investment: targeted Government funding to unlock the potential of materials New laws: legislation for the uptake and implementation of low-carbon technology Sustainability: the researched materials should be resource abundant, scalable and recyclable People: the requirement to develop the skills base and close gaps, including training on facility operations, PhD progammes and postdoctoral researcher support |
| Exploitation Route | A2D TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT: Utilising the output from these advanced materials research platforms we will seek to develop critical activity in the key technology sectors of TM, QM and EPM where existing research activity is strongly represented within the A2D theme. This will provide the opportunity to engage broadly, both within the UK and overseas, with leading activity in these areas whilst maintaining a core centre of excellence within A2D. These key partnerships provide a vehicle for the HRI to impact on national strategic programmes (such as the UK's Quantum Technologies). |
| Sectors | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Electronics,Energy,Environment,Healthcare,Security and Diplomacy,Transport |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/materials-for-the-energy-transition/ |
| Description | The work carried out on this project is contributing to the following non-academic impacts. The has the following impacts: 1) To present and promote nationally and internationally the UK capability within the A2D area encouraging new partners to join, and for their equipment and capability to be showcased; 2) To act as a voice for the UK A2D Community with Funders, and attract significant funding for the UK in the area. 3) To provide support to those wishing to develop activities in the A2D area (within the Royce, or not). 4) To network and bring together communities to work on specific topics, of which we are focusing currently on the two Big Ideas, and the emerging area of THz microscopy of 2D materials. 5) To help facilitate access to state-of-the-art UK equipment (including non-core partners) and expertise in A2D |
| First Year Of Impact | 2017 |
| Impact Types | Societal,Policy & public services |
| Description | Course on controlling the properties of thin films to taught postgraduate students |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | 50 students attended this course each year. The knowledge imparted improves their skills in thin film growth and control by solution and vapour-based processing. |
| Description | Consolidator Grant |
| Amount | € 2,744,880 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 866402 |
| Organisation | European Research Council (ERC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 12/2025 |
| Description | Finn Giuliani A Facility for Cryo-Enabled Multi-microscopy for Nanoscale Analysis in the Engineering and Physical Sciences (Cryo-EPS) |
| Amount | £10,294,044 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/V007661/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2020 |
| End | 10/2025 |
| Description | H2terascale - Improved oxygen evolution catalysis to enable terawatt scale hydrogen production |
| Amount | £250,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2022 |
| End | 12/2023 |
| Description | INFUSE: Interface with the Future - Underpinning Science to Support the Energy transition |
| Amount | £4,191,429 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/V038044/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2021 |
| End | 08/2026 |
| Description | Instilling Defect-Tolerance in ABZ2 Photovoltaic Materials |
| Amount | £437,299 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/V014498/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2021 |
| End | 06/2024 |
| Description | Nanoscale Advanced Materials Engineering |
| Amount | £7,671,801 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/V001914/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2021 |
| End | 06/2026 |
| 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 | 05/2022 |
| End | 07/2028 |
| Description | PA0028 - Understanding the chemical degradation of nickelate battery materials PA0028 |
| Amount | £87,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | PA0028 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2021 |
| End | 09/2021 |
| Description | Pnictogen-based semiconductors for harvesting ambient light to power autonomous electronics PNICTO-HARVEST |
| Amount | € 1,500,000 (EUR) |
| Organisation | European Research Council (ERC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 09/2022 |
| End | 09/2027 |
| Description | QuantIC - The UK Quantum Technology Hub in Quantum Imaging |
| Amount | £21,586,672 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/T00097X/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2019 |
| End | 11/2024 |
| Description | Room Temperature Continuous-Wave Inorganic Maser |
| Amount | £674,637 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/S000798/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2018 |
| End | 07/2022 |
| Description | Room Temperature, Earth's Field MASER |
| Amount | £1,205,822 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/K011987/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2013 |
| End | 08/2017 |
| Description | Sir Henry Royce Institute - recurrent grant |
| Amount | £23,057,010 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/R00661X/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2016 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | TeraHynE - Improved oxygen evolution catalysts to enable Terawatt Scale Hydrogen Production |
| Amount | £194,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | BP (British Petroleum) |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 06/2022 |
| Description | The Royce: Capitalising on the investment |
| Amount | £1,006,681 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/S019367/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2018 |
| End | 10/2021 |
| Title | NMC_highres.7z |
| Description | Three phase Li-ion cathode mesostructural dataset, as generated by the Super-Resolution technique developed by the tldr group (Case 4 in the referenced paper).The NMC cathode dataset is 18803 voxels, for a 94 µm edge length cubic volume at 50 nm resolution. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/NMC_highres_7z/19435778 |
| Title | NMC_highres.7z |
| Description | Three phase Li-ion cathode mesostructural dataset, as generated by the Super-Resolution technique developed by the tldr group (Case 4 in the referenced paper).The NMC cathode dataset is 18803 voxels, for a 94 µm edge length cubic volume at 50 nm resolution. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/NMC_highres_7z/19435778/1 |
| Description | Institute for Manufacturing |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Department | Institute for Manufacturing |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | roadmapping |
| Collaborator Contribution | Roadmapping 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 51st International Meeting of the Royal Society of Chemistry ESR Group - Dr Jon Breeze invited talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The ESR Group was founded in 1968 as a forum within the Chemical Society for scientists to share, disseminate and promote knowledge about electron spin resonance. The main aim of the RSC ESR Group is to promote innovation, share and advance knowledge, and to encourage applications of electron spin resonance in chemistry, as well as in physical and biological sciences and their applications. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.rsc.org/events/detail/30647/51st-annual-international-meeting-of-the-esr-spectroscopy-gr... |
| Description | A2D community meeting |
| 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 | A2D theme day (organised with EE-ICT) on 13th May for the UK community (with an attendance of ~ 100), with presentations and posters from researchers at the Universities of Leeds, Imperial College London, Manchester, and Cambridge, followed by a focused meeting to develop a discussion document on 'Materials for a Sustainable Digital Society'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| 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 | Chris Pickard - Random searches - from superconductors to battery cathode 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 | Christophe Schnedermann - Capturing operando ion dynamics in battery materials using optical scattering microscopy |
| 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 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 | E=MRS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Conference presentation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Early Career Researchers Forum on Horizon Europe |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A workshop with Minister George Freeman, MP, to discuss the path forward for the UK's investment in blue-skies research. This was primarily to discuss what the alternative to Horizon Europe would be if the UK does not become an Associate Country. The ideas contributed from us were on what makes the UK research environment world class, and how this could best be supported and strengthened in the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Electronic Materials and Applications (EMA 2019) - invited |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk on refractory applications of plasmonics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Google SciFoo Dr Jon Breeze invitation to participate |
| 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 | From its inception in 2006, Sci Foo has always been hosted at Google's famed headquarters: the Googleplex. However, for this year's event, a larger Google venue - the secretive "X" (formerly "Google X") - played host to more than 300 attendees, who made up the largest invite list in Sci Foo's history. The halls of X, home of many ambitious "moonshots" like self-driving cars and Internet balloons, served as an inspiring backdrop for Sci Foo attendees. Sci Foo is not your traditional scientific conference. The schedule, which is sprinkled with keynotes, lightning talks, and meal times, is otherwise open to be filled up with "unconference" sessions that the attendees themselves organize and run. Attendees are free to rove from session-to-session, and choose whichever ones grab their curiosity. Unconference sessions are by their nature unconstrained and may take the form of discussions, debates, or lectures. But the most successful and exciting sessions are always the ones that demand interactivity, and active participation from attendees of diverse backgrounds. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.digital-science.com/blog/guest/sci-foo-2018-changing-the-world-one-weekend-at-a-time/ |
| 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 | 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 | International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies - Dr Jon Breeze invited talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The first 9 conferences in this biennial ICMAT series attracted more than 23,000 participants including 25 Nobel Laureates and hundreds of distinguished plenary & keynote speakers, in addition to thousands of invited speakers The 10th conference had 45 technical symposia, 10 plenary lectures and several theme, keynote, invited, oral and poster presentations with the participation of 3,500 delegates internationally. One of the largely participated conferences of its kind, each and every edition of this conference series remained as a premier scientific platform for both local and international materials scientists, engineers and technologists to share their expertise and knowledge. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://icmat2019.mrs.org.sg/ |
| 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 | 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 | Material Research Society Boston 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MRS (Boston) - Ryan Bower (contributed paper) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Material Research Society Invited presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Plasmonics paper delivered by Peter Petrov and Ryan Bower |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Materials Research Exchange |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MRE 2020 took place on 18th - 20th February 2020 at the Business Design Centre in London. The event provides a platform to develop the commercial success of UK-generated materials innovation by showcasing ground-breaking new materials and their manufacturing processes to industry with the goal of accelerating bringing these to a commercialisation stage. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.materialsresearchexchange.co.uk/ |
| Description | Materials Research Society Boston Dr Jon Breeze invited talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | General dissemination of research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.mrs.org/fall2019 |
| 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 | 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 | Mete Atature - Shedding light on spins: Materials for quantum networks |
| 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 | Neil Alford - Atoms to Devices and the Henry Royce Institute at "Design, synthesis and application of next-generation organic semiconductors" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | International conference 16-17 Sept held at Imperial's White City Campus "Design, synthesis and application of next-generation organic semiconductors" This included a presentation of Royce and atoms to devices and a tour of the new Royce Facility at the Uren Hub in White City |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://allevents.in/london/design-synthesis-and-application-of-next-generation-organic-semiconducto... |
| 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 | 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 | Outreach talk (Sutton Trust) |
| 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 | A presentation on my research to high school students visiting the Department of Materials at Imperial College London through the Sutton Trust scheme |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| 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: "Gold nanoparticles' decorated plasmonic thin films" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Oral presentation delivered by Dr Peter Petrov at the 12th International Conference on HIPIMS: "Gold nanoparticles' decorated plasmonic thin films" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| 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 | Photonic and OptoElectronic Materials Conference (POEM 2019) - invited |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Photonic and OptoElectronic Materials Conference (POEM 2019) - invited + contributed paper from Ryan Bower (he also won the Best Student presentation award) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation on research at the Materials Society seminar series |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on my group's research into bismuth-based solar cells. This not only taught students the cutting edge in novel solar research, but also encouraged several students to approach my group for summer internships and to write about this as part of their 'Art of Research' project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| 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 | 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 | Rohit Chikkaraddy - Detecting the invisible at nanoscale |
| 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 | Royal Society Summer Exhibition |
| 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 | RSSE data Students* Teachers Public Subtotal (public, schools and media) 2002 262 10,123 12,438 1,224 13,611 What is a MASER? We've all heard of LASERs - the acronym stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation - that provide intense beams of light and represent a several billion-dollar industry. We use them everywhere from supermarket checkouts to CD players and eye surgery. But before the LASER, there was the MASER, where instead of visible light, microwaves were amplified. SoL for light and M for microwave The main difference is the frequency - our maser works at roughly the same frequency as your mobile phone 1.5 GHz. What are they used for? Microwaves are used in communications, e.g. mobile phones and satellite networks and are good at getting information from A to B, even in challenging circumstances. And it doesn't get much more challenging than space. Yet with microwave technology, we can send images 225 million kilometers from Mars to Earth. We do this using MASERs, which take extremely weak signals and amplify them without adding noise. What is the key advantage? It's all to do with signal to noise. Noise is the bane of electronic engineers. We see it on our TVs and hear it on our mobile phones and our radios. A maser can amplify the signal we want without adding noise. The images that were sent from the Rover on mars are transmitted using microwaves. These are picked up on Earth using a conventional maser that amplifies the miniscule signal (it's Attowatts 10-18 of a Watt) so that we can see the amazing images of Mars. What's the big deal with your MASER?. The traditional masers need a magnetic field and need to be kept at cryogenic temperatures so they are bulky, costly and just too difficult - no prospect at all of mass production. Our maser doesn't need cooling and doesn't need a magnetic field and that means it can be miniaturised and mass produced. What will it be used for? If we can amplify tiny signals and increase signal to noise then we can use them as very low noise amplifiers - these are found in all manner of electronic equipment but our noise floor is 2-3 orders of magnitude lower than the best semiconductor (high electron mobility transistors) available today. So for example we would get better images in a MRI machine or clearer communications. Already we can foresee additional applications for the re-engineered maser that include more sensitive medical scanners; chemical sensors for remotely detecting explosives; advanced quantum computer components; and better radio astronomy devices for potentially detecting life on other planets. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2017/summer-science-exhibition/exhibits/amazing... |
| 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 | School Visit (Eton College) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | I was invited by Eton College to give a talk as part of their Science seminar series. c. 50 students and three teachers (including head of science) attended this evening talk, where I discussed my research activities in bismuth-based photovoltaics. This stimulated a wide interested from the students on photovoltaic technology, and the potential for indoor light harvesting for the Internet of Things. Importantly, it stimulated interest, awareness and excitement around Materials Science, with several students stating that they are keen on getting to know more about this subject. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| 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 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 | 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 | YouTube Video "The maser goes mainstream", produced by Nature with 160,000+ views |
| 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 | Considerable press interest/radio interviews |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07890-0 |
| 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 |