News Release from: University Of Surrey
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 26 May 2005
Institute receives further research funds
The Advanced Technology Institute (ATI) is to receive GBP 1.6 million of new funding to support research across the range of its activities at the University of Surrey.
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The Advanced Technology Institute (ATI) is to receive GBP 1.6 million of new funding to support research across the range of its activities at the University of Surrey. New research directions in photonics and nanotechnology will receive GBP 568,000 of support from the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC). Separate research grants have been awarded in the areas of carbon nanotube photonics, hybrid quantum dots for displays and solar cells, and 'spintronic' devices.
These represent some of the exciting future technologies which are challenging conventional materials and devices.
The research will be carried out by interdisciplinary teams of physicists, engineers, material scientists and chemists, and is in collaboration with the University of Southampton, University of Cambridge, Imperial College London and the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology.
Continuing the theme of nanotechnology, the Ion Beam Centre (IBC), which is the EPSRC Central Facility for ion implantation, has secured GBP 610,000 of additional funds from EPSRC to build new tools for nanotechnology (the MeV proton Nanobeam) and surface analysis (a highly-focused ion cluster beam).
Applications range from the fabrication of photonic devices, through texturing surfaces for 'tissue scaffolds' to encourage healing of injuries, to investigating the role of aluminium in neurodegenerative diseases.
The ATI also announces new developments arising from earlier funding.
The ATI is combining forces with the Quantum Metrology Group at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Teddington, to apply new technological advances to metrological applications.
NPL will support a strategic research fellow (SRF) at UniS in a research contract valued at GBP 450,000.
The SRF will fabricate quantum-effect devices using the state-of-the-art nanofabrication facilities at the ATI, and will use these for fundamental research within the Quantum Detection group at NPL.
The nanoelectronics fabrication suite at the ATI was funded by a second-round Science Research Investment Fund (SRIF2) award of GBP 4 million.
Also funded by SRIF2 and recently installed at the ATI is an NEC SX-6/4B vector supercomputer, one of the fastest vector supercomputers available.
Together with a previously-installed 148-processer cluster, this provides the high-end computational resource for nanoscale modelling in the ATI supercomputer laboratory.
Theoreticians and computer scientists at the ATI simulate the fundamentals and applications of complex materials, devices and systems for ultrafast photonics, nanoelectronics and the biomedical sciences.
In particular, the NEC SX-6 will be used to further their ground-breaking quantum-theoretical work on temperature at the nanoscale (published recently in Physical Review Letters).
Professor Ravi Silva, Director of the Advanced Technology Institute at UniS, said: 'The success of ATI researchers in attracting this funding is an indication of the continued excellence of our research'.
'It is particularly pleasing that the research being funded represents some of the most exciting current directions in electronics and photonics'.
'Our research goals reach beyond conventional applications towards a widespread adoption of nanoscale electro-photonics in materials, communications, bioscience and medicine'.
The research activities and facilities of the ATI will be on show at an Open Day on 31st May 2005.
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