ATI News and Press Releases
ATI researchers attend SET for Britain event at the House of Commons
16/03/10:
Congratulations to Dr Stephen Sweeney
26/02/10:
Pioneering research on sustainable energy transfer from space
21/01/10:
Why not both? – academic and industrial career paths in physics
18/01/10:
Dr Stephen Sweeney was recently invited to discuss the merits of working in academia and industry in a careers article published in Physics World.
Are your nanostructures feeling the strain?
22/12/09:
Professor Silva elected to the National Academy of Sciences Sri Lanka
09/12/09:
Professor Ravi Silva FREng from the
ATI Newsletter - Issue 3 - November 2009
02/12/09:
ATI Newsletter - Issue 03 - November 2009
UK-India Solar Energy Workshop brings key stakeholders to the Royal Academy of Engineering
21/10/09:
On the 28/29 September 2009 Prof. Ravi Silva of the Advanced Technology Institute at the University of Surrey co-chaired a meeting in London which brought together senior stakeholders to review the challenges relating to deployment of renewable solar energy in India.
New funding for international collaborative project on novel Bismide semiconductors for photonics and electronics
08/10/09:
Dr Stephen Sweeney from the Advanced Technology Institute at the University of Surrey has been awarded funding as part of the National Science Foundation (USA) Materials World scheme.
£2.5m Funding to Commercialize Breakthrough Carbon Nanotube Interconnection Process for Next-generation Semiconductors
29/09/09:
*second-round venture capital for silicon-friendly carbon nanotube growth process
Surrey NanoSystems has secured second round funding of £2.5 million (~US$4.2m) from Octopus Ventures, IP Group, the University of Surrey and other investors.
Prestigious Leadership Fellowship Awarded to Surrey Academic
24/09/09:
Winner of The Kavli Prize for Nanoscience 2008 Visits the ATI
22/09/09:
Professor Ravi Silva and colleagues were honoured by a recent visit to the Advanced Technology Institute by Professor Sumio Iijima, a pioneer in the field of nanotechnology.
Surrey Professor Joins Nanotechnology and Materials Team at NPL
15/09/09:
The ATI Welcomes Microelectronic Device Expert to its Staff
14/09/09:
What can Nanotechnology do for you?
04/09/09:
What can Nanotechnology do for you? The answer to this question and details of the latest innovative research into nanotechnology is featured in a Nanotechnology 2009 supplement distributed by The Guardian this week.
Royal Society Public Lecture
18/08/09:
On 7 August 2009, Professor Ravi Silva of the University of Surrey presented the Royal Society Kan Tong Po public lecture entitled ‘Nanotechnology for Green Energy’, at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
£10m Knowledge Transfer deal signed by the University of Surrey and the National Physical Laboratory (NPL)
28/07/09:
The University of Surrey and the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have signed an agreement to collaborate on the delivery of a £10m programme to translate the results of research into innovation that makes a real-world difference.
University of Surrey Experts Part of Research Team Awarded £430k Grant For Pioneering Nanotechnology Research
16/07/09:
A team of researchers from the University of Surrey and two other institutions have been awarded a grant of around £430,000 to develop ultra-small-scale silicon structures for 'spintronic' semiconductors.
Poster Prize for ATI Student
18/06/09:
Congratulations to Michail Beliatis who has won a best poster award for his poster at the E-MRS Spring Meeting in Strasbourg. His poster was in symposium Q and was titled “High precision laser direct writing of nanoparticle vapour sensors.” Michael is supervised by Professor Ravi Silva and Dr Simon Henley.
Surrey Receives Prestigious E.ON Research Award
01/06/09:
The University of Surrey was in good company when representatives attended a ceremony at energy giant E.ON’s headquarters in Dusseldorf to receive the prestigious E.ON Research Award. The award was given for nine projects in a competition conducted world-wide to meet the future challenges in energy technology through the implementation of nanotechnology.
ATI Newsletter - Spring 2009
12/05/09:
ATI Newsletter - Issue 02, Spring 2009
12/05/09:
Carbon Nanotube Polymer Nanocomposites for Field Emission Cathodes
06/04/09:
A collaboration between researchers at the University of Surrey’s Advanced Technology Institute and the School of Physics at Trinity College Dublin have discovered that you can produce a composite of carbon nanotubes embedded in a polymer that gives outstanding performance as an electron emitter material.
Winner of the ATI Photo Competition
05/03/09:
Congratulations to Li Wei Tan who has won the ATI Photo Competition for her image of "nano roses". The theme for the competition was "science and technology".
Thanks go to all those who submitted entries.
Details of the theme for the next competition will be announced over the summer.
Test Tube Chemistry Inside a Carbon Nanotube
05/02/09:
At the University of Surrey, test tube chemistry just took a leap down in size to the nano-scale, with new test-tubes measuring only about one billionth of a metre across. The scaling factor is like scaling up from a normal test tube to one a hundred kilometres across.
E.ON Backs Major Organic-inorganic Hybrid Photovoltaic Project at the Advanced Technology Institute
19/12/08:
The Advanced Technology Institute at the
ATI Newsletter - Autumn 2008
13/11/08:
Best Poster Award at UK NanoForum 2008 goes to Novel OPV Design
05/11/08:
Farewell to Flatland - article by Professor Ortwin Hess published this week in Nature
19/09/08:
The key to 'invisibility' cloaks, perfect lenses and slow and stored broadband light is metamaterials. Professor Ortwin Hess from the Advanced Technology Institute, University of Surrey, discusses the properties of metamaterials in an article published this week in Nature.
A cautionary note in the use of carbon nanotubes as interconnects
16/09/08:
Researchers at the University of Surrey’s Advanced Technology Institute (UK) have used scanning tunnelling microscopy to confirm remarkable changes in the fundamental electronic behaviour when double-walled carbon nanotubes are subject to radial deformations and torsional strain.
ATI Allstars clinch league title
09/09/08:
The Advanced Technology Institue's 6-a-side football team recently topped the third division of the Surrey Research Park Football League in style.
National Physical Laboratory and University of Surrey launch Strategic Partnership
03/09/08: To launch the strategic partnership in research and training between the National Physical Laboratory and the University of Surrey, a programme of events will be held at the University of Surrey on Wednesday 3rd September 2008.
New Heights for Proton Therapy Cancer Treatment
21/08/08:
Professor Karen Kirkby discusses the world's first vertical scanning nanobeam at the Surrey Ion Beam Centre in an article published in today's Guardian newspaper.
UK-Japan Young Scientists Explore the World of Nanotechnology
21/08/08:
Electronics Weekly report on nanotransistor theory
13/08/08:
Researchers at the University of Surrey and Hitachi in Japan have established further design constraints for their high-performance thin-film transistors, unveiled earlier this year. Please see the full article as reported in Electronics Weekly:
Large area transistors get helping hand from quantum effects
07/08/08:
Researchers from the Hitachi Central Research Laboratory,
Innovative research brings quantum computers one step closer
06/08/08: Complex computer encryption codes could be solved and new drug design developed significantly faster thanks to new research carried out by the University of Surrey.
ATI Student Wins a Japan Carbon Award at the Carbon 2008 Conference
05/08/08:
University of Surrey's ATI announces prestigious Royal Society Research Fellowship
18/07/08:
The Advanced Technology Institute at the University of Surrey is delighted to announce that Dr. Goran Mashanovich has been awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship.
Surrey professor joins the best of engineering
16/07/08:
Professor Ravi Silva from the University has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the UK's leading engineering society.
Controlled Growth of Truly Nanoscale Single Crystal Fullerites for Device Applications
14/07/08:
University of
Surrey Researcher Wins Prestigious Five-Year Fellowship
01/07/08:
The Advanced Technology Institute at the University of Surrey is delighted to announce that Mr. Kosmas Tsakmakidis has been awarded a five-year Royal Academy of Engineering/Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Research Fellowship.
Laser Fast-tracks Nanomaterial Production
22/05/08:
"Zapping a mixture of iron powder and methanol with a laser can produce useful quantities of iron oxide nanostructures in a matter of minutes. Developed by researchers at the University of Surrey, the process can deliver nanobelt- or nanowire-shaped material depending on the methonal flow rate." (nanotechweb.org)
Nanochemistry inside Carbon Nanotubes
14/05/08:
The work of Dr Hidetsugu Shiozawa, a member of the Nanoelectronics Centre, has been featured in Nanowerk, a leading nanotechnology and nanosciences portal. Dr Shiozawa is first author on an online paper in Advanced Materials, "A Cataytic Reaction Inside a Single-walled Carbon Nanotube." Click here to see the full article in Nanowerk.
Nano-designed transistors with disordered materials, but high performance
01/05/08:
The Holy Grail for transistor designers has been the requirement to be able to get high performance at reduced costs over very large substrate areas.
Congratulations to two ATI students on recent prizes
23/04/08:
Two ATI PhD students have been awarded prizes for their recent presentations.
A High Power Laser Zap to Nanotechnology
18/03/08:
With the predicted ramping up of nanotechnology based materials over the next decade, expectations are high that demand for high-tech materials will also skyrocket. Already the evidence is present for a revolution in the manufacture of materials based on nano-engineered structures.
NPL extends strategic relationship with the ATI for a further three years
17/03/08:
The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Teddington has awarded a £350k grant to the Nano-Electronics Centre (NEC), based within the Advanced Technology Institute (ATI) at the University of Surrey. This will further extend the contract signed in 2005, which included the appointment of a visiting NPL Strategic Research Fellow to work jointly between Surrey and NPL.
Fighting Crime with Ion Beams
04/02/08:
On the 17 January 2008 Dr Melanie Webb attended the Royal Society's Nanotechnologies in Security and Crime Prevention conference. The topic of Dr Webb's presentation was "Trace Element Detection by Ion Beam Analysis".
Timeless research themes in good hands at the Advanced Technology Institute
13/12/07: The Advanced Technology Institute (ATI) at the University of Surrey recently marked its 5th anniversary with a symposium on the science and technology of future electronics and photonics. Hot topics in current research were presented by world-leading keynote speakers, followed by talks on the research achievements of the next generation of younger staff and research students at the ATI.
A Night of Success for Surrey
30/11/07: Last night a number of Surrey staff won awards and commendations for their pioneering work.
Trapped Rainbow: Captured Light Offers Bright Future
15/11/07: Professor Ortwin Hess, his PhD student Kosmas Tsakmakidis of the Advanced Technology Institute and Department of Physics at the University of Surrey and Professor Alan Boardman from Salford University revealed a technique which may be able to slow down, stop and capture light.
MRS-Brazil Plenary talk by Professor Ravi Silva
15/11/07: At the 6th Brazilian MRS Meeting, Prof Silva gave the first plenary lecture of the conference.
New Funding for Liquid-based Explosive and Drug Detection
12/11/07: Funding has recently been awarded by SEEDA and Finance South East for local company, ZiNIR Ltd., and the Advanced Technology Institute to develop a non-contact sensor for explosive and illicit drug detection.
Silicon Photonics Awarded Major Research Funding
25/10/07: The EPSRC has awarded a grant valued at £5m to a consortium of researchers in the UK, led by the University of Surrey, to work on Silicon Photonics. This is the largest current grant awarded by the EPSRC through responsive mode in the Photonics area as the EPSRC move towards encouraging the community to use larger, longer, responsive mode grants.
Enhanced Light Emission from Polymers using Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes
22/10/07: Organic based solution processable devices are promising to revolutionise the lighting and photovoltaic industries of the future. The move away from traditional inorganic materials is driven not only by cost considerations, but also sustainability issues and life-cycle costs. However, current organic device efficiencies and lifetimes are not high enough for many applications.
Surrey Welcomes News of Nobel Prize for Spintronics
10/10/07: It was announced today that Albert Fert from France and Peter Grunberg from Germany are winners of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Physics for their pioneering research of the first useful "spintronic" device.
ATI Spin-out Company in the News
09/10/07: Ben Jenson, Chief Technology Officer of Surrey NanoSystems, discusses the company in an article in the Telegraph. Please follow the link to the article 'University is a challenge that can pay off'.
www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml
Pioneering Nanomaterials R&D is Recognised with 'Start Up' Award
27/09/07: Surrey NanoSystems, a spin out from the University of Surrey which has developed a tool and processes for manufacturing repeatable and high grade carbon nanotubes, has been recognised by an awards scheme that follows ground-breaking research by UK universities and technology companies.
Surrey Student Wins 'Best UK Materials Student' for 2007
24/09/07: Former undergraduate student Thomas Connolly was awarded The Morgan Crucible Award for the Best Materials Student at the Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) Student of the Year Awards 2007.
Double Conference Success for Photonics Research
10/09/07:
Research by ATI Photonics group scientists on new approaches to displays and lighting technology were recently awarded the best poster prizes at EMRS, Strasbourg and ICOOPMA, London.
Surrey Scientists Win Award for Improved Light Emitters
24/08/07:
Research presented at the International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT 2007), Singapore by Ms Li Wei Tan, Dr Ross Hatton, Dr Anthony Miller and Professor Ravi Silva of the ATI at the University of Surrey has been awarded with the prestigious Best Poster Award in symposium R.
PhD Studentships in Semiconductor Spintronics
14/08/07:
Nanotechnology Task Force Launches to Drive UK Research Strategy
26/06/07:
The UK's Nanotechnology Task Force (Task Force), convened by the University of Surrey, launched on 25 June 2007 with a conference to discuss the future of nanotechnology in the UK.
ATI Researchers Win the "Runner-up" Obducat Prize
04/06/07: Members of the Nano-electronics Centre at the ATI have been awarded the "Runner-up" place in Obducat Prize 2006 for work related to nanolithography. The team, consisting of Mr Nanditha Dissanayake, Dr Damitha Adikaari, Dr Richard Curry, Dr Ross Hatton and Professor Ravi Silva, improved the fabrication of organic solar cells by modifying the device structure in the nano-scale using nano-imprinting lithography.
Novel Low Temperature Laser Processing of Silicon for Hybrid Organic/Inorganic Solar Cells
30/05/07: Researchers at the Advanced Technology Institute have reported a new technique to UV laser processing of thin film silicon for applications such as display control circuits and solar cells, which could lead to device performances at lower costs. The improvements are achieved with a new pulse profile for crystallisation of amorphous silicon to nanocrystalline as reported in the April issue of Applied Physics Letters (90, 171912). Lead investigator Dr Damitha Adikaari comments "use of a modified laser pulse shape results in more efficient transformation of amorphous silicon into its crystalline form, with significant control of surface roughness allowing for higher degree of control of design parameters."
Media Invitation: The Thirteenth International Conference on Narrow Gap Semiconductors
14/05/07: Members of the media are cordially invited to The Thirteenth International Conference on Narrow Gap Semiconductors to be held at the Advanced Technology Institute at the University of Surrey on July 8-12.
Probing the Inner Secrets of Multi-layer Carbon Nanotubes
18/04/07:
Researchers at the University of Surrey have shown for the first time that knowing the structure of the surface layer of a multi-layer carbon nanotube is not enough to predict its electronic properties. The contribution of inner layers is crucial, and this has serious implications when it particularly comes to fabricating electronic devices such as transistors and molecular interconnects. The work reported in Nano Letters (DOI: 10.1021/nl070072p)addresses essential issues related to the electronic properties of carbon nanotubes, as an understanding of their behaviour at the atomic level is required to fully exploit the tremendous opportunities that these systems could offer in the development of practical nanoscale devices.
EPSRC grant enables research into using lasers for new medical, industrial and security applications
16/03/07: Shine a powerful laser beam on a small piece of metal, plastic, or a liquid and a burst of intense high-energy ionizing radiation is emitted. Thanks to a grant of £5m from the EPSRC, researchers at Queen's University Belfast, Central Laser and Central Microstructure Facilities at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Imperial College London, and the Universities of Surrey, Birmingham, Paisley, Strathclyde and Southampton along with the National Physical Laboratory aim to exploit this property of laser-irradiated matter to help them develop new radiation sources with such diverse medical, industrial and security applications as the treatment of cancers, improved semiconductor production and the rapid detection of hidden explosives.
Narrowgap Semiconductors 13 conference, July 2007
20/02/07:
SEEDA and DTI highlight entrepreneurial spirit at the University of Surrey
10/11/06: How can academic innovation be exploited to generate jobs and wealth? How can business and academia work together to deliver the Regional Economic Strategy? Such questions were on the agenda for a recent visit to the University of Surrey by Mark Gibson, Director General of Enterprise and Business Group at the Department of Trade and Industry.
Advanced Technology Institute attracts £5M of new research funding
10/11/06: The ATI announces the award of new funding in grants from research councils, the DTI, regional development agencies, the European Union, the Carbon Trust, and charities. The funding, which supports activities across the range of research in the ATI, was awarded over the last 6 months and is associated with collaborative research contracts of total value in excess of £9M.
Bio-nanotechnology to kill cancer cells
03/11/06: The University of Surrey has been awarded a grant of £420,000 to utilize nanotechnology to develop cancer treatments. The grant is part of an international project: "Multifunctional Carbon Nanotubes for Biomedical Applications (CARBIO)" supported by the European Union under the Marie Curie scheme.
Advanced Technology Institute secures Carbon Trust funding
27/10/06: Researchers at the Advanced Technology Institute have been awarded a £200,000 Carbon Trust Applied Research Grant to produce prototype solid state lighting devices using nano-composite materials invented at the ATI. This funding will contribute to a larger programme of development worth £465,000, which will use carbon nanotube-organic composites to fabricate ultra low energy lighting devices.
Reversed growth reveals secrets of carbon nanotubes
23/08/06: Researchers at the Advanced Technology Institute, University of Surrey have reversed the growth of carbon nanotubes from catalysts, using electron beam irradiation in an electron microscope. High resolution imaging of this reverse process led to the conclusion that carbon nanotube growth is essentially a surface-driven process.
New funding for silicon light
07/08/06: Si-Light Technologies Ltd, a spin-out company from the University of Surrey (UniS) has announced that it has received equity seed funding worth £150,000 ($284,000) from the Cascade Fund to develop silicon-based light emitters.
ATI welcomes UK-Japan Young Scientists
01/08/06: A group of 9 young scientists from schools in Japan and the UK have been visiting the Advanced Technology Institute to work with researchers in the field of nanotechnology. Visit the project webpage to see what they have been doing.
ATI researcher is "Outstanding Young Scientist"
21/07/06: PhD student Wei-Mong ("John") Tsang has been awarded the E.W. Müller "Outstanding Young Scientist" Award of the International Field Emission Society. The award was made following his presentation at the joint 19th International Vacuum Nanoelectronics Conference and 50th International Field Emission Symposium, held this July in Guilin, China.
Surrey Professor is one of "10 Britons who shaped our world"
11/07/06: Congratulations to Professor Alf Adams who this month appeared in the Universities UK publication, 'Eureka UK'. Alf was also named as one of the "Ten Britons who shaped our world" in articles in both The Guardian and The Independent.
The strange world of self-induced transparency and light bullets
27/06/06: The remarkable phenomena of self-induced transparency and solitons will be studied in a new project supported by a grant of £437K from EPSRC. This joint theoretical and experimental project, involving scientists from the UK, France, and the USA, will study fundamental quantum coherent phenomena which may one day have applications in optical information processing.
DTI supports research on mid-infrared lasers
20/06/06: The University of Surrey has been awarded £118K as part of a DTI-funded consortium of 2 Universities and 5 industrial partners, led by Qinetiq, with total funding from DTI of £1M for the next three years.
Surrey Physics and Electronic Engineering tops again!
19/06/06: Once again, The Times Good University Guide and The Guardian University Guide rank Surrey Electronic Engineering and Physics among the top departments in the UK.
Ion Beam Centre and Gray Cancer Institute to build world's first vertical nanobeam for individualised cancer care
08/06/06: The University of Surrey Ion Beam Centre (IBC) in collaboration with the Gray Cancer Institute is working on a £1.2M project which is underpinned by a prestigious grant of £800k from the Wolfson Foundation. The funding will be used to build the world's first vertical scanning focussed nanobeam which will be used to analyse how radiation affects living cells.
University of Surrey Wins Major Nano-materials Contract
06/06/06: The Advanced Technology Institute (ATI) at the University of Surrey (UniS), together with its regional partner, CEVP Ltd. of Newhaven, East Sussex, have won a £450K contract to develop a 'NanoGrowth' Machine.
New funding for the Surrey Ion Beam Centre at UniS ensures continuance of leading, international research
22/05/06: The Surrey Ion Beam Centre (IBC) has been awarded £2.3m by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to fund the core of its activities, and to keep it right at the front of current research.
ATI sporting triumph!
05/05/06: The ATI Allstars volleyball team (Nicoleta Gaciu, Julie Bregulla, Sophia and Konstantin Litvinenko, Yann Tison, Vlad Stolojan, Romain Bernard, David Thomson, Pengyuan Yang, and Goran Mashanovich) won the Unisport mixed volleyball tournament for the third time in a row thus becoming the most successful team in the history of the competition.
Record efficiency for photonic coupler
30/01/06: Highest recorded light-coupling efficiency demonstrated in a 'Dual-Grating Assisted Directional Coupler' by joint University project with fabrication by Innos.
Tunnelling electrons speed up large area carbon electronics
25/12/05: Researchers at the Advanced Technology Institute at the University of Surrey have reported in the January 2006 issue of Nature Materials the first demonstration of negative resistance in amorphous carbon semiconductors. This offers the prospect of low-cost electronic devices switching at Gighertz rates.
UniS professor gets the third degree!
09/12/05: ATI researcher Professor Bernard Weiss has been awarded the Doctor of Engineering (DEng) degree from Newcastle University. This follows his election earlier in 2005 as Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and the award of the Institution of Electrical Engineers Achievement Medal in 2004.
World's first low-temperature carbon nanotube growth tool starts trials
29/11/05: CEVP has developed a fabrication tool to commercialise the revolutionary low temperature carbon nanotube growth process developed by the University of Surrey's (UniS) Advanced Technology Institute (ATI). The new tool - NanoGrowth - is currently being trialled and characterised by UniS, and the two partners anticipate releasing the technology for commercial use in March 2006.
New funding for hot lasers
16/11/05: Researchers from the Advanced Technology Institute at Surrey have been awarded a grant of £120k from the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI) to work on extending the operating temperature range of optoelectronic devices*. The project is part of a £1.7M project in collaboration with Bookham, the Centre for Integrated Photonics, Epichem, Loughborough Surface Analysis and Sheffield University.
Surrey students shortlisted for student oscars
20/09/05: Undergraduate physics students from the University of Surrey have been shortlisted for the SET Awards (Science, Engineering & Technology Student of the Year).
University of Surrey has key to 45nm production
21/07/05: Organisations worldwide are looking for ways to bring 45nm chips to production, and the University of Surrey could have an important piece of the jigsaw.
Physics Masterclass is a hit!
07/07/05: The Physics Masterclass on July 7th 2005 brought together over 60 students and teachers from 10 schools and sixth form colleges from the South of England with academics at UniS actively involved in cutting-edge physics research.
Surrey PhD student wins E-MRS Young Scientist award
03/06/05: Andy Smith from the Ion Beam Centre won the "Young Scientist Award" in recognition of the best paper presented during the Spring Meeting of the European Materials Research Society in Strasbourg.
Surrey Electronics and Physics in the "top ten"
01/06/05: The Times Good University Guide 2005, published on May 27th 2005, ranks the University of Surrey's Physics and Electronic Engineering Departments among the "top ten" in the UK.
New vector processor and cluster for the ATI supercomputing lab
31/05/05: An NEC SX-6/4B high productivity parallel vector processor has been installed in the nano-modelling supercomputing laboratory within the Advanced Technology Institute (ATI) at the University of Surrey. It provides the high-end computational engine to complement the recently-installed 64-Node Opteron cluster.
MeV ion nanobeams: nanotechnology for the 21st century
31/05/05: The Ion Beam Centre (IBC) at the University of Surrey has been awarded a research grant of £256,845 by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), to construct and utilise a new tool for nanotechnology.
Light-Switching Nanotubes for Next Generation Electrophotonics
26/05/05: Researchers from the University of Surrey and University of Southampton has been awarded a grant of £370k from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council under the Next Generation Electrophotonics programme. The interdisciplinary team of physicists, engineers, material scientists and biologists will study optical nonlinearity in carbon nanotubes.
Understanding energy transfer in hybrid quantum dot systems
26/05/05: Dr Richard Curry at the University of Surrey has been awarded a grant of £115k from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to carry out studies on hybrid quantum dot systems*. Working with Professor Jeremy Allam, also of Surrey, and researchers in Korea, real time kinetics of energy transfer between organic complexes and colloidal quantum dots will be studied using ultrafast spectr
Electronics All in a Spin
26/05/05: Professors Ben Murdin and Ortwin Hess, from the Advanced Technology Institute, University of Surrey, have been awarded a grant of £221k from EPSRC to study "spintronic" devices.*
NPL sign up to a strategic relationship with the University of Surrey
24/05/05: The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Teddington has signed up to a unique deal with the University of Surrey's Nano-Electronics Centre (NEC) based within the Advanced Technology Institute (ATI).
ATI approaches Open Day with £1.6m new funds
24/05/05: The Advanced Technology Institute (ATI) announces £1.6 million of new funding as May 31st Open Day approaches.
ATI approaches Open Day with £1.6m new funds
24/05/05: The Advanced Technology Institute (ATI) announces £1.6 million of new funding as May 31st Open Day approaches.
Spin out company from UniS and University of Dundee aims to tap into €70 billion market in flat panel displays
29/04/05: Quantum Filament Technologies (QFT) is a new company which has been created in Dundee as a result of a cross-border 'spin-out' from the Universities of Surrey and Dundee.
Generous bursaries and scholarships at the "University for Jobs"
17/03/05: With the Government's introduction of variable fees in 2006, the University of Surrey (UniS) has today announced a wide range of financial support packages that will ensure that the best and most deserving students, whatever their background, will be able to benefit from a UniS education.
UniS' nanotechnology expertise on show at Science Museum
04/03/05: The University of Surrey's world-class expertise in nanotechnology research is a key contributor to a new exhibition entitled 'Nanotechnology: small science‚ big deal', now showing at the Science Museum in London.
UniS Presents its First Two Proof of Concept Awards
25/11/04: UniS is delighted to present its first two Proof of Concept Awards to Professor Graham Reed and Professor Alf Adams of the Advanced Technology Institute, University of Surrey.
UniS welcomes planning permission for Manor Park campus
20/10/04: The University of Surrey is delighted that Guildford Borough Council has granted detailed planning permission for the first phase of student and staff accommodation on Manor Park.
Graduate Employment - Nobody does it Better than UniS!
12/09/04: The Sunday Times University Guide 2004 again rates the University of Surrey as tops for jobs.
Since 1997, the University of Surrey has always been near the top of the league tables for employment. This year The Sunday Times comments that `Surrey remains the university for jobs'.
Research Fellowship in High Pressure Research for Optoelectronics
29/04/04: A two-year Research Fellowhip available for research into the application of high pressure measurements to optoelectronics devices and materials.
Ion beams: unlocking the future and the past
31/03/04: You are invited to attend the annual workshop of the University of Surrey Ion Beam Centre (IBC) and the opening of the Stephens Laboratory on Wednesday, 31 March 2004.
Lectureship and Research Fellowships in Nano-Electronics
10/03/04: Applications are invited for a Lectureship and 3 Research Fellowships in the new Nano-Electronics Centre based in the Advanced Technology Institute at the University of Surrey
Service of Thanksgiving for the life of Professor Elizabeth Johnson MBE
18/12/03: A Service of Thanksgiving for the life of Professor Elizabeth Johnson MBE will be held at the Cathedral of the Holy Sprit, Guildford, on Monday 26th January 2004 at 2.00 PM. All are invited to attend.
International and National Awards for Surrey Scientist
20/11/03: Professor Ravi Silva of the University of Surrey has been awarded the UNESCO 2003 Javed Husain Prize for Young Scientists and the UNESCO Albert Einstein Silver Medal. Ravi is Professor of Solid State Electronics in the School of Electronics and Physical Sciences of the University. He received the award from the Director-General of UNESCO at a ceremony in Budapest, Hungary on World Science Day, 10 November, 2003. In addition to this prestigious international award, before he departed for Hungary, on 5 November in London, Ravi received the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) Achievement Medal for 2003.
Graduate Employment - Nobody does it Better than UniS!
11/11/03: The University of Surrey (UniS) welcomed the publication today (Tuesday 11 November) of the latest What do Graduates do? Report by the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS). The report shows that degrees which provide work experience give graduates the best employment prospects. This comes as no surprise to the University of Surrey, which has topped the league tables for graduate employment for the past seven years, since the majority of UniS degree level courses include a year's professional training.
Surrey Top for Jobs Again!
17/09/03: Since 1997, the University of Surrey has held its place at the top of The Sunday Times league tables as the UK University which is 'top for jobs'. The statistics published in this week's Sunday Times (14 September 2003) 97.4% of Surrey graduates found jobs in the first six months after graduation. Beating the University of Cambridge into fourth position in the 'best for jobs' league table, the University of Surrey can be justly proud of its reputation.
Professor Betty Johnson MBE
16/09/03: It is with great sadness that we report the death of Professor Betty Johnson MBE, on September 11th 2003, after a long and courageous battle against illness. The Department offers its deepest sympathy to her devoted husband Ron.
£12.1 Million Worth of New Research Funds for the University of Surrey
05/09/03: The University of Surrey warmly welcomed the Higher Education Funding Council for England's approval of research funding from the Science Research Investment Fund (SRIF). The University will benefit from £12.1m worth of additional funds to be spent across the institution in line with its research strategy.
Prof. Ortwin Hess joins Physics and ATI
03/03/03: Prof. Ortwin Hess today joined the University of Surrey as a Professor in the Physics Department.
PhD Opportunities Fair, Wednesday 19th Feburary
12/02/03: A PhD Opportunities Fair will be held on Wednesday 19
University of Surrey wins Queen's Award
15/11/02: Recognition received for contribution to industry, together with more than 30 years of sustained world class research and development in the fields of ion beam applications and optoelectronic devices.
Ministerial Opening of the Advanced Technology Institute
04/10/02: The Minister for Science and Innovation, Lord Sainsbury, will unveil a plaque at the official opening of the new high technology beacon for the University of Surrey on 7 October 2002.
ATI News
23/09/02: The News feature of the new ATI website is now launched.
UniS tops the graduate jobs poll
22/09/02: The Sunday Times University Guide once again showed the University of Surrey (UniS) as No. 1 in the "best for jobs" category.
Despite being located in a region with one of the highest costs of living in the UK, UniS was published as having the 9th cheapest student accommodation of all UK universities.
