The UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has awarded funding totaling £1m to two universities – University College London (UCL) and Bristol – to support the development of compound ...
Tags: Solar Cells, Silicon Substrates
The UK’s University of Cambridge has opened a new £1m facility for growing gallium nitride that aims to enable researchers to expand and accelerate their work, which promises to further reduce the cost and improve the efficiency ...
Tags: LED lights, LED, lights
Gallium nitride has been described as “the most important semiconductor since silicon” and is used in energy-saving LED lighting. A new £1million (or US$1,530,700) growth facility will allow University of Cambridge ...
Tags: GaN LEDs, Electrical, lighting
The Government is to call for bids to share £55m for research into autonomous systems, robotics, and large scale energy storage. The cash is part of £600m towards the UK's scientific research infrastructure announced by the ...
Tags: Electronics, Robotics
The government's spy agency, GCHQ, has launched an Academic Research Institute to investigate new ways of automatically analysing software to reduce its vulnerability to cyber threats. It is the second institute focused on cyber security ...
Tags: GCHQ, economy, Cyber Research
Although scientists have been aware that magnetism and electricity are two sides of the same proverbial coin for almost 150 years, researchers are still trying to find new ways to use a material's electric behavior to influence its magnetic ...
Tags: New classes, magnetoelectric materials, computing technology
UK’s Oxford University researchers have tested a new robotic technology on Nissan Leaf electric car that allows the vehicle drive itself on long routes. The move is aimed at developing everyday vehicles that can offer 'auto drive' ...
The Government is to fund research into LED-based Gbit/s free-space optical networks. The heavyweight academic team includes the Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford and St Andrews, and is lead by the University of Strathclyde. ...
Tags: LED, Gbit/s, optical networks, UKplc
With the target of drawing academic and industrial expertise together to address the solid-state lighting/electronics interface and its implications for custom-controlled lighting systems, Scotland’s University of Strathclyde is ...
Tags: ILC, Li-Fi technology, LED array, LEDs
British scientists are working on tiny LED lights that could deliver Wi-Fi-like internet communications, while simultaneously displaying information. At the same time, the technology will also provide illumination for homes, offices and a ...
Tags: LEDs, LED lights, LED industry
Despite the widespread research in quantum computers, no-one has built a machine that uses quantum-mechanics to solve computational problems faster than a classical computer. Quantum computers harness the power of atoms and molecules to ...
Tags: quantum computers, quantum-enhanced computation, computational problems
Scientists at Imperial College London are set to receive over £4.5 million of public funding to investigate how the 'super material' graphene can drive improvements in high-tech industries, such as aerospace design and medical ...
Tags: graphene, high-tech industries, commercialise graphene
Swansea University has welcomed the news that it will receive over half a million pounds from the UK government to take forward its innovative research, collaboration and entrepreneurship programme. The funding, which comes from the ...
Tags: Swansea University, UK government, innovative research
A group of about 30 young people will attend a cyber security boot camp next month set up by the organisations responsible for the Cyber Security Challenge . The boot camp is receiving input and support from the Metropolitan Police ...
Tags: cyber security, training camp, Internet, cyber
With cybercrime revealed to cost Scottish businesses an estimated 5bn academics are urging firms to ensure IT staff have the right skills to overcome new and emerging threats. To enable them to do that, Edinburgh Napier University is ...
Tags: cybercrime, IT staf, IT industry, cyber security