Principle investigators: mk1, is2, clc06r.
The aim of this project is to levitate and manipulate micromachined objects of various sizes and shapes using electrostatic fields. The project is part of a multidisciplinary EPSRC project that aims...
From 2007.
Principle investigators: pjs05r, [hidden].
Inspired by nature's highly - evolved technique of producing antireflection in the eyes and wings of some species of moth, densely-packed pillars with heights and spacings of approximately 200 nm are...
From 2012.
Principle investigators: Stuart Boden, [hidden], Professor Harvey N Rutt, hm2.
The emerging field of helium ion microscopy (HIM) is rapidly establishing itself as a valuable surface imaging technique, capable of generating images exhibiting sub-nm resolution and a high depth of...
From October 2004.
Principle investigators: sab04r, [hidden], pjs05r.
The eyes and wings of some species of moth are covered in arrays of densely-packed pillars with heights and spacings of approximately 200 nm. These structures introduce a grading in the effective...
Principle investigators: Kian S Kiang, mk1, Dr Harold MH Chong.
Many investigations have been directed at reducing the operating actuation voltage of RF MEMS switches. One of the possible solutions is through the reduction of the mechanical spring constant of the...
Principle investigators: William Redman-White, Rares Bodnar.
This project is concerned with rapid charging of supercapacitors as an alternative energy source to Li-Ion for portable appliacance that require high load current. The charger must operate from the...
Principle investigators: sa05r, Professor Hywel Morgan, Dr Nicolas Green.
We developed a new method for formation of artificial bilayer lipid membranes (BLMs) by the controlled, electrical manipulation of aqueous droplets immersed in a lipid-alkane solution. Droplet...
Principle investigators: dh2, Professor Hywel Morgan.
Impedance spectroscopy (IS) represents a powerful label-free method for cell analysis. The technique allows quantitative measurement of the inherent electrical and dielectric properties of cells;...
From October 2005.
Principle investigators: ap, [hidden].
This project is seeking to explore the effects of two-dimensional (2D) chirality on the light-matter interaction for optical nanomaterials composed entirely of lossless dielectric materials. These...
From 2008.
Principle investigators: Professor Hywel Morgan, Dr Matt Mowlem, db4, rz08r.
As the oceans play a crucial role in the future of our civilization (natural resource, climate regulation…), it is important to build very accurate model to predict their evolution. One important...
Principle investigators: dm06r, Professor Hywel Morgan.
Particles can show a wide range of movement patterns according to the characteristic of the AC electric field applied: because of their induced dipole they can shift to high (or low) field regions,...
Principle investigator: Professor Peter Ashburn.
Laboratory tests are a vital part of the accurate diagnosis of a patient’s condition, with around 1 billion tests performed in the UK each year. To enable the routine application of predictive,...
Principle investigator: Harold M. H. Chong.
The project concerns the fabrication of low optical loss polysilicon waveguides deposited using Hot-Wire Chemical Vapour Deposition (HWCVD) at a temperature of 240C. A polysilicon film of 220 nm...
From November 2007.
Principle investigators: izk07r, mk1, Dr Harold MH Chong.
In this project the application of mechanical amplification in MEMS is investigated. In particular the scheme is applied in capacitive accelerometers to improve their performance in terms of...
Principle investigator: agre.
Micromachined actuators have a range of applications, e.g. for the integration of an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) on a single chip, novel lithography techniques, micro-switches, etc. The project...
Principle investigators: mk1, Professor William Redman-White.
Novel concepts and approaches for micromachined inertial sensors such are accelerometers and gyroscopes are investigated. A micromachined disk will be levitated by electrostatic forces which can...
Principle investigators: ps2, mk1.
Atom chips are microfabricated surfaces capable of splitting, guiding and manipulating atoms by application of electric and magnetic fields. Although some basic functionalities were demonstrated...
Principle investigator: Dr Harold MH Chong.
Current integrated nano-systems are inflexible due to bulky interfaces, with discrete circuit blocks thus robbing the system of portability. In this research, I propose a nano-device that could be...
Principle investigators: ap, [hidden], hm2, Dr Yoshishige Tsuchiya.
Previous work on the optical properties of surface-plasmon-polaritons (SPP) has shown them to be promising candidates for the creation of optical and quantum computers, as well as useful components...
Principle investigator: mk1.
The project is concerned with the investigation of using micromachining techniques to design and realise Atom Chips. Clouds of atoms are levitated by magnetic fields above a silicon surface and...
The PHOTOSENS project aims to develop a low-cost, mass-manufacturable, nano-structured, large-area multi-parameter sensor array using Photonic Crystal (PC) and enhanced Surface Enhanced Raman...
From 2009.
Principle investigators: Dr Maurits RR De Planque, Ms Hend Alkhammash.
This ongoing project aims to develop a series of complimentary methods to systematically study the interaction of nanoparticles with synthetic cell membranes, in order to gain an understanding of the...
Principle investigators: Ehsan Jaberansari, Dr. Harold Chong.
semiconductor nanowires offer numerous opportunities for next generation subwavelength optical information processors. As the one dimensional building block element a collection of them can assume...
Principle investigators: Ehsan Jaberansari, Dr. Harold Chong.
semiconductor nanowires offer numerous opportunities for next generation subwavelength optical information processors. As the one dimensional building block element a collection of them can assume...
Principle investigators: Ehsan Jaberansari, Dr Harold MH Chong, Prof. Darren Bagnall.
semiconductor nanowires offer numerous opportunities for next generation subwavelength optical information processors. As the one dimensional building block element a collection of them can assume...
Principle investigators: Ehsan Jaberansary, Harold M H Chong.
This project is to investigate an efficient modelling, fabrication and characterisation technique to realise a multifunctional integrated nanosystems for nanoelectronic and nanophotonic applications....
From October 2001.
Principle investigator: [hidden].
As the range and scope of thermal imaging and sensing applications expand quantum well infrared photodetectors (QWIPs) are emerging as a new and important technology. The best known and most widely...
Principle investigators: magr07r, hm2, Dr Yoshishige Tsuchiya.
As one of promising candidates for a scalable non-volatile memory, we proposed a new suspended-gate silicon nanodot memory (SGSNM) by co-integrating nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) and...
From 2009.
Principle investigators: mk1, Professor Paolo Gardonio - ISVR.
This research is about the analysis, design and implementation of a new two degree-of-freedom (DoF) capacitive micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) velocity sensor. A first prototype MEMS velocity...