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22 March 2016
Five ways nanotechnology is securing your future
Dr Themis Prodromakis, Reader and EPSRC Fellow Affiliated with the Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnology Group
The past 70 years have seen the way we live and work transformed by two tiny inventions. The electronic transistor and the microchip are what make all modern electronics possible, and since their development in the 1940s they’ve been getting smaller. Today, one chip can contain as many as 5 billion transistors. If cars had followed the same development pathway, we would now be able to drive...
17 March 2016
Nanotechnology and photonics research inspires the public
Cleanroom-ready! Children dress up in their own 'bunnysuits'
Copyright: Photo by Dr Katrina Morgan
Related Links:
• Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnology Group
• Lightwave
• Zepler Institute Cleanroom Complex
The University of Southampton opened its doors on Saturday to thousands of people for its biggest outreach event of the year, Science and Engineering Festival...
04 March 2016
High-resolution imaging of neurons using hard X-rays
Images courtesy of: Aaron Parsons, Diamond and Peter Baksh, ORC; Jo Bailey, IfLS
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• Optoelectronics Research Centre
• Institute for Life Sciences
A team from the University of Southampton has been awarded beam time at the Diamond synchrotron to develop a new technique for looking within a single neuron, to understand its physical and chemical structures.The technique uses two novel X-ray...
01 March 2016
Southampton’s innovative STEMReader tool released to the public
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• STEMReader
A trial version of Southampton’s innovative STEMReader project is being released to the public.STEMReader was developed by academics in Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton and aims to make science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects more accessible for students with print impairments such as specific learning difficulties, visual impairments or dyslexia.The software...
15 February 2016
Eternal 5D data storage could record the history of humankind
Scientists at the University of Southampton have made a major step forward in the development of digital data storage that is capable of surviving for billions of years.
Related Links:
• SPIE Photonics West conference and exhibition
• 5D storage presented to UNESCO in celebration of the IYL2015
• 5D Data Storage by Ultrafast Laser Writing in Glass
Scientists at the University of Southampton...
05 February 2016
Universal Declaration of Human Rights preserved to 5D optical memory
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights encoded to 5D data storage, presented to UNESCO.
Copyright: Image courtesy of Roberto Rmz.
Related Links:
• Images of the 5D storage device
Zepler Institute Director, Prof Sir David Payne, has presented the Universal Declaration of Human Rights encoded to 5D data storage to UNESCO at the International Year of Light (IYL) closing ceremony in Mexico.The...

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