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29 January 2021
Southampton student lights up embedded systems competition with dynamic bike wheel display
Caption: Richard Carter’s bike-mounted PoV display displays custom images from a linked app.
University of Southampton student Richard Carter has drawn praise in a national electronics competition for a spinning on-bike light display.Richard and his Persistence of Vision (PoV) display have been named the runner-up in the UK Electronic Skills Foundation (UKESF) Embedded Systems Competition sponsored by UltraSoC.The achievement immediately follows the University’s strong performance in the...
29 January 2021
Southampton personal respirator rolled out across country to protect NHS frontline staff
The PeRSo respirator in use at University Hospital Southampton.
A protective respirator created by researchers at the University of Southampton is now being used by healthcare staff in over 20 NHS trusts around the country.Over 10,000 respirators have been provided to trusts from the south of England to Scotland after it received approval from the Health and Safety Executive for use during the COVID-19 pandemic.Experts in Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) worked with engineers, medical staff and...
27 January 2021
Obituary for Professor Alec Gambling - first Director of Southampton's Optoelectronics Centre
Professor Alec Gambling
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Professor Alec Gambling aged 94 at his home in Spain on Jan 9, 2021. He was one of the founders of photonics at Southampton in the early 1960s and the first Director of the ORC in 1989. He also held the positions of Head of the Department of Electronics and Dean of Engineering at Southampton.Professor William Alec Gambling was one of the pioneers worldwide in the development and use of optical fibre communications. He...
26 January 2021
Southampton research facilities upgrade to accelerate UK 2D materials uptake
Early development of large scale 2D materials in Novel and Compound Glass Facility
A new state-of-the-art material processing system in Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) will expand the UK's non-carbon 2D materials research.The specialist equipment, located within the Zepler Institute for Photonics and Nanoelectronics, will upgrade its Novel and Compound Glass Facility, enabling unparalleled large-scale 2D material processing for the UK scientific community.The investment is one of...
26 January 2021
Southampton research facilities upgrade to accelerate UK 2D materials uptake
Early development of large scale 2D materials in Novel and Compound Glass Facility
A new state-of-the-art material processing system in Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) will expand the UK's non-carbon 2D materials research.The specialist equipment, located within the Zepler Institute for Photonics and Nanoelectronics, will upgrade its Novel and Compound Glass Facility, enabling unparalleled large-scale 2D material processing for the UK scientific community.The investment is one of...
26 January 2021
Southampton research facilities upgrade to accelerate UK 2D materials uptake
A new state-of-the-art material processing system in Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) will expand the UK's non-carbon 2D materials research.The specialist equipment, located within the Zepler Institute for Photonics and Nanoelectronics, will upgrade its Novel and Compound Glass Facility, enabling unparalleled large-scale 2D material processing for the UK scientific community.The investment is one of four key research facilities at the University of Southampton to benefit from over £700,000 assigned to Professor Mark Spearing in a Core Equipment Award from the Engineering and...

The Zepler Institute is a community of researchers from the University of Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Centre, Electronics and Electrical Engineering Group, Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnology Group and Quantum Light and Matter Group