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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...
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...
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...
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...
24 January 2021
Stellar Southampton research to push the boundaries of astronomy and space physics
Artist’s impression of a stream of matter spilling from a star toward a black hole. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada.
Researchers at the University of Southampton will break new ground in astronomy and space environment physics in over £3 million of diverse research funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).Eight projects will be advanced in the School of Physics and Astronomy over the next three years, covering a wide range of theoretical and observational work in stellar-mass and...
24 January 2021
Good vibrations could hold key to emulating energy capture and transfer in nature
Photosynthetic organisms are thought to benefit from molecular vibrations.
Physicists at the University of Southampton are studying molecular vibrations that could shine new light on how plants convert sunlight into energy.An experimental group, led by Dr Luca Sapienza, is investigating how photosynthetic organisms exploit mechanical vibrations in energy transfer processes.The new research could help scientists reverse engineer the natural processes to realise new devices with enhanced energy capture...

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