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On a damp weekend in July, the NAME team went to help out at the Marvellous Materials Royce stall at Bluedot festival. Bluedot is a music, science and culture event held annually in July since 2016 at Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, England, combining music, live science experiments, expert talks and immersive artworks. The NAMEContinue reading “Bluedot Festival 2023”

NAME researchers Philippa Shepley and Ahmet Yagmur joined in with the University of Leeds contribution to Bradford Science Festival. Over the weekend of the 3rd and 4th of June the team talked to 500 visitors about how the structure of materials affects how we can use them in everyday life. They gave out 300 Crystal Creation makerContinue reading “Bradford Science Festival 2023”

Richard Curry outlines how the UK can take a leading role in materials for quantum technology.https://blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/sci-tech/2023/04/not-immaterial-why-the-uk-must-play-to-its-strengths-in-quantum-technology/

Richard Curry, Professor of Advanced Electronic Materials and Vice Dean for Research and Innovation and NAME Principal Investigator talks to Dave Espley on quantum computing and its implications for the future – https://www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk/science-engineering/2023/02/23/electrons-and-qubits-explaining-quantum-computing/

Philippa Shepley and Joel Burton went along the Be Curious 2023 festival at the University of Leeds to share our Crystal Creation maker kits. The NAME researchers were joined by other members of the Condensed Matter group to show demonstrations of how we can use X-rays and Bragg’s law to look inside materials. Understanding theContinue reading “Be Curious”

NAME researchers attended Imperial College London’s “Tiny Science” event on 17th November 2022. The volunteers demonstrated the principles of ion implantation with the “ion smash” game and discussed its applications to next generation quantum technologies, including masers.  Dr Daan Arroo, Dr Shelly Conroy, Dr Wern Ng, Geri Topori and Yongqiang Wen from the Imperial NAME teamContinue reading “Imperial Lates – Tiny Science”

NAME senior technical specialist, Maddison Coke (University of Manchester) was recently involved in IOP family Summer Exhibition, Superheroes unlimited. The 2 month long exhibition in Islington London and associated events, engaged with both schools and the local community to highlight how physics will make a difference in our lives but also emphasising the diversity amongstContinue reading “Superheroes Unlimited: IOP Family Summer Exhibition”

The annual network meeting on Terahertz Microscopy and Quantum Materials came back with a bang. This year’s event was held in the Henry Royce Institute at the University of Manchester. The morning session consisted of talks from invited speakers on challenges and opportunities of terahertz microscopy in the quantum materials area. The discussion-led afternoon sessionContinue reading “THz Microscopy and Quantum Materials Workshop a great success”

The second in-person meeting of the NAME group was held at the University of Leeds. The event was kicked off with tours of their state-of-the-art 800m2 cleanroom, Terahertz suite and inter-connected multichambered Royce Deposition system, followed by a workshop on modelling ion implantation. The most important part of any in-person event is of course theContinue reading “NAME Network gathers for Q3”

NAME researchers from across the network attended the New Scientist Live festival in Manchester, bringing core concepts in Advanced Materials and interaction with light to the public. The major scientific outreach festival was attended by over 40,000 visitors who were able to engage with scientists, games and demonstrators that showed the wonders of science andContinue reading “NAME Network brings the power of Advanced Materials to New Scientist Live”