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Read more at: IOM3 Neuromorphic Webinar organised by Prof Driscoll

IOM3 Neuromorphic Webinar organised by Prof Driscoll

23 January 2024

Prof. Driscoll organised an online seminar with prominent speakers from various universities, institutes, and career levels to discuss materials for neuromorphic computing. The webinar included excellent talks on the topic of neuromorphic implementation and materials design by Dr Markus Hellenbrand (Dept of Materials...


Read more at: Grant award for neuromorphic Tsinghua - Cambridge Joint Research

Grant award for neuromorphic Tsinghua - Cambridge Joint Research

9 January 2024

The Driscoll group has been awarded a grant incollaboration with Prof. Li from Ts Tsinghua University (PI: Huanglong Li from Dept. of Precision Instrument; co-PI: Fang Wang from Dept. of Precision Instrument; co-PI: Rong Yu from School of Materials Science and Engineering; co-PI: Pu Yu from Dept. of Physics). The grant...


Read more at: Driscoll Group Christmas Party

Driscoll Group Christmas Party

13 December 2023

The Driscoll group also celebrated the festive season at Judith's house!


Read more at: Device Material Group Christmas Party

Device Material Group Christmas Party

13 December 2023

The DMG gathered to celebrate before the holiday break! Group members from the Driscoll, Di Martino and Kar-Narayan joined. It was a night of incredible food (thank you to all who brought something along), mulled wine, festive songs and activities.


Read more at: Superconductor project in collaboration with HTSI (US)

Superconductor project in collaboration with HTSI (US)

12 December 2023

12/12/23: Judith is pleased to play a part in the development of superconductor tape under a new $5M ARPA-E project with HTSI in the US: https://www.hitsuperconductors.com/arpa-e-doe-funding-hts-tape/


Read more at: Judith speaks at the 90th Birthday of CNR Rao

Judith speaks at the 90th Birthday of CNR Rao

11 December 2023

8 December 2023: Judith was extremely honoured to be invited to the RAM-90 meeting, which was a felicitation for the 90th birthday of CNR Rao. CNR (also known as Ram) is a honorary visiting scientist of the dep., founder of the JNCASR institute in Banglaore, and a good friend to so many. She was honoured both to give a...


Read more at: Isaac Newton Trust funding for electrochemical impedance facility with the Dutton Lab

Isaac Newton Trust funding for electrochemical impedance facility with the Dutton Lab

29 November 2023

Nov. 2023. We are pleased to announce that we have obtained funds from the INT for a new potentiostat for our electrochemical workstation, shared with Prof. Sian Dutton in Maxwell Lab. We thank Benedetta Gaggio for spearheading the grant application on this, and for all the help given by Dr. Matt Wells, Erik Landberg, and...


Read more at: NSF/EPSRC grant awarded for radiation detectors with our external collaborators

NSF/EPSRC grant awarded for radiation detectors with our external collaborators

29 November 2023

Nov. 2023. Judith is pleased to announce a new NSF/ EPSRC grant in collaboration with Prof. Quanxi Jia at SUNY, Buffalo, Dr. Wany NIe, Los Alamos Lab, and Dr. Robert Hoye, Univ. of Oxford. The grant is for over £1.5M and is to work on "A new generation of cost-effective, scalable and stable radiation detectors with...


Read more at: Driscoll Group at MRS

Driscoll Group at MRS

28 November 2023

Dr. Megan Hill, Mureann de h-Ora and Thomas Sun went to Fall MRS 2023 in Boston and all gave enlightening talks


Read more at: Seminar with visiting Prof. Bilge Yildiz from MIT

Seminar with visiting Prof. Bilge Yildiz from MIT

27 November 2023

We heard a very interesting presentation by Prof. Bilge Yildiz , visiting from MIT, about controlling ion movement in solids for applications in neuromorphic computing. By moving ions into and out of the channel of a transistor structure, the channel conductivity can be varied gradually by several orders of magnitude...