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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...


Read more at: Dr Heo from Samsung visits the group

Dr Heo from Samsung visits the group

23 November 2023

We were very pleased to host Dr. Jinseong Heo from Samsung to our group. Jinseong is the master of the inorganic lab of Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology. Samsung and the Driscoll group have been collaborating for two years, researching advanced materials for non-volatile memory and neuromorphic computing purposes...


Read more at: Visit from Naxau

Visit from Naxau

3 November 2023

We are very happy to welcome Alex Yuan and Eric Zhu from Naxau, China. Naxau have excellent collaborations with UK companies and we were happy to show them our labs and discuss the challenges of coatings on energy devices.


Read more at: Markus presents at the Postdocs of Cambridge Society annual Research Showcase

Markus presents at the Postdocs of Cambridge Society annual Research Showcase

1 November 2023

Markus presented his work at the Research Showcase of the Postdocs of Cambridge Society . Over 50 psotdocs from various groups attended the events and the talk was followed by many interested questions about the future of artificial intelligence and sustainable computing.


Read more at: Judith and Ji Soo visit Dr. Silva at Univ Minho

Judith and Ji Soo visit Dr. Silva at Univ Minho

1 November 2023

Judith and Ji Soo Kim were very haopp to visit Dr. Jose Silva at Univ Minho, Brage, Portugal, where Judith advises on Jose’s M=ERA Net Eu project. We also discussed progress and collaborations on Ferroelectric HfO2 and on our EU RTN proposal that we are preparing.


Read more at: Benedetta feautures in department grad school video

Benedetta feautures in department grad school video

26 October 2023

Our PhD student Benedetta features in the department's most recent grad school promotional video !