6 May 2023
Group celebrates the Coronation at Trinity College
6 May: Many group members were very happy to celebrate King Charles III’s coronation together. We met at Trinity College and toasted the King with champagne, a new special Trinity College Coronation pie and ice cream.
3 May 2023
Meeting and visit by Intrinsic Semiconductor
28/4/23: We were pleased to welcome Intrinsic Semiconductor to discuss collaborations and to show them all the growth tools and interesting materials we are studying for memory and neuromorphic computing. An example is the photo showing Dr Babak Bakhit, who has a prestigious Swedish Fellowship to work in the Driscoll group. Babak runs our state-of-…
27 Apr 2023
Judith's Distinguished Lecture organised by Nankai University
Judith gave an online Distinguished Lecture in China to an audience of around 17500 people. The lecture was organised by Prof. Wei Li at Nankai University.
26 Apr 2023
PhD student Thomas Sun awarded impulse programme scholarship
Congratulations to our PhD student Thomas Sun, who has been awarded a Royce@Cambridge scholarship on the impulse programme for tech innovators at the Maxwell Centre (impulse programme LinkedIn page)!
17 Apr 2023
Judith visits HTS, CA.
17.4.23. Judith spent an interesting week working with HTS, Santa Barbara, CA.
5 Apr 2023
The group says farewell to Adam!
04-04-23: Congratulations once again to Dr Adam Lovett on passing his viva, and a warm farewell from the group!
18 Mar 2023
The DMG the Cambridge Festival!
18th of March 2023: The memory team and EROS participated in the Cambridge festival (science part) presenting and discussing the exciting science behind developing next-generation non-volatile memory devices that aim to change the future of computing. Find out here about the Explore Materials project and more info on the Materials Science and Metal…
14 Mar 2023
Congratulations to Adam Lovett!
Many congratulations to Adam Lovett for defending his thesis on solid state batteries using epitaxial thin films. We look forward to seeing great success from Adam in the future!
14 Mar 2023
Talk and visit by Prof. Venky Venkatesan
We were happy to host a wonderful talk from Prof. Venky Venkatesan FRS. We also enjoyed having long talks about memristors, neuromorphic computing and start-ups, and discussing future collaborations.
10 Mar 2023
Judith visits Prof. Hoye in Oxford Inorganic Chemical lab
It was great to visit Prof. Robert Hoye, a new academic in Oxford Inorganic Chemical lab, and former PhD student in our group. His labs are looking amazing, and his group is already being highly productive. We discussed our ongoing collaborations on BiOI and spatial ALD, among other things.
8 Mar 2023
Dr Adnan Mehonic visiting from UCL
On Monday, Dr Adnan Mehonic, lecturer at UCL and long-standing collaborator, visited us to discuss different research projects and see our new sputtering system at CAPE. Adnan is always a great visit and we created many new ideas!In the picture, from left to right, Babak, Judith, Markus, Adnan.
6 Mar 2023
Prof Driscoll presents at Trinity College Science Symposium on non-volatile memory
5 March 2023: Judith was very pleased to be invited to give a talk to the Trinity College Science Symposium on 5 March 2023. She talked about the importance of non-volatile memory and the role materials play in achieving next generation high performance devices. She included much of Dr. Markus Hellenbrand’s exciting work. Markus stayed for the dinn…
5 Mar 2023
Cambridge visit by Mr. Sye Kyun Chung, former Prime Minister of Korea, and Prof. Jongil Ra, former Korean ambassador to the UK.
Our visiting fellow, Prof Shinbuhm Lee, together with Prof. Driscoll and Prof. Jongmin Kim (EE) were honoured to welcome to Cambridge the former Prime Minister of Korea, Mr. Sye Kyun Chung, and the former Korean ambassador to the UK, Prof. Jongil Ra.
1 Mar 2023
Yuri Jeon joins the group as visiting PhD student from DGIST in South Korea
Yuri Jeon has joined the group as visiting student. She is a PhD student in DGIST in South Korea, with Prof Shinbuhm Lee, and will be carrying out research into thin films materials for functional device applications.
27 Feb 2023
Babak receives 2023 Outstanding Reviewer Award
Babak received the 2023 Outstanding Reviewer award for excellence in reviewing throughout the calendar year of 2022 from Acta Journals. These awards are annually selected by the Editors of Acta Materialia, Scripta Materialia, Acta Biomaterialia and Materialia, where each recipient receives a certificate and is offered an honorarium.
