8 Jan 2018
Dr. Samir Giri joins the group
Dr. Samir Giri starts working on "Nanocomposite Magnetoelectrics"We are pleased to host, Dr. Samir Giri, from IIT Kharagpur, funded by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, under a SERB Overseas Postdoctoral fellowship, from January 2018- January 2020, to work on “Nanocomposite Magnetoelectrics”.
8 Jan 2018
Dr. Tuhin Maity joins the group
Dr. Tuhin Maity will work on "Multi State Memory in Artificial Multiferroics”We are pleased to host a Marie Curie Fellow, Dr. Tuhin Maity, funded by the EU, from March 2018-March 2020, to work on “Multi State Memory in Artificial Multiferroics”.
Prof. Driscoll and the conference committee are organising an AIP Horizons meeting "Interfaces in Energy Materials" at Trinity College, Cambridge (April 10-12, 2018).Prof. Driscoll and the conference committee are organising an AIP Horizons meeting "Interfaces in Energy Materials" at Trinity College, Cambridge (April 10-12, 2018). The meeting is li…
18 Oct 2017
HRH The Duke of York visits the department
Professor Driscoll was delighted to welcome His Royal Highness The Duke of York to the department and take him on a tour of the Device Materials Laboratory.Click here for full article
18 Oct 2017
Institute of Physics Joule Medal awarded to Professor Judith Driscoll
Congratulations to Professor Judith Driscoll who was awarded the prestigious Joule Medal for her pioneering contributions to the understanding and enhancement of critical physical properties of strongly-correlated oxides, encompassing oxide superconductors, ferroelectrics, multiferroics and semiconductors.The award is made for distinguished researc…
18 Oct 2017
STEM Career Hero
Prof Judith Driscoll featured in an article entitled "STEM career hero" in The Telegraph newspaper over the Christmas period.Click here for full article
18 Oct 2017
Professor Judith Driscoll wins Royal Academy of Engineering Armourers and Brasiers' Company Prize 2015
The inaugural Royal Academy of Engineering Armourers and Brasiers' Company Prize has been awarded to Professor Judith Driscoll. Her research has revolutionised the properties of high temperature superconductors, enabling them to carry much higher currents in a magnetic field.By creating nanostructured superconducting thin films, Professor Driscoll …
18 Oct 2017
Fuel cell electrolyte developed to offer cleaner, more efficient energy
A new thin-film electrolyte material that helps solid oxide fuel cells operate more efficiently and cheaply than those composed of conventional materials, and has potential applications for portable power sources, has been developed at the University of Cambridge."The ability to precisely engineer and tune highly crystalline materials at the nanosc…
18 Oct 2017
Isaac Newton Trust Grant
Professor Judith Driscoll has been awarded an Isaac Newton Trust Grant for the project, 'Increasing Tc in Cuprate Superconductors'. More information about the Newton Trust can be found on their website.
18 Oct 2017
New Energy Centre awarded to Cambridge by EPSRC
The new Centre is called, “Centre for Advanced Materials for Integrated Energy Systems (CAM-IES)”.The director is Professor Clare Grey from the Department of Chemistry. The centre is led by the University of Cambridge, with strong collaborating partners from UCL, QMUL, and Newcastle University.
18 Oct 2017
JoVE Video Journal
Our new publication in JoVE is a video titled 'Improved Heterojunction Quality in Cu2O-based Solar Cells Through the Optimization of Atmospheric Pressure Spatial Atomic Layer Deposited Zn1-xMgxO'. The link to the video can be found here.
18 Oct 2017
Winton Pump-Prime Scheme Fund
Title: Exploring new, all-inorganic BiO-based compounds for planar heterojunction (PHJ) solar cells(co-investigators are Dr. Robert Hoye, and Dr. Dan Credgington)
18 Oct 2017
Donation from Dr. Bill Welland
We are very grateful to Dr. Bill Welland (PhD student 1970-73) for his recent donation to support research within Prof. Driscoll’s group. Below, Bill explains what led him to make this completely unexpected donation:“When I attended the Department’s Open Day in September 2016, Prof. Driscoll was the one staff member I recognised, as she had lectur…
18 Oct 2017
International Day of Women and Girls in Science
Prof. Driscoll spoke at the International Day of Women and Girls in Science event at nanoGUNE in San Sebastian, Spain, 9 February 2017, the full programme for which can be found here.
18 Oct 2017
Science Festival
Where liquid nitrogen ice creams were servedFor the 11th year running, we entertained guests in our “Science of Ice Cream” event at the Cambridge Science Festival, as highlighted in the Science Festival News Page. Extreme thanks to Mike Smith (for delivering an excellent talk!), to Bonan Zhu and Tahmida Huq in the Driscoll group for the overall org…
