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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

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…

Prof Judith Driscoll featured in an article entitled "STEM career hero" in The Telegraph newspaper over the Christmas period.Click here for full article

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 …

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…

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.

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.

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.

Title: Exploring new, all-inorganic BiO-based compounds for planar heterojunction (PHJ) solar cells(co-investigators are Dr. Robert Hoye, and Dr. Dan Credgington)

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…

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.

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…

Talks and meeting around the world. The team are often traveling around the world delivering talks or attending project meetings. Recent highlights include the WIN distinguished nanotechnology lecture (click here) at University of Waterloo in December 2016, and the Imperial College Materials department Alumni dinner in March 2017, at the Armourers’…

To help develop superconducting tape with enhanced properties at low costWe are happy to announce a project in collaboration with SuNAM in Korea to help develop superconducting tape with enhanced properties at low cost. John Feigan is working on the project. The project is also in collaboration with Applied Materials and with Professor Makan Wu an…

"Precision Manufacturing of Flexible CMOS" funded by EPSRCWe are very happy to announce a new EPSRC funded project, “Precision Manufacturing of Flexible CMOS” funded by EPSRC. The work will focus on making high quality p-type oxide thin films for flexible CMOS devices. The project is in collaboration Prof. Andrew Flewitt in Electrical Engineering a…