University Electronics

XCAM’s CEO, Karen Holland, has been appointed Honorary Associate Professor at Warwick University. Warwick University It means she has now joined Warwick University’s newly established Industry Advisory Board within the Engineering Department. The Northampton-based company specialises in the design and manufacturing of customised digital cameras for a range of scientific. She co-founded it almost 30 years ago as a spin-out ...

Built with £250,000 of investment, Glasgow University has opened a state-of-the-art magnetism lab for medical magnetics research. Part of the James Watt School of Engineering, the facility is designed to eliminate magnetic interference from any external sources. For example, nearby electronics and even the Earth’s magnetic field. And the MuRoom within the lab will enable researchers to detect extremely weak ...

Swansea University has hosted a course on semiconductor cleanroom skills at its Centre for Integrative Semiconductor Materials (CISM). The aim of the course is to equip students with the expertise to become semiconductor scientists and engineers. Working in such ultra-clean environments for manufacturing and technology development requires very specific skills, highlights the university. Such skills are in high demand in ...

Active intelligent reconfigurable surfaces for 6G wireless comms are the subject of UL-Ireland research project announced today. Such surfaces can be used to intercept weak millimetre-wave and terahertz signals, boosting and guiding them to receivers, according to the University of Glasgow, which is working with the Tyndall National Institute’s Wireless Communications Laboratory on the project, called AR-COM. “Current materials used ...

CSEM, the Swiss technology innovation centre is part of a consortium which is developing an AI-equipped drone to identify invasive and potentially damaging plants. Buddleia, or butterfly bushes, and Japanese knotweed can replace native plant species and others like narrow-leaved ragwort are poisonous. They can cause damage to the infrastructure, damaging railway tracks and signal installations or reduce sight lines. ...

The UK’s A level results were announced last week and showed an increase in STEM subject choices. Entries for maths broke through the 100,000 student entries for the first time this year, with 107,427 students sitting the A level exam. This was up 10.9% compared to 2023 entries. It was also the fastest growing A level subject in 2024 and ...

Glasgow University has received a £3 million grant to build research facilities for IC integration and packaging. The EPSRC’s Strategic Equipment Grant scheme will provide £3m to help the University establish ANALOGUE – the Automated Nano AnaLysing, characterisatiOn and additive packaGing sUitE. ANALOGUE will enable the rapid prototyping and characterisation of a wide range of semiconductor devices. New developments prototyped ...

The UK Space Agency is further funding eleven space projects involving UK work with international partners on innovative technology. The agency’s International Bilateral Fund is being used for Phase 2 backing of a range of companies and organisations – from the Alan Turing Institute using Artificial Intelligence to improve space operations to XCAM working on an X-ray imaging instrument to ...

Birmingham University is looking for licensees and commercial development partners for patented technologies for  power system frequency control and forced oscillations which can cause widespread disruption over entire power grids. Professor Xiao-Ping Zhang (pictured) Chair in Electrical Power Systems at Birmingham’s Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering, and his researchers have  developed technologies to overcome these challenges. Grid frequency ...

Space South Central is the portal to Cosmic Capital for space-related SMEs to attract financial backing. The regional space organisation – taking in Surrey and Hampshire – and the SETsquared Partnership have won UK Space Agency funding to run the free initiative, which is called Cosmic Capital. It aims to help “high-potential space and space-related SMEs attract investment” and applications ...