UK’s first women’s urinal to make a splash after closing funding round11 February 2022The team behind the UK’s first female urinal have raised £250,000 in their first funding round, as they strive to pioneer ‘pee-equality’ for women and make long queues for the ladies a thing of the past.
#CabotNext10 Spotlight on Low Carbon Energy29 November 2021In conversation with Professor Tom Scott (School of Physics) and Dr Paul Harper, theme leads at the Cabot Institute
Innovative dosimetry software recognised at TRANSCEND conference18 November 2021Angus Siberry, a PhD student from the School of Physics, was awarded the Best Presentation prize at the recent TRANSCEND consortium conference, sponsored by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.
Innovation Funding to address technical challenges of fusion energy11 October 2021The University of Bristol is among fifteen organisations who have secured UKAEA contracts to demonstrate how their innovative solutions and technologies can contribute to the development of commercial fusion energy.
Funding boost will help deliver low-carbon fusion energy27 September 2021Physics researchers will lead one of six new projects looking at novel ways to reduce the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions, by advancing tritium technology for fusion power stations.
Superconductivity in cuprates: maximal to minimal dissipation - a new paradigm?13 August 2021Superconductivity in cuprates: ‘from
maximal to minimal dissipation’ - a new
paradigm?
Researchers from the School of Physics used some of Europe’s strongest
continuous magnetic fields to uncover evidence of exotic charge carriers in the
metallic state of copper-oxide high-temperature superconductors (high-Tc
cuprates). Their results have been published last week in Nature [1]. In a related
publication in SciPost Physics the week before [2], members from the same
team postulated that it is these exotic charge carriers that form the
superconducting pairs, in marked contrast with expectations from conventional
theory.
The School of Physics Achieves Green Impact Gold Award13 July 2021The School recently had its audit for the Students Organising for Sustainability (SOS-UK) Green Impact awards for 2021 and we are very pleased to announce that we have achieved a Gold award for HH Wills Physics Lab this year.
Bundling unique European expertise for spaceborne devices24 March 2021Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, SweGaN AB, and the University of Bristol are partnering in the European Space Agency funded Kassiopeia project. The teams join forces to develop high-performance Ka-band GaN MMICs (monolithic microwave integrated circuits). Applications for these devices include beam steering antennas for satellite communications and radar applications.
Panel Talk for The Climate Day of Action 20211 March 2021As part of the University of Bristol's activities for the Climate Day of Action on Friday 26th Feb 2021, the School of Physics held a panel discussion on Physics and Climate.
Sustainable Energy Grant to create "smart grid"10 February 2021A U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) award is empowering the Centre for Device Thermography and Reliability (CDTR) at the University of Bristol to create a resilient and sustainable electricity grid with the use of next-generation ultra-wide bandgap materials and devices.
Investigating "lava-like" nuclear fuel to support decommissioning of Chernobyl29 January 2021A new paper, released online this week and to be published in Materials and Design, discusses an investigation of the microstructure and mechanical behaviour of simulant “lava-like” fuel that contained materials from Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant reactor unit 4.
New research develops stress corrosion cracking measurement techniques18 January 2021A new paper, published today in Nature NPJ Materials Degradation, discusses the use of in -situ High Speed Atom Force Microscopy (HS-AFM) observations in combination with complementary techniques to measure in situ stress corrosion cracking.