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Sustainable Energy Grant to create "smart grid"
10 February 2021
A 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.
- Materials and Devices Newsletter August 2022 17 August 2022 Read the August 2022 edition of the Materials and Devices newsletter
- PhD student wins prize at Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity conference 16 August 2022 Sam Cross was awarded prize poster at the Vancouver conference
- Undergraduate Student Tackles Environmental Challenges at the European Scientific Institute 10 August 2022 3rd year Physics Undergraduate Poppy Silk has just taken part in the I.FAST CBI (I.FAST - Innovation Fostering in Accelerator Science and Technology, CBI - Challenge Based Innovation)
- EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow Jake Ayres awarded fellowship to carry out research into 'strange metal' regimes 29 June 2022 EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow Jake Ayres has been awarded an Early Career Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust to undertake research within the School of Physics into the “strange metal” regimes of certain inorganic and organic high temperature superconductors.
- Materials & Devices Newsletter June 2022 16 June 2022 Read the June 2022 edition of the Materials and Devices newsletter
- West Country family gives £7.7m to create physics PhDs in perpetuity 1 June 2022 A West Country family will fund a new generation of gifted physicists, after leaving the University of Bristol nearly £8million in their wills.
- Climate Day of Action Event 6 May 2022 A series of talks and discussion about sustainable research in the School of Physics to mark the Climate Day of Action
- 2022 Institute of Physics, Superconductivity Group Thesis Prize awarded to Jake Ayres 6 May 2022 We congratulate Jake Ayres, who was awarded the prize for their thesis, 'Correlated Electron Systems Under Extreme Conditions'.
- Bristol set to supercharge growth of next generation zero carbon emission technology 27 April 2022 Power transformers currently the size of shipping containers delivering energy to homes and businesses across the UK could be shrunk to the size of a suitcase, thanks to a pioneering process which deploys a new supercharged material with unprecedented levels of efficiency.
- Bristol set to supercharge growth of next generation zero carbon emission technology 27 April 2022 Power transformers currently the size of shipping containers delivering energy to homes and businesses across the UK could be shrunk to the size of a suitcase, thanks to a pioneering process which deploys a new supercharged material with unprecedented levels of efficiency.