CAMIES internal funding call:
Facilities access support for the use of Henry Royce Institute equipment at the University of Cambridge
The EPSRC Centre of Advanced Materials for Integrated Energy Systems (CAM-IES) will provide funding to support access to shared equipment facilities by its member institutions. Up to £20 k of funding is available in total per year, hence awards are expected to be in the range of £1 k to £4 k.
CAM-IES invites investigators from the four member institutions (University of Cambridge, Queen Mary University of London, UCL, Newcastle University) to submit proposals for award of this flexible funding, to provide access to the newly-installed Henry Royce Institute facilities at the University of Cambridge.
The Cambridge Royce facilities focus on the theme of Materials for Energy-Efficient ICT, and comprise equipment suites dedicated to the study of advanced energy materials and related ICT technologies.
Proposals may be submitted at any time during the year until 31 December 2019, and proposals will be reviewed every two months.
Applicants may submit a proposal of no more than one page to Lata Sahonta sls55@cam.ac.uk. Please include details of:
You can download the call guidelines as a pdf here:
You can download the Cambridge Royce facilities brochure as a pdf here:
You can download the application form as a MS Word file here:
Facilities Access Proposal Guidelines
- Academic investigators may be from any CAM-IES member institution (University of Cambridge, Queen Mary University of London, UCL, Newcastle University)
- Equipment access costs and small consumables directly related to the project may be requested. Typical consumables costs should amount to no more than one quarter of access costs, unless there are exceptional circumstances. Reasonable travel and subsistence costs (for applicants not based at Cambridge University) can also be requested.
- Applicants need not have had prior collaboration with CAM-IES
- Projects must be within the scope of the CAM-IES Work Package topics (or a related topic within the field of energy technologies)
- Postdocs and students may use the equipment. If a postdoc is the lead applicant, they must apply with an academic co-investigator.
- Applications for ongoing facilities access will be considered, although new projects and collaborations are encouraged
- Projects that demonstrate cross-fertilisation between two or more CAM-IES Work Package topics are strongly encouraged
- Applications will be reviewed by a panel of CAM-IES co-investigators
- Approved costs may be claimed back on presentation of receipts. Equipment charges will be paid directly to research facilities by CAM-IES.
- After completion of experiments, applicants are asked to provide a short paragraph of how the equipment was used, or a link to any relevant (open access)publications
- All instrument usage that is funded by CAM-IES must be acknowledged in publications using the grant codes below
EPSRC grant "Centre for Advanced Materials for Integrated Energy Systems (CAM-IES)" EP/P007767/1
Cambridge Royce facilities grant EP/P024947/1
CAM-IES Work Package Summaries
Work Package 1: Solid-solid inorganic interfaces (Lead: Professor Judith Driscoll)
Work Package 2: Gas-solid interfaces (Lead: Professor Ian Metcalfe)
Work Package 3: Liquid-solid interfaces (Lead: Professor Clare Grey)
Work Package 4: Organic-inorganic interfaces (Lead: Dr Hugo Bronstein)
Work Package 5: Organic heterointerfaces (Lead: Professor Henning Sirringhaus)
Work Package 6: From new materials to integrated energy systems (Lead: Professor Sir Richard Friend)
Cambridge Royce facilities and charges (April 2018 to February 2019)
Royce Equipment and Related Suites |
Academic Lead contact |
Technical Lead Contact |
Availability for booking |
Approx. hourly charge (£) |
UHV sputter system |
Mark Blamire mb52@cam.ac.uk |
Nadia Stelmashenko nas19@cam.ac.uk |
Available |
25 |
Dual-beam FIB |
Jason Robinson jjr33@cam.ac.uk, |
John Walmsley |
Available |
40 |
MBE chamber |
David Ritchie dar11@cam.ac.uk |
James Aldous |
1 Jan 2018 |
63 |
Thermal/e-beam evaporator |
David Ritchie dar11@cam.ac.uk |
James Aldous |
1 Jan 2018 |
39 |
Wafer scale AFM |
Rachel Oliver rao28@cam.ac.uk |
Fabien Massabuau |
Available |
12 |
Ambient processing cluster tool suite |
Henning Sirringhaus hs220@cam.ac.uk |
Adam Brown |
1 Aug 2018 |
15 |
Environmental XPS/UPS |
Stephan Hofmann |
Adam Brown |
1 Nov 2018 |
40 |
E-beam lithography |
Andrea Ferrari |
Jon Griffiths |
Available |
100 |
UV lithography suite |
Michael de Volder |
Nicolo Chiodarelli |
Available |
20 |
In situ TEM suite |
Caterina Ducati cd251@cam.ac.uk |
Giorgio Divitini |
Available |
55 |
3D X-ray CT |
Graham McShane gjm31@cam.ac.uk |
Tony Dennis ad466@cam.ac.uk |
Available |
30 |
Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Microbalance |
Clare Grey |
Adam Brown |
Available |
5 |
Thermoelectric analyser |
Henning Sirringhaus hs220@cam.ac.uk |
Ekaterina Selezneva es755@cam.ac.uk |
Available |
3 |
HV/HF Test Equipment |
Florin Udrea |
Nishad Udugampola nku20@cam.ac.uk |
Available |
65 |
MPMS, PPMS suite |
Jason Robinson |
Cheng Liu cl291@cam.ac.uk |
Available |
20 |
Magnetic and thermal imaging System |
Mete Atature ma424@cam.ac.uk |
Helena Knowles |
Available |
35 |
Wide bore magnet |
John Durrell jhd25@cam.ac.uk |
Tony Dennis |
Available |
15 |