Latest Events

A free one-hour tour of the Royce Institute's Ambient Processing Cluster Tool Facility in the Maxwell Centre at the University of Cambridge.

The Royce Institute's Ambient Processing Cluster Tool is a custom-built glovebox cluster tool that integrates different vacuum and liquid-based deposition technologies for a wide range of functional materials into a common inert glove box atmosphere. It comprises ten glove box modules that are interconnected by a semi-automated inert atmosphere transfer system and includes Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD), Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD), Aerosol Jet Printing, Slot Die Coating, Organic Thermal Evaporator, Perovskite/Hybrid Evaporator, as well as modules for metrology, thin film encapsulation and packaging.

This open access tool can be used by both academia and industry and gives access to a wide range of functional materials, including transition metal oxides for battery and other applications, organic and hybrid organic-inorganic semiconductors, two-dimensional materials, polymer composites and other associated materials.

Its unique configuration allows integration of these different classes of materials into novel hetero-architectures and but also fabrication of a wide range of devices including solar cells, batteries, mechanical or thermoelectric energy harvesters as well as integrated energy systems for energy–efficient ICT applications.

This tour will give an overview of the capabilities of the Ambient Processing Cluster Tool as well as information on booking, funding opportunities and the work of the Royce Institute.

Additionally tours of the Royce Magnetic Property Management System and the High Vacuum and Environmental XPS will also be taking place at this time at the Maxwell Centre. If you're interested please book a tour for these facilities here;

Magnetic Property Management System https://app.tickettailor.com/events/roycecambridge/1202721

Environmental XPS and the High Vacuum XPS https://app.tickettailor.com/events/roycecambridge/1202754

For more information about Royce Facilities at Cambridge please contact royce@maxwell.cam.ac.uk and see our full equipment listing at: https://www.maxwell.cam.ac.uk/programmes/henry-royce-institute

A free one-hour tour of the Royce Institute's Environmental XPS and the High Vacuum  XPS in the Maxwell Centre at the University of Cambridge.

The ultra high-vacuum photoemission instrument, an Escalab 250Xi runs alongside the near ambient pressure (NAP) X-ray photoemission
spectroscopy (XPS) system as a combined joint facility, their capabilities are:

• X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS) for chemical analysis of surfaces under inert, UHV conditions
• Ultra-violet photoemission spectroscopy (UPS) for measurements of valence bands and work functions with a 21.2eV excitation source
• Angle resolved x-ray photoemission spectroscopy (ARXPS) by varying the angle that the sample is held at and in this way varying the analysis depth down to a few nanometers. This is a non-destructive technique.
•  Depth profiling x-ray photoemission spectroscopy (DPXPS) which combines a sequence of argon ion gun etch cycles with XPS analysis. This is a destructive technique.

This tour will give an overview of the capabilities of the Environmental XPS and the high Vacuum XPS as well as information on booking, funding opportunities and the work of the Royce Institute.

Additionally tours of the Royce Magnetic Property Management System and the Ambient Processing Cluster Tool will also be taking place at this time at the Maxwell Centre. If you're interested please book a tour for these facilities here;

Ambient Processing Cluster Tool https://app.tickettailor.com/events/roycecambridge/1202524

Magnetic Property Management System https://app.tickettailor.com/events/roycecambridge/1202721

For more information about Royce Facilities at Cambridge please contact royce@maxwell.cam.ac.uk and see our full equipment listing at: https://www.maxwell.cam.ac.uk/programmes/henry-royce-institute

Following on from the success of last year’s seminar series, we are pleased to announce that the NanoDTC will be running a free half-day (hybrid) session on Life Cycle Assessment. 

This workshop will introduce the technique of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to Physical Sciences researchers who are keen to evaluate the use of this technique for their work. With the increasing emphasis on sustainability from all fronts, researchers are now expected to reflect on the sustainability impact of their work and understand the choices that might be available to them. This half day workshop will introduce the use of EcoInvent software for conducting these LCA analyses.

The workshop will be led by NanoDTC alumnus Dr Taylor Uekert, who is currently at the Circular Economy for Energy Materials Team at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado. 

If you would like to attend, please register here:

In Person: University of Cambridge training - Physics: LifeCycle Assessment (In Person Face To Face) - Wed 22 May 2024

Online: University of Cambridge training - Physics: LifeCycle Assessment (Live Online Using Zoom) - Wed 22 May 2024

Contact: Helen Llewelyn nanodtc.admin@phy.cam.ac.uk

A free one-hour tour of the Electron Microscopy Facility in the Department of Materials Science at Cambridge University.

The Wolfson Electron Microscopy Suite is a dedicated scanning and transmission electron microscopy facility which was funded in part by The Wolfson Foundation.

The Suite is composed of a variety of instruments that enable materials to be studied across many lengthscales (millimetres to Ångströms) and that provide a wealth of spatially-resolved information including atomic structure, microstructure and defects, chemical composition, strain, electrical and optical and magnetic properties.

This tour will give an overview of the capabilities of the Electron Microscopy Facility as well as information on booking, funding opportunities and the work of the Royce Institute.

For more information about Royce Facilities at Cambridge please contact royce@maxwell.cam.ac.uk and see our full equipment listing at: https://www.maxwell.cam.ac.uk/programmes/henry-royce-institute

The 2024 Armourers and Brasiers' Cambridge Forum will be held on Tuesday 18th June 2024. The afternoon programme includes talks, the award of the Armourers & Brasiers’ Materials Science Venture Prize, displays of current research, and the 25th Kelly Lecture.

Promoting Materials Science to Industry and Academia

The Armourers and Brasiers' Cambridge Forum is held annually at the Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy in Cambridge with the aim of raising the profile of materials science in the UK academic and industrial communities, while being international in scope. The Forum attracts high-level involvement from industry, research councils and other influential bodies. It incorporates the Kelly Lecture and the Gordon Seminars, inaugurated in 1999 to mark the opening of the Gordon Laboratory in the Department. It is generously supported by the Armourers and Brasiers' Livery Company and a number of other sponsors.