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A free one-hour tour of the Royce Institute 3D X-Ray Computer Tomography Facility in the Maxwell Centre at the University of Cambridge.

The 3D X-Ray Computer Tomography microscope is used for in-situ characterisation of the composition, deformation and damage development of materials for ICT at length scales on the order of 1 micron. It is useful for determining the relationship between processing and microstructure, for observing fracture mechanisms, for investigating properties at multiple length scales, and for quantifying and characterising microstructural evolution.

It can perform in-situ and 4D (time dependent) studies to understand the impact of heating, cooling, oxidation, wetting, tension, tensile compression, imbibition, drainage and other simulated environmental studies. It can perform non-destructive views into deeply buried microstructures that may be unobservable with 2D surface imaging; compositional contrast for studying low Z or “near Z” elements and other difficult-to-discern materials.

A particular emphasis will be the development of specialised loading stages that will allow for accurate monitoring of 3D deformation processes (such as the swelling of a battery) during operation.

This tour will give an overview of the capabilities of the 3D X-Ray Computer Tomography microscope 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

A free one-hour tour of the capabilities of the Royce Institute's Battery Suite within the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge. Discover more about this open access equipment and Royce funding opportunities for your research.

This suite of equipment is available for the manufacturing and processing of battery materials for commercial and academic researchers. This comprehensive suite can accommodate a variety of materials and overcome difficult processing operations including microwave manufacture, digestion, separation, drying, purifying, mixing and washing. It includes a glove box, planetary mixer, centrifuge, freeze dryer, shear mixer, reactor synthesis, digestion reactor and rotary evaporator.

The Royce Battery Suite uniquely allows for the exploration of scalable manufacturing and safe processing of battery materials, for the translation of novel energy materials into application, bridging the gap between research and industry.

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 12T Wide Bore Magnet Facility in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge.

The wide bore magnet is a 12T solenoid fitted with a VTI with a 100mm usable bore supplied by Oxford Innovative Cryogenic Engineering. Temperature control is possible from 325K to < 2K . The system will have a field homogeneity of 0.05% over a 1cm DSV and 0.5% over a 4cm DSV. The system is entirely cryo-cooler operated with a He gas filled cooling loop. The VTI will operate in static, dynamic and one-shot modes.

This system is intended to facilitate materials characterisation and process development across the full range of Royce areas. While the system is provided with a generic fixed sample probe and a 100 A transport probe technical support will be available to exploit the large internal bore of this magnet by designing custom measurement probes. A wide range of standard laboratory equipment is available in the host laboratory to use in conjunction with this system.

This system is ideal for facilitating developments in processing of mesoscopally ordered materials, superconductors and low loss high permeability materials.

This tour will give an overview of the capabilities of the Wide Bore Magnet 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

A free one-hour tour of the capabilities of the Royce Institute's Electrical Characterisation Suite within the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Cambridge. Discover more about this open access equipment and Royce funding opportunities for your research.

This equipment can be used to characterise devices in detail both at wafer level and in packaged form enabling the enhancement of product performance.

This suite includes: a Cascade Tesla, 200 mm, high voltage, high current semiautomatic probe station, a Keysight B1505A Semiconductor Parametric Analyser/Curve Tracer, number of stand-alone, high precision Source Measure Units (SMUs) and a high voltage capable, Keysight 2 GHz Oscilloscope.

This set of equipment allows testing and characterisation of devices and materials in wafer, die or packaged forms, very accurately from -55 °C to +300 °C. Ratings of the equipment are up to 200 A and 3 kV for wafer level measurements using the probe station and 0.01 fA to 1500 A and 10 kV for packaged samples. B1505A also has C-V capability from 1 kHz to 5 MHz with a combined DC voltage rating of 3 kV. The oscilloscope with the high voltage probe can capture switching transients up to 4 kV.

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 Magnetic Property Management System in the Maxwell Centre at the University of Cambridge.

If your research interests require detailed measurements of advanced functional magnetic materials, devices, and circuits, in which magnetic,
electronic, optical and thermal properties are strongly coupled the Quantum Design cryogen-free Magnetic Property Measurement System (MPMS) may be of interest. The MPMS has an operational temperature range of 1.8-400 K, 7 Tesla magnet, and modules for the application of multiple external fields, including: magnetic, electric, mechanical, thermal, and optical fields.

The system has a magnetic moment sensitivity of better than 10-8 emu and enables detailed, long-duration, measurements and testing of magnetic phenomena in materials and devices that exhibit a strong coupling between their magnetic and electronic/thermal/optical properties.

This tour will give an overview of the capabilities of the Magnetic Property Management System 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 the 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

High Vacuum and the Environmental 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