Researchers at the University of Surrey’s Advanced Technology Institute announce carbon nanotube solar cell with record efficiency

7 January 2013

The availability of efficient photovoltaic solar cells with large area and low manufacturing cost would transform the global economics of energy production. An international research effort is pursuing this goal by developing new materials, structures and device concepts. The main focus has been on organic materials, which are suitable for cost-effective manufacture on a large scale and can be produced with large active areas on cheap, flexible substrates. Unfortunately, their efficiency is still low compared to the best traditional photovoltaic materials, and those with the highest efficiency suffer from limited lifetimes or sensitivity to the environment.

Two PhD students joining the Theory & Computation group

3 November 2012

Ross Maspero and Timothy Amoah  have joined the Theory group as PhD students. Ross will be working on a new approach to temperature insensitive photonic materials and devices. Timothy will be working on applications of hyperuniform disordered photonic materials.
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Surrey academic awarded prestigious Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award

16 October 2012

Professor Ben Murdin, from the Advanced Technology Institute at the University of Surrey was today (16 October) awarded a prestigious Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award for his research on quantum computing with atoms encased inside a silicon chip.

Teaching Medical Statistics in Ghana

18 July 2012

During 11-13 July 2012 Professor Ben Murdin visited Ghana to do some volunteering in the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi, Ghana.  He taught medical statistics as well as grant writing skills to the attendees of the 2nd Annual HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C Conference.

Using Bismides to reduce the energy demand of the internet

18 July 2012

Work conducted by Professor Stephen Sweeney's group at the Advanced Technology Institute, University of Surrey is featured in the Financial Times.

Higher efficiency and longer lifetime for organic light-emitting diodes

14 June 2012

The Advanced Technology Institute (ATI) at the University of Surrey working with colleagues from Italy and UCL have shown an increase of 50% in the external quantum efficiency of OLEDs by inserting a PTFE layer within the OLED structure.