News Stories
The latest news stories from Electronic Engineering, it's centres and the ATI are shown below:
The Queen awards prestigious Regius Professorship to Surrey
30 January 2013
The UK Government has announced that Electronic Engineering at the University of Surrey is among twelve outstanding university departments to have the prestigious title of Regius Professor bestowed upon it by The Queen to mark the Diamond Jubilee.
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.
Prestigious IET Innovation Award for CVSSP
3 January 2013
The IET Innovation Awards celebrate the products, technologies and processes that lead the way in engineering innovation. The 2012 Award winners were announced at a gala ceremony in London. These included entries in 15 different categories including a special category on Sports Technology (introduced specifically for the Olympic year), Emerging Technologies, Built Environment, Telecommunications and Healthcare Technologies. The awards attracted entries from 25 countries, offering companies worldwide the opportunity to demonstrate innovation as they tackle local, economic and social challenges.CVSSP - PhD Studentship fully funded
3 January 2013
Area: 3D Computer Vision for Film Production
Stipend £14,000/annum (tax-free) + Home/EU Fees
The future of online shopping
17 December 2012
Now internet clothes shopping promises to be less of a nightmare at Christmas...
More clothes will be brought online this year than ever before, creating thousands of dilemmas for those receiving such presents. Do you return that lovely bright red jumper with huge snowflakes and reindeers and pretend it was the wrong size or do you grin and bear it?
Another problem is that it’s the wrong size, not that you ordered the wrong size but it just doesn’t fit. Well, in the future these grumbles, so often a part of the festive season, will be banished to Christmas Past. New research at the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing means that soon you will be able to scan in your vital statistics using a webcam or a smartphone so the perfect fit will always be guaranteed. Your loved ones or not so loved ones will have no excuse for getting you that XXXL size multi-coloured tank top when you are really as thin as a rake.
Golden Dome Distinguished Lecture Series
29 November 2012
Professor Josef Kittler visited the University of Notre Dame in Indiana at the beginning of November to deliver a lecture as part of the Golden Dome Distinguished Lecture Series.
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.