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Researchers have uncovered a new technique to create and manipulate pairs of particle-like excitations in organic semiconductors that carry non-classical spin information across space, much like the entangled photon pairs in the famous Einstein-Podolsky-Roden “paradox”. ‘Unlike semiconductors, such as silicon, electrons confined in one-dimensional …

Researchers have designed a machine learning algorithm for drug discovery which has been shown to be twice as efficient as the industry standard. “Machine learning has made significant progress in areas such as computer vision where data is abundant,” said Winton Advanced Research Fellow Dr Alpha Lee from Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory, and the s…

You might think that microorganisms - aka microbes - contaminate food, cause disease and are generally something to be avoided. But we shouldn’t be afraid of the microbes in our food...In her science feature article at the Naked Scientist, Winton Scholar Hannah Laeverenz Schlogelhofer discusses the important role played by microorganisms; these ran…

Dr. Rosana Collepardo has been awarded a €1.5 million ERC starting grant to develop a novel multi-scale computational method to investigate the organization of the genome with sub-nucleosome resolution. While sequencing our genome today is easy, finding out how it functions remains an urgent unsolved problem crucial to rationalise normal and aberra…

Award recognises an individual for their outstanding computational workBartomeu Monserrat who has recently been appointed as a Winton Advanced Research Fellow has been awarded the prestigious Psi-k Volker Heine Young Investigator Award for his research on “Temperature effects in spin-orbit physics from first principles”The award is for research in …

A simple potassium solution could boost the efficiency of next-generation solar cells, by enabling them to convert more sunlight into electricityAn international team of researchers led by Dr Sam Stranks at the University of Cambridge found that the addition of potassium iodide ‘healed’ the defects and immobilised ion movement, which to date have l…

Chiara Ciccarelli was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship from October 2017. Chiara will take the Fellowship in Cambridge where she is currently building an optical/THz pump-probe setup to study the interaction between spin currents and magnons (magnetic excitations) in antiferromagnets.  Chiara’s research until now focussed on s…

Award for groundbreaking studies in the electronic properties of organic semiconductors, particularly the roles of electron spin in the operation of solar cellsWinton Advanced Research Fellow, Akshay Rao was awarded by the Institute of Physics the Henry Moseley Award and Prize for his pivotal research in the field of organic semiconductors and the …

New fabrication techniques enable three-dimensional magnetic nanostructures to be realised offering opportunities for novel devicesMagnetic nanostructures used in our daily life for computing and sensing, are generally two dimensional, with thicknesses much smaller than lateral sizes. This is due to the type of methods currently used to fabricate t…

Researchers have developed the world’s thinnest metallic nanowire, which could be used to miniaturise many of the electronic components we use every dayResearch in Cambridge led by Winton Advanced Research Fellow, Andrew Morris with Jeremy Sloan and David Quigley at University of Warwick, have developed a wire made from a single string of tellurium…

Winton Advanced Research Fellow, Amalio Fernández-Pacheco talked at the TEDx Zaragoza meeting on 6th April about the radical transformation in our society that has taken place in the last few decades through advances in the electronic devices that have changed the way we work and interact.  The question he posed is "were we ready for this revolutio…

Discovery of a new group of materials paves the way for a new generation of high-efficiency lightingA team, from the University of Cambridge, the University of East Anglia and the University of Eastern Finland, have developed a new type of material that uses rotatable molecules to emit light faster than has ever been achieved before. It could lead …

First Winton Cambridge-Berkely Exchange Programme awards announcedThe Winton Cambridge-Berkeley Exchange Programme has been established between the Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability and the Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute (ENSI) (kavli.berkeley.edu) at the University of California, Berkeley to support research within the fields…

The Winton Programme has appointed the latest round of Winton Advanced Research Fellows.  These positions provide opportunities for scientists to develop their independent research; Chiara Ciccarelli and Felix Deschler have taken up post with Alpha Lee due to come to Cambridge in autumn 2017.Chiara Ciccarelli is a Junior Research Fellow at Gonville…

Using the strange properties of tiny particles of gold, researchers have concentrated light down smaller than a single atom, letting them look at individual chemical bonds inside molecules, and opening up new ways to study light and matter.For centuries, scientists believed that light, like all waves, couldn’t be focused down smaller than its wavel…