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The first Winton Symposium will be held on the 1st October at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge.  This one day Symposium will be on “Energy Efficiency” with a number of international keynote speakers exploring the fundamental limits set by science and engineering to the efficiency with which we can generate, store and use energy.  Further detai…

Suchitra Sebastian becomes first academic staff at the Cavendish to be linked to the Winton ProgrammeSuchitra's research aims to create novel emergent phases of matter by the synthesis of new correlated materials and their study under a wide range of conditions of applied pressure, magnetic field, and electric field gradient. Her particular interes…

The first cohort of Winton Scholars have joined the Cavendish to embark on PhD programmes in a range of physics related activities.  Six Scholars have been appointed.  Further details of all the Scholars can be found on the website (Community).Note:  Winton Scholarships will be awarded annually for proposals in the area of Physics of Sustainability…

The Winton Pump-prime scheme at the Cavendish Laboratory has been launched to encourage exploration of new innovate ideas with relevance to the broad field of Sustainability. This scheme is designed to promote speculative, high-risk activities that have the potential for major impact, which otherwise would be difficult to resource.  Following the l…

Modeling provides insight into stable form of Li defects in Si which may play a significant role in Li-ion batteriesA new type of crystalline impurity called a Zintl defect has been predicted by Dr Andrew Morris, Winton Advanced Research Fellow and co-workers at the University of Cambridge and University College London. One such example, called the…

The new Maxwell Centre to be built at the Cavendish announced today by Chancellor George OsborneFunding from government and business combined with that from the Winton Programme of £63m has been announced today for the creation of a new centre for the physical sciences at the Cavendish Laboratory.  “The Maxwell Centre will be the vehicle for transl…

Collaboration with Microsoft Research produces first results on quantum heat engineA collaboration between Winton Advanced Research Fellow Alex Chin and colleagues at the Cavendish and Stephen Emmott, Head of Computational Science at MSR Cambridge, has produced its first results. In a paper in PRL (Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 253601 (2013) ) they describ…

A process that could revolutionise solar energy harvesting has been efficiently demonstrated in solution for the first time.Solar cells offer the opportunity to harvest abundant, renewable energy. Although the highest energy light occurs in the ultraviolet and visible spectrum, most solar energy is in the infrared.There is a trade-off in harvesting…

The first Winton Symposium will be held on the 1st October at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge.  This one day Symposium will be on “Energy Efficiency” with a number of international keynote speakers exploring the fundamental limits set by science and engineering to the efficiency with which we can generate, store and use energy.  Further detai…

Suchitra Sebastian becomes first academic staff at the Cavendish to be linked to the Winton ProgrammeSuchitra's research aims to create novel emergent phases of matter by the synthesis of new correlated materials and their study under a wide range of conditions of applied pressure, magnetic field, and electric field gradient. Her particular interes…

The first cohort of Winton Scholars have joined the Cavendish to embark on PhD programmes in a range of physics related activities.  Six Scholars have been appointed.  Further details of all the Scholars can be found on the website (Community).Note:  Winton Scholarships will be awarded annually for proposals in the area of Physics of Sustainability…

Biological physicist joins the Winton ProgrammeDr Ottavio Croze has been appointed, from 1st October 2013, as a Winton Advanced Research Fellow.  Dr Croze is a biological physicist with a background in both theory (PhD in theoretical soft matter) and experiment. He has worked in Biological Physics at University of Edinburgh, Mathematical Biology at…

A collaboration between Samuel Murphy, at Imperial College London, and Winton Advanced Research Fellow Nicholas Hine, at the Cavendish Laboratory, has investigated the properties of defects in Lithium Metatitanate, Li2TiO3. Li2TiO3 has several promising applications relating to energy materials, including as a cathode material in lithium ion batter…

Winton Scholar, Jan Mertens, wins silver prize for his poster on “Graphene Controls Colour of Plasmonic Nanoantennas” as part of the SET for Britain event in Parliament.Jan presented his physics research to dozens of politicians and a panel of expert judges, as part of the poster competition SET for Britain, on Monday 17 March. His research, which …

To maximise the efficiency of solar cells of the future, physicists are taking a leaf out of nature’s bookFocusing on the ancient green sulphur bacteria, Winton Advanced Research Fellows Dr Alex Chin and Dr Nicholas Hine are investigating the early stages of photosynthesis – the process in which plants and some bacteria capture the sun’s light ener…