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Professor Jaideep Prabhu introduces Jugaad - a way to create good-enough solutions that employ minimal resourcesProfessor Jaideep Prabhu of the Judge Business School, hosted a Winton teatime discussion where he introduced the concept of Jugaad.  A new approach to innovation that adopts a flexible approach to finding low cost solutions to meet the n…

Latest research paves way for inexpensive, high performance cellsAt the moment, organic solar cells can achieve as much as 12 per cent efficiency in turning light into electricity, compared with 20 to 25 per cent for silicon-based cells.Now, researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Washington have discovered that manipulating the 'spin' o…

Latest research paves way for inexpensive, high performance cellsAt the moment, organic solar cells can achieve as much as 12 per cent efficiency in turning light into electricity, compared with 20 to 25 per cent for silicon-based cells.Now, researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Washington have discovered that manipulating the 'spin' o…

Professor Jaideep Prabhu introduces Jugaad - a way to create good-enough solutions that employ minimal resourcesProfessor Jaideep Prabhu of the Judge Business School, hosted a Winton teatime discussion where he introduced the concept of Jugaad.  A new approach to innovation that adopts a flexible approach to finding low cost solutions to meet the n…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

Winton Scholar Jan Mertens describes how graphene has been used as a spacer with atomic thickness precision to modify plasmonic modesToday`s technology is based on miniaturised structures to realise high performance devices. Nanostructured systems become ever more important. However, processes on these tiny lengths scales are not yet well understoo…

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…

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…

Researchers have used in situ NMR combined with density-functional theory calculations to provide insights on the kinetics of lithiation and delithiation in high capacity Si-anode based lithium-ion batteriesUsing a combination of nanotechnology and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques, researchers have developed a new probing system that giv…

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Dr Siân Dutton has been selected as one of nine scientists to serve in the Science and Technology in Society (STS) Future Leaders initiative.  The STS forum was founded in 2003, with the aim to create a global human network and providing a framework for open discussions regarding the further progress of science and technology for the benefit of hum…