University of Edinburgh

We are asking readers of Electronics Weekly to choose the winner of the University Research Project of the Year in this year’s Elektra Awards. You are invited to select – from below – the research project from the last year that you feel will make the largest impact on the commercial market in the next five years. The five universities ...

Now in its seventh year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly highlight and celebrate some of the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Continuing our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2024, we profile Philip Heptonstall, a UKESF Scholar, a student at Edinburgh University and Co-Op Intern at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Achievements Philip has ...

Singular Photonics has spun out of the University of Edinburgh to offer two ultra-sensitive camera chips based on SPADs – single-photon avalanche detectors. Both have in-sensor digital signal processing. Development has been lead by Professor Robert Henderson, head of Edinburgh’s CMOS Sensors and Systems Group, and a pioneer of SPAD-based image sensors: he co-designed one in 2005, and in 2013 ...

The universities of  Teesside and Edinburgh have created a new material which can capture 3.5–5 million tonnes of CO2 in the UK and nearly 30 million tonnes of CO2 globally per year by 2030, at a cost of around £100 per tonne CO2 – considerably less than current direct air capture (DAC) technologies. Known as CalyChar, the new material is ...

The University of Edinburgh has a novel flexible conductive film that it has exploited in a wireless sensor that can tell how tight a bandage is. While many elastic or stretchable conductors are based on serpentine tracks, this one is based on micro-wrinkles in the conductive film, much like the patterns on fingerprints, but far smaller – too small to ...

Now in its sixth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly highlight and celebrate some of the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2023, we profile Luisa Schrempf, a postgraduate student at University College London. Achievements At the time of EW BrightSparks 2023, Luisa was ...

Now in its sixth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly highlight and celebrate some of the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2023, we profile Mary Kong, a student at the University of Edinburgh. Achievements Mary is an Electronics and Electrical Engineering student and ...

Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Alberto Progida, a Mechanical Engineering Student at the University of Edinburgh. Achievement Endeavour Rocketry was started at the ...

Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight David Kong, an MEng Electronics and Electrical Engineering student at the University of Edinburgh. Achievement During David’s time ...

Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Virginia Cangelosi, an Electrical and Electronics Engineering Student at the University of Edinburgh. Achievement Among her achievements, Virginia ...