University of Glasgow

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 ...

The University of Glasgow has found a way to stabilise aqueous supercapacitors, using a gum taken from the bark of an Indian tree. It’s research team started with a simple supercapacitor made from carbon-based electrodes with a sulphuric acid electrolyte. While not a commercial formulation, it is “one kind of which is mostly researched in the conventional supercapacitor literature” Jun ...

The University of Glasgow has created a pH sensor for soil testing that can be composted at the end of its life. It is an impedance-based sensor, using screen-printed interdigitated carbon-based electrodes on a substrate made from the bio-degradeable polymer PHBV (poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate)). Also deposited using screen-printing, the sensitive layer over the electrodes is molybdenum disulfide which, said the university, breaks down ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is funding £10 million for new facilities at the UK Astronomy Technology Centre (ATC), the research institute in Edinburgh. Specifically, new lab spaces will be built to assemble optical benches. These are for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, investigating gravitational waves in space. The investment will approximately double UK ATC’s construction capabilities. Optical ...

Built with £250,000 of investment, Glasgow University has opened a state-of-the-art magnetism lab for medical magnetics research. Part of the James Watt School of Engineering, the facility is designed to eliminate magnetic interference from any external sources. For example, nearby electronics and even the Earth’s magnetic field. And the MuRoom within the lab will enable researchers to detect extremely weak ...

Glasgow University research into diamond transistors, a TLC NAND with 294 layers, a Mannerisms post on a retirement crisis, Cat6A data rated cables terminated in M12 circular connectors, and Intel adopting a ‘get real’ approach to its product roadmap...

Glasgow University researchers have found a new way to use diamond as the basis of a transistor that remains switched off by default – a development crucial for ensuring safety in devices which carry a large amount of electrical current when switched on. “The challenge for power electronics is that the design of the switch needs to be capable of ...

3D printing objects in zero-gravity environments could pave the way for orbital fabricators and the University of Glasgow is highlighting the success of its research in this area. Dr Gilles Bailet, of the university’s James Watt School of Engineering, has been awarded a patent for a new system which overcomes the challenges of 3D printing in such an environment. A ...

Active intelligent reconfigurable surfaces for 6G wireless comms are the subject of UL-Ireland research project announced today. Such surfaces can be used to intercept weak millimetre-wave and terahertz signals, boosting and guiding them to receivers, according to the University of Glasgow, which is working with the Tyndall National Institute’s Wireless Communications Laboratory on the project, called AR-COM. “Current materials used ...

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. Beginning our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2024, we profile Millie Craig, both a student at the University of Glasgow and an intern at Astroscale. Achievements Millie was nominated by ...