A joint venture between UCL and Imperial College London
Wednesday, 17th May 2017
A number of LCN members took part in the annual Imperial festival on Friday 5th to Sunday 7th May, showcasing innovations in a wide range of areas including technology, health, energy and more. The festival opened to the public allowing people of all ages to gain hands-on experience with experiments and learn about current research undertaken by the LCN community.
At this five-day school, to be held at the Lake Como School of Advanced Studies, students will have a unique opportunity to learn about the fundamentals of single dopants in both traditional semiconductor systems and more complex Dirac materials and topological insulators and superconductors. Extensive formal lectures on these subjects will be given by pioneering scientists who have played seminal roles in the development of these areas.
FREE Webinar: One-dimensional quantum wire: physics and applications at ultra low temperatures
Oxford Instruments invites you to join an informative webinar on one-dimensional quantum wire: physics and applications at ultra low temperatures, to be held on thursday, 26th March at 15:00 GMT (16:00 CET, 10:00 EST), presented by Dr Sanjeev Kumar and Dr Gustav Teleberg.
Thursday, 28th June 2012
It is with deep regret that the LCN announces the death of Professor Tom Duke on Monday 25 June, at the age of 48. He had been the Deputy Director for Biomedicine in the LCN since October 2007.
Certain nanomaterials, particularly carbon nanotubes (CNTs), offer the potential for fundamental improvements in mechanical performance and associated weight reduction in composite structures.
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Small ‘nodule’ of what bone-like material grown in the laboratory from different types of bone cells and stem cells. Please see article in Highlights under Research and Facilities for more information.
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Heat treatment improves the superconductivity of a ceramic copper oxide by creating a fractal network of connected channels of ordered oxygen defects. The green and red spheres represent the paired electrons responsible for superconductivity. Artwork by Manuel Vogtli (LCN). Please see article in Highlights under Research and Facilities for more information.
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A bismuth atom in one slice of a silicon crystal. The large light green cloud shows the possible positions of the bound electron’s wavefunction, and the purple arrow is its spin. The bismuth nuclear spin (blue arrow) can tilt in ten different directions, shown in red and yellow. Artwork by Manuel Vögtli (LCN). Please see article in Highlights under Research and Facilities for more information.
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SEM image of the nanowires. Inset: TEM image of the lattice fringes and schematic of the molecular structure along the long axis of the wire. Please see article in Highlights under Research and Facilities for more information.
Experimental investigation of two new quantum spin liquids
Location: CR16/17, R80, TS-2 ISIS, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
