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• Welcome to the
• University of Surrey

Understanding the Real World
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The University of Surrey

• Vocational degrees
• with professional training
• the University for Jobs (Sunday Times)
• and a thriving
• postgraduate community
• UniS awards 2nd largest number
• of higher qualifications in UK

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The University of Surrey

• A truly international university
• students and staff from 140 nations
• supporting the local economy
• thriving research park with over
• 110 companies and 2500 employees

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The University of Surrey

• A world-class research base
• 2002 Queens Anniversary Prize
• for RD in ion beams optoelectronics
• pursuing innovation and enterprise.
• over 20 satellites launched by Surrey Space
  Centre
• the rising star of higher education
• (Times Higher Education Supplement)

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Advanced Technology Institute
Welcome to the Advanced Technology
Institute Professor Jeremy Allam Deputy
Director, ATI
www.ati.surrey.ac.uk
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ATI Director
Professor Ravi Silva BA MA PhD (Cantab) CEng
CPhys FIEE FInstP
Charles Vernon Boys Medal (Institute of Physics,
2003) IEE Achievement Award (Institute of
Electrical Engineers, 2003) Albert Einstein
Silver Medal and Javed Husain Prize (UNESCO,
2003)
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advancing electronics and photonics through
interdisciplinary research
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Opening
ATI opened by the Minister for Science and
Innovation, Lord Sainsbury, in August 2002
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People

• About 160 members
• electronic engineers
• physicists
• chemists
• biologists
• 22 Academics
• 4 Administrators
• 12 Technical Support
• 30 Research Assistants (post-docs)
• About 80 PhD students

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Funding Recognition

• Competitive funding
• 10M JIF Investment
• 6M EPSRC Portfolio grant
• 4M SRIF (for Nano-Electronics)
• 2 x 400k EPSRC Platform Grants
• Last Ion Beam Centre grant 3.5M
• 3M other relevant EPSRC grants
• National and international recognition
• Queens Anniversary Prize 2002
• IEE 2003 Achievement Medal
• 2003 UNESCO Albert Einstein medal

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Press Release 24th May 2005

• Advanced Technology Institute approaches Open Day
  with an announcement of 1.6 million worth of new
  contracts

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Research Themes
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Research Themes
nano-electronics
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Research Themes
nano-electronics
photonics
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Research Themes
theory and advanced computation
nano-electronics
photonics
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Research Themes
theory and advanced computation
ion beams
nano-electronics
photonics
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Research Groups
theory and advanced computation
ion beams
nano-electronics
photonics
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Research Groups
theory and advanced computation
ion beams
photonics
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Research Groups
theory and advanced computation
ion beams
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Research Groups
ion beams
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Research Groups
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Research Groups
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Research Groups
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Nano-Electronics
Nano-fabrication
Carbon-based electronics
Suspension bridge for carbon nano-tubes in
quantum metrology device
Resonant tunnelling in a carbon quantum well
Growth and manipulation of carbon nanotubes
Nano-bioelectronics
DNA wrapped nanotubes for biosensors
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Nano-Electronicshighlights of past year
Carbon nanotubes for gas sensors
Increasing activity in nano-bioelectronics
DNA wrapped nanotubes for biosensors
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Press Release 24th May 2005

• NPL sign up to strategic relationship with UniS

NPL are funding a Strategic Research Fellow (Dr
David Cox) to investigate exploitation of carbon
nanotubes for next generation metrology.
our leading edge expertise in metrology at
NPL, working closely with the best researchers in
academia, make an unbeatable team capable
of tackling the most challenging areas of
research Dr. Kamal Hossain Director of
Research National Physical Laboratory
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Research Groups
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Photonics
Silicon photonics
A silicon Bragg grating interrogation system
using MEMS and optical circuits (picture in
collaboration with BAE Systems)
Semiconductor light emitters
Light emitting diodes made from gallium nitride
and related alloys give all the colours of the
rainbow and white besides
Femtosecond dynamics
Spintronics electron spins synchronised with a
femtosecond laser pulse and then ringing down in
InAs
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Photonics highlights of past year
Femtosecond dynamics

• Advanced amplified laser dual parametric
  amplifiers
• UV to THz femtosecond
• pulse source

Spintronics
Using electron spin states to store
information electron spins synchronised with a
femtosecond laser pulse and then ringing down in
InAs
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Press Release 26th May 2005

• Light-Switching Nanotubes

A 373,000 collaboration between the University
of Surrey and University of Southampton, funded
by the EPSRC Next Generation Electrophotonics
programme, to study optical nonlinearity in
carbon nanotubes.
These nonlinear nanotubes are an example of the
new class of nanoscale composites which will
challenge more traditional photonic materials.
Professor Jeremy Allam, ATI
Nanotube Nonlinear Waveguides for Next Generation
Electrophotonics, J. Allam, S. R. P .Silva,
R.J.Curry, A. Andreev, O. Hess, W. H. Loh, T.
Brown and D. Hewak (EPSRC awards EP/C010531/1
and EP/C010558/1, start date 1st July 2005, grant
values 224,568 and 148,444).
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Press Release 26th May 2005

• Electronics all in a Spin

Electron spins ringing in an indium arsenide
semiconductor
A 1.1M project in collaboration with Imperial
College London and Cambridge University, to
investigate hybrid ferromagnet -semiconductor
spintronic devices.
"Spintronic devices incorporating semiconductors
offer ways to keep up with Moore's Law of
increasing computing power, to transmit
unbreakable codes and to compute previously
incomputable problems. Professor Ben Murdin, ATI
Materials Engineering To Optimise The Spin
Dependent Transport Between Ferromagnetic Metals
and Narrow Gap Semiconductors, B. N. Murdin and
O. Hess (EPSRC  grant EP/C511999/1, start date
1st April 2005, grant value 221,474)
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Press Release 26th May 2005

• Understanding energy transfer in hybrid quantum
  dot systems

An EPSRC grant of 122,000 to study dynamics of
energy transfer between organic complexes and
colloidal quantum dots
"These hybrid systems offer the possibility of
developing a new generation of low-cost efficient
devices. If this is to be realised it is
important that we understand how they interact
and utilise this information Dr Richard Curry,
ATI
Development and Study of Hybrid Organic-Colloidal
Quantum Dot Systems, R.J. Curry, (EPSRC award
EP/C013824/1, commencing 1st August 2005, grant
value 121,970)
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Research Groups
Theory and TAC Advanced Computation
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Theory and Advanced Computation
Nanostructured lasers
Quantum dots
Strain maps in a quantum dot
Optical modes in microdisk laser
Bio-electronics and bio-photonics
Photonic crystals
Calculated optical modes in a photonic crystal
A bio-electronic network of configurable
molecular interconnects
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TAC highlights of past year
Photonic crystals
Calculated optical modes in a photonic crystal
A Double-Inverse Opal Photonic Crystal
Temperature on the Nano-Scale
Quantum Theoretical Theory Reveals Limits for the
Definition of Temperature on the Nano-Scale
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Press Release 31st May 2005

• University of Surrey acquires NEC SX-6 for
  Research and Innovation

The ATI has acquired an NEC SX-6/4B vector
computer one of the fastest commercially-availab
le - for its supercomputing laboratory. The
acquisition was supported by a second-round
Science Research Investment Fund (SRIF2) award .
The NEC SX-6 system gives us the opportunity to
build on our recent ground-breaking
quantum-theoretical work on temperature on the
nanoscale Professor Hess, ATI
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Research Groups
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Ion Beam Centre

• EPSRC National Facility for ion implantation

State-of-the-art tandem accelerator
External microbeam for analysis of
archaeological, biological and cosmological
samples
New proton microbeam lithothography capability

• Future developments
• Nanobeam proton beam for analysis and
  nanolithography (funded)
• Vertical ion beam for biological applications
  (funding applied for)

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Ion Beam Centrehighlights of past year
EPSRC National Facility for ion implantation
State-of-the-art tandem accelerator

• Diverse applications of external beam line

analysis of archaeological, biological and
cosmological samples Membership of Universal
Leonardo Project
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Press Release 31st May 2005

• MeV ion nanobeams
• nanotechnology for the 21st century

An EPSRC research grant of 257,000 to construct
and utilise a new tool for nanotechnology.
The potential applications are almost limitless,
as we can both manipulate structures on the
nanometre scale and probe their elemental
composition. A particularly exciting field will
be the emerging technologies at the life-sciences
interface such as drug delivery devices and
probing the inner workings of living
cells Professor Roger Webb, Director of the IBC
MeV ion nanobeams nanotechnology for the 21st
century, G. Grime, K. Kirkby, A. Clough, C.
Jeynes, R. Gwilliam and R. Webb (EPSRC grant
number EP/C009592/1, start date 1st September
2005, grant value 256,845)
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Major facilities

• Microfabrication clean room
• Nanofabrication labs
• STM Laboratory
• Electron-beam / FIB suite
• Ion beam national facility
• Femtosecond laser lab
• Supercomputer laboratory

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Clean Rooms

• Multipurpose fabrication facility with
• 200m2 of clean room down to class 100
• 30 major items of process equipment
• Now producing devices!

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STM Laboratory

• Omicron MULTILAB UHV surface probe
• Sophisticated multi-probe for nanoscale
  characterisation

• Other scanning probes available include
• Scanning tunneling microscope
• Atomic force microscope
• Scanning capacitance microscope

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E-beam / FIB suite

• FEI dual-beam Focused Ion Beam writer
• State-of-art nanotechnology machine

• Other electron microscopes include
• Electron microscope with nanoprobes
• Environmental electron microscope

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Ion beam analysis

• State-of-the-art tandem accelerator

• Microprobe beam (operational)
• External beam (operational)
• Nanobeam (funded)
• Vertical beam for biology (proposed)

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Ultrafast Lasers

• Coherent RegA amplified laser dual parametric
  amplifiers
• UV to THz femtosecond pulse source

• Also available
• Spectra-Physics Tsunami-Opal femtosecond
  oscillators

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Supercomputers

• NEC SX-6 vector processor

148-processor Operton cluster
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Industrial links

• Intel
• Bookham Technology
• Applied Materials
• Qinetiq
• Infineon
• Thales

• Philips
• Hitachi
• BAe Systems
• FEI
• and others

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ATI spinouts

• Polarmetrix
• SI-LIGHT
• QFT
• Nano-Tubix

Fibre-optic vibration sensors for security
applications Si-based light emitters Field
emission displays based on laser crystallisation
of amorphous silicon Carbon nanotube based
products (pre-incubator stage)