Tag Archives: University of Southampton

Space South Central is the portal to Cosmic Capital for space-related SMEs to attract financial backing. The regional space organisation – taking in Surrey and Hampshire – and the SETsquared Partnership have won UK Space Agency funding to run the free initiative, which is called Cosmic Capital. It aims to help “high-potential space and space-related SMEs attract investment” and applications ...

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 highlight Nyal Patel, a MEng Mechatronics student at the University of Southampton. Achievements Nyal has shone academically. After gaining four ...

The UK government is providing £2.1 million of funding, through the UK Space Agency (UKSA), to boost UK-based involvement in space technologies such as harnessing solar power for reusable spacecraft and new propulsion systems. The initial nine projects involve work at Lancaster University, the Surrey Space Centre at the University of Surrey, Swansea University, University of Strathclyde, Durham University (two ...

The shortlist for the UK Government’s Nanosat Design Competition has been announced, with five teams – from apprentices to grammar school and university students – competing for a share of the £600,000 Challenge Fund. It was launched in November 2021, we covered, with aspiring space scientists invited to design a small satellite for launch, with climate change as the theme ...

The University of Southampton is storing data onto glass at a density that would squeeze 500Tbyte onto a substrate the size of a CD. Data is written as miniature shapes through the bulk of silica glass using the three spatial dimensions. The shapes have two separate optical characteristics – adding two more dimensions – making this so-called five-dimensional (‘5d’) data storage. ...

The UK’s Space Research and Innovation Network for Technology (SPRINT) – via funding from the UK Space Agency – is supporting five new space projects involving industry and university collaboration. The universities involved are Edinburgh, Leicester and Southampton, and the startup companies are Absolar, ArchAI, Geospace Agricultural, Redshift, Trade in Space and XCAM. The aims of the projects vary from ...

Now in its fourth year, the EW BrightSparks programme sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Components to highlight the brightest and most talented young electronic engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the EW BrightSparks of 2020, we highlight Yanislav Donchev, who is studying for an MSc in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Southampton. Achievements Most of ...

Three UK universities are to take part in a £11m programme for the development of nanotechnology for electronics. Imperial College London and the Universities of Southampton and Manchester, will work with industrial partners on the project to replace traditional transistors with memristors as the basis of electronic circuits. Today all ICs are built from vast numbers of transistors (electronic switches). ...

Scientists at the University of Southampton have enhanced memristors, the non-volatile storage technology, achieving 128 discernible memory states per switch, almost four times more than previously reported, according to the University. Reported in Nature Scientific Reports as ‘Multibit memory operation of metal-oxide bi-layer memristors‘, the researchers reached 128 levels by evaluating several configurations of functional oxide materials. “Memristors are a key ...

Researchers at the University of Southampton have created a robot to mimic the swimming style of a prehistoric sea creature. Luke Muscutt, a PhD student in Engineering and the Environment, lead the team which worked with partners at the University of Bristol to analyse the propulsion method of plesiosaurs –marine reptiles that lived at the same time as dinosaurs and ...