Tag Archives: University of Surrey

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 ...

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 UK thermal infrared satellite firm Satellite Vu is partnering with Surrey Research Park (SRP) to demonstrate the use of thermal imaging technology for the built environment. The earth observation specialist will perform a series of flights across the 70 acre landscape to map the built environment and provide data on the level of heat loss across buildings in the ...

The UK Space Agency has awarded £1.2 million to the UK’s south-central region, and the funding includes £300,000 for the newly-formed Space South Central, which is described as the UK’s largest ‘space cluster’. The money will support Space South Central’s aims to promote collaboration and champion space-related business and R&D across Hampshire, Surrey and the Isle of Wight. According to ...

The universities of York, Bristol and Surrey are to share £28 million from the government to work with Ericsson, Nokia and Samsung  on developing future O-RAN networking technologies. The universities will work with UK academics and industry players to ensure future network are designed to support O-RAN to promote a more diverse and innovative telecoms market. O-RAN enables operators to ...

Viavi Solutions is supporting 6G academic and industry research worldwide through its new 6G Forward program. The program is designed to provide vital expertise, technology, and funding to promising avenues of research, which may lead to breakthroughs for the next generation of wireless technology. At the University of Surrey, Viavi is a founding member of the 5G/6G Innovation Centre led ...

Space South Central organisations already create £1.64bn of export revenue and £65m in foreign direct investment annually, according to the University of Surrey, which is part of the cluster. It also claims the South East is responsible for £4.2bn (~25%) of UK space-related income, with Surrey and Hampshire estimated to account for up to £3bn of UK space-related turn-over. It ...

The University of Surrey has created a flexible and stretchy supercapacitor “that can be easily integrated into footwear, clothing, and accessories”, it said. Building one involves transferring aligned carbon nanotube arrays from a silicon wafer over to a PDMS (polydimethylsiloxane) layer in which they are partly embedded. Polyaniline is then polymerised onto the surface of the nanotubes. In capacitors made from ...

University of Surrey researchers have been inventing ways to get electronic activity into every page of plain paper books, and have come up with two forms of ‘magic bookmark’ as they have dubbed them. Developed at Surrey’s Advanced Technology Institute and its Digital World Research Centre, the idea is that the bookmark communiates with a phone app via a bluetooth link. One of the ...

Announced yesterday, researchers from Surrey and Cambridge universities and the National Research Institute in Rome have used thin-film source-gated transistor (SGT) to create compact analogue circuit building blocks that can be used on flexible substrates. Source-gated transistors – SGTs – are uni-polar – they only need n or p-type semiconductor, not both. The research team built two two-transistor building blocks: ...