NAME

Project Details

Description

The Nanoscale Advanced Materials Engineering (NAME) EPSRC Programme Grant, aims to revolutionise the design and delivery of functionality on demand at the nanoscale within advanced materials.

Providing new world-leading capabilities, we will transform the ability to exploit spin and photonics; address and harness thermal interactions; realise designer materials for quantum technologies (QTs); and in so doing, shape the UK and international advanced functional materials landscape.

The research in the NAME Programme Grant will make major steps in addressing the following materials challenges:

Spintronic systems engineering – Can we develop integrated systems incorporating spin injection, valves, repeaters and gain, extending spin systems from nanometre length scales to microns?

Phononic systems engineering – Can we deliver bespoke doping in periodic systems to yield super-efficient light-matter interactions and enable wave-engineering of phonons?

Topological insulator systems – Can we develop systems in which topological states are defined, modified and controlled in 2D or 3D interacting networks?

Engineering materials for quantum technologies
– Can we develop scalable arrays of impurity centres in systems engineered to ensure long quantum coherence times?

Our Approach

NAME focuses on four areas of materials science and engineering.

Capability development: Optimising and extending the capabilities of the Platform for Nanoscale Advanced Materials Engineering (P-NAME) for nanoscale doping.
Nanoscale photonics: Highly-targeted doping of photonic systems to provide new enhanced or modified optical electronic or magnetic functionality.
Engineering energy: Enabling the development of devices and technologies that have intrinsic low-power operation.
Materials for quantum technologies: Advancing the development of topological materials and defect/vacancy centres in solid state systems.

Augmenting P-NAME and capabilities in thin-film materials deposition will be applied to develop a new generation of photonic devices, energy efficient technologies and will allow for the manipulation of specific defects to develop quantum devices.

StatusActive
Effective start/end date31/07/2131/07/26

UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This project contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
  • SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms

  • Advanced materials

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