QuantIC is the UK Quantum Technology Hub in Quantum Enhanced Imaging.  We bring together industry and academia in a collaborative project to revolutionise imaging across industrial, scientific and consumer markets.

Established in 2014, we are one of four Hubs that are part of the Government’s £1billion National Quantum Technology Programme set up to exploit the potential of quantum science and develop a range of emerging technologies.

QuantIC’s investigating team and their groups represent...

The National Archives (TNA) is the official archive of the UK government and for England and Wales, making available to the public a vast collection of historical records dating back over 1,000 years and including the UK Government Web Archive and legislation.gov.uk. Our goal is to be an archive for everyone, and we are taking an entrepreneurial, disruptive, and inclusive approach to reaching this aim. One important sector we serve is research, and as a UKRI Independent Research Organisation, we...

ARCHER2 is the UK national supercomputing service based at EPCC at the University of Edinburgh. Available to researchers and industry, ARCHER2 is one of the largest CPU-based supercomputers in the world with over quarter of a million CPU cores connected together by the HPE Cray Slingshot technology and backed by large amounts of high performance storage.

ARCHER2 is suitable for use by researchers and data scientists who require access to large amounts of computational power for their work...

CPI acts as a catalyst bringing together academia, businesses, government and investors to translate bright ideas and research into the marketplace. We do this by connecting our customers with the right experts, equipment, facilities, networks, funding and more – joining the dots for effective innovation.

We are a leading independent technology innovation centre and a founding member of the UK Government’s High Value Manufacturing Catapult. Established in 2004, our teams tirelessly apply...

RAL Space operate a series of thermal, vacuum and mechanical testing facilities along with clean room space to allow for the development, assembly and testing of space bound hardware.

The dedicated and highly experienced environmental test team work closely with RAL Space projects to deliver world leading scientific instrumentation, alongside working with worldwide space agencies such as ESA, scientific institutions such as Leicester University, and numerous commercial establishments such as...

GANIL (Grand Accélérateur National d’Ions Lourds) was founded in Caen, France in 1975 as a heavy ion-beam facility and institute for fundamental research to investigate the structure and properties of atomic nuclei through their interactions with matter. GANIL is now a large heavy-ion accelerator complex delivering stable beams and beams of short-lived “exotic” nuclei ranging from a few keV to 95 MeV per unit mass. A large variety of experimental equipment for addressing questions in nuclear...

The University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) is a world-class centre for research into advanced manufacturing technologies used in the aerospace, automotive, medical and other high-value manufacturing sectors.

The AMRC has a global reputation for helping companies overcome manufacturing problems and is a model for collaborative research involving universities, academics and industry worldwide.

Combining state of the art technologies with the AMRC’s expertise in...

We offer access to state-of-the-art spectrometers for photoelectron spectroscopy in our main laboratory based at the Research Complex at Harwell (RCaH).

Together with our partner hubs offering specialist analysis at Cardiff University, UCL and the University of Manchester, the Harwell XPS service provides access to a wider range of XPS analysis methods than previously available to UK academia and industry, including:

• XPS and UPS
• Angle Resolved XPS (ARXPS)
• XPS Imaging
• Ion Scattering...

The Software Sustainability Institute is a national facility for building better software, founded in 2010. It provides guidance, training, tools, services and other resources to advance good practices for developing research software. These include a software evaluation service; guides for researchers, developers and managers; and data and analysis on research software. The SSI runs workshops and initiatives to support the development of communities of practice, including the SSI Fellowship...