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High Voltage Laboratories At The University of Manchester

The laboratories are capable of testing high voltage equipment at a range of voltages up to 800kV AC, 600kV DC and 2MV impulse (lightning and switching). The testing capabilities we have are relevant to electricity transmission and distribution networks, a range of industrial high voltage devices and the high voltage components being deployed in vehicles including ships, aircraft and cars. High voltage testing can be carried out at a range of temperatures and pressures with specialist monitoring...

The University of Manchester Dalton Cumbrian Facility

DCF is the University of Manchester’s research base for radiation science, co-located with additional nearby capability in robotics research applicable to the nuclear sector. Since opening in 2013 DCF has become firmly established as a key national research asset and is a delivery partner in three strategic programmes: the National Nuclear User Facility, the Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials and the EPSRC UK National Ion Beam Centre, delivered in partnership with the universities of...

University of Manchester High Voltage Test Facilities

High voltage equipment is of vital importance in a range of sectors including energy networks and transport systems (such as the future HV systems being deployed in aerospace environments). The development of any high voltage equipment can be supported by numerical and lower voltage experimental simulations. However, research and development ultimately requires robust, full-scale, high voltage testing to fully understand the physical degradation / failure processes that can take place. The...

University of Manchester Near-Ambient Pressure X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Facility

to what it does The University of Manchester Near-Ambient Pressure XPS facility provides Near-Ambient Pressure XPS characterisation to academia and industry. X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) is a vital surface characterisation technique in routine usage in many research fields and industries (catalysis, electrochemistry/batteries, thin film coating). XPS is a high vacuum technique, restricting it to post-mortem measurements. Near-Ambient Pressure XPS (NAP-XPS) is an evolution of this...

Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre

The University of Manchester is the home of graphene to it is where the one-atom thick material was first isolated. Today we have an unrivalled breadth of academic expertise and work in collaboration with dozens of partners. By leveraging the research power along with the vast infrastructure we have put in place we can leverage the investment in fundamental science and facilities to collaboratively generate value, IP and skills needed for the development of products and applications....

N8 CoE in computationally intensive research (N8 CIR)

Computationally intensive methods, High Performance Computing (HPC) and High Performance Data Analytics (HPDA), are essential enablers of world class research across most disciplines. N8 CIR is a platform of HPC/HPDA methods, skills and facilities - as Centre of Excellence (CoE) - to underpin the strategic research objectives of the N8 universities: providing a competitive edge by extending the boundaries of the possible. It includes: building communities of practice focused on selected N8...

Kelvin Nanocharacterisation Centre

The Kelvin Nanocharacterisation Centre is one of the UK's leading centres for electron and ion microscopies. We provide imaging and analysis of materials at lengths from the sub-millimetre to the atomic scale. Our facilities are used both by the Materials and Condensed Matter Physics research group and external users for the study of a wide range of materials, solid objects and devices. This includes collaborations with academic groups in the University of Glasgow, elsewhere in Scotland...

National Graphene Institute

NGI mission is:

To provide a world-leading centre for applied research in graphene and other two-dimensional (2D) materials in collaboration with other universities and research centres.
Fostering collaboration with researchers across the UK and overseas, by providing access to NGI research infrastructure.
To support the development of applications and business opportunities through partnerships with industrial companies, the commercialisation of intellectual property (including start-ups...

SuperSTEM - National Research Facility for Advanced Electron Microscopy

SuperSTEM is an internationally-renowned user facility that acts as a focal point for driving forward developments in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) both nationally and internationally. The facility provides a world-leading capability for the direct imaging of atomic structures and the determination of elemental composition, along with chemical and bonding analysis, in thin samples down to single atom precision. As such it supports the elucidation of structure-property...

Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe

JIVE serves a huge community providing interferometric data studying some of the fundamental questions in astronomy and astrophysics along with geophysics. It is based in Dwingeloo in the Netherlands and operated as an EU ERIC, of which the UK is a full member. It primarily consists of computing hardware and software to enable the correlation of data from a global array of radio telescopes. In the UK, access is mainly via the e-MERLIN radio telescope network, based at the University of...