EPSRC Capital Award for Core Equipment

在收到申请核心设备资金的邀请后，谢菲尔德大学在其EPSRC资助的实验室和社区推广了这一机会。我们收集了兴趣表达，并由一个跨学院的小组就如何符合拟议的预算、标准和机构战略做出了决定。资本投资将支持以下领域：-通过购买磁控溅射真空沉积系统制造半导体/有机器件。-通过创建一套设备，包括Zeta电位和DLS粒度系统，介电光谱和真空负载锁，对我们的金属蒸发器进行颗粒涂层和表征。-研究需要超快光谱通过获取一个自相关器。-支持任意波形发生器的量子技术。-用氩离子激光光刻。-购买四个豺狼漫游者和一个蒂亚戈移动机器人。设备将在两个科学和工程学院的六个实验室中托管。新设备有望提高现有设施的效率，开辟新的合作研究领域，并实现新的见解。

Following the invitation to apply for core equipment funding, the University of Sheffield promoted the opportunity across its EPSRC funded laboratories and communities. Expressions of interest were collected and a cross-faculty panel made the decision about what would fit with the proposed budget, criteria and institutional strategies. Capital investment will support the following fields:- Semiconductor/organic devices fabrication through the purchase of a magnetron sputtering vacuum deposition system.- Particle coating and characterisation by creating a suite of equipment including a Zeta potential and DLS particle sizer system, dielectric spectroscopy and a vacuum loadlock addition to our metal evaporator.- Research requiring ultrafast spectroscopy through the acquisition of an autocorrelator.- Quantum technology with the support of an arbitrary waveform generator.- Lithography with an argon ion laser.- Robotics with the purchase of four Jackal Rovers and a Tiago mobile robot.Equipment will be hosted in six laboratories across the two faculties of Science and Engineering. New equipment is expected to increase the efficiency of existing facilities, open up new areas of collaborative research and enable novel insights.