Queen's University Belfast Core Equipment Call 2019

2020年贝尔法斯特女王大学EPSRC核心设备奖将用于通过改进我们的设备来增强我们的研究能力，明确的目的是为我们的EPSRC研究人员和潜在的EPSRC研究人员提供支持，特别是我们的早期职业(EC)员工。每个项目的首席研究人员都在进行尖端研究，这台设备将支持我们在更多支持案例中概述的研究卓越。贝尔法斯特女王大学在合作、设备共享和最大限度地利用设备来支持我们的研究人员和跨学科研究方面有着强大和成熟的文化，例如我们的Match PRP正在进行的研究。这一核心奖项将通过促进我们的研究环境中的更多合作、更高的生产率和实现阶段性变化，为我们的研究人员提供明显的好处。此次募集的资金仅用于采购符合我们优先研究领域和EPS战略装备清单中确定的战略装备。具体地说，核心资金和额外的Match资金(详见《资源的理由》)将用于支持用于智能SHM的石英晶体微天平、光谱仪、红外热像仪和具有更高速度捕获的镜头，再加上最先进的表面视觉捕获系统和无人机监控技术，ECIT的ECIT Tx/Rx毫米波V波段VNA毫米波实验室用于无线通信系统的天线和组件的表征、Micro CT扫描仪升级和X射线源更新，以及高级材料蒸汽沉积集群工具模块

Queen's University Belfast EPSRC Core Equipment Award 2020 is to be used to enhance our research capability through advancing our equipment with the explicit aim of providing support to our EPSRC researchers and potential EPSRC researchers particularly our Early Career (EC) staff. The lead researchers for each item are undertaking cutting-edge research, and this equipment will underpin our research excellence as outlined in more in the Case for Support. Queen's University Belfast has a strong and well-established culture of collaboration, equipment sharing and maximising the use of equipment to support our Researchers and cross-disciplinary research such as that being undertaken by our MATCH PRP. This core award will provide a clear benefit to our Researchers through enabling increased collaboration, greater productivity and the realisation of step changes in our research environment. The funding from this call is exclusively for the procurement of strategic equipment aligned to our priority research areas and as identified in our EPS Strategic Equipment list. Specifically the core fund and additional match funding ( as detailed in the Justification of Resources ) will be used to support a Quartz crystal microbalance, Spectrofluorometer, IR thermal camera and lens with higher speed capture for intelligent SHM that is coupled with a state-of-the-art surface vision capture systems and UAV monitoring technology, ECIT Tx/Rx mm-wave V-band VNA mm-wave lab housed at ECIT is used for characterisation of antennas and components for wireless communications systems, Micro CT Scanner Upgrade and X-Ray source renewal, and an Advanced Materials Vapour Deposition Cluster Tool Module