EPSRC Core Equipment Award 2022

斯旺西大学将使用EPSRC的设备奖，在EPSRC的职权范围内战略性地投资于科学与工程学院关键领域的最先进设备。这些干预措施的主要目标是显著提高我们制造和表征能源材料的能力，扩大研究的吞吐量和规模。所要求的设备是我们当前能力的主要扩展，特别是在制造第三代光伏电池方面，能够增强设备性能和复杂性。该设备经过精心挑选，以填补能源材料端到端制造和表征设施的主要空白。这种干预将对我们庞大的研究社区产生重大好处，为研究行为和扩大规模提供更高的性能和更大的设备。这种更广泛的科学卓越机会将为现有的研究小组和加速开放获取的下一代研究人员的职业生涯提供好处。这些设备是经过精心挑选的，以增强和增加大学目前的研究能力。它将允许创建新的制造和表征途径，这些新的实验方法将提供新的见解，新的数据和改进现有数据的质量。反过来，这将导致在高影响因子期刊上发表，通过广泛的公众参与为我们的网络创造更多的合作和增长机会，并帮助利用外部资金进一步发展和发展这些领域。

Swansea University will use this equipment award from EPSRC too strategically invest in state of the art equipment in key areas across the Faculty of Science and Engineering within the remit of EPSRC. The primary objective of these interventions is to significantly enhance our ability to manufacture and characterise energy materials expanding both throughput and scale of the research. The equipment requested is a major extension of our current capabilities in particular in the fabrication of 3rd generation photovoltaics enabling enhanced device performance and complexity. The equipment has been carefully selected to fill major gaps in end-to-end fabrication and characterisation facilities for energy materials. This intervention will be of a major benefit to our sizeable research community enabling both higher performing and larger devices for study of behaviour and scale-up. This broader opportunity for scientific excellence will provide a benefit to both established research groups and for accelerating the careers of next generation researchers who will have open-access. The equipment has been carefully selected to augment, enhance and add value to the current research capabilities at the University. It will allow the creation of new fabrication and characterisation pathways, these new experimental methodologies will provide new insights, new data and improved quality of existing data. This, in turn, will lead to publication in high impact factor journals, create further opportunities for collaboration and growth of our networks through extensive public engagement and help leverage external funding to further grow and develop these areas.