Consortium of Excellence in Advanced Sensors and Their Applications

该项目旨在促进几个关键研究小组的关键人员的技能和专业知识的协同作用，跨越英国和海外的一系列学科，并与目标用户社区合作，分享他们的专业知识和广泛的经验，与参与的人热情合作取得成功。在此过程中，该项目的主要主题是创造新的技术机会，否则由于个人设施和资源的限制以及所需知识的深度，很难单独开发，以在广泛的技术领域创造真实的创新。最重要的是，该应用程序的重点是团队聚集在一起，在一组具有互补技能的工程师中“发挥最大作用”，以实现在未来十年及以后应对用户社区竞争力挑战所需的步骤变化。该联盟首次聚集在一起，是一个显著的多样性，其中包括光纤传感器，MEMS传感器设计，制造和集成，化学，化学工程，通信和民用结构的专业知识和经验，并已创建，使所需的传感器技术和材料科学的步骤变化，从而发展竞争优势，以满足用户社区的需求。该财团拥有经验丰富和早期职业生涯的员工，但最重要的是一个具有知识深度和成功动力的团队，能够接受新的挑战并迎接新的机遇。计划中的项目为英国财团目前非常强大的赠款组合增加了一个新的维度。申请人拥有许多著名的赠款-其中2个平台赠款，2个工程学赠款和1个高级奖学金（后两个专门承认早期职业研究人员的卓越），以及一些响应模式赠款和具有强大KT维度的合同，例如KTP，它们共同强调满足当今的研究需求。

This project is designed to promote a synergy of the skills and expertise of key personnel in several key research groups, across a range of disciplines both in the UK and overseas, and working with targeted user communities to share their expertise and wide experience, with the people involved enthusiastically collaborating for success. In so doing, the prime theme of this project is to create new technological opportunities which would otherwise be very difficult to develop individually due to the limitations in individual facilities and resources and the depth of knowledge required, to create real innovation over a broad technological field. Most importantly, the focus of the application is on the team brought together to 'bring out the best' in a group of engineers with complementary skills, to achieve the step change that is needed to meet the challenges of competitiveness for the user community over the next decade and beyond. The consortium brought together for the first time, is one of significant diversity, which encompassing expertise and experience in optical fibre sensors, MEMS sensor design, fabrication and integration, chemistry, chemical engineering, communications and civil structures and has been created to make the step change in both the required sensor technologies and material science and thus developing a competitive edge to meet demands from user communities. The consortium has an excellent balance of experienced and early career staff, but above all is a group with the intellectual depth and drive to be successful, to take on new challenges and meet new opportunities.The project planned adds a new dimension to what is a very strong current grants portfolio of the UK consortium. The applicants hold a number of prestigious grants - amongst them 2 Platform Grants, 2 Challenging Engineering grants and 1 Advanced Fellowship (the latter two specifically recognizing excellence among early career researchers), together with a number of Responsive Mode grants and contracts with a strong KT dimension e.g. KTPs, which together emphasise meeting today's research needs.