Equipment to Underpin Internationally Leading Research at the University of Bristol

所要求的设备将提供新的能力和国际领先的设施，使尖端研究和国际领先的科学，超越现有仪器的可能性。这些设备还将促进与国内和国际其他大学和行业的更多合作机会。“先进电子材料和器件”捆绑包为研究未来电子应用的新材料和器件提供设备，从用于电力传输和MRI的超导体到用于传感器和计算机存储器应用的自旋电子器件。它还将提高半导体和混合金刚石基器件研究的热成像能力，这些器件有可能改变未来的电力电子器件。电力转换技术在管理能源需求和提高能源转换效率方面发挥着至关重要的作用，例如在低碳运输系统和能源供应网络中提供“游戏规则改变”。随着这些“更电动”的系统变得越来越普遍，例如通过在飞机和电动汽车中的采用，需要对运行寿命和故障模式有新的理解。在“实现电力转换系统的稳健设计和分析”中，设备更新所提供的增强能力将使国际领先的研究能够在终身设计领域进行，虚拟认证和可靠性。透射电子显微镜（TEM）允许对材料的外部和内部结构进行成像，并根据材料的具体性质提供多种配置正在调查的材料。柱后能量过滤器通过允许电子携带的结构和化学信息在与样品材料相互作用后被询问来显著提高TEM的分析和成像能力。“先进能源材料和软物质的支持分析”中要求的Gatan成像滤波器（GIF）升级将提供重要的新能力，以确定纳米级材料的结构和组成，并为如何增强材料功能提供新的见解。仪器升级是布里斯托高级显微镜设备战略投资的一部分，反映了其建立具有国际竞争力的材料表征设施的雄心，以适应其所支持的世界领先研究。核磁共振（NMR）光谱和质谱（MS）是研究化学结构和反应的卓越技术。它们支撑着催化（加速化学反应），合成（创造新的化学实体）和材料（具有特定性质和应用的化学品，例如纳米技术）的几乎所有研究计划。如“基础催化，合成和材料化学”捆绑包中所述，老化的NMR和MS仪器的更换将确保这些领域的持续前沿研究，并将提供新的硬件功能，允许以以前不可能的方式研究分子/化学系统，例如，新的“宽带多信道实时无线信道仿真器”设施将为低于6 GHz的无线收发器提供宽带（160 MHz）多维信道（8 x 8）无线信道仿真，允许使用真实世界信道模型（3GPP和802.11，以及用户定义的场景）进行可重复实验。硬件还可以重新配置，以提供与毫米波操作同义的级联带宽的信道仿真，从而推动“5G及以后”的研究议程。

The equipment requested will provide new capability and internationally leading facilities that will enable cutting-edge research and internationally leading science, beyond that which is possible with current instrumentation. The equipment will also facilitate greater collaborative opportunities with other Universities and industry nationally and internationally. The "Advanced Electronic Materials and Devices" bundle provides equipment for research into new materials and devices for future electronic applications, ranging from superconductors for applications in power transmission and MRI to spintronic devices for sensors and computer memory applications. It will also improve thermal imaging capability for the study of semiconductor and hybrid diamond based devices which have the potential to transform future power electronic devices.Electrical power conversion technologies have a vital role to play in managing energy demand and improving energy conversion efficiency, affording 'game-changes' in, for example, low carbon transport systems and energy supply networks. As these 'more electric' systems become more commonplace, for example through their adoption in aircraft and electric vehicles, new understanding of operation life and failure modes is needed. The enhanced capabilities offered by the equipment updates in the "Enabling robust design and analysis of electrical power conversion systems" will allow internationally leading research to be pursued in the areas of design for life, virtual certification and reliability.Transmission electron microscopes (TEM) allow the imaging of both the external and internal structure of materials and are available in numerous configurations dependent on the specific nature of the materials under investigation. A post column energy filter dramatically improves the analytical and imaging capabilities of a TEM by allowing structural and chemical information carried by the electrons to be interrogated after interaction with the sample material. The requested Gatan Imaging Filter (GIF) upgrade in the "Supporting Analysis of Advanced Energy Materials and Soft Matter" will provide significant new capability to determine the structure and composition of materials at the nanoscale and provide new insights into how to enhance material functionality. The instrument upgrade forms part of a strategic investment in advanced microscopy provision at Bristol, and reflects ambitions for an internationally competitive materials characterization facility befitting the world-leading research it underpins.Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and mass spectrometry (MS) are the pre-eminent techniques for studying chemical structure and reactions. They underpin nearly every program of research in catalysis (accelerating chemical reactions), synthesis (creation of new chemical entities) and materials (chemicals with defined properties and applications e.g. nanotechnology). The replacement of aging NMR and MS instruments as described in the "Underpinning Catalysis, Synthesis and Materials Chemistry" bundle will ensure continued cutting-edge investigations in these fields, and will provide new hardware capabilities that allow the study of molecular/chemical systems in previously impossible fashions, e.g., at low temperature for days at a time (NMR), or under unreactive atmospheres (MS).The new "Wideband Multi-channel Real-time Wireless Channel Emulator" facility will offer wideband (160MHz) multi-dimensional channel (8 x 8) wireless channel emulation for sub 6GHz wireless transceivers allowing repeatable experimentation with real-world channel models (3GPP and 802.11, plus user defined scenarios). The hardware can also be reconfigured to offer channel emulation with cascaded bandwidths synonymous with millimetre wave operation, thus driving forward the "5G and beyond" research agenda.