Birmingham Experimental Particle Physics Capital Equipment Round 2016

部分由STFC资助的资本设备被要求支持快速增长的新型半导体探测器技术的研发，这些技术具有非常广泛的相关性，从手机相机到医学再到基础物理。该奖项支持伯明翰大学在该领域的人员和资源的重大战略投资，特别是支持伯明翰粒子物理及其应用仪器实验室（BILPA）。所要求的基本设备包括超声波焊丝机、半自动半导体探头站、混合模式示波器、边缘瞬态电流技术激光系统和图形处理单元（GPU）服务器。该设备对于在伯明翰建立和维持一个充满活力，活跃和通用的探测器研发计划至关重要，这将有助于英国在快速发展的高科技领域中发挥领导作用。

Capital equipment funded in part by STFC is requested to support the rapidly growing thread of R&D towards new semiconductor detector technologies, which have very wide-ranging relevance, from mobile phone cameras to medicine to fundamental physics. The award underpins a major strategic Birmingham University investment of staff and resources in this area, and in particular supports the Birmingham Instrumentation Laboratory for Particle physics and its Applications (BILPA). The basic equipment requested includes an ultrasonic wire bonder, a semi-automatic semiconductor probe station, a mixed-mode oscilloscope, an edge Transient Current Technique laser system and a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) server. The equipment is essential to establish and maintain a vibrant, active and generic detector R&D programme in Birmingham, which will help the UK grow its leadership a rapidly developing, high tech field.