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Events at the Henry Royce Institute
And from around the Materials Community
06 March 2024 - 08 March 2024
All Day
This course will introduce thin-film deposition and analytical techniques for characterising thin films. The content explores physical vapour deposition techniques, and will cover deposition parameters, structural characterisation and the electrical behaviour of a simple device. Practical training will cover basic lab skills for working with the ultra-high-vacuum environments needed for high quality thin film growth. Through use of the Royce Deposition System participants will gain hands-on experience of, sputtering, molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and pulsed laser deposition (PLD). Each participant will grow and characterise their own samples, including taking measurements of film thickness and surface morphology. The course will also include a short session on cleanroom fabrication to make a microscale wire from a thin film.
Event Type: Training
Lead Partner:University of Leeds
Location: Sir William Henry Bragg Building
08 March 2024 - 17 March 2024
All Day
The Henry Royce Institute is taking part in British Science Week for the second year in a row with an exciting program of activities.
Event Type: Outreach Event
Lead Partner:none
Location: Manchester Museum
08 March 2024
11:00 am - 1:30 pm
Join the Henry Royce Institute in celebrating International Women’s Day with a career panel highlighting the achievements of women in Material Science and Engineering!
Event Type: Public Engagement
Lead Partner:none
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The Engineering the Future conference will be hosted by the School of Engineering and the Department of Materials on 28 and 29 March 2023.
The conference gives you an opportunity to learn more about our recent and future research and our educational activities that are delivering the next generation of engineers.
Northwest Aerospace Alliance are delighted to be hosting its 8th Annual Conference this year on 30th March 2023 at the Mercure Dunkenhalgh Hotel and Spa Blackburn, Blackburn Rd Clayton, Blackburn, BB5 5JP. The theme of this year’s conference will be ‘The Challenge of Achieving Sustainable Growth for the Aerospace & Defence Sector'.
Join the Pint of Science Manchester launch event - a little 'sip of science' - ahead of the main Pint of Science Festival taking place from the 22 - 24 May 2023.
You will hear fascinating flash talks across multiple themes featuring some of Manchester's leading thinkers and researchers. Complementary welcome drinks will be served until 5:45pm.
This new series of interactive webinars to enhance understanding of data approaches used across the national advanced materials community. The webinar series covers topics such as computational methods in the development of materials, AI approaches to materials design and complex computer simulation methods used for materials discovery.
The measurement of load, torque, temperature, speed, and displacement is common in many kinds of machines. However, most of these sensors capture data about the machine or individual components at a macro-scale. In tribology the important interactions, and the ones that really need sensing, occur at the micro-scale of contacts. For example, the actual flash temperature on a gear tooth, the contact pressure in a rolling bearing, asperity contact in tilting pad, or the film thickness in a seal. Sensing these parameters in-situ in a tribo-contact is challenging. There are several physical phenomena we can use; electrical resistance and capacitance, optical interference and fluorescence/absorption, and acoustic transmission/reflection. This talk covers some designs of sensors based on these physical principles and what researchers have been able to measure with them. The talk includes the author’s own specialist area ultrasonic reflection and a case study on a wind turbine bearing.