Cryogenic Technologies Brokering Meeting

STFC supports development of leading edge cryogenic technologies to underpin its research in Particle Physics, Astronomy and Space.

Cryogenics is now playing an extremely important role at CERN. When the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) starts up, it will operate the largest 1.8 K helium refrigeration and distribution systems in the world and CERN biggest [...]

Vacuum Action Group Meeting

The Sensors & Instrumentation KTN works with industry and researchers to exploit sensor technologies. Its mission is to improve UK sensing innovation by transferring knowledge to businesses and enabling them to access the best science and technology.

Vacuum technologies play an important role in the instrumentation industry. An Action Group has been formed by the [...]

Automotive Instrumentation & Sensor Systems

A one-day knowledge transfer workshop organised by The Sensors & Instrumentation KTN & The Intelligent Transposrt Systems KTN on the subject of automotive instrumentation and sensor systems. It will seek to link industrialists, academia, and researchers working in the sector. The intention is to promote emerging technologies and capabilities, explore synergies and harmonisation issues, align [...]

Distributed Computing Workshop

The Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project brings together scientists and engineers from more than 240 institutions in 45 countries world-wide to provide a seamless distributed computing infrastructure for e-Science that is available to scientists 24 hours-a-day. Conceived from the start as a four-year project, the second two-year phase started on 1 April 2006, and [...]

High Performance Electronics – Beyond Silicon

Wide bandgap semiconductors (WBGS), defined as those with electronic band gaps greater than 2eV, are of growing interest in a range of scientific and industrial applications. They can be used as the basis of light emission in the blue and UV part of the spectrum, and in ëdetecting structures’ with good radiation hardness. [...]

Environmental Instrumentation – Barriers to Innovation in the Supply Chain

For a long time there has been a discontinuity for innovation in supply chain for environmental monitoring instrumentation. Users need low cost instruments that can be deployed in large numbers to monitor complete environmental systems such as air quality in urban areas or water catchment basins. However, the UK market for this type of instrumentation [...]

Distributed Instrument Systems for Water Catchment Monitoring

Climate change, economic pressures and tightening regulatory requirements are making it necessary to take a more holistic, integrated approach to managing water catchment areas. This is creating a growing need for a systems approach to instrumentation in order to monitor the whole water catchment basin. The key drivers for these instrument systems are:

better water resource [...]

Instrumentation for Hostile Environments

Many academic communities deploy instrumentation in remote and dangerous environments, covering a diversity of applications including; oceanography, space science, particle physics, volcanography, polar science, Earth observation and environmental monitoring. A number of challenges exist in applying off-the-shelf instruments to these environments, including remote operation / autonomy, radiation hardness, systems deployment, power / battery life, [...]

Novel Technologies for Ophthalmic Applications

KITE Club Knowledge Exchange Service

Healthcare and Life Sciences Special Interest Group
Novel Technologies for Ophthalmic Applications

 
Introduction

This meeting will seek to introduce imaging and advanced optics technologies, funded through STFC’s programmes to medical researchers and clinicians working in Optometry and Ophthalmology. There are a number of projects currently in progress where STFC technologies have been used [...]

Advanced Technology Showcase

An opportunity to discover the latest advances in technology and celebrate British achievements.

High value manufacturing has never been more important to the UK’s advanced engineering sector than in today’s environment. This first annual Advanced Technology Showcase from the STFC KITE Club celebrates UK achievements in technologies developed for space and their applications in other [...]

Advanced Device Packaging & MEMS Technologies Workshop

Two critical technologies that are being developed for space applications – Advanced Packaging and Microlectromechanical Systems MEMS – also have significant commercial applications for industry. Both these technologies result in miniaturisation of essential sensors and electronic components.

MEMS devices are the integration of electrical devices and mechanical structures at the micrometer level. Many different types [...]

Commercial Applications of Satellite Data

The U.K. has for many years excelled in the manufacture of satellite instruments as well as the analysis and interpretation of satellite data. There are several world class centres of excellence in this field including Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University of Reading and Plymouth Marine Laboratory as well as the National Centre for Earth Observation.

The [...]

Technology businesses (brief)

Qi3 offers technology market evaluation for corporate venturing organisations and technology companies; hands-on business development support; and fully comprehensive analysis and advice to…

Knowledge exchange (Brief)

Qi3 has an unusual and perhaps unique methodology for support of Knowledge Transfer and Technology Commercialisation for our public sector clients…

New Technologies for Protein Analysis

The genomic revolution resulted in the generation of whole DNA sequences of many organisms – from simple viruses to humans. Although genomics promised to open up new avenues of research, including novel pharmaceuticals and gene therapies, it is clear that this was only the first step. Whilst genomics results in a sequence of [...]

Advanced Technology Showcase 2009

This annual event from the STFC KITE Club celebrates UK achievements in technologies developed for space and their applications in other sectors. If you are an industry, military, or government representative looking for high technology solutions then don’t miss this special chance to explore the opportunities open to you.

Building on the success of the first [...]

Solving Challenges in Heritage – The Role of Sensors and Instruments

The conservation needs of heritage are constantly evolving, and sensors and instrumentation can make a growing contribution to the investigation, preservation, and restoration of heritage objects, buildings, and landscapes. This exciting event aims to inform the heritage, sensors & instrumentation and industrial communities of these evolving needs and of new solutions that are becoming available. [...]

CubeSat Research Network Launch Event

The use of extremely small CubeSat satellites offers the potential of introducing new and disruptive technologies into the space arena at significantly lower costs than conventional satellites. The development and implementation of these new technologies requires close collaboration between research institutes, universities, SME’s and large satellite system companies.

This workshop aims to bring together the key [...]