Nanoscale Science and Technology (Research)

Overview
At Newcastle University you'll get the chance to:

• thrive on interdisciplinary challenges

• collaborate with industrial partners

• create your own spin-off company to commercialise the results of your research.

MPhil and PhD supervision is available in:

• micro and nanoscale design, fabrication, manufacturing and manipulation

• top-down and bottom-up fabrication

• nanoscale materials and electronics

• applications of nano and microelectronics in medical science (cell biology, neuroscience, human genetics and ageing)

• polymers

• self-assembly

• chemistry of nanoscale systems

• biomolecular engineering - microfluids, bioprobes and biosensor systems, MEMS/NEMS-based sensors and device.

Many research projects cross the disciplinary boundaries of:

• medicine

• engineering

• the physical sciences.

Depending on the source of funding, your project may involve collaboration with:

• an industry partner

• working in a team with other students.

You might develop an idea to the point where, following your degree, you can create a spin-off company. This would have potential to commercialise the results of your research.

Facilities:

nanoLAB, one of the University’s research centres, brings together our cross-disciplinary research in:

biomedical science
nanoelectronics
nano-electromechanical systems (NEMS)
chemistry
materials.

Our facilities include some of the best-equipped micro/nano device fabrication facilities in the UK. This includes:

clean rooms for fabrication of bio-nano devices, electrical and material characterisation
specialist equipment that can operate with nanometre scale resolution
the national X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) service, NEXUS.