Nanotechnology
A new GBP2mn nanotechnology research laboratory at the University of Bath has been formally opened. The building itself was put up in the 1960s but was converted in January this year at a cost of just over GBP1mn, using a GBP750,000 grant from the UK Science Research Investment Fund and the remainder coming from the Royal Society-Wolfson Foundation and the University of Bath.
Equipment includes devices for electron beam lithography and atomic force microscopy. The work that will be furthered by the new centre includes Professor Wang-Nang Wang's research into more efficient forms of light from light emitting diodes which can produce light very similar to natural sunlight and reduce the cost of lighting.
The centre will be named in honour of Professor David Bullett, who was head of the Physics Department at the University from 1990 until 2000, just after he was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumour. Professor Bullett died in July 2001, at the age of 51. He worked mainly on solid state physics theory.
The laboratory was built in part by George & Harding, with the clean rooms built by Engineering Services Management of Chelmsford.
