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Ionoptika Ltd and the University of Surrey have been awarded project grants worth a total of £425,000.00 from Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency, to expand their research into new manufacturing technologies for quantum devices.

See more on the IonOptika Web site

This new funding will help support development of new ion source materials for the Single/Determinstic Implantater - SIMPLE.
It will also help further the development of this unique facility in the UK to support solid state quantum technology devices.

This year we organised a hybrid User Day at the University of Surrey. Users had the opportunity to peresent their work virtually or in person at the University. We tried to encourage people to join the event in person - numbers were limited to maintain social distancing. However many people were still not quite ready to engage fully with an event with many people and full participation at the User Day via remote access was provided. The Programme for the day was as follows:

Time	Name	Institute	Title
10:00			Coffee
10:25			Welcome
10:30	John Kilner	Imperial College	The Surface of Complex Oxides; Ion Beam Based Analysis of Energy Materials
10:50	Niels Claessens	IMEC/KU Leuven	Ensemble and microbeam RBS: probing the areal density of high-Z atomic species in 3D microscale structures
11:10	Ella Scneider	Surrey	28Si enrichment for quantum computers using ion implantation and layer exchange
11:30	Hazel Gardiner	Oxford	Degradation of alloys for Molten Salt reactors
11:50	Joseph Alexander	UCL	Quantum memories using defect spins in solids
12:10			Lunch & Posters
14:00	Gillian Gehring	Sheffield	Magnetism in implanted oxides
14:20	Kan Ma	Birmingham	Drastic impact of micro-alloying on austenitic model alloy microstructure under irradiation
14:40	Mingchu Tang	UCL	Antiphase-boundaries free GaAs grown on on-axis Si (001) substrate grown by molecular beam epitaxy
15:00	Han Du	Southampton	Introduction to CORNERSTONE
15:20	Andrew Rossall	Huddersfield	Thermal behaviour of Cu and Au nanoparticles grown on CeO2 thin films
15:40	Jonathan Hinks	Huddersfield	Tailoring the Microstructure of MAX Phase Ceramics for Nuclear Applications
16:00	Andy Smith	DCF, Manchester	Ion Beam Developments at the Dalton Cumbrian Facility
16:20	Jonathan England	Surrey	Surrey Ion Beam Centre Update
16:40			Feedback Session
16:50			Close

Poster Presentations
To view all of the posters one after another follow this link
To view the posters individually follow the links in the table below:

Poster #	Name	Institute	Title/link
1	Alexia Beale	Surrey	Self-Stratification of Binary Linear and Star Polymers during the Drying of Thin Films
2	Matthew Sharpe	Surrey	Using TRI3DYN to Model Low Energy O2 SIMS of Si:Ge Delta Layers
3	Gabriele Parisi	Surrey	Performance assessment of a diamond-based microdosimeter by means of IBIC technique.
4	Matthew Sharpe	Surrey	Comparative Study of Epitaxial Grown GaNAsBi/GaAs Structures Using Photoreflectance and Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry
5	Pierre Couture	Surrey	ion beam induced charge, a nanobeam technique mapping silicon PIN photodiode assessing charge collection capability and uniformity
6	Holly-May Lewis	Surrey	DAPNe-LC-MS as a method of detecting drugs and lipids simultaneously in a single cell
7	Jonathan England	Surrey	Kinetic Monte Carlo Modelling of Implant Layer Exchange using SPPARKS
8	Jonathan England	Surrey	Extending TRI3DYN to Model Ion Driven Chemical Etching of Nanostructures
9	Callum McAleese	Surrey	Depth Analysis of ToF-ERD Using TRIM
10	Janella Marie de Jesus	Surrey	Studying the feasibility of sequential elemental and molecular imaging
11	William Iliffe	Oxford	In-situ measurements of the effect of radiation damage on the superconducting properties of coated conductors.
12	Toby Palmer	Surrey	Studying Surfactant Migration in Adhesive Films Using RBS & ERD
13	Alex Rubinstein	Surrey	Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Cluster Sputtering of Gallium Arsenide
14	Graeme Greaves	Huddersfield	An Introduction to the MIAMI Facility
15	Holly-May Lewis	Surrey	IBA, DAPNe and LC-MS delivers improved spatially resolved analysis
16	Theo Hobson	Liverpool	In-situ Doping for CSS Growth of n-CdTe Solar Cells.
17	Mikhail Lavrentiev	UKAEA	Thermal Desorption Spectrometry and Reflectivity of Self-Irradiated Molybdenum
18	Stephen Sutton	Cardiff	The Institute for Compound Semiconductors

User Oral presentations were 20 minutes and were shown "live" via zoom.
User Poster presentations were 3-5 minutes long and are available on the website above.

The Presentations from the 2020 Virtual User Day are available here.

We have recently heard the sad news that Daniel Colmer passed away after a short battle with cancer.
Daniel first visited us at the Ion Beam Centre when he was 12 years old in 2009. He described his experience then as: “all brill to the power of infinity”. He came back to us when he was 16 for a holiday job. Initially we paid him in old computer parts – something he had a great fascination for and something we had a great deal of!
For the last two or three years we paid him in real money. He had become part of the "family" and we were putting his talents to good use.
We will miss his enthusiasm and good humour, and fascination for all thing science and we are all very sad to lose him so young.