Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy

The Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy is located in the heart of Cambridge and has over 30 academic staff including research fellows, more than 50 administrative, technical and support staff, and roughly 60 postdoctoral researchers, 130 research students and 30 visiting scientists at any time.

In the RAE 2008 (UK Research Assessment Exercise, covering 2001–07), 95% of our research activity is rated world-leading (4*) or internationally excellent (3*).

 

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  • February 2012 - A breakthrough technique for manufacturing LEDs on silicon, developed in the laboratory of Sir Prof Colin Humphreys, will be exploited in the UK by Plessey. Read more....

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    Neville Greaves, Lindsay Greer, Rod Lakes & Tanguy Rouxel, Nature Materials, published on line: 24 October 2011. DOI 10.1038/nmat3134.

  • The figure shows the utility of Poisson's ratio in embracing the mechanical performance all stable materials in isotropic form