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*).
News
- 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....
Research paper of the month
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Neville Greaves, Lindsay Greer, Rod Lakes & Tanguy Rouxel, Nature Materials, published on line: 24 October 2011. DOI 10.1038/nmat3134.


