Research Group: Emerging Technology and Materials
The Emerging Technologies and Materials (ETM) group focuses on its unique strengths and capabilities to conduct world class research for the technologies of the future.
We are carrying out cutting edge research in diverse areas ranging from fundamental science for a full physical understanding of natural phenomena up to experimental demonstrations of devices in real-world applications. To do this, our team is multidisciplinary by nature covering expertise in ground-breaking areas such as photonics, electronics, metamaterials and metasurfaces, plasmonics, quantum technologies, materials, devices and computational material technologies, to name a few.
We collaborate with academics within and outside Newcastle University in research projects in Physical Science, Engineering, Biomedical applications, among others, to push the boundaries on technological developments and to create impact in society, people, the academic world and the overall economy. Our research group is:
- Enhancing human life by developing cutting-edge technology.
- Carrying out multiple outreach activities to inform society and attract the next generation of talented researchers and students.
- Transforming the landscape on emerging technologies and materials.
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- Name: Leverhulme Trust - Switching Light: Towards new paradigms in digital computing with metamaterials
Project Leader(s): Dr Victor Pacheco-Peña
Theme: Photonic Materials and Technologies
Dates: 1/2/2021 – 31/7/2024 - Name: Transport in Semiconductor devices
Project Leader(s): Dr Angela Dyson
Theme: Computational Materials Modelling
Dates: 1/5/2018 – 31/5/2021 - Name: EPSRC - Perovskite Photonics
Project Leader(s): Prof Noel Healy
Theme: Photonic Materials and Technologies
Dates: Sept 19 to Oct 22 - Name: EPSRC - Hybrid Perovskite Heterojunctions (with University of Glasgow)
Project Leader(s): Prof Noel Healy
Theme: Photonic Materials and Technologies
Dates: July 20 to Aug 23 - Name: EPSRC - Fiberized Platforms for Integrated Nanosheet Materials (with University of Southampton and Cambridge University)
Project Leader(s): Prof Noel Healy
Theme: Photonic Materials and Technologies
Dates: April 20 to May 23 - Name: The Great British Sasakawa Foundation – Exploiting Surface Plasmons for Exotic Light-Matter interactions (with Tokyo Institute of Technology and Kyushu University)
Project Leader(s): Dr Victor Pacheco-Peña (PI) and Dr Toby Hallam (Co-I)
Theme: Photonic Materials and Technologies, Emerging Materials
Dates: December 20 to November 22 - Name: Controlling Abnormal Network Dynamics with Optogenetics (£10M Wellcome/EPSRC)
Project Leader(s): A O’Neill, A Jackson + 10 Cis
Theme: Emerging Electronic Techologies
Dates: 2014-2021 - Name: A new way to do motor-neuron disease (£1M Leech Foundation)
Project Leader(s): S Baker, A O’Neill, R Whittaker, A Blamire, M Baker
Theme: Emerging Electronic Techologies
Dates: 2019-2022 - Name: Multiplex microneurography: a pathway to stratified pain generator diagnostics (£125k Versus Arthritis)
Project Leader(s): J Dunham, A Pickering, A O’Neill, R Whittaker
Theme: Emerging Electronic Techologies
Dates: 2020-2022 - Name: Bionic Eye (FMS PhD studentship)
Project Leader(s): A O’Neill, C Connen
Theme: Emerging Electronic Techologies
Dates: 2020-2023 - Name: Underpinning Power Electronics (£1.1M EPSRC)
Project Leader(s): P Gammon, R McMahon, P Mawby, J Udrea, N Lophitis, N Wright A O’Neill,
Theme: Emerging Electronic Techologies
Dates: 2018-2020 - Name: Centre for Doctoral Training for Sustainable Electric Propulsion (CDT SEP) (£5.3M EPSRC)
Project Leader(s): V Pickert, A O’Neill + 8 CIs,
Theme: Emerging Electronic Techologies
Dates: 2019-2027 - Name: eFutures 2.0 (£480k EPSRC)
Project Leader(s): R Woods, A O’Neill
Theme: Emerging Electronic Techologies
Dates: 2019-2023
Teaching
Taught Programmes
From day one, our Electrical and Electronic Engineering Undergraduate Programmes give students a path to become a professional engineer addressing major global challenges.
Our Electrical and Electronic Engineering Postgraduate Taught (MSc) Programmes equip students with the advanced skills and expertise to help shape the world.