Due to our size and diversity, we can offer research and development facilities beyond what most small and medium-sized enterprises might have available. Through working with our Business Partnerships Managers organisations are able to access these facilities in a variety of ways from one off usages to regular bookings.

Technical research facilities

Facilities available include:

• Over £7m new chemistry facilities through our Collaborative Technology Access Programme, including nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
• Cyber-security laboratories and training suites and equipped with computing facilities
• Dilution refrigerators for the lowest temperature testing in the world
• High-resolution mass spectroscopy for environmental chemistry
• Glasshouse spaces and controlled environment plant growth rooms
• Additive manufacturing facility used from concept product development through to full manufacturing lifecycle management
• New £4m class 100 and class 1000 clean rooms equipped with devices for electron-beam, lithography machine, photolithography, plasma processing, thin-film deposition, scanning electron and probe microscopy
• €1m wireless broadband laboratory donated by Aeroflex Limited, state-of-the-art suite of test equipment to design, test and verify different protocols and algorithms for LTE-Advanced 4G wireless devices and systems
• Electronics workshop and additive manufacturing facility, accessible as a technology demonstrator, learning resource and operational prototyping and manufacturing facility
• Computer-aided engineering and analysis software, used from concept product development through to full manufacturing lifecycle management