Enterprise news

19 September 2011

Researchers at Oxford University and the University of Warwick have developed a form of crystal that can deliver highly accurate temperature readings, down to individual milli-kelvins, over a very broad range of temperatures: -120 to +680 degrees centigrade.

See
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/research_gives_cry...
and
http://www.isis-innovation.com/licensing/6600.html

18 June 2011

Oxford Physics has produced the first edition of an annual newsletter, aiming to describe the wide range of work that we do in front-line research, teaching, public outreach and school education. We would welcome contributions to future newsletters from undergraduate or postgraduate alumni and previous members of the physics department. Please contact the editor at newsletter [at] physics [dot] ox [dot] ac [dot] uk

2 April 2011

Oxford Photovoltaics, a company recently spun out from the University of Oxford by Isis Innovation Ltd., has developed new solar cell technology that is manufactured from cheap, abundant, non-toxic and non-corrosive materials and can be scaled to any volume.