University of Glasgow

Now in its eighth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly highlight and celebrate some of the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. In the next in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2025, we profile Harry Ford, a Test Bench and GSE Engineer at HyImpulse. Achievements Harry was nominated for the award by ...

Our choices include the University of Glasgow researching compostable circuit boards, Malcolm Penn having positive news on the semiconductor market, and tough times in Taiwan's semiconductor supply chain...

Circuit boards that are almost entirely biodegradable have been developed by researchers at the University of Glasgow, electroplating circuitry onto compostable substrates – including chocolate. Instead of conventional circuit boards that are sent to landfill, adding to the problem of electronic waste, the team has developed a method to print zinc-based electronic circuits on environmentally-friendly surfaces such as paper and ...

Now in its eighth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly highlight and celebrate some of the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. In the second in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2025, we profile Nikolas Bruce, a PhD Research Student at University of Glasgow. Achievements Nikolas was nominated by his supervisor ...

We are asking readers of Electronics Weekly to choose the winner of the University Research Project of the Year in this year’s Elektra Awards. You are invited to select – from below – the research project from the last year that you feel will make the largest impact on the commercial market in the next five years. The five universities ...

The University of Glasgow has found a way to stabilise aqueous supercapacitors, using a gum taken from the bark of an Indian tree. It’s research team started with a simple supercapacitor made from carbon-based electrodes with a sulphuric acid electrolyte. While not a commercial formulation, it is “one kind of which is mostly researched in the conventional supercapacitor literature” Jun ...

The University of Glasgow has created a pH sensor for soil testing that can be composted at the end of its life. It is an impedance-based sensor, using screen-printed interdigitated carbon-based electrodes on a substrate made from the bio-degradeable polymer PHBV (poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate)). Also deposited using screen-printing, the sensitive layer over the electrodes is molybdenum disulfide which, said the university, breaks down ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is funding £10 million for new facilities at the UK Astronomy Technology Centre (ATC), the research institute in Edinburgh. Specifically, new lab spaces will be built to assemble optical benches. These are for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, investigating gravitational waves in space. The investment will approximately double UK ATC’s construction capabilities. Optical ...

Built with £250,000 of investment, Glasgow University has opened a state-of-the-art magnetism lab for medical magnetics research. Part of the James Watt School of Engineering, the facility is designed to eliminate magnetic interference from any external sources. For example, nearby electronics and even the Earth’s magnetic field. And the MuRoom within the lab will enable researchers to detect extremely weak ...

Glasgow University research into diamond transistors, a TLC NAND with 294 layers, a Mannerisms post on a retirement crisis, Cat6A data rated cables terminated in M12 circular connectors, and Intel adopting a ‘get real’ approach to its product roadmap...