George Green Institute for Electromagnetics Research

Principal Investigator: Professor C Christopoulos

Starts: 1 March 2004
Ends: 31 July 2007

Value: £493024

The aim of this project is to provide initial support for the establishment and development of the GGIEMR. The work of the institute is aimed at the key technological areas of high-frequency electromagnetic design, opto-electronics and photonics, electromagnetic compatibility, signal integrity and high-speed circuit design. These are the key enabling technologies of the communication and IT industries of the future and impact on all areas of high-performance engineering.
The Institute is unique in the UK in its breadth and depth of expertise in this scientific area. Very few Groups abroad have a similar scope and range of activities and therefore the Institute adds to the region a significant and highly visible advanced research and scholarship centre of excellence which will have direct impact on a number of EMDA’s key clusters e.g. Aerospace, ICT, Medical Technology and Power Generation. The investment will be used to add value to the existing physical and human assets of the group in the following specific ways:

• To project the Institute as a Centre of Excellence with an international reputation in ICT related areas and to foster a climate of innovation encouraging high technology and knowledge intensive industries to cluster in the East Midlands, drawn by the expertise and facilities of the Institute
• A Technology Transfer Officer has been appointed, with the aim of establishing and extending links with industry in the region and spreading excellence
• An Experimental Officer has been appointed to assist in the commissioning of experimental and computational facilities and in the development of training material (class-, laboratory- and web-based) and thus to support regional industry
• To bring about a step improvement in the ability of the Institute to interact and support regional industry by upgrading the experimental and computational facilities to state of the art to the benefit of research and long-term industrial development in the region