Case Studies

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Plastic deformation testing

Innovative plastics are increasingly incorporated into car manufacturing and building materials, making products lighter and more cost-efficient. However, plastics deform under stress and over time. This problem is made more complicated as manufacturers recycle old plastics into new products. Blending recycled and raw materials...

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Validating high-performance polymers

Polymers are widely used in high-performance applications such as electronic coatings and medical implants and are finding increasing use in precision instruments incorporating sophisticated plastic optics. Plastic optics readily provide more complex optical shapes than glass and need to be accurately manufactured and well char...

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Building trust in quantum technologies

The ability to measure single photons of light is gaining importance in emerging research applications from space-earth communications with weak laser light sources, to event counting in biochemical microscopy important for tissue sample analysis, to silicon chip failure diagnostics using light emitted from transistors. All the...

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Investigating nano-defects

Ultrafast electronics must be manufactured with high precision. Many of the features of complex nanoscale circuits are built up on wafers using EUV masks, which can develop cracks, leading to circuit defects. As electronics get smaller and operate at higher frequencies, there is a need for more accurate ways of checking for suc...

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Confidence in recycled steel

Any recycled product has the potential to harbour various forms of contamination from its previous use, but this is particularly true of steel, which is retrieved from a huge variety of settings. Inadequate monitoring of radioactivity levels in recycled metals can have major consequences for public health – for example, in 1982...

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Building environmental metrology skills

Science and engineering students and many industrial process and quality control professionals require a grounding in best measurement practices and the calculation of measurement uncertainties, in order to produce accurate, comparable data to inform decision making. This knowledge often forms part of university syllabuses but ...

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