Case Studies

The promise of 5G is revolutionary advances in mobile device user experience, sufficient to drive a transformation in personal connectivity, and form a platform for new market opportunities. 5G is less of a technology platform, more a performance specification, defined by low-latency, multi-Gigabit per second data capacity, lo...

Telecommunication systems mostly rely on ‘singlemode’ optical fibres that allow only one path or ‘mode’ for light to travel as it propagates through the fibre. However, in many important industrial applications, such as in avionics or the automotive industry, ‘multimode’ fibres are required. In multimode fibres light can follo...

Over the next decade or so, methods currently used to encrypt data may become ineffective in the face of advances in quantum computing, potentially leaving communication networks and services vulnerable to eavesdropping. Security could instead be assured by Quantum Key Distribution (QKD), a category of technologies that apply q...

Nanoparticles are tiny, highly functional materials, that offer great potential in the pharmaceutical and other industries. Nanoparticles can, for instance, be formulated to encapsulate drug molecules to target chosen sites and for delivery at controlled and sustained rates. However, scaling-up production from batch to continuo...

Nanotechnology is a promising enabling technology, expected to give rise to new solutions and markets in many areas of research and industry. Nanoparticles are highly functional particles ranging in size from between 1 and 100 nanometres, with properties largely determined by a reactive outer layer. Already a €20BN global indus...

Sparkle – an effect created by small flakes of mica, glass or aluminium in paint to produce a glistening finish, is important in the automotive, printing and cosmetic industries where visual appearance directly influences sales. Our perception of colour and sparkle varies depending on lighting conditions, as demonstrated by ch...