World Leading and World Class Technologies

Through the STFC’s role as a stakeholder in Daresbury Science & Innovation Campus, the Campus has access to 20 world leading and 70 world class technologies.

World leading facilities and technologies include:

• Daresbury SIC has access to Superstem, the word’s most resolving electron microscope
• STFC is majority shareholder on behalf of the UK government in Diamond – the world’s latest X-ray source ( x10,000)
• ISIS - The World’s most intense pulsed source of neutrons is wholly owned by STFC
• SRS (Synchrotron Radiation Source ) - The world’s first 2nd generation synchrotron source is wholly owned by STFC
• STFC operates CLF (Central Laser Facility) - The world’s highest irradiance laser
• Daresbury SIC through STFC researchers inputs into CERN LHC (Large Hadron Collider) - The world’s highest data-rate detector
• STFC operates the largest space department in Europe with over160 orbiting instruments

World class facilities and technologies include:

• Operated by Daresbury Laboratory and University of Edinburgh, HPCx is the first terascale research capability computing facility in the UK. It is also the largest academic high end computing (HEC) facility in Europe and the 2nd largest in the world.
• Daresbury SIC has world class accelerator science expertise and is connected to the world’s largest accelerator science community.  It also has world class expertise in designing and making accelerators and in designing and making particle physics detectors such as ATLAS and CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid).
• Daresbury SIC offers the best circular dichroism facility in the world, enabling scientists to gather valuable information on proteins in very small quantities and in solution.

Other world class facilities and technologies include:

• Computational Science - Daresbury SIC is home to the UK’s largest multidisciplinary Computer Science and Engineering group with more than 100 people working in this division.
• Daresbury SIC has access to several thousand leading computational scientists in the U.K. who are integrated into a network of over 10,000 particle physicists globally.  It coordinates most of the UK’s input into worldwide high energy physics and particle physics.
• There are approximately 7,000 registered users of Daresbury Laboratory facilities in the area of computer science and engineering. There are over 14,000 registered users of all Daresbury SIC facilities, and Daresbury SIC has links with every research led university in the UK along with an extensive international network.

As well as having world class facilities and technologies in:

• Accelerator physics
• RF sources
• Magnet technology
• High power lasers - the only high energy free electron laser in the UK is based at Daresbury SIC.
• Microelectronics design
• Data acquisition & control cystems
• Detector design
• Optics
• Instrument design
• Electronics systems design
• Lithography
• Micro engineering
• Nanotechnology
• Engineering design
• Cryogenics
• Metrology
• Engineering manufacture
• Energy research E-Science
• Advanced resin systems