admin | 28 Mar 2007 - 13:56 | All Subjects
One of the world’s leading research centres is set to open a new research facility which will house one of the biggest clean room complexes in Europe. The new interdisciplinary complex will provide the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at the University of Southampton with all the necessary world-class facilities to allow internationally-leading research to continue at Southampton for the next two decades.
The new building will replace labs lost in a fire that destroyed ORC’s facilities in 2005. Since the fire, a building on the University’s main campus has been renovated so PhD students and postdoctoral researchers can continue hands-on research on some of the most exciting areas of new technology.
Rafiq Adikan is currently writing up his PhD and his work was delayed by the fire. “The support from the ORC has been tremendous and within a few months we had labs and office space to carry on working in,” he says. “I see this as a fresh start and we have so many new opportunities.”
The ORC has contributed greatly to the growth of photonics and laser technology, including the optical telecommunication technology that underpins the Internet.
