{"id":42,"date":"2020-11-06T09:19:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T09:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainability-physics\/?page_id=42"},"modified":"2021-06-15T06:32:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T06:32:50","slug":"nanotechnology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainability-physics\/nanotechnology\/","title":{"rendered":"Nanotechnology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nanotechnology has already played a big role to reduce our carbon footprint.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>How LEDs play a huge role in a net zero economy .. but it has it&#8217;s problems<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LEDs have drastically reduced the energy consumption for lighting and control systems rely on computer processors.\u00a0In this set of slides we talk with\u00a0 physics researchers who are developing new devices or improving the efficiency LEDs and solar cells.<\/p>\n<div class=\"h5p-iframe-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"h5p-iframe-29\" class=\"h5p-iframe\" data-content-id=\"29\" style=\"height:1px\" src=\"about:blank\" frameBorder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"Melissa edit How LEDs play a huge role in a net zero economy .. but it has it&#039;s problems\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>Universal Memory<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Prof Manus Hayne describes the different types of memory for computers and then explains how the Lancaster Quantum Technology Centre is developing a &#8220;Universal Memory&#8221; chip.<\/p>\n<p>Universal Memory technology has been seen as an unlikely solution to the problem with the massive consumption of electrical power in the IT sector.<\/p>\n<div class=\"h5p-iframe-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"h5p-iframe-26\" class=\"h5p-iframe\" data-content-id=\"26\" style=\"height:1px\" src=\"about:blank\" frameBorder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"Universal memory: Melissa edit a route to net zero carbon in computing\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Future of solar cells<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr Lefteris Danos, Lancaster University Chemistry department and Energy Lancaster discusses the latest improvement in solar voltaic panels.<\/p>\n<div class=\"h5p-iframe-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"h5p-iframe-38\" class=\"h5p-iframe\" data-content-id=\"38\" style=\"height:1px\" src=\"about:blank\" frameBorder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"Melissa edit Solar Power will play a major role in the quest for net zero carbon\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Cooling chips!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this section : Dr Ben Robinson (Lancaster Quantum Technology Centre)\u00a0 describes how thermoelectric materials can be used to cool process chips in data centres reducing their carbon footprint.<\/p>\n<div class=\"h5p-iframe-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"h5p-iframe-37\" class=\"h5p-iframe\" data-content-id=\"37\" style=\"height:1px\" src=\"about:blank\" frameBorder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"Nanotechnology_Ben Robinson\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nanotechnology has already played a big role to reduce our carbon footprint. How LEDs play a huge role in a net zero economy .. but it has it&#8217;s problems LEDs have drastically reduced the energy consumption for lighting and control systems rely on computer processors.\u00a0In this set of slides we talk with\u00a0 physics researchers who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1304,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-42","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainability-physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainability-physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainability-physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainability-physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1304"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainability-physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainability-physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainability-physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions\/497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainability-physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}