Past winners

CAPE is delighted to announce that the winner of the Acorn Blue Sky Award for 2022 is Dr Babak Bakhit from the Department of Engineering, with his project, 'An iontronic-based revolutionary architecture in advanced transparent oxide thin films for memory technology.' The project will start shortly and report the outputs at...

Recent CAPE Acorn Award winners made presentations on their projects on June 24, 2022 Jenny Jiang (Blue Sky 2020): Exploiting nonlinearity in III-Nitride semiconductors for full spectrum detection by up-converting IR and down-converting UV to visible light. Egle Augustaitytle (CAUPA IIB 2021): Plastic bricks; optimisation...

The winners of the 2021 CAPE Acorn Blue Sky Awards were presented with their Award certficates by Prof Daping Chu at a short ceremony in the Electrical Engineering Building Atrium. Each of the projects receives £15,000 in research funding for a 9 month project, led by the early career researchers.

Four CAPE Acorn Postgraduate Award projects and two Blue Skies projects presented their results at the CAPE October Event on zoom on October 20 2021.

Blue Sky Talk on 12 October 10:30: Dr Kun Li - Solid-State Holographic LiDAR with 360 Degree Field of View

The winner of this year's CAPE Acorn Blue Sky Award is Dr Kun Li with his project: Solid-State Holographic LiDAR with a 360° Field of View Congratulatioin!