High-precision time measurements are crucial for both high-energy physics experiments and advanced medical imaging applications, such as Positron Emission Tomography (PET). Future detector systems require readout electronics that combine sub-10 ps timing resolution with scalability, compactness, and efficient multi-channel integration.
The CAEN A5203 module, part of the FERS 5200 system,...
Single Event Effects are potentially catastrophic electric and electronic effects created in analog and digital electronic devices exposed to ionising radiation. They are particularly dangerous in Space. and so a radiation hardness qualification procedure is often required for electronic devices to be considered Sapce safe. Qualification requires the use of hadron accelerators but alternative...
Nonlinear sources of quantum light are foundational to nearly all optical quantum technologies and are actively advancing toward real-world deployment. Achieving this goal requires fabrication capabilities to be scaled to industrial standards, necessitating precise modeling tools that can both guide device design within realistic fabrication constraints and enable accurate post-fabrication...
The usefulness and importance of light polarisation have skyrocketed in recent times with applications found
in biomedicine, imaging, characterisation of biological and chemical systems, and astrophysics just to name a
few. Ecologically, more and more examples of flora and fauna are found to utilise the polarisation of light for
growth, navigation, and communication, increasing the need for...
In many minerals, the magnetic permeability and/or the resistance depends on the applied magnetic field. These properties, magnetic hysteresis and magnetoresistance, could therefore be used as a way of identifying minerals to differentiate ore from waste in the mining industry. This application requires the properties to be measured without electrical contacts, operate at room temperature and...
Non-destructive mapping of elemental distribution in bulk samples is hard to achieve with standard analytical tools: neutron activation analysis (NAA) allows for elemental identification but provides no spatial localisation, while X-ray or neutron computed tomography (CT) can provide structural information but often fall short in confidently extrapolating elemental distributions. We...
We present a novel gas sensor based on wavelength modulation spectroscopy to measure methane concentrations in the farming and food industry. Methane is a highly impactful greenhouse gas, and its monitoring is essential for environmental surveillance, the development of low-emission breeding strategies, and the detection of leaks across production and processing stages. Moreover, captured...
The automation of complex experimental systems has been a long-standing goal with numerous real-world applications. While reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved breakthroughs across many domains, prior approaches to physical system control required crafting realistic simulations, complex reward engineering, and extensive training times, limiting practical deployment.
Saha et.al. (2025)...
