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Microstructural Kinetics Group

Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy
 

CSAR

SAMER KURDI RECEIVES CSAR AWARD 2019

CSAR PhD Students Awards - 2019

2019 CSAR PhD Student Awards For Applied Research

The CSAR PhD Students Awards for 2019 have been finalized. This year there were 218 applicants for 12 places.

The winners were presented with their awards by Prof. Andrew Neely, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Enterprise and Business Relations at the University of Cambridge. The ceremony took place on Tuesday 9th April 2019 at the Combination Room in The Old Schools. The event brochure can be downloaded here.

CSAR is grateful to TTP: The Technology Partnership for its support of this event.

Samer Kurdi

3rd year student in Materials Science and Metallurgy

My research focuses on addressing capacity limits in conventional memory devices, due to restrictions on further miniaturization. I have fabricated innovative materials from sustainable and environmentally friendly components. These show novel switching properties with improved stability, crucial to safety and security demands in current information technologies. My results gained the attention of researchers elsewhere (including the ISIS Neutron & Muon Source, and Imperial College London), who are now studying my films using very specialized techniques, and have led to my receipt of the Japanese National Institute of Materials award, allowing me to conduct research in their facility at Tsukuba.

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