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Maxwell Centre

The Maxwell Centre hosts a number of shared open-access equipment for industry and academia. This includes some of the equipment from Royce@Cambridge, one of the partners at the Henry Royce Institute.
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The shared equipment at the Maxwell Centre can be booked through the MaxLabs node of the PPMS booking system. A selection of the bookable equipment is listed below.

Royce at Cambridge (https://www.maxwell.cam.ac.uk/programmes/henry-royce-institute)

  • Ambient Cluster Processing Facility
  • Quantum Design – Magnetic Property Measurement System (MPMS3 EverCool)
  • X-ray Photoemission Spectroscopy (XPS) Suite (SPECS NAP-XPS, Thermo Escalate 250Xi UHV-XPS)
  • Zeiss Xradia Versa 510 – X-ray microCT

Advanced Materials Characterisation Suite

  • Quantum Design – Magnetic Property Measurement System (MPMS3 EverCool)
  • Quantum Design – Physical Property Measurement System (PPMS-DynaCool)

Spectroscopy/Microscopy Suite

  • Shimadzu UV-Vis-NIR Photospectrometer
  • Shimadzu FT-IR Microscope

X-ray Suite

NanoDTC Suite (https://www.nanodtc.cam.ac.uk/facilities-equipment/)

  • Maker Space
  • Asylum/Oxford Instruments Atomic Force Microscope
  • Olympus Confocal Inverted Microscope
  • Renishaw inVia Raman Microscope

The Henry Royce Institute for advanced materials at the University of Cambridge

This facility includes equipment funded by Royce. Royce was formed by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to support advanced materials research through the provision of state-of-the-art equipment, and by facilitating industry–academia interactions to achieve technology translation. Royce at Cambridge offers funding opportunities for students, researchers and SMEs to access their equipment.