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Molecular Engineering & Computational Chemistry

The design methodology itself: how candidates are generated, screened and ranked, and how that is validated.

Scale 10^-10 m to 10^-7 m

Can explain what a basis set is, and what changes when you change one. · Has run a geometry optimisation and can say how convergence was judged. · Understands the difference between a force field and an electronic-structure calculation, and when each is appropriate. · Thermodynamics to the level of relating a free energy difference to an equilibrium constant. + 4 more

Molecular Engineering & Computational Chemistry

Designing molecules for a target property and handing on candidates a chemist could attempt to make.

Scale 10^-10 m to 10^-7 m

Can explain what a basis set is, and what changes when you change one. · Has run a geometry optimisation and can say how convergence was judged. · Understands the difference between a force field and an electronic-structure calculation, and when each is appropriate. · Thermodynamics to the level of relating a free energy difference to an equilibrium constant. + 4 more

Molecular Engineering & Computational Chemistry

What this division computes, who computes it, and the rule that a prediction is described as a prediction.

Scale 10^-10 m to 10^-7 m

Can explain what a basis set is, and what changes when you change one. · Has run a geometry optimisation and can say how convergence was judged. · Understands the difference between a force field and an electronic-structure calculation, and when each is appropriate. · Thermodynamics to the level of relating a free energy difference to an equilibrium constant. + 4 more

Molecular Engineering & Computational Chemistry

Multi-molecule and supramolecular systems, where the interesting behaviour is collective.

Scale 10^-10 m to 10^-7 m

Can explain what a basis set is, and what changes when you change one. · Has run a geometry optimisation and can say how convergence was judged. · Understands the difference between a force field and an electronic-structure calculation, and when each is appropriate. · Thermodynamics to the level of relating a free energy difference to an equilibrium constant. + 4 more

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

Devices built from nanoscale structures, characterised against the specification they were designed to.

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

Nanoscale designs taken from a target to something a partner facility could attempt.

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

One nanoscale design question modelled and written up with its fabrication tolerances.

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

A sensing mechanism modelled to its noise floor, with the limit of detection derived rather than asserted.

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

How a nanoscale component behaves once it is part of something a person can hold.

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-3 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Semiconductors, Electronics & Micro/Nano Systems

Electronics at the scale where interfaces and contacts dominate the electrical behaviour.

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can derive or explain the current-voltage characteristic of a diode or a MOSFET from device physics. · Has simulated a circuit in SPICE and compared the result against a hand calculation. · Semiconductor physics: carriers, doping, band structure, junctions. · Can read a datasheet and identify the conditions a specification was measured under. + 5 more

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

A nanoscale device modelled electrically, with the contact and interface effects included rather than idealised away.

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

Process development with partner facilities, and the yield data that says whether a route is real.

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 7 more

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

A fabrication route documented step by step, with its yield-limiting step identified.

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

The materials themselves: what they are, how they are made, and whether the second batch matches the first.

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

Analysing characterisation data for a nanomaterial and stating what the data does and does not establish.

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

An optical nanostructure simulated and its spectral response compared against an analytic limit.

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

A literature-grounded review of one nanomaterial class, separating what has been made repeatably from what has been made once.

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Materials & Advanced Matter

The division's technical direction, and the hardest problems between a computed candidate and a usable material.

Scale 10^-10 m to 10^0 m

Can relate a crystal structure to at least one measurable property and explain the mechanism. · Reads a phase diagram and can say what happens on cooling through a boundary. · Has analysed real characterisation data — diffraction, microscopy or mechanical testing — and stated its uncertainty. · Python for data analysis over a materials dataset. + 4 more

Molecular Engineering & Computational Chemistry

The division's scientific direction and its hardest modelling problems.

Scale 10^-10 m to 10^-7 m

Can explain what a basis set is, and what changes when you change one. · Has run a geometry optimisation and can say how convergence was judged. · Understands the difference between a force field and an electronic-structure calculation, and when each is appropriate. · Thermodynamics to the level of relating a free energy difference to an equilibrium constant. + 4 more

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

The division's technical direction and the hardest problems between design and repeatable fabrication.

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Materials & Advanced Matter

Materials whose useful behaviour is quantum, and the calculations and measurements that establish it.

Scale 10^-10 m to 10^-8 m

Can relate a crystal structure to at least one measurable property and explain the mechanism. · Reads a phase diagram and can say what happens on cooling through a boundary. · Has analysed real characterisation data — diffraction, microscopy or mechanical testing — and stated its uncertainty. · Python for data analysis over a materials dataset. + 4 more

Semiconductors, Electronics & Micro/Nano Systems

Device design and TCAD modelling against a specification, including process variation.

Scale 10^-6 m to 10^-3 m

Can derive or explain the current-voltage characteristic of a diode or a MOSFET from device physics. · Has simulated a circuit in SPICE and compared the result against a hand calculation. · Semiconductor physics: carriers, doping, band structure, junctions. · Can read a datasheet and identify the conditions a specification was measured under. + 5 more

Semiconductors, Electronics & Micro/Nano Systems

One device characteristic derived, simulated, and compared against published measurements.

Scale 10^-6 m to 10^-3 m

Can derive or explain the current-voltage characteristic of a diode or a MOSFET from device physics. · Has simulated a circuit in SPICE and compared the result against a hand calculation. · Semiconductor physics: carriers, doping, band structure, junctions. · Can read a datasheet and identify the conditions a specification was measured under. + 5 more

Materials & Advanced Matter

Several materials programmes at once, and the provenance discipline applied across them.

Scale 10^-10 m to 10^0 m

Can relate a crystal structure to at least one measurable property and explain the mechanism. · Reads a phase diagram and can say what happens on cooling through a boundary. · Has analysed real characterisation data — diffraction, microscopy or mechanical testing — and stated its uncertainty. · Python for data analysis over a materials dataset. + 4 more