Research
Wolfson Centre for Magnetics is one of Europe’s leading centres for research, teaching and technology transfer over a wide spectrum of magnetics, including magnetic engineering, magnetic materials, magnetic devices, and the physics of magnetism.
The Wolfson Centre has an established international reputation and a world-class infrastructure based on its renowned research activities. Research within the Wolfson Centre focuses on production, characterisation and applications of magnetic materials. Postgraduate research and industrial contract projects are carried out with the support of world-class equipment and research facilities recently upgraded through major infrastructure investments.
The Centre has collaborative links with leading research groups in magnetics throughout Europe, North and South America, Japan, China, India and Korea. Wolfson Centre members participate regularly in conferences, networking and collaborative research projects both nationally and internationally.
The scope of the Centre’s research activities has recently been broadened by the addition of several new faculty, allowing the Wolfson Centre for Magnetics to capitalise on the anticipated growth of research opportunities in collaborative, interdisciplinary projects in magnetism and magnetic materials. Computer aided design in magnetics, electromagnetic machines, magnetic imaging, high permeability materials, magnetostriction, magnetic sensors and actuators, nanomagnetic materials, magnetic thin films and multilayers, magnetic material for data storage, theory and modelling of magnetic materials are all areas of research currently under investigation in the centre.
Cardiff University plans a further major expansion of the Centre over the period 2006-7 to consolidate and enlarge the research activities focusing on aspects of magnetics related to energy, healthcare and sensors. Future developments of the Centre’s research portfolio into areas such as bulk hard magnetic materials, high frequency materials, low dimensional materials, nanoscale magnetic structures, magnetic non-destructive evaluation methods, and biomedical applications of magnetics are planned.