Public Engagement and Teaching Resources

LED Lighting

• Poster

  Download the poster “New Light on the World” from The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences which describes the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura “for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources”.

  http://www.kva.se/globalassets/priser/nobel/2014/nobelposterphysics2014_high.pdf

Scanning Electron Microscopy

• Poster

  Find out how a scanning electron microscope works and learn about its history with this poster from Science and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

  http://www.sciencemag.org/custom-publishing/posters/scanning-electron-microscope

  Also see http://poster.sciencemag.org/sem/#intro for the webpage version.

Crystal structure and dislocations

• Models

  Make your own cardboard models of different crystal structures

  http://science-mattersblog.blogspot.co.uk/2010/09/crystal-models.html and

  http://coefs.uncc.edu/hzhang3/w-o-m/

• Web animations

  The structures of simple solids, interactive figures and rotatable structures

  http://www.chemtube3d.com/gallery/chapter-3.html

Spectroscopy

• Make your own spectroscope

  Download the template and instructions to make your own spectroscope. Building notes are also available for teachers.