The Centre has an excellent record in collaborating with industry in their leading edge research. Professor Pan and his co-workers has obtained the highest magnetoresistance values reported at the time in collaboration with Nordiko Ltd in the spin valve project funded by the EPSRC. It  is currently the sole academic partner in a £3M DTI MNT funded project working with Aviza Technology and ATMEL Semiconductors on the development of a state-of-the-art MRAM production tool for 300 mm wafers. The success of the project will have a major impact to the MRAM industry worldwide.

A large number of other projects have been carried out with UK and EU industry. 7 patents representing major inventions are now being progressed. These include methods for writing to and reading from a new magnetic paper (‘I’ paper), a method of magnetically labelling and encoding magnetic microwires in a recycling application, a residual current detection (RCD) technology for safety protection of fault currents down less than 10mA, a new turbo coding method for high performance disk drives.