{"id":165,"date":"2025-12-19T01:34:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T01:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/photonics\/?page_id=165"},"modified":"2026-01-06T09:53:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T09:53:34","slug":"funded-research-projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/photonics\/research\/funded-research-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Funded Research Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-139 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/photonics\/files\/2025\/12\/home_6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"929\" height=\"419\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Examples of current and recent externally-funded projects include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><span style=\"color: #497bde\"><a style=\"color: #497bde\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/photonics\/research\/funded-research-projects\/epic-bio\/\"><strong>EPIC-BIO<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>&#8211; A two-year international exchanges project funded by the Royal Society aiming to develop ultra-sensitive optical fibre biosensors for single-molecule detection of cancer biomarkers.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/photonics\/research\/afcad\/\"><span style=\"color: #497bde\">AFCAD<\/span><\/a><\/strong> &#8211; A three-year InnovateUK and Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) funded programme aiming to rapidly develop high temperature polymer electrolyte membrane (HTPEM) fuel cell technology for aviation.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/photonics\/research\/funded-research-projects\/antenna\/\"><span style=\"color: #497bde\"><strong>Low-profile ultra-wideband wide-scanning multi-function beam-steerable array antennas<\/strong><\/span><\/a> &#8211; A three-year EPSRC-funded project aiming to develop a single-aperture ultra-wideband (UWB) phased array capable of operating over an extremely wide range of frequencies, and having a low profile, wide-angle-scanning steerable beams, high gain, high efficiency and multiple polarizations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Examples of current and recent externally-funded projects include: EPIC-BIO\u00a0&#8211; A two-year international exchanges project funded by the Royal Society aiming to develop ultra-sensitive optical fibre &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/photonics\/research\/funded-research-projects\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86382,"featured_media":0,"parent":46,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/photonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/photonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/photonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/photonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86382"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/photonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/photonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/photonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165\/revisions\/342"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/photonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/photonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}