Our paper 'Continuous-wave room-temperature diamond maser' was published in Nature and also made the cover.

On the cover this week: The maser goes mainstream. Diamond defects drive continuous emission for room-temperature microwave lasers: https://t.co/VjFeBeYWj9 pic.twitter.com/47zWEnsVEF

— nature (@nature) March 22, 2018

On the evening of August 30th (18:45–22:00), we will be presenting our 'Amazing Masers' exhibit at the space themed Science Museum 'Lates' event, where the Royal Society, BBC, Wellcome Trust and the Open University team up with the Science Museum to bring you the best in UK space research. Strictly over 18s only!

Find out more here.

Image credit: European Space Agency & NASA

We (a joint venture between Imperial College London and University College London) recently exhibited at the Royal Society Summer Exhibition 2017.

Our exhibit 'Amazing Masers' exhibit showcased our room-temperature maser, the first time it has been outside a lab. We also encouraged visitors to build pentacene, p-terphenyl and other molecules and test drive a robotic mars rover on a CNC machined model of the surface of Mars via a video feed.

Here's our video that explains what masers are, what they do and what they could do:

Thanks to our volunteers we had a very successful week with only a few minor technical hitches. We hope that our visitors enjoyed the exhibit and learnt about masers and their new exciting future.