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The University of Southampton is a leading UK teaching and research institution with a global reputation for leading-edge research and scholarship. The University has over 19,200 students and over 4,800 staff. Its annual turnover is in the region of £250 million.

The School of Electronics and Computer Science at Southampton is a world-leading centre of excellence for research, teaching, enterprise and innovation in Computer Science, Electronics and Electrical Engineering.

The Schools distinguished history dates from 1947 when the UKs first Department of Electronics was opened in Southampton. Since then it has encompassed both Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and grown steadily in scale and in reputation.

Now one of the largest schools of its kind in the world, with more than 220 academic and research staff, and over 1000 students, it has an unparalleled reputation for the quality of its teaching and degree programmes, as much as for its contribution at the leading edge of research and new technology.

ECS houses the Microelectronics Research Group, a comprehensive integrated circuit and device fabrication facility which is currently supported by the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) as a National Central Facility. The Microelectronics Research Group was founded circa 1970 with the setting up of the Southampton University Microelectronics Centre (SUMC).

Butterflies’ wings dazzle with science
04 November 2004 - University of Southampton Electronics and Computer Science
The brilliant dazzle of butterflies’ wings could hold the key to a new type of optical material, called photonic crystals. Over the past 15 years, photonic crystals have attracted the attention of a vast international community, as scientists have begun to realise their potential applications in the field of optoelectronics and telecommunications.