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Sensible Things that Communicate, STC, is a research center at Mid Sweden University that develops sensor-based systems and services in electronics and computer science with a focus on industrial IT and digital services. STC finds its strengths in combining different research areas and in a mix of fundamental research in collaboration with leading research infrastructures and applied research in close collaboration with industry.

Mid Sweden University has more than 13,000 students and around 1,000 employees. The research is divided in eight different research centers where STC is the largest. STC was founded in 2005 and today there are more than 70 researchers working at the centre, of which 11 are professors.

Science and Technology at Mid Sweden University

The research environment at STC is at the forefront with a number of well-equipped labs including optics, X-ray, 3D and a high classed clean room. Nine different research groups, all experts in their field operate within STC. The research groups cooperate in many of the projects and often in co-production with industry. This means that research groups have both academic and industrial members for dynamic and interesting environment that can think innovatively and thereby drive growth in both established and emerging companies.

Sustainable and successful research requires an adequate mix of fundamental and applied research. STC works with leading international research infrastructures to be in the forefront of relevant research areas. Examples of such collaborations are the MEDIPIX consortium at CERN and the BrightnESS project in collaboration with ESS. The results from fundamental research form the basis for many of the industrial collaborations.

Collaboration with ESS

Mid Sweden University is involved in the BrightnESS project in Work Package 4, addressing the resolution challenge, Task 4.1. The main activities concern the development of ultra-high resolution imaging detectors based on pixel electronics as the TIMEPIX readout chips. The main challenge is to develop compatible neutron converters with sufficient quantum efficiency for the applications of interest. Converter materials to be tested include Gd, B, Li as well as neutron scintillators. The ultimate spatial resolution will be in the range 50 – 100 um. Mid Sweden University is also part of WP6: Collaboration, Communication and Dissemination.

The ESS Science Directorate works with Mid Sweden University as part of the Neutron Scattering Systems Collaboration. Options for developing high efficiency neutron detectors based on the MEDIPIX technology are studied in collaboration with ESS.

The Sundsvall Campus of Mid Sweden University.