The CS Hub investigators and associated groups have been carefully selected for their track record in innovation and impact, complementary technical capability and the individual skill sets that can combine to create new solutions to the identified major scientific challenges in manufacturing.
In Brief: All 5 universities have outstanding and complementary CS research and world leading facilities, with comprehensive technician and engineering support. Together we can do research on all the important semiconductors with respect to epitaxial-growth, fabrication, characterisation, component and integrated circuit design and systems for applications development: e.g. Cambridge provides 200mm (8”) MOCVD for III-N growth; UCL provides a unique III-As, III-P and III-Sb and Si MBE facility; Cardiff provides MOCVD for III-P, III-Sb and III-As on silicon. Manchester provides electronic circuit design; Manchester, UCL and Cardiff provide characterization capability including RF on wafer to 110GHz, Electro-Optic component analysis to 67GHz and bit error rate testing to 100GBit/s. In CU the ICS supports our vision for researchers to work alongside industry staff using manufacturing equipment. The 1350m cleanroom has a 200mm CS fabrication line alongside research scale equipment with similar operating principles. Our partners, such as the CSA Catapult, IQE, OIPT, Teledyne and Renishaw also have world leading specialist facilities.
Prof Peter Smowton (Cardiff University) is Director of the EPSRC Future Compound Semiconductor Manufacturing Hub, is one of four Directors of the Institute for Compound Semiconductors (currently Managing Director). He is well connected internationally having had program and general chair roles in the sector leading CLEO and ISLC conferences and as a leading member of the IEEE Photonics Society. His expertise is in compound semiconductor materials, device design, characterisation and integration. He works closely with companies such as IQE, Oclaro and Renishaw and in 2017 won the Insider Individual Impact Business and Education Partnership Award .
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Professor Lenny Koh, BEng (Hons), PhD, FRSA, (University of Sheffield) is a Chair Professor in Operations Management, Founders and Directors of the Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LSCM) Research Centre at the Management School & the Faculty’s Centre for Energy, Environment and Sustainability (CEES), at The University of Sheffield, UK. She is also the co-founder of Supply Chain Management and Information Systems (SCMIS) Consortium, a global network of leading academic and practitioners driving research and knowledge exchange on supply chain and information systems. A World leading mind recognised amongst FRSs and Nobel Laureates within the University, Professor Koh is a Senior Chair Professor, an internationally renowned and established authority in supply chain especially on low carbon and sustainability, with a high H-index (World number 2) and high research income generation in her discipline internationally. She is active in leading a 2022 Futures initiative advancing resource efficiency and supply chain disciplines, navigating a new translational model for connecting invention/basic science at lower TRL to higher TRL.
Prof Rachel Oliver ( University of Cambridge) is Director of the Cambridge Centre for Gallium Nitride, Prof Oliver’s research interests focus on the characterization and exploitation of nanoscale structures in GaN-based materials. The broad aim of my work is to achieve improved performance in GaN-based electronic and optoelectronic devices and to develop and implement novel device concepts. Cambridge is also the main supplier of nitride epitaxy in the EPSRC National Epitaxy Facility (NEF), and provides nitride materials to academics across the UK
