Now in its eighth year, the EW BrightSparks awards see Electronics Weekly celebrate some of the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. In the next in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2025, we profile Osian Jones, who was an intern at the Compound Semiconductor Catapult (CSA) last year. He is studying at Swansea University ...
We're talking about a new CEO of the CSA Catapult, ARM Lumex, autonomous sailing robots, and the first Australian Satellite becoming operational in orbit...
The UK’s Compound Semiconductor Applications (CSA) Catapult has appointed Caroline O’Brien as its new chief executive officer. And Rupert Baines is joining the board. Currently CEO of Kubos Semiconductors, O’Brien brings 30 years of experience in the technology sector. The CSA highlights she has developed a broad knowledge of working with VC-backed businesses and multinationals. She will join the organisation ...
The University of California Santa Barbara has improved the integration of monolithic III-V lasers on silicon substrates. What has emerged from the research are narrow-band well-behaved lasers that are compatible with mass manufacturing. “The lasers operate efficiently on a single O-band wavelength,” according to the IEEE Photonics Society, which has published the projects findings. “O-band is desirable as it allows ...
Seica will be revealing two power semicondctor testers at PCIM in Nurember next month: one for ac and dc characteristics, and the other for thermal resistance. S20 IS3 (right) is intended to work with SiC and GaN as well as more conventional technologies, and is for ac and dc, static and dynamic testing. “It performs accurate and repeatable characterisation of ...
Siemens Digital buying Downstream Technologies, the UK's Ministry of Defence putting £200m into compound semis, a 3D magnetic sensor, and the Satellite Applications Catapult simulating microgravity with a gravity offload system...
Swansea University in Wales has installed gallium tri-oxide (Ga2O3) deposition equipment at its Centre for Integrated Semiconductor Materials (CISM). In the β crystal form, Ga2O3 is an ultra-wide bandgap semiconductor (~4.8eV), suiting it to high voltage semiconductors. The semiconductor can also be used in ultra-violet detectors. CISM has an MOCVD (metal-organic chemical vapour deposition) laboratory built around Aixtron equipment, to ...
Batman? And James Bond? I was flummoxed when Andy Sellars told me he was indirectly involved in both, writes Ash Madni, who shares a personal interview with the well-known industry figure… It’s not what you’d expect if you mention Dr Andy Sellars’ name to anyone, but there you go. The old adage “Never judge a book by its cover” comes ...
Now in its seventh year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly highlight and celebrate some of the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Continuing our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2024, we profile Hamza Farah, a UKESF scholar and a Graduate Signalling Engineer at Siemens. Achievements Hamza has only recently joined Siemens, having graduated ...
The UK’s CSA Catapult – the compound semiconductor technology transfer organisation – is calling for the creation of a national semiconductor super-cluster. “There are over 200 dedicated semiconductor companies in the UK, who collectively generate £9.6 bn in revenues and employ 15,000 people,” said CEO Martin McHugh (pictured). “Clusters of expertise are in South Wales, the South West, Cambridge, the ...
