University of Sheffield

The University of Sheffield is leading a £12.5 million national research centre to strengthen the UK’s ability to design electronic systems and support the UK Semiconductor Strategy. The Centre for Heterogeneous Integrated MicroElectronic and Semiconductor Systems (CHIMES) will develop new ways to integrate ICs  into smaller, faster and more energy-efficient systems. The future lies in “Heterogeneous Integration” – combining different ...

Check out the latest episode of the excellent Electronics Weekly podcast, CHIIPS; it features Ben White, CEO and co-founder of infrared sensor specialists Phlux Technology.

University of Sheffield spin-out Phlux has announced its first product, a family of 1,550nm avalanche photodiodes. Called Aura, the infra-red devices are built using antimony alloy modified InGaAs. “The resulting sensors can be operated with APD gains up to 120, enabling even the smallest signals above the noise floor of a connected trans-impedance amplifier to be amplified,” according to the ...

The University of Sheffield is leading a government-funded project to address the semiconductor skills shortage in the UK with Devon-based Bay Photonics and Phlux Technology of Sheffield by improving knowledge of semiconductors in the the general public, and particularly pre-higher education students. “The project is called ASISST – addressing shortages in semiconductor skills training – and will see the partners ...

The UK government’s DASA (Defence and Security Accelerator) has demonstrated three telexistence technologies at its BattleLab as a result of the Telexistence: Phase 2 competition. It had made £1.3 million available for “telexistence” innovations as part of a competition for commercial proposals, launched in January 2022. The three projects that had been selected from Phase 1 were MediTel (involving the ...

Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Ece Erkan, an Electrical and Electronic Engineering Student at the University of Sheffield. Achievement Ece outlined to the ...

Researchers at the University of Sheffield are developing extremely low noise avalanche photodetectors using the band engineering properties of gallium arsenide bismide, says Caroline Hayes. An avalanche photodetector (APD) is able to produce large currents from the input of an extremely low light signal, down to a few photons. When a photon is absorbed, it excites an electron to the ...

A new research centre, the Sheffield Quantum Centre, has been launched by the University of Sheffield.

Epipix (stylised EpiPix) is a recently launched University of Sheffield spin-out company developing “the next generation” of micro-LED technology. The company is developing and commercialising micro-LED technology for photonics applications, such as micro-displays for portable smart devices, augmented reality, virtual reality, 3D sensing and visible light communications.  Underpinned by research from Professor Tao Wang and his team at the University ...

An ultrafast and highly sensitive ‘avalanche photodiode’ that creates less electronic ‘noise’ than silicon rivals