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Read more at: Jiawei and Ben won a poster prize

Jiawei and Ben won a poster prize

A huge congratulation to Jiawei Zhang and Ben Thornley for winning the student prize for their excellent poster at the Engineering Porous Materials and Multiple Scale conference at University of Bath.


Read more at: Kevin and Piotr have joined us for their Master's project

Kevin and Piotr have joined us for their Master's project

We're delighted to welcome Kevin Xu and Piotr Sokolinkski to the Cambridge GaN team! They'll be working on two Master projects modelling and optimising the reflectivity and pore structures in porous DBRs.


Read more at: New PhD students have arrived

New PhD students have arrived

A big, warm welcome to our fantastic new PhD students, Sami Kibal, Aisha Mariam and Cobi Allen! Sami will be working on cutting-edge research into radiation-resistant HEMTs for space applications. Aisha will be delving into the microstructure of ultra AlGaN HEMTs. And Cobi will be working on pioneering machine learning of...


Read more at: Social Friday punting on the river Cam

Social Friday punting on the river Cam

On Friday, the members of the GaN Centre enjoyed a punting trip on the river Cam. On our way through the historic city centre upstream towards Grantchester we have enjoyed the scenery views of the colleges and some very delicious scones with clotted cream and jam (or the other way round)


Read more at: Welcome to Thom R Harris-Lee

Welcome to Thom R Harris-Lee

We are excited to welcome Thom R Harris-Lee at the Cambridge Centre for Gallium Nitride. Thom will be working on the MOVPE growth, and subsequent electrochemical porosification, of aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN). You can learn more about Thom on his personal website .


Read more at: Research visit of Dr Victoria Esteso Carrizo

Research visit of Dr Victoria Esteso Carrizo

Our collaborator Dr Victoria Esteso Carrizo from the Universidad de Sevilla is visiting us for the next two weeks to do very exciting studies of the optical properties of porous GaN.


Read more at: Maruf wins the Deaprtment Photo competitions in the categories Technical & General

Maruf wins the Deaprtment Photo competitions in the categories Technical & General

Congratulations to our PhD student Maruf Sarkar for winning the prestige Department photo competition 2024 in both the Technical and the General categories. The photos ‘Tomographic FIB-SEM of a porous GaN DBR’ (Technical category) and ‘Aviators in stasis’ (General category) have been highlighted by the Heads of Department...


Read more at: APL has selected our paper as Editor's Pick

APL has selected our paper as Editor's Pick

We are absolutely excited that the paper of our PhD student Chen Chen on the hyperspectral scanning capacitance microscopy of GaN-based HEMT structures has been selected as Editor's Pick by Applied Physics Letters. We are very grateful for the honor. If you want to learn more about our hyperspectral mapping research...


Read more at: QuantEmX exchange fellowship and Accelnet Quantum Materials exchange award for Kumaran

QuantEmX exchange fellowship and Accelnet Quantum Materials exchange award for Kumaran

Congratulations to Kumaran on being selected for a 2024 QuantEmX exchange fellowship and Accelnet Quantum Materials exchange award. This summer he will be investigating the effects of polarised light in semiconductor crystals out in California, with the Optics of Quantum Materials group at the University of California...


Read more at: Rachel at No 10 Downing Street

Rachel at No 10 Downing Street

Rachel Oliver was honoured to be invited to number 10 Downing Street for a Semiconductor Strategy Reception on Monday 20 May. At the reception, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Tech and the Digital Economy, Saqib Bhatti MP, announced that the government will establish a new UK Semiconductor Institute to...


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