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A huge congratulation to Piotr Sokolinski and Ben Thornley for winning the student prizes for their excellent presentations on porous GaN distributed Bragg reflectors at  the UK Nitrides Consortium (UKNC) winter meeting 2025 hosted by the University of Cambridge.Piotr presented his work on the modelling of the acid etching pathways in porous GaN DB…

Woo hoo, hipp hipp horray!After years of hard and excellent scientific work Yihong has successfully defended his PhD thesis. It has been a pleasure to have him in the group. We wish him all the best for a bright an prospective future!The Cambridge Centre for Gallium Nitride

A massive congratulations to Prof. Rachel Oliver, who has been appointed as Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in King Charles' New Year Honours List 2025 in recognition for her services to Materials Engineering.

Huge congratulations to Yihong Ji and Maruf Sarkar for submitting their PhD theses! This remarkable achievement marks a significant milestone in their academic journeys and reflects their dedication, hard work, and perseverance over the past several years. It’s a proud moment not only for them but also for the entire team of the Cambridge Centre fo…

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.

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.

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 AFM-CL datasets.We can't w…

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)

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.

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 as very impressive.Well do…

Rachel Oliver was honoured to be invited to number 10 Downing Street for aSemiconductor 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 support key components of the S…