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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)

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 .

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...

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...