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GaN Christmas hamper 2021

GaN Centre supports Foodbank Christmas Appeal

It has been already a small tradition in the GaN centre that we contribute a Christmas hamper as part of the department's partnering with Cambridge City Foodbank's Christmas Hamper campaign. Although Cambridge is considered a prosperous area, the reality is that there are many families who struggle financially and...


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New PhD students have arrived

Two new PhD students have joint us at beginning of October to start exciting research projects with us. Francesca Adams will explore the secrets of nitride based transistors, while Yihong Ji will work on materials for nitride-based Micro-LEDs. Welcome in the group.


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A visitor in the group

Ing. Jakub Pongrácz from the Institute of Physics of Materials at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic will stay with us over the next 3 month to investigate the relation of defects and porous materials.


Read more at: Huge congratulations to Rachel!

Huge congratulations to Rachel!

Bang... Bang bang. We are absolutly thrilled that Professor Rachel Oliver has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering for her study and innovative applications of gallium nitride for electronic and optoelectronic devices. ( Full announcement here .) Huge congratulations from the group! Well deserved...


Read more at: Congratulations to Rachel Oliver

Congratulations to Rachel Oliver

Professor Rachel Oliver has been selected as an IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturer . The program was designed to honor excellent speakers who have made technical, industrial or entrepreneurial contributions to the field of photonics and to enhance the technical programs of the IEEE Photonics Society Chapters (...


Read more at: Happy Graduation to Dr Bogdan Spiridon

Happy Graduation to Dr Bogdan Spiridon

We are very excited about Bogdan's graduation today! It has been a very proud moment for him and us, but all the hard work he has put in has finaly paid off. We wish that success keeps following him in everything that he do. Today and always… Congratulations and Happy Graduation. Have a successful future. The Cambridge...


Read more at: Second year Postgraduate Seminars

Second year Postgraduate Seminars

Kagiso Loeto and Maruf Sarkar will presenting their work in short talks at the Second year Postgraduate Seminars today. Kagiso will be talking about " Quantitative Cathodoluminescence: Measuring Dopant Levels in Semiconductors using Light ", while Maruf will give us an insight on " Subsurface Backscattered Electron Imaging...


Read more at: Armourers and Brasiers' Cambridge Forum

Armourers and Brasiers' Cambridge Forum

Today, we will presenting our current research at the 2021 Armourers and Brasiers' Cambridge Forum . The event aims to brings together researchers from universities, industry and Alumni to hear a programme of international speakers on the latest developments in Materials Science research and to participate in networking...


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Group Coffee - Wed 11am

In a very Richard Attenborough way This week is the last week of easter term and we are soon to see a unique species emerge into the wilderness once again . A subspecies of homo sapien, homo sapien acadimus undergradous sp. , commonly known as undergraduates, have been a rare site for the last 3 weeks in this area as they...


Read more at: Bogdan and Simon win IAA projects

Bogdan and Simon win IAA projects

Congratulations to Bogdan Spiridon and Simon Fairclough for winning two EPSRC funded Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) grants. The short-term impact project lead by Bogdan Spiridon relates to the experimental study of porous GaN sensors as part of the development of smart high-performance sensors for harsh environments...


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