CST Global’s new III-V semiconductor line benefits students in Glasgow

CST Global, the Glasgow-based manufacturer of millimetre wave and optical semiconductors using a non-silicon III-V process, is readying its new, metalorganic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) machine.

This is a collaboration with the University of Glasgow and commissioning of the processing machine is expected to be completed in time for the 2017 / 2018 academic year.

Neil Martin, CEO of CST Global

Neil Martin, CEO of CST Global, writes:

“The MOCVD machine project is a unique, academic and commercial collaboration between the University of Glasgow and CST Global. Richard Hogg, Professor of Photonics at the university, is leading the project to commission and operate the new machine. He is sharing his time between the university, the owner of the machine, and CST Globals’s foundry facility at Blantyre, Glasgow, where it will operate.”

Operational costs are shared and the machine will be used a range of research programmes.

“The collaboration enables PhD students to undertake research projects in advanced, semiconductor materials and devices, in both electronics and photonics,” said Martin.

CST Global, which is a subsidiary of Sivers IMA Holdings of Sweden, will use spare machine capacity to provide epitaxial ‘overgrowth’ services to customers.

“It brings this process under our control, reduces costs and improves delivery times. I expect this MOCVD collaboration to pave the way for many similar academic commercial partnerships in the future,” said Martin.