IQE and Cardiff University are to establish two new chairs in compound semiconductor technology – one in the university’s physics and astronomy department and the other in the School of Engineering. They will have access to the Institute for Compound Semiconductors based at the University’s Translational Research Hub. Two postdoctoral researchers and at least six PhD students will be funded ...
The Translational Research Hub (TRH), designed to foster collaboration between industry and scientists, has officially opened at Cardif University. It is the home of the Institute for Compound Semiconductors (ICS) and Cardiff Catalysis Institute (CCI), and was funded by UK and Welsh governments – including £17.3m through UKRPIF, £12m from Welsh Government, £13.1m in European funding administered by WEFO and ...
Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Simon Betts, a MEng Electrical and Electronic Engineering student at Cardiff University. Achievement Simon scored strongly on many ...
The UK Government has announced it will invest £30 million to help secure the UK’s role in developing a space telescope to explore exoplanets. According to the UK Space Agency, the Ariel mission is due to launch in 2029 and seeks to understand the links between a planet’s chemistry, its evolution and its host star, by characterising the atmospheres of ...
The first-ever Wales Tech Week has confirmed more than 50 virtual events as part of the festival, which runs 13 – 17 July and is free to access. It is designed to showcase the Welsh technology industry and its applications in use across the world, and the first keynote is by Lee Waters MS, Deputy Minister for the Economy and Transport ...
Wales Tech Week festival – Online The first-ever Wales Tech Week has confirmed more than 50 virtual events as part of the festival, which runs 13 – 17 July and is free to access. It is designed to showcase the Welsh technology industry and its applications in use across the world, and the first keynote is by Lee Waters MS, ...
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Electronics Weekly has teamed up with RS Components to highlight the brightest and most talented young electronic engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the EW BrightSparks of 2018, we highlight Iestyn Llyr, a Senior Engineer at Microsemi. Having graduated as an engineer from Cardiff University, Iestyn started at Microsemi initially working on a project called Montagu, a £485,000 ...
A government-funded research project to develop semiconductor lasers for the design of miniature atomic clocks (MacV) receives new funding.
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