Seica will be revealing two power semicondctor testers at PCIM in Nurember next month: one for ac and dc characteristics, and the other for thermal resistance. S20 IS3 (right) is intended to work with SiC and GaN as well as more conventional technologies, and is for ac and dc, static and dynamic testing. “It performs accurate and repeatable characterisation of ...
Siemens Digital buying Downstream Technologies, the UK's Ministry of Defence putting £200m into compound semis, a 3D magnetic sensor, and the Satellite Applications Catapult simulating microgravity with a gravity offload system...
Swansea University in Wales has installed gallium tri-oxide (Ga2O3) deposition equipment at its Centre for Integrated Semiconductor Materials (CISM). In the β crystal form, Ga2O3 is an ultra-wide bandgap semiconductor (~4.8eV), suiting it to high voltage semiconductors. The semiconductor can also be used in ultra-violet detectors. CISM has an MOCVD (metal-organic chemical vapour deposition) laboratory built around Aixtron equipment, to ...
Batman? And James Bond? I was flummoxed when Andy Sellars told me he was indirectly involved in both, writes Ash Madni, who shares a personal interview with the well-known industry figure… It’s not what you’d expect if you mention Dr Andy Sellars’ name to anyone, but there you go. The old adage “Never judge a book by its cover” comes ...
Now in its seventh year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly highlight and celebrate some of the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Continuing our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2024, we profile Hamza Farah, a UKESF scholar and a Graduate Signalling Engineer at Siemens. Achievements Hamza has only recently joined Siemens, having graduated ...
The UK’s CSA Catapult – the compound semiconductor technology transfer organisation – is calling for the creation of a national semiconductor super-cluster. “There are over 200 dedicated semiconductor companies in the UK, who collectively generate £9.6 bn in revenues and employ 15,000 people,” said CEO Martin McHugh (pictured). “Clusters of expertise are in South Wales, the South West, Cambridge, the ...
Over 200 school students have attended workshops to learn more about semiconductors and be inspired to follow a career in electronics. It was a joint effort from two industry organisations: the Compound Semiconductor Applications (CSA) Catapult and the UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF). The students were from Wales and visited Welsh universities to learn about the many opportunities of studying ...
Now in its sixth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly highlight and celebrate some of the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2023, we highlight Richard Newman, a student at Royal Holloway, University of London, and an RF & Microwave Engineering Intern at the ...
Now in its sixth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly highlight and celebrate some of the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2023, we highlight Claudia Ferreira who is a Materials Engineer at the Compound Semiconductor Applications (CSA) Catapult. Achievements Claudia’s manager at CSA ...
The latest addition to the UK’s Satellite Applications Catapult’s network of Space Enterprise Labs has opened at the Compound Semiconductor Applications (CSA) Catapult in Newport, South Wales. Services at the Space Enterprise Lab (SEL) will include support for virtual meetings, business sprints, user engagement sessions, virtual whiteboards and built-in video conferencing. They will be available for use by everyone within ...
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