IQE and Cardiff University fund new chairs and researchers

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 under the IQE-university agreement.

“By strengthening our partnership with Cardiff

University, we are creating a talent pipeline for the benefit of IQE and the wider South Wales semiconductor industry to underpin growth,” says IQE CEO Americo Lemos (pictured).

In 2015, IQE and the university formed a jv to set up the Compound Semiconductor Centre (CSC), for R&D and commercialisation of compound semis.