Cardiff University has secured 拢11m in research council funding for a new compound semiconductor manufacturing hub.
The funding has come from a 拢55m funding package from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), with as well as Cardiff is supporting four other university led manufacturing research hubs across the 海角视频. Each has secured 拢11m from the EPSRC. Cardiff University said its hub has also secured 拢8m in additional funding support from the private sector.
The hub aims to capitalise on the huge opportunity of compound semiconductor manufacturing identified in the 海角视频鈥檚 national semiconductor strategy.
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The researchers will develop energy-efficient opto-electronics for use in key emerging technologies such as quantum, the 6G network, sensors for autonomous vehicles, the internet of things and satellite communications.
A key driver for the hub will be to expand the environmental benefits of compound semiconductors, by carrying out their research in an environmentally friendly way, developing new manufacturing processes and creating new devices that are energy efficient along the way.
Professor Peter Smowton, the Cardiff hub lead and managing director of Cardiff University鈥檚 Institute for Compound Semiconductors, said: 鈥淭his award is an endorsement of our vision to establish the 海角视频 as the primary global research and manufacturing hub for compound semiconductor (CS) technologies, expanding and extending the CS cluster here in South Wales that our previous EPSRC manufacturing hub initiated.
鈥淪upported by new start-ups and inward investment into our region, the hub will be at the very heart of the cluster ensuring we can continue to develop CS technologies which enable our connected world, our health, our security and protect the environment.
鈥淭he time is right for a step-change in CS manufacturing and we can鈥檛 wait to get started here in Cardiff.鈥
Cardiff University researchers will also support the Sustainable Chemicals and Materials Manufacturing hub led by the University of Oxford and the Advanced Metrology for Sustainable Manufacturing hub led by the University of Huddersfield.
EPSRC executive chair, Professor Charlotte Deane, said:鈥淕iven the scale and importance of the 海角视频鈥檚 manufacturing sector we must ensure that it is able to benefit fully from advances made across the research and innovation ecosystem.
鈥淲ith their focus on innovation and sustainability the advances made by the hubs will benefit specific sectors, the wider manufacturing sector and economy, as well as the environment.鈥
