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The University of Sheffield has won a £7 million investment to fund new equipment that will revolutionise the discovery and development of new semiconductor materials.…

Our Director, Professor Jon Heffernan, and Head of MOVPE, Dr Elisa Sala attended the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) meeting on Semiconductors in Westminster.

We are delighted to congratulate NEF's Professor Rachel Oliver for being awarded an OBE in the New Years Honours List 2025

We held our annual all staff meeting at the University of Sheffield at the end of January

Wishing our Users a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from everyone at the National Epitaxy Facility!

The University of Tennessee Knoxville visited the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Sheffield in November, which included a tour around the National Epitaxy Facility.

The LRQA have renewed our ISO 9001:2015 certificate after a successful audit

Our team have attended and given talks at various conferences this summer, including in America, China, Japan and Italy, promoting new research and developments achieved at the Facility.

We are seeking investment in a new state-of-the-art MBE Cluster System to continue to provide high-quality epitaxial wafers and present novel growth capabilities, allowing for new research directions.

We are referenced in the report for our 'great strength in the area of GaAs and InP compound semiconductors', heterogeneous integration technologies and transfer printing.

The next Pump Priming call is on Thursday 1st August!

The annual UK Semiconductors Conference took place last week on Monday 8th and Tuesday 9th July, organised by the National Epitaxy Facility.