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The scheme has recently been expanded to cover a broader range of materials.
Applications are now open with a deadline of Friday, 12th May 2023.

An Industrial CASE award is available for a PhD studentship in the Epitaxial Growth and Characterisation of Novel Materials for Long-Wavelength semiconductor lasers & detectors.

We are delighted to announce the growth of our team and internal promotions in the Facility.

We are delighted to see an article on the National Epitaxy Facility published this week in the Compound Semiconductor magazine: "A National Treasure. The UK's central growth facility".

We are delighted to announce that the National Epitaxy Facility has been awarded almost £500,000 for core equipment by the EPSRC.

The Materials for Quantum Network (M4QN) launch event took place in Manchester on the 16th - 17th January and was a great success!

A new MOVPE (Metal Organic Vapour Phase Epitaxy) reactor has been commissioned at the National Epitaxy Facility’s headquarters at the University of Sheffield in August 2022.

There is yet another opportunity to join our diverse team! We are looking for a proactive Senior Technician with experience of managing active laboratory facilities.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and versatile Administrator to join our dynamic research team at the University of Sheffield, and provide wide-ranging support to our growing Facility.

We are looking for an experienced and ambitious Research Associate in Metal-Organic Vapour Phase Epitaxy to lead world-class research and development of MOVPE of As, P, Sb based III-V semiconductors.

Following a community statement-of-need in 2019 and a competitive bid to EPSRC, the National Epitaxy Facility has been funded for a further five years from the 1st of July 2022.

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