News & Events

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.

Research Associate, Dr Nick Bailey, gave a talk to undergraduate students and promoted our PhD open day at the annual IOP event.

We are holding a PhD Open Day for undergraduate and MSc students interested in undertaking a PhD studentship with us.

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

We are exhibiting at the Autumn Careers Fair on Wednesday 15th October from 12-3pm advertising our PhD studentships

The video from UK Semiconductors 2024 is now available!

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.