UK Semiconductors Conference 2024
The 17th UK Semiconductors Conference took place last week on Monday 8th and Tuesday 9th July at Sheffield Hallam University.
The conference, organised by the National Epitaxy Facility, was a great success with a record number of 41 exhibitors, including Zeiss, Horiba, CN Tech and Nanosurf, and over 300 delegates.
This year’s conference included many informative talks and plenaries, including the new semiconductors-related Innovation and Knowledge Centres (IKCs) and the latest progress on the UK Semiconductor Strategy. The eFutures project landscaping UK Semiconductors R&D also took place, as well as a User Session held by ourselves for current and potential users interested in working with the Facility.
This year’s Plenary speakers Richard Warburton, Paul Meredith and Roman Gorbachev gave talks on semiconductor quantum dots for single photon sources, trap states in molecular and other partially disordered semiconductors, and ultraclean assembly of van der Waals heterostructures. IOP Semiconductor Physics Group thesis prize winner, Dr Pedro Vianez, also gave an invited talk on strong electron correlations in semiconductor nanodevices.
The Phil Buckle research communication competition for PhD students took place, with students giving a 3 minute presentation on their research to a non-specialist audience. Congratulations to the winner Shaoni Kar from the University of Oxford, and runner up Areej Aljaghwani from the University of Warwick.
To view some photos of the conference, please visit UKS 24 Photos (password UKS24), taken by the conference’s photographer Laure Divisia of ADVA Photography.
Thank you for attending and we hope to see you again next year!
