AI to accelerate semiconductor materials discovery
Funding awarded for molecular beam epitaxy equipment at the University of Sheffield, UK.
Research in the National Epitaxy Facility at the University of Sheffield, UK, where the new system will be based.
© University of SheffieldThe system's data-collection tools will support research that mixes materials to create new device concepts.
Funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Council (EPRSC), the system will be installed at the National Epitaxy Facility – an EPSRC-funded centre of excellence hosted by Sheffield in collaboration with the universities of Cambridge and UCL.
In 2022, the UK Government launched its Semiconductor Strategy to strengthen the UK’s position in a rapidly growing sector that impacts sectors such as AI-computing, energy, defence and security, healthcare and communications.
There is also a need to increase environmental sustainability in the semiconductor industry by seeking out new semiconductors made from earth-abundant materials such as zinc, aluminium and nitrogen – the new equipment in Sheffield will seek to pioneer this field.
