ICS researchers awarded Sêr Cymru funding

Three postdoctoral researchers in the Integrated Nanomaterials Lab at the Institute for Compound Semiconductors have been awarded funding from the Welsh Government’s Sêr Cymru scheme.

Dr Marie Delmas, Dr Shiyu Xie and Dr Xiao Meng have each been offered Sêr Cymru II fellowships. Part-funded by Cardiff University, these three-year fellowships support postdoctoral researchers who wish to move towards leadership of an independent research group.

The funding will enable each researcher to develop state-of-the-art systems in the Institute.

Dr Marie Delmas will be creating high-performance photodetectors based on a Type-II Indium Arsenide/Gallium Antimonide (InAs/GaSb) SuperLattice (T2SL) material system in long-wavelength infrared spectral domain. These photodetectors will have an impact on military and spatial applications, including soldier vision enhancement, missile tracking, and earth observation.

At the same time Dr Shiyu Xie will be reinventing a state-of-the-art Indium Arsenide nanowire avalanche photodiode (APD) on silicon substrate for a high speed and low-cost coherent optical communication system.

Meanwhile Dr Xiao Meng will be demonstrating a new platform to achieve state-of-the-art performances in single photon sensing at near infrared (NIR) range. Dr Meng will design, grow and fabricate the world’s first InGaAs NP-SPADs with Separate Absorption and Multiplication avalanche photodiode (SAM-APD) structure in close collaboration with the NanoMaterial Core Lab at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Sêr Cymru is a £50M scheme launched by the Welsh Government to enhance and build on the research capacity in Wales, to attract world leading scientists and their teams, and to support the establishment of three National Research Networks (NRNs).

For more information on Sêr Cymru fellowships please visit: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/jobs/fellowships.