Welcome to UK Semiconductors 2014.  The conference dates are 9th and 10th July 2014 and the event will be held at the Conference 21 facilities at Sheffield Hallam University.

This year we will be holding an additional focus session on “Semiconductors for Healthcare Technologies”.  Contributions from both academia and industry are welcome.

Our confirmed plenary speakers so far:

• Jerome Faist (ETH Zurich, Switzerland): Subject area: Quantum Cascade Lasers and frequency combs
• Michael Kneissl (TU Berlin, Germany): “UV-LEDs – the long road towards shorter wavelengths”
• Brian Bennett (NRL, USA): “Antimonide-Based Compound Semiconductors for Low-Power Electronics”
• Hywel Morgan (University of Southampton): Subject area: Microfluidics for bio-sensing