Programme

Summary
Day 1: registration opens 9:30am, first session 10:15, close 18:00 (conference dinner from 18:30)
Day 2: registration opens 9:00am, first session 9:30, close 17:30

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Focus Session on Metrology for Emerging Semiconductor Materials
We are pleased to announce a focus session by IOP’s Thin Films and Surfaces Group on Metrology for Emerging Semiconductor Materials. This session will bring together experts from academia, industry, and national laboratories to discuss innovations in characterization methods, standards development, and instrumentation tailored to these emerging materials. Topics will include nanoscale imaging, electrical and thermal property measurements, defect and interface analysis, and the integration of metrology into fabrication workflows. The goal is to bring together materials metrology with semiconductor applications to build collaborations and accelerate the uptake of new materials in future semiconductor devices.

Women in Semiconductors Session
We are also pleased to announce the new addition of ED&I sessions at the conference, starting with a ‘Women in Semiconductors’ session. There will be inspiring talks from women in academia and industry on their career path and insights on working in semiconductors.

The session is being held on Thursday 2nd July at 14:55 (day 2) in the Peak Lecture Theatre. Prof Rachel Oliver from the Cambridge Centre of Gallium Nitride will be chairing the session. The panellists are Prof Louise Hirst from the University of Cambridge, Dr Charlotte Ovenden from Aegiq Ltd, Katie Hore from REWIRE IKC and Alexandra Leadley from the UK Semiconductor Centre.

Everybody is welcome to attend!

UK Semiconductors Plenary Speakers 2026:

  • Ivona Mitrovic (University of Liverpool) “Compound semiconductor device engineering for Net Zero and space applications”
  • Galan Moody (University of California Santa Barbara, USA) “Heterogeneous III-V-on-Silicon-Nitride Integrated Quantum Photonics”
  • Alexey Berdyugin (National University of Singapore) “Tunable Screening and Moiré Hybridization of Decoupled Graphene Layers”

    IOP Semiconductor Physics Group Thesis Prize Talk:
  • Dion Tjhe (University of Cambridge) “Charge Transport Physics of Organic Semiconductors at High Carrier Densities”

Conference Scope
All aspects of semiconductor research are covered in the programme including materials science, physics and engineering.

Examples include:

  • Materials: Epitaxy, fabrication, characterization and theoretical properties of Si, Ge, III-Vs (including III-Nitrides), II-Vs, organic semiconductors, hybrid organic/inorganic systems and perovskites. Bulk materials and nanostructures including quantum dots/wires/wells and superlattices. 2D materials including transition metal dichalcogenides.
  • Physics: Electronic and optical properties, photonic bandgap structures ,spintronics, quantum information processing, resonant tunnelling, transport, and magnetic semiconductors.
  • Engineering: All electronic devices from single electron structures through to high-mobility transistors and post Si-C-MOS. All optoelectronic devices from  LEDs, laser diodes and photodetectors, through to cutting-edge, high-power lasers and photovoltaics.