Epitaxial Material Innovation

Novel compound semiconductor material development for scale-up and volume production

Founded in 2015, the Compound Semiconductor Centre (CSC) is co-located with its parent company IQE, a leading supplier of advanced compound semiconductor wafer products.


CSC was established as a specialist provider of innovative epitaxial material technologies that underpin new photonic and micro-electronic applications, providing a complete capability from RD&I through to volume manufacturing.


With access to volume metal organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) reactors and molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), CSC is able to prototype new cs-technologies and de-risk epitaxial materials for volume production.


CSC has a particular focus on high-performance opto-electronic components for advanced telecom/datacom and sensing, wide bandgap semiconductors for RF and power electronics, and novel device structures for emerging applications, such as quantum technologies.

Application-led

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Materials to solutions

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Prototyping to Volume

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