News: Suppliers
30 June 2025
III-V Epi brings independent, epi manufacturing expertise to Glasgow’s Critical Technologies Accelerator program
III–V Epi Ltd of Glasgow, Scotland, UK — which provides a molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) service for custom compound semiconductor wafer design, manufacturing, test and characterization — says that it is bringing crucial, independent, epitaxial manufacturing expertise to the University of Glasgow’s Critical Technologies Accelerator (CTA) program.
The CTA supports joint academic and industrial collaborative projects for semiconductor, photonics and quantum technology development in Scotland, funded by the UK Government’s Innovation Accelerator levelling-up program. The CTA’s purpose is to link the University of Glasgow’s semiconductor laser development expertise, based at the James Watt Nanofabrication Centre (JWNC), with industrial partners, mitigating research costs. It also targets economic growth in Glasgow and prioritizes support of a Scottish, sovereign supply chain.
“III-V Epi is a business which provides fast-turnaround, low- and medium-volume manufacture of III-V epitaxial structures, complete with testing and characterization support services. This is an essential part of bringing innovative photonics projects to market quickly and efficiently,” says the firm’s director Calum McGregor. “Like the CTA, we are based in Glasgow, at the heart of Scotland’s sovereign, photonics supply chain,” he adds.
“Many of the emerging markets targeted by the CTA, including computing, communications, space, fintech, healthcare and defence, favour gallium arsenide (GaAs) material systems for manufacturing flexibility, where we have valuable know-how,” McGregor continues. “However, we also work extensively with indium phosphide (InP), widely used in datacoms, telecoms, AI and HPC [high-performance computing].”
The CTA has already delivered successful projects for secure cryptographic, financial transactions and augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR).
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