Shaping Tomorrow: The Power of Advanced Semiconductors
About
Semiconductors are the invisible engines driving modern technology — from smartphones to electric vehicles. While silicon has long been the cornerstone of this revolution, a new class of materials known as compound semiconductors is opening the door to more powerful, efficient, and versatile innovations. These advanced materials, like Silicon Carbide and Gallium Nitride, offer unique properties such as high-speed performance, superior efficiency, and the ability to operate in extreme environments.
In this talk, we’ll explore how compound semiconductors are shaping future applications like electric vehicles, secure telecom networks and renewable energy solutions. Whether you’re a tech enthusiast or simply curious about the future of innovation, this session will connect the science of semiconductors to the technology that impacts our everyday lives and will explore the big difference it’s making around the world!
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Continuing Professional Development
This event can contribute towards your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours as part of the IET's CPD monitoring scheme.
16 Jun 2025
7:30pm - 9:00pm
Organiser
- Hereford and Worcester Local Network
Speakers
Dr Jayakrishnan (Jay) Chandrappan
Head of advanced packaging - Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult
Dr Jayakrishnan (Jay) Chandrappan is the head of advanced packaging at CSA Catapult. He leads a multi-disciplinary team who develop innovative semiconductor integration and packaging solutions through package design and modelling, micro-assembly and rapid prototyping for power electronics, photonics, and RF and microwave applications.
With over 20 years of international experience in industry and industrial research, Jayakrishnan’s expertise ranges from material engineering, microelectronics, photonics, semiconductor packaging and reliability testing.
Before joining CSA Catapult, Jay’s career included roles at companies such as Global Foundries Inc. (US), the Institute of Microelectronics, A-Star Singapore, Sameer and the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, India. He has also co-founded two start-ups.
Jay is a recipient of Europe’s most prestigious Marie-Skłodowska-Curie fellowship and a winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Emerging Technology Showcase Award.
He is an external advisory board member to the University of Bristol and the University of Leeds. He is a committee member for SEMI Europe, APC and the International Microelectronics Assembly & Packaging Society (IMAPS) UK Chapter.
Programme
Doors open 19:00
Presentation starts 19:30
Expected finish 21:00
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