InP Focus is Al and Ru

Out of four new UK projects announced this year, which total £18.8m, three are focused on the use of optoelectronics and compound materials, and should put the ten participants well into the van of product development. The players are Gemfire awarded £1.7m; the Centre for Integrated Photonics, Bookham, Epichem, Loughborough Surface Analysis, the Universities of Sheffield, and Surrey sharing in £1.7m; and Compound Semiconductor Technologies (CST) Global, Renishaw Plc with Heriot-Watt University's Micro Systems Engineering Centre with £400,000.