
UK-based IQE Plc supplies custom compound semiconductor wafers for electronics and optoelectronics markets.
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IQE has produced GaAs epitaxy since 1988. Its portfolio includes materials for RF front-end modules, 3D facial recognition systems, optical communication systems, and high-resolution displays, scalable to 200 mm, including on Germanium substrates.
IQE produces GaN products used in advanced radar systems and 5G networks and has scaled GaN across SiC, Si, GaN, sapphire, and engineered substrates. It has produced commercial HEMT epiwafers for more than 20 years.
IQE's antimonide substrates and epitaxy support military-grade defence systems and civil applications in smart cities, healthcare, and industrial imaging. The company develops GaSb platforms for high-resolution sensing solutions.
IQE has produced InP epiwafers since its inception and is developing solutions for hyperscale data centres, 5G backhaul networks, and secure defence systems. InP supports fibre-optic networks and is a platform for AI and Terahertz communications.
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IQE's publication library includes a 2022 paper on distributed polarization-doped GaN p–n diodes, published in Applied Physics Letters.
IQE seeks individuals to join its team.
IQE develops and produces compound semiconductor materials and operates high-tech manufacturing sites globally. The page links expanding applications for these materials to 5G rollout and connected devices.
Jutta is an experienced industry executive who has held senior positions at global semiconductor companies for close to 30 years.
The company says it retains industry experts through teamwork and collaboration and describes a culture of integrity, accountability, excellence, valuing people, and teamwork.
The company delivers enabling technology that meets performance and price requirements and can be delivered reliably, on time, and scaled rapidly.
IQE's Board of Directors believes in maintaining high standards of corporate governance and is accountable to shareholders for the Group’s performance in this area.
IQE's pedigree dates back to 1988 when its first MOCVD based manufacturing operation was established in Cardiff, Wales, under the name of Epitaxial Products International (EPI).
The company expects suppliers in its supply chain to uphold the responsible business standards and ethical behaviours it practices.
The leading supplier of advanced wafer products and material solutions to the semiconductor industry.