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We would like to congratulate Martin McLaren on receiving the IOP Technician Award. He received this award for his work as technical manager, overseeing operations of the Centre for Designer Quantum Materials since its inception. Congratulations Martin! www.iop.org/about/awards...
October 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
We would like to congratulate Martin McLaren on receiving the IOP Technician Award. He received this award for his work as technical manager, overseeing operations of the Centre for Designer Quantum Materials since its inception. Congratulations Martin! www.iop.org/about/awards...
Yesterday the School of Physics and Astronomy held the Wilson Sibbett memorial symposium. The day featured several talks from Wilson's friends and colleagues who spoke movingly about his impact on their lives, research, and the field of ultrafast photonics.
October 23, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Yesterday the School of Physics and Astronomy held the Wilson Sibbett memorial symposium. The day featured several talks from Wilson's friends and colleagues who spoke movingly about his impact on their lives, research, and the field of ultrafast photonics.
Last week's group coffee saw us welcoming two new members to the group, Masato Kato for his PhD and Dr Buddhika Karunathilaka as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Masato brought some green tea chocolates for everyone to enjoy!
October 6, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Last week's group coffee saw us welcoming two new members to the group, Masato Kato for his PhD and Dr Buddhika Karunathilaka as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Masato brought some green tea chocolates for everyone to enjoy!
This week we are very happy to welcome Dr Buddhika Karunathilaka to the group. He will be supervised by Prof Ifor Samuel and Prof Graham Turnbull, and his research will focus on developing organic lasers that operate under continuous-wave (CW) conditions.
October 6, 2025 at 10:07 AM
This week we are very happy to welcome Dr Buddhika Karunathilaka to the group. He will be supervised by Prof Ifor Samuel and Prof Graham Turnbull, and his research will focus on developing organic lasers that operate under continuous-wave (CW) conditions.
This week we are pleased to welcome Masato Kato to the group. His PhD, supervised by Dr Jean-Charles Ribierre and Prof Ifor Samuel, will focus on researching Organic Hyperbolic Metamaterials for optoelectronic applications.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
This week we are pleased to welcome Masato Kato to the group. His PhD, supervised by Dr Jean-Charles Ribierre and Prof Ifor Samuel, will focus on researching Organic Hyperbolic Metamaterials for optoelectronic applications.
Ifor attended the Optical Probes meeting in Fukuoka last week and gave an invited talk. Also attending were four former OSC members who now lead their own research groups (Prof John Lupton, Prof P. Rajamalli, Dr Gordon Hedley and Prof Paloma dos Santos).
September 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Ifor attended the Optical Probes meeting in Fukuoka last week and gave an invited talk. Also attending were four former OSC members who now lead their own research groups (Prof John Lupton, Prof P. Rajamalli, Dr Gordon Hedley and Prof Paloma dos Santos).
This week we are pleased to welcome Yamini Sharma to the group. She is visiting us from the IPCMS in Strasbourg. During her one month stay she will be researching the photophysics of TADF materials.
September 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This week we are pleased to welcome Yamini Sharma to the group. She is visiting us from the IPCMS in Strasbourg. During her one month stay she will be researching the photophysics of TADF materials.
Today is international day in the school of Physics and Astronomy. It is a great opportunity to celebrate the diversity in the OSC that helps make our research world class.
August 29, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Today is international day in the school of Physics and Astronomy. It is a great opportunity to celebrate the diversity in the OSC that helps make our research world class.
Congratulations to the authors of the paper “OLED illuminated metasurfaces for holographic image projection” which has just been published with Light: Science & Applications. DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s413...
August 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Congratulations to the authors of the paper “OLED illuminated metasurfaces for holographic image projection” which has just been published with Light: Science & Applications. DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s413...
We are happy to welcome Chico Paulics Bresler to the group for his PhD on the HISOPE project, researching fast organic optoelectronic materials and devices. He is jointly supervised by Prof Ifor Samuel and Prof Graham Turnbull.
August 5, 2025 at 11:51 AM
We are happy to welcome Chico Paulics Bresler to the group for his PhD on the HISOPE project, researching fast organic optoelectronic materials and devices. He is jointly supervised by Prof Ifor Samuel and Prof Graham Turnbull.
This week we are pleased to welcome Shintaro Kohata to the group. He is visiting us from the Adachi lab at Kyushu University. During his two month stay he will be investigating photophysics in novel TADF systems.
July 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This week we are pleased to welcome Shintaro Kohata to the group. He is visiting us from the Adachi lab at Kyushu University. During his two month stay he will be investigating photophysics in novel TADF systems.
Today we celebrated Ifor's birthday with some cake and pastries. Happy birthday Ifor, we hope you enjoy the presents!
July 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Today we celebrated Ifor's birthday with some cake and pastries. Happy birthday Ifor, we hope you enjoy the presents!
Last month, Aswin attended the Algal BBB conference in Arizona, US. He gave a talk on 'Unlocking the optimal wavelength for different growth phases for Arthrospira platensis in a cylindrical airlift photobioreactor'.
July 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Last month, Aswin attended the Algal BBB conference in Arizona, US. He gave a talk on 'Unlocking the optimal wavelength for different growth phases for Arthrospira platensis in a cylindrical airlift photobioreactor'.
Congratulations to Liam, Kou, and our collaborators at the University of Cambridge, led by Harald Haas for the paper "Visible light communication using thermally activated delayed fluorescent OLEDs". DOI: lnkd.in/er_6ZuiQ
July 11, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Congratulations to Liam, Kou, and our collaborators at the University of Cambridge, led by Harald Haas for the paper "Visible light communication using thermally activated delayed fluorescent OLEDs". DOI: lnkd.in/er_6ZuiQ
Recently Sagarika attended the International Meeting on Chemical sensors in Freiburg, Germany where she presented some of her recent work.
July 10, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Recently Sagarika attended the International Meeting on Chemical sensors in Freiburg, Germany where she presented some of her recent work.
Working with the team of Prof Harald Haas we have demonstrated a record communication rate in OLEDs. The new paper "High-speed organic light-emitting diodes based on dinaphthylperylene achieving 4-Gbps communication" published with Advanced Photonics. DOI: doi.org/10.1117/1.AP...
June 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Working with the team of Prof Harald Haas we have demonstrated a record communication rate in OLEDs. The new paper "High-speed organic light-emitting diodes based on dinaphthylperylene achieving 4-Gbps communication" published with Advanced Photonics. DOI: doi.org/10.1117/1.AP...
This week Ifor gave presented work on high brightness OLEDs and lasers at the Excited State Processes conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Former group member Prof John Lupton spoke directly after him.
June 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
This week Ifor gave presented work on high brightness OLEDs and lasers at the Excited State Processes conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Former group member Prof John Lupton spoke directly after him.
Yesterday OSC members had the opportunity to attend an excellent seminar "Digital Discovery for Organic Electronics" by Prof. Alessandro Troisi where he was presented with his RSC Tilden Prize for Chemistry medal. @ezc-group.bsky.social
June 19, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Yesterday OSC members had the opportunity to attend an excellent seminar "Digital Discovery for Organic Electronics" by Prof. Alessandro Troisi where he was presented with his RSC Tilden Prize for Chemistry medal. @ezc-group.bsky.social
We are pleased to announce that our paper "Enabling the Next-Generation Network of Networks" has now been published with IEEE. We have worked closely on this with Prof Harald Haas and his team at the LiFi Research and Development Centre at the University of Cambridge. DOI: doi.org/10.1109/MVT....
May 29, 2025 at 12:57 PM
We are pleased to announce that our paper "Enabling the Next-Generation Network of Networks" has now been published with IEEE. We have worked closely on this with Prof Harald Haas and his team at the LiFi Research and Development Centre at the University of Cambridge. DOI: doi.org/10.1109/MVT....
Last week, Kou attended the SID Display Week 2025 and gave an invited talk on our work on electrically driven organic lasers.
It was an exciting opportunity to learn about the latest developments in OLED research from both academic and industry researchers.
Photos courtesy of Mr. Shintaro Nomura.
It was an exciting opportunity to learn about the latest developments in OLED research from both academic and industry researchers.
Photos courtesy of Mr. Shintaro Nomura.
May 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Last week, Kou attended the SID Display Week 2025 and gave an invited talk on our work on electrically driven organic lasers.
It was an exciting opportunity to learn about the latest developments in OLED research from both academic and industry researchers.
Photos courtesy of Mr. Shintaro Nomura.
It was an exciting opportunity to learn about the latest developments in OLED research from both academic and industry researchers.
Photos courtesy of Mr. Shintaro Nomura.
Ifor, Kou and Graham are visiting the National Taiwan University to discuss joint research and Ifor presented some of the latest work of the OSC.
May 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Ifor, Kou and Graham are visiting the National Taiwan University to discuss joint research and Ifor presented some of the latest work of the OSC.
Congratulations to the authors of "Merging Boron and Carbonyl based MR-TADF Emitter Designs to Achieve High Performance Pure Blue OLEDs". The paper ranked within the top 10% of most-viewed papers published by @wiley.com @angewandtechemie.bsky.social International Edition in 2023. #TopViewedArticle
April 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Congratulations to the authors of "Merging Boron and Carbonyl based MR-TADF Emitter Designs to Achieve High Performance Pure Blue OLEDs". The paper ranked within the top 10% of most-viewed papers published by @wiley.com @angewandtechemie.bsky.social International Edition in 2023. #TopViewedArticle
Shoutout to our Angstrom evaporator users and cleanroom techs for teaming up on a quick, thorough glove box clean!
Awesome work — efficient, collaborative, and spotless!
Awesome work — efficient, collaborative, and spotless!
April 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Shoutout to our Angstrom evaporator users and cleanroom techs for teaming up on a quick, thorough glove box clean!
Awesome work — efficient, collaborative, and spotless!
Awesome work — efficient, collaborative, and spotless!
The OSC is now on Bluesky! We are a collaboration of interdisciplinary research groups at the University of St Andrews. We study organic semiconductor materials from their synthesis to device applications. Find out more about us on our website: osc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
April 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The OSC is now on Bluesky! We are a collaboration of interdisciplinary research groups at the University of St Andrews. We study organic semiconductor materials from their synthesis to device applications. Find out more about us on our website: osc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk