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Organic Semiconductor Centre Wins Printed Electronics Award

4th December 2008

The Organic Semiconductor Centre has been awarded the Printed Electronics Academic R&D award for its innovative work, which includes advances in lasers, semiconductors and the treatment of cancer. Prof. Ifor Samuel collected the award at the ceremony held in San Jose, California. Read the press release


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Prof. Samuel Wins Ben Sturgeon Award

15th September 2008

The Society for Information Display has awarded Prof. Ifor Samuel with their Ben Sturgeon Award in recognition of research achievements in the displays area. Prof Samuel and his team have been developing the use of electrically conducting polymers (plastics) that emit light, and which can be used in flexible displays. Read the press release


LED pumped laser

LED-pumped polymer laser developed

6th May 2008

Ying Yang, a research student working with Dr Graham Turnbull and Professor Ifor Samuel has recently demonstrated an LED-pumped polymer laser. This development opens the way for a new generation of low cost tunable visible lasers. The work has been highlighted in a News and Views piece in Nature [1] and by optics.org and will be presented by Miss Yang in a talk at the prestigious International Conference on the Science and Technology of Synthetic Metals in Brazil in July. The published paper, was one of the top twenty downloaded articles on Applied Physics Letters.

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View the Research Highlight
Read the paper
Find out more about our work on organic lasers


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Prof. Samuel to lecture at the International Krutyn Summer School 2008

5th March 2008

Professor Samuel will be lecturing at the IV International Krutyn Summer School 2008 on "Frontiers in Molecular Optoelectronics - Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs)" IV International Krutyn Summer School 2008, Krutyn, Masurian Lake District, Poland, May 27th - June 2nd 2008. Further details are available here.


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