Photonics West 2026
Ifor attended Photonics West in San Francisco last week, the world’s largest photonics conference. He gave a talk on the groups advancements on Visible Light Communication, some of which are linked to the HISOPE project.
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Ifor receives the Thomas Young Prize
Congratulations to Ifor Samuel for receiving the IOP Thomas Young Prize for world-leading research into OLEDs, organic lasers and their applications in technology and medicine. We are all very happy for him and this…
Figure of merit for efficiency roll-off in TADF OLEDs – Nature paper
Congratulations to Stefan, Leon, Eli and Ifor on their new paper “A figure of merit for efficiency roll-off in TADF-based organic LEDs” now published in Nature! DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07149-x
Organic Lasers Nature paper!
Congratulations to Kou Yoshida, Junyi Gong, Graham Turnbull and Ifor Samuel for their new Nature paper “Electrically driven organic laser using integrated OLED pumping” http://disq.us/t/4j9jb4d. Thanks also to our…
Celebrating EU Researchers’ Night, Scottish Parliament 7th March 2019
Members of the OSC visited the Scottish Parliament to showcase their work in organic solar cells, organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and explosives sensing on the 7th of March. The exhibition was divided into…
Frontiers in Organic Optoelectronics Symposium 20th November 2018
The Organic Semiconductor Centre hosted a symposium on Frontiers in Organic Optoelectronics as part of our EPSRC-JSPS core to core grant which links our centre to leading centres at Kyoto and Kyushu Universities, as…
OSC brings Superman’s laser vision a step closer to reality! May 2018
Superman’s ability to shoot laser beams from his eyes has come a step closer to reality, with discoveries made by a research team at the University of St Andrews. Lasers on the eye – ocular lasers – may now be possible…
Scotland-Japan Symposium, Organic Electronics: Lighting Up the Future 3rd May 2018
Members of the OSC are organising the first Scotland-Japan bilateral symposium on organic optoelectronics to be held at the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), with the support of the Japan Society for the Promotion of…
OSC Bee4exp field trials in Croatia April 2018
Dr Ross Gillanders and James Glackin returned to Croatia to continue work with collaborators from the University of Zadar, HCR-CTRO and the University of Banja Luka for field trials developing the use of honeybees in…
OSC Research Fellow wins best poster at PVSAT-14 April 2018
OSC member Dr Lethy K. Jagadamma’s poster “Ultrathin NiO as efficient hole extraction layers for hybrid perovskite solar cells” won a poster prize at PVSAT-14. This conference was held at Imperial College London, with…