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Some of the group are sat together under the stone walls and roof of the old students union. From front to back. Left: Liam, Egle, Ifor, Mina and Ross. Right: Thomas, David, Ramakant and Sagarika.

Group coffee at the old students union

Today we had a rare change of venue for our weekly coffee meeting. We gathered at the old students union cafe for warm drinks and interesting discussions.

The group sat around a table at Brewdog. In the middle to the right is Alfonso holding up his leaving card.

Goodbye Alfonso!

Recently the group had drinks at Brewdog to wish Alfonso well. He is joining the Centre of Biophotonics here in St Andrews, led by Dr Paulo Annibale. https://biology.st-andrews.ac.uk/biophotonics/

A pumpkin carved with parallel lines and a + and - symbol. Inside is one of the groups orange OLED lights.

Spooky OLED applications

For Halloween the School of Physics and Astronomy held a pumpkin carving event, and we found a spooky application for some of our OLEDs.    

Liam sat at his desk. Behind him is his computer and notebook.

New PhD student Liam King

We are pleased that Liam King is now beginning his PhD with us. He is studying ultrafast organic light emitting devices, supervised by Prof Ifor Samuel.

Sagarika (left) and Ross (right) they are stood in a lab in front of a workbench.

New group member Dr Sagarika Mishra

We are happy to welcome Dr Sagarika Mishra to the St Andrews Organic Semiconductor Centre. She is working with Dr Ross Gillanders at Lightwater sensors developing novel optical sensors for water contaminants including…

Saban (left) and Jean-Charles (right)

New PhD student Saban Tosun

Meet Saban Tosun, Jean-Charles Ribierre’s new PhD student. His research will be focused on engineering sub-wavelength photonic nanostructures to improve TADF OLEDs.      

OSC Master’s Student wins School Award June 2021

Congratulations to Kate Trinkaus for winning the prize for the best MPhys experimental project this year! Working under Jon Harwell and Ifor Samuel, Kate did excellent work on simulating the electric field and charge…

OSC Students complete PhDs January 2021

Congratulations to Mengjie, Natalie, and Wenbo on completing their PhD’s! All three group members have passed their vivas after submitting their PhD theses entitled: ‘Room Temperature Polariton Lasing in Organic…

Science Discovery Day, St Andrews 9th March 2019

Science Discovery Day on the 9th of March in the School of Physics and Astronomy was a great chance to show off our work to the public and inspire local childrens’ love of Physics. We made solar cells, raced…