The National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) Delhi Chapter and
MHRD-Institution Innovation Council (IIC) Chapter, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College (University of Delhi) Under the aegis of DBT Star College Program
Jointly Organizes Special Public Lecture
September 30, 2020 @ 06:00 pm IST

Organic Electronics
Professor Sir Richard Friend FRS
Cavendish Professor of Physics & Director Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability
Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge

Richard Friend holds the Cavendish Professorship of Physics at the University of Cambridge. He is Director of the Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability and of the Maxwell Centre. Richard has always taken a keen interest in the commercialization of his research, and has been involved with numerous businesses designing and manufacturing polymer semiconductors, with applications such as light-emitting diodes, solar cells and thin film transistor circuits. He is the recipient of several awards for science and engineering, and in 2003 received a knighthood for his services to physics. His research encompasses the physics, materials science and engineering of semiconductor devices made with carbon-based semiconductors, particularly polymers. His research group was first to demonstrate using polymers efficient operation of field-effect transistors and light-emitting diodes. These advances revealed that the semiconductor properties of this broad class of materials are unexpectedly clean, so that semiconductor devices can both reveal their novel semiconductor physics, including their operation in efficient photovoltaic diodes, optically-pumped lasing, directly-printed polymer transistor circuits and light-emitting transistors.