Soft Matter Photonics @ St Andrews
In our latest work, just published in Nano Letters we have turned living cells into self-sustained tiny lasers. By ingesting a whispering gallery mode resonator – basically a micrometre-sized coloured plastic bead – our cells gain the capability to produce green laser light. The spectral composition of the laser light generated by each bead is different … Read more
Malte Gather is co-chairing a symposium at the MRS Spring Meeting 2016. Symposium EP1 will cover the latest developments in “Organic Excitonic Systems and Devices”. This covers a broad range of important researach topics, ranging from Exciton dynamics and management to bioinspired and bioderived organic light sources.
Group member and PhD student Philipp Liehm has won the poster prize at this year’s Photonix Meeting in Glasgow. Congratulations!
The GatherLab has received funding from a Starting Grant by the European Research Council. The project “ABLASE – Advanced Bioderived and Biocompatible Lasers” starts this month and will enable the lab to push further the limits of laser emission from and within biological materials. Further information is available on the school and university websites.
Nils Kronenberg presented the latest on cell force measurements performed in the group in an invited talk at the CLEO conference 2015 in San Jose.
Together with colleague Sebastian Reineke from TU Dresden in Germany, Malte has written a review on techniques to enhance the efficiency of light extraction in white organic light-emitting diode. It is avaiable with open access here.
As of May 2015, Caroline Murawski has joined the Gather Lab to work on several aspects of small molecule organic semiconductors. Caroline is jointly supervised by Prof Ifor Samuel and by Malte. Welcome!
Malte Gather commented on materials360 on some recent work by the Chihaya Adachi lab (see full comment). Chihaya’s research is on minimizing efficiency roll-off in OLEDs by reducing their active area. This aligns with a long standing interest of the Gather Lab in roll-off phenomena (together with group member Caroline Murawski and Prof Karl Leo, … Read more
Giving an invited talk at the MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco, Malte presented results from the recent Nature Communications on emission and lasing in solid-state green fluorescent protein. (MRS Spring, Nature Communications).
During the last of four workshops run by Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, the students attending have created a Wiki on the main ideas of Organic Electronics. The website is available at http://de.organische-elektronik-ag-3.wikia.com and introduces the main concept of organic devices, including organic LEDs, organic photovoltaics and organic field effect transistors. The workshops were organized by … Read more