Structure-Property Relationships: Enabling a faster Commercialisation of Organic Solar Cells
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Oxford
Department Name: Oxford Physics
Abstract
The first electronic devices using organic semiconductors have just entered the market: many displays of mobile phones consist of organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). However, these OLED-displays are considered only the first wave of organic electronic (OE) products, with organic solar cells and organic lighting expected to follow soon. Organic solar cells are currently a very active field of research, because they have the potential to become a very cheap, large area, and flexible photovoltaic technology. They furthermore can have unique properties like custom-made shapes, semi-transparency and different colours, considerably expanding the potential market to areas where current technologies are struggling. Records for conversion efficiencies have reached values above 10% and lifetimes exceeding 10 years in the laboratory, i.e. passing important milestones that are often considered as minimum requirement to become viable for commercial applications.
However, one major challenge for industry trying to commercialise this technology is: for any kind of device using thin organic semiconducting layers, its electrical and optical properties strongly depend on molecular arrangement in the organic layer, in particular for organic solar cells. To a large extent, the interdependencies between molecular structure, processing, morphology in the thin organic film, and the device properties is a black box. The current approach for improving solar cells is to make more new molecules and to run an extensive process optimisation and device testing, but there are nearly unlimited options of organic chemistry and many degrees of freedom in process parameters. This nearly trial-and-error process is consuming time and money, as well as carrying the risk that the best organic semiconductors are discarded due to wrong processing. Our project will look into this black box in a close collaboration of four industrial partners (Merck Chemicals Ltd, Kurt J. Lesker Company Ltd, Eight19 Ltd, Oxford PV Ltd) and three academic partners (ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, Diamond Lightsource, University of Oxford) and subsequently develop ways to optimise the manufacturing of organic solar cells. This involves optimisation along the complete value chain, from the design and synthesis of organic semiconductors, the development of manufacturing equipment, to the final production of organic solar cells. If successful, this project will lead to a faster market introduction of thin film solar cells that have the potential to transform the way we use solar energy.
However, one major challenge for industry trying to commercialise this technology is: for any kind of device using thin organic semiconducting layers, its electrical and optical properties strongly depend on molecular arrangement in the organic layer, in particular for organic solar cells. To a large extent, the interdependencies between molecular structure, processing, morphology in the thin organic film, and the device properties is a black box. The current approach for improving solar cells is to make more new molecules and to run an extensive process optimisation and device testing, but there are nearly unlimited options of organic chemistry and many degrees of freedom in process parameters. This nearly trial-and-error process is consuming time and money, as well as carrying the risk that the best organic semiconductors are discarded due to wrong processing. Our project will look into this black box in a close collaboration of four industrial partners (Merck Chemicals Ltd, Kurt J. Lesker Company Ltd, Eight19 Ltd, Oxford PV Ltd) and three academic partners (ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, Diamond Lightsource, University of Oxford) and subsequently develop ways to optimise the manufacturing of organic solar cells. This involves optimisation along the complete value chain, from the design and synthesis of organic semiconductors, the development of manufacturing equipment, to the final production of organic solar cells. If successful, this project will lead to a faster market introduction of thin film solar cells that have the potential to transform the way we use solar energy.
Planned Impact
There will be important social, environmental and economic benefits to the UK through this project. Organic solar cells have the potential to significantly contribute to the clean energy supply. Their flexibility - both in terms of mechanics and design - allow the excellent integration in places so far little used for solar energy conversions, e.g. building facades, considerably expanding the area usable for photovoltaics. Additionally, organic solar cells don't rely on scarce elements and can in principle be scaled to terawatt in installed capacity. The reduction of CO2 emissions by 80% by 2050 compared to 1990 is a central goal of the UK government. This will require a significant share from renewable sources. Organic solar cells have the potential to significantly contribute to this goal. This will also reduce the UK's dependence on energy imports and additionally stabilize energy prices. The latter will lead to a reduction of the associated risk to many UK companies and reduce the likelihood for households to end up in energy poverty. Last but not least using such solar cells will reduce CO2 emissions globally and thus help to stabilise the climate and reduce the likelihood of severe weather events.
Helping chemical companies to design better materials for organic solar cells, tool manufacturers to develop suitable coating equipment and processes, and establishing a manufacturing base for cheap solar cells in the UK will create jobs in the green sector for many years to come. Given the targeted market size of several terawatt of installed capacity of solar cells, there are plenty of opportunities for chemical companies like Merck and tool manufacturers like Lesker to grow their business, and enough room even for competing SMEs like Eight19 and Oxford Photovoltaics to get to a healthy market share.
Furthermore, organic solar cells are only one part of the much larger field of organic electronics that faces similar challenges in understanding structure-property relationships. According to market forecasts, the market for organic electronics is expected to grow by more than 30% annually and should reach a volume of more than USD 40billion in 2018 (Transparency Market Research, 2012). The developed guidelines on material design, tools and process optimisation will help all industry catering the field of organic electronics to better exploit this market. Organic electronics has already lead to fixed displays from organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) for mobile phones. This technology is expected to become the dominant display technology for mobile phones this year. Large TVs made from OLEDs have just entered the market, as well as curved OLED displays as predecessor to truly flexible OLED displays. Many more applications of organic electronics are at various stages of research, and some may not yet have been thought, yet can have a profound impact on many people.
Helping chemical companies to design better materials for organic solar cells, tool manufacturers to develop suitable coating equipment and processes, and establishing a manufacturing base for cheap solar cells in the UK will create jobs in the green sector for many years to come. Given the targeted market size of several terawatt of installed capacity of solar cells, there are plenty of opportunities for chemical companies like Merck and tool manufacturers like Lesker to grow their business, and enough room even for competing SMEs like Eight19 and Oxford Photovoltaics to get to a healthy market share.
Furthermore, organic solar cells are only one part of the much larger field of organic electronics that faces similar challenges in understanding structure-property relationships. According to market forecasts, the market for organic electronics is expected to grow by more than 30% annually and should reach a volume of more than USD 40billion in 2018 (Transparency Market Research, 2012). The developed guidelines on material design, tools and process optimisation will help all industry catering the field of organic electronics to better exploit this market. Organic electronics has already lead to fixed displays from organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) for mobile phones. This technology is expected to become the dominant display technology for mobile phones this year. Large TVs made from OLEDs have just entered the market, as well as curved OLED displays as predecessor to truly flexible OLED displays. Many more applications of organic electronics are at various stages of research, and some may not yet have been thought, yet can have a profound impact on many people.
Organisations
- University of Oxford (Lead Research Organisation)
- Heliatek GmbH (Collaboration)
- Oxford Photovoltaics (Collaboration)
- Eight19 (Collaboration)
- University of Fribourg (Collaboration)
- Kurt J Lesker Company (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Collaboration)
- MERCK (Collaboration)
- Oxford Photovoltaics (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Merck (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Kurt J. Lesker (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Eight19 (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
Publications
Martinez Hardigree J
(2016)
Managing BHJ microstructural evolution for long-term photoconversion efficiency (Conference Presentation)
Milot RL
(2016)
Charge-Carrier Dynamics in 2D Hybrid Metal-Halide Perovskites.
in Nano letters
Hardigree J
(2017)
In-situ observation of stacking fault evolution in vacuum-deposited C60
in Applied Physics Letters
Nicklin C
(2017)
MINERVA: A facility to study Microstructure and INterface Evolution in Realtime under VAcuum.
in The Review of scientific instruments
Causa' M
(2018)
Femtosecond Dynamics of Photoexcited C60 Films.
in The journal of physical chemistry letters
Ramirez I
(2018)
Key Tradeoffs Limiting the Performance of Organic Photovoltaics
in Advanced Energy Materials
Warren P
(2019)
Tuning the ambipolar behaviour of organic field effect transistors via band engineering
in AIP Advances
Warren R
(2019)
Controlling energy levels and Fermi level en route to fully tailored energetics in organic semiconductors.
in Nature communications
Moore GJ
(2020)
Ultrafast Charge Dynamics in Dilute-Donor versus Highly Intermixed TAPC:C60 Organic Solar Cell Blends.
in The journal of physical chemistry letters
Ye H
(2020)
Efficiency enhancement of small molecule organic solar cells using hexapropyltruxene as an interface layer
in Journal of Materials Chemistry C
Riede M
(2020)
Organic Solar Cells-The Path to Commercial Success
in Advanced Energy Materials
Description | In addition to research results helping industry to faster commercialise emerging solar cell technologies, we developed a new piece of equipment for beamline I07 at Diamond: MINERVA: A facility to study Microstructure and INterface Evolution in Realtime under VAcuum. In this vacuum chamber, organic semiconductors can be deposited into thin films and during the deposition process we can observe how these molecule arrange at the nanometre scale. This is of paramount importance for the performance of devices based on organic semiconductors, as their properties depend significantly on the local molecular arrangements. MINERVA has now become a user facility with the first accepted proposal from another group in 2020 and during the COVID-shutdown MINERVA was upgraded as well as better integrated into the systems at I07. The upgraded MINERVA was successfully used in beamtime in 2021 after the COVID-shutdown was lifted. |
Exploitation Route | MINERVA has become a user facility, enabling research for other users at Diamond. We are furthermore in the process of making the equipment open source, so other groups can better prepare for their beamtime using MINERVA and/or build similar equipment. |
Sectors | Chemicals Electronics Energy Environment Healthcare Manufacturing including Industrial Biotechology |
Description | Improved collaboration with industry and acceleration of commercialization of organic solar cells. |
Sector | Electronics,Energy,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology |
Impact Types | Societal Economic |
Description | G7 Statement with GYA input |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
Impact | Some of our recommendations on early stage researchers and women in research to the G7 Science Ministers' meeting made it into the Final Tsukuba Communiqué |
URL | http://www8.cao.go.jp/cstp/english/others/communique_en.html |
Description | More Open Access Pledge |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
URL | https://moreopenaccess.net/ |
Description | Position Statement on Open Data by the Young Academies of Europe and the Global Young Academy |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
URL | https://globalyoungacademy.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Position-Statement-on-Open-Data-by-the-You... |
Description | Position statement on Open Access by the Young Academies of Europe and the Global Young Academy |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
URL | https://globalyoungacademy.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Position-statement-on-Open-Access-by-the-Y... |
Description | The role of Young Academies in achieving the UN SDGs, 10/17 |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
Impact | taken up and promoted by several senior science academies |
URL | https://globalyoungacademy.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Statement-RoleYoungAcademies-SDGs-Oct2017.... |
Description | EPSRC Capital Award in Support of Early Career Researchers |
Amount | £21,684 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/S017658/1 |
Organisation | University of Oxford |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2019 |
End | 03/2020 |
Description | Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Innovative Training Network |
Amount | € 3,826,024 (EUR) |
Funding ID | 722651 |
Organisation | European Commission |
Department | Horizon 2020 |
Sector | Public |
Country | European Union (EU) |
Start | 11/2016 |
End | 10/2020 |
Description | STFC GCRF Foundation Awards 2017 |
Amount | £3,600,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 12/2017 |
End | 03/2021 |
Title | MINERVA chamber |
Description | A new vacuum chamber has been built that directly enables in-situ monitoring of the structural changes during growth of molecular materials studied by grazing incidence x-ray scattering techniques. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | Papers are in preparation to identify the dynamics of growth and the effect is in-situ crystallisation. |
Title | Our Group's Github Page |
Description | Following Open Science/Innovation approaches, we put all our code, procedures and design up on github |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Code, procedures and designs available online, this webpage is continuously updated and as such the outcome date is always moved to the most recent year. |
URL | https://github.com/AFMD |
Description | CLASP Industrial Partners |
Organisation | Eight19 |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Kick-off and various other meetings, specifications and preparation of samples, planning of experiments, exchange of expertise, ongoing discussions |
Collaborator Contribution | Industrial expertise and definition of industrial needs, specifications and supply of samples, ongoing discussions |
Impact | multidisciplinary collaboration, exchange of samples specifications |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | CLASP Industrial Partners |
Organisation | Kurt J Lesker Company |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Kick-off and various other meetings, specifications and preparation of samples, planning of experiments, exchange of expertise, ongoing discussions |
Collaborator Contribution | Industrial expertise and definition of industrial needs, specifications and supply of samples, ongoing discussions |
Impact | multidisciplinary collaboration, exchange of samples specifications |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | CLASP Industrial Partners |
Organisation | Merck |
Department | Merck UK |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Kick-off and various other meetings, specifications and preparation of samples, planning of experiments, exchange of expertise, ongoing discussions |
Collaborator Contribution | Industrial expertise and definition of industrial needs, specifications and supply of samples, ongoing discussions |
Impact | multidisciplinary collaboration, exchange of samples specifications |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | CLASP Industrial Partners |
Organisation | Oxford Photovoltaics |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Kick-off and various other meetings, specifications and preparation of samples, planning of experiments, exchange of expertise, ongoing discussions |
Collaborator Contribution | Industrial expertise and definition of industrial needs, specifications and supply of samples, ongoing discussions |
Impact | multidisciplinary collaboration, exchange of samples specifications |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | Heliatek GmbH |
Organisation | Heliatek GmbH |
Country | Germany |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Discussions about the photophysics of organic solar cells |
Collaborator Contribution | Discussions about the industrial relevance & direction of research |
Impact | in preparation |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | U Fribourg, Switzerland |
Organisation | University of Fribourg |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Samples, time for discussions and visits |
Collaborator Contribution | Discussions, time on ultrafast setup |
Impact | multi-disciplinary: physics & chemistry |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | UBC, Canada |
Organisation | University of British Columbia |
Department | Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre |
Country | Canada |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | 3 month visiting professor at UBC |
Collaborator Contribution | time and resources for low-temperature STM and STS |
Impact | ongoing collaboration on the investigation of dilute heterojunction organic solar cells |
Start Year | 2016 |
Title | Group Code on Github |
Description | Code, procedures and designs available online, this webpage is continuously updated and as such the outcome date is always moved to the most recent year. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | research and open science community |
URL | https://github.com/orgs/AFMD/dashboard |
Description | Article Chemistry World 06/16 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Mentioning of research |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://www.chemistryworld.com/feature/the-next-generation/1010134.article |
Description | Co-organisation of Session at World Chemistry Congress, Paris, 07/19 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Co-organiser of session " Toward multi-terawatt clean photovoltaic energy conversion - grand chemical challenges" at the IUPAC World Chemistry Congress |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.iupac2019.org/ |
Description | Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics 03/17 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Labtour to the participants of the Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://twitter.com/AFMDGroup/status/845663190503604232 |
Description | HZB Workshop Josue 10/16 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Josue's poster "MINERVA: A facility to study MIcrostructure and INterface Evolution in Realtime under vAcuum" at HZB Workshop in Berlin |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | ICACC 2017 Josue 01/17 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Josue's invited presentation "Assessing microstructure and interfacial diffusion of MoO 3 in organic solar cells using x-ray and neutron scattering" at ICACC 2017 Daytona Beach 01/2017 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Invited Presentation CPE Symposium, London, 06/17 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Invited presentation at the Centre for Plastic Electronics Symposium 2017, London |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Invited Seminar ICCAS, CN, 08/2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | invited seminar |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Invited Seminar Moritz Riede, AMOLF, NL, 03/2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Invited Seminar at AMOLF in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and meeting with academics there |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Invited Seminar Moritz Riede, Abo Akademy University, FI, 06/2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Invited seminar |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Invited Seminar Moritz Riede, OSCAR Opening, CN, 11/2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Invited Seminar as part of the OSCAR opening |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Invited Seminar Moritz Riede, Tianjin University, CN, 03/2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Invited Seminar |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Invited Talk Institute of Physics, Beijing, 03/19 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Invited talk at IOP |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Invited presentation at the 61 st London International Youth Science Forum (LIYSF), London, 07/19 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Invited talk at the LIYSF |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.liysf.org.uk/ |
Description | Invited presentation, F-Pi14, Berlin, 06/19 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | invited presentation F-Pi14 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Invited presentation, SPIE optics + photonics, San Diego, 08/19 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Invited presentation SPIE |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://spie.org/conferences-and-exhibitions/past-conferences-and-exhibitions/optics-and-photonics-2... |
Description | Invited seminar ICCAS, Beijing, 04/19 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Invited seminar ICCAS |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Invited seminar Nano Center, Suzhou, 04/19 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited seminar at Nano Centre in Suzhou |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Invited seminar Peking University, Beijing, 04/2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | invited presentation at Peking University |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Invited seminar at XJTLU, Suzhou, 03/19 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | invited talk at XJTLU |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Invited seminar, University of Bern, 06/19 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Invited seminar, Uni Bern |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | JSPS Presentation Josue 11/16 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Josue's presentation "In-situ X-ray and Optical Characterisation of Vacuum-Deposited Organic Semiconductors" at the JSPS event at the Japanese Embassy London |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Oxford Physics Industry Day Sameer 09/16 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Presenting Poster at the Oxford Physics Industry Day |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://twitter.com/AFMDGroup/status/779428417334808576 |
Description | Presentation Moritz Riede, F-Pi 13, Hongkong, 06/17 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Contributed presentation at the 13th International Symposium on Pi-conjugated systems |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Regional School Physicist of the Year Event Sameer 10/16 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Engagement with students during the Regional School Physicist of the Year Event hosted by the Physics Department in Oxford, judging of the posters presented by the students. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://twitter.com/AFMDGroup/status/792047256631246848 |
Description | UBC ECE Presentation 11/16 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | invited seminar "Organic Solar Cells: a disruptive Technology?" in the department "Electrical and Computer Engineering" at UBC |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Uni Glasgow 03/16 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | invited seminar "Vacuum-processed Organic Solar Cells" at Uni Glasgow |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Visit MP Blackwood Ivan 12/16 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presenting a Poster during Symposium on 2nd December for Ms Nicola Blackwood MP |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://twitter.com/nicolablackwood/status/804781026765578241 |
Description | Wolfson Careers Day, 03/2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | podium discussion (three invited speakers: academia, policy, industry) for career advice |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Workshop Participation, GOSH, CN, 010/2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Gathering of Global Open Science Hardware (GOSH) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |