ORGANIC ELECTROACTIVE MATERIALS


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The Organic Electroactive Materials Group is part of the Durham Photonic Materials Institute

Professor Andy Monkman is the first Director of Durham University's new Institute for the study of Organic Materials for Photonic device, the Durham Photonics Institute. This combines activities in the departments of Physics, Chemistry, Engineering and Biology. MORE

Forthcoming Conference Appearances

Andy, Hameed, Carsten and Simon are off to Strasbourg in early April for a SPIE conference: "Photonics Europe"

PhD and Masters Places

If you want to join us please check out our positions page or contact Prof A Monkman directly.

Magnetic Polymers (Plastic Magnets)

In August 2004, Naveed Zaidi et al reported the sythesis of a new type of polymer that acts as a plastic magnet at room temperature. MORE

OEM Summer Barbeque

Making the most of our glorious leader's palace and the summer sunshine. MORE

 

 

Recent Publications

Rothe C, King SM, Monkman AP
Regarding the origin of the delayed fluorescence of conjugated polymers
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS 123 (24): Art. No. 244904 DEC 2005 NEW!

Knaapila M, Lyons BP, Hase TPA, et al.
Influence of molecular weight on the surface morphology of aligned, branched side-chain polyfluorene
ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS 15 (9): 1517-1522 SEP 2005 NEW!

Rothe C, King SM, Monkman AP
Electric-field-induced singlet and triplet exciton quenching in films of the conjugated polymer polyspirobifluorene
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 72 (8): Art. No. 085220 AUG 2005

Lyons BP, Monkman AP
The role of exciton diffusion in energy transfer between polyfluorene and tetraphenyl porphyrin
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 71 (23): Art. No. 235201 JUN 2005

Previous Publications

 

New equipment for OEM and the Photonics Institute

Dual femtosecond/picosecond Ti:Sapphire laser and 2 ps Hamamatsu streak camera and TCSPC. Inverted microscope.

100 fsec, 100 kHz Rega amplified Ti:Sapphire laser with OPA and sync pumped OPO pump-probe and up-conversion, EO modulator RF lock-in pump probe.

30 fsec, 1 mJ, 1kHz Legend amplified Ti:Sapphire laser OPA and terahertz generator and pump probe.

Raman microscope, JY Fluorolog, second ICCD system