Glossary
The topics we are interested in: what do we mean? Many of these experiments are performed in the
Cavendish Laboratory or within our collaborations.
References to recent scientific papers written in the group can be found
here.
Try Wikipedia for an explanation of individual words and phrases.
Wikipedia also has a helpful overview of organic light emitting diodes (OLEDS),
with links to related areas of the field.
You might even consider following this link to Britney Spears Guide to Semiconductor Physics (no, honest).
Concepts
- Semiconductor
- Conductivity / charge transport
- Charge injection
- Diode
- Transistor
- Quantum dot
- Charge recombination
- Optoelectronics
- Photon
- Exciton
- "Light harvesting"
- Transfer
- "Femtosecond" laser pulses
- Materials
- Polymer
- Monomer
- Oligomer ("model")
- Synthesis
- Conjugated material
- Polyyne
- "Blend"
- Liquid crystal
- Nanocrystal (nanoxtal)
- Resolution
- Modelling
Techniques
- Spectroscopy
- Ultraviolet / visible (UV/VIS) Absorption Spectroscopy
- Photoluminescence
- Photoinduced Absorption (PIA)
- Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy
- Raman Spectroscopy
- Ultrafast (femtosecond) emission Spectroscopy
- Microscopy
- Scanning electron microscope (SEM)
- Transmission electron microscope (TEM)
- Scanning Probe Microscopy (AFM, STM)
Devices
- Field effect transistor
- Light emitting diode
- Solar cell
- Photovoltaic cell
- Inkjet printing
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