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Radical materials improve device efficiency

3 October 2025

New materials developed in collaboration between Physics and Chemistry Departments have a particularly high luminescence efficiency. This is exciting - in more ways than one - for the development of organic photovoltaics for light harvesting. Read more on the Cavendish Laboratory website and in Nature Materials - see link.

ECME25 a success!

1 October 2025

The Ray Dolby Centre hosted the 2025 gathering for the European Conference on Molecular Electronics. Members - and former members - of Physics' Optoelectronics Group featured heavily, especially on the final day when Prof Sir Richard Friend's contribution to the field were celebrated. Recent research was reported from...

Colourful quantum states offer sensing possibilities

14 August 2025

A new material has been dicovered that is sensitive to temperature, magnetic field and electron spin that could be useful in quantum sensing, in a collaboration between the Cavendish Laboratory, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry - both in Cambridge - and Université Paris-Saclay. See the explanation and further links...

OE ME welcome party

14 November 2024

Prof Neil Greenham welcomed new arrivals to Optoelectronics and Microelectronics this week - and at the party, Prof Sir Mark Welland took the opportunity to congratulate Prof Sir Richard Friend on his recent prestigious IoP Isaac Newton award (Sir Richard pictured).

Move to RDC

10 October 2024

We are planning for our move to the newly built Ray Dolby Centre (RDC) - 'Cavendish III' - early next year! Labs and offices are still being fitted out and a huge coordinated effort across the Department will be needed. Pictured are Prof Akshay Rao and Tom Sharp, surveying the view from the new Common Room balcony.

Happy Christmas 2023!

8 December 2023

Optoelectronics and Microelectronics group members went to Newnham College for their Christmas meal last night. The social gathering included a quiz and the usual festive food. By this time next year, the groups' labs and offices in Kapitza and Microelectronics will have moved to a new building!

Abe Yoffe Symposium

10 June 2023

More than a hundred people came to the Maxwell Centre at the beginning of June for a two-day Symposium on Functional Electronic Materials, one of the interests of the late Abe Yoffe. Many of the contributors had been students or staff within Optoelectronics or the "Physics and Chemistry of Solids" Group, covering a period...

Akshay Rao wins ERC grant

3 February 2023

Congratulations to Akshay Rao on winning a European Research Council 'Consolidator' Grant, to explore the physics and chemistry of a new class of hybrid materials - organic molecules connected to lanthanide doped nanoparticles.

Happy Birthday!

20 January 2023

Congratulations to Prof Sir Richard Friend, who celebrated his birthday earlier this week!

Soft materials research

23 May 2022

Several researchers in the Optoelectronics group will be participating in a new EPSRC research initiative between Cambridge and Oxford, into 'soft' energy materials.

Radical materials improve device efficiency

ECME25 a success!

Colourful quantum states offer sensing possibilities

OE ME welcome party

Move to RDC

Happy Christmas 2023!

Abe Yoffe Symposium

Akshay Rao wins ERC grant

Happy Birthday!

Soft materials research

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