Further particulars are available here . Distributed Feedback Organic Semiconductor Lasers Organic lasers offer the prospect of low cost tuneable lasers operating in the visible region of the spectrum. It involves a collaboration with Prof Shore's group in Bangor with a postdoctoral researcher to be appointed in each place. The research to be carried out in St Andrews is experimental and involves the fabrication and testing of organic lasers. Modelling of the structures will be carried out by the researcher in Bangor.
Further particulars are available here .
Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Light-emitting Polymers and Lasers Light emitting polymers are promising candidates for lasers and optical amplifiers. This project will use a new state of the art tuneable femtosecond laser system to study light amplification and lasing in these materials. It will involve measurements on the remarkably short timescale of 100 fs - a time so short that light travels only 30 mm in it. Light emitting dendrimers are a new class of material for organic light-emitting diodes. Their unique molecular architecture gives scope to tune their electronic and processing properties.