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This week, we visited the historic town of Stamford for our group retreat. During the retreat, we hiked through the grounds of Burghley House and along the banks of the River Welland. We also enjoyed a wonderful evening meal together and played lots of exciting games!

Several members of the Sirringhaus Lab recently attended the Gordon Research Conference on Electronic Processes in Organic Materials in Lucca, Italy. Professor Henning Sirringhaus delivered a talk titled Charge Transport Physics of Organic Mixed Ionic-Electronic Conductors, PhD student Leon Brindley presented a poster titled Modelling the Coulomb G…

We're pleased to announce that Zhengkang Qu passed his PhD viva yesterday. His thesis is titled Spectroscopic and Microscopic Characterization of Charge Transport of Conjugated Polymers.

Over the past two days, seven members of the Sirringhaus Lab have attended Innovations in Large-Area Electronics (innoLAE), an excellent conference held at Magdalene College, Cambridge. In particular, Professor Henning Sirringhaus chaired a session titled High Performance Materials​​​​​, and Leon Brindley presented a poster titled Field-InducedModu…

We are delighted to welcome several new members to the Sirringhaus Lab! Vigneswaran Ravi and Zhiyuan Li have joined us to begin their PhD studies, while Qichen Guan and Yida Wu are continuing their research as PhD students after completing their MPhil degrees in the Sirringhaus Lab earlier this year. We are also excited to welcome three new MPhil s…

Over the past five days, the Ray Dolby Centre hosted the 17th European Conference on Molecular Electronics (ECME), welcoming researchers from across the globe. The programme included 98 presentations covering devices such as biosensors and organic light-emitting diodes, processes including thermally activated delayed fluorescence and charge modulat…

The Ray Dolby Centre will host the 17th European Conference on Molecular Electronics (ECME) from the 22nd until the 26th of September. Professor Henning Sirringhaus is one of three Lead Organisers for ECME 2025, alongside Professors Róisín Owens and George Malliaras.The conference will include presentations on the synthesis, properties, devices and…

We're delighted to announce that we have now relocated from the Microelectronics Research Centre to the Ray Dolby Centre, the centrepiece of the new Cavendish Laboratory. We're looking forward to pursuing our research in this state-of-the-art building and collaborating more effectively with other researchers as a result. We'd like to thank everybod…

We have recently published the paper Elucidating Contact-Limited Temperature Dependence of Charge Transport in 2D Tin Halide Perovskite Field-Effect Transistors in Journal of Physics: Materials. Two-dimensional tin halide perovskites have recently generated significant interest due to their ease of processing and high carrier mobility. However, res…

Seven members of the Sirringhaus Lab attended the conference innoLAE (Innovations in Large-Area Electronics) over the previous two days. The event, hosted at Magdalene College, Cambridge, included dozens of talks from both academics and industry experts across a wide range of topics, from applications like biosensors and thermoelectric generators, …

Our paper Observation of Anomalously Large Nernst Effects in Conducting Polymers has now been published in Nature Communications! While the Nernst effect is well-documented in inorganic semiconductors and metals, this phenomenon is typically negligible in polymers with lower structural order and an inherently low mobility. However, our study challe…

We're delighted that Mindaugas Gicevičius passed his PhD viva earlier today. He has now successfully defended his thesis titled Charge Transport and Spectroscopic Analysis of High-Mobility Molecular Semiconductors​​​​​​. To find out about some of Mindaugas' work, check out his paper titled Probing Out‐Of‐Plane Charge Transport in Organic Semiconduc…

This month we held our annual group retreat in Norfolk! This trip included plenty of discussions about semiconductor physics in addition to social activities like playing board games and walking on the beach. If you're interested in joining the Sirringhaus Lab as well (either as a student or postdoctoral researcher), please view our current opening…

We are pleased to be joined by two new PhD students, Leon Brindley and Mohamad Sedghi, and one new MPhil student, Qichen Guan. We are also delighted that Rozana Mazlumian has started her PhD, having recently completed her MPhil in the Sirringhaus Lab. We wish all four of them the best in their future research!

Our paper Non-Equilibrium Transport in Polymer Mixed Ionic-Electronic Conductors at Ultrahigh Charge Densities has now been published in Nature Materials! Our work identifies new strategies for substantially enhancing the transport properties of conducting polymers (such as IDT-BT) by exploiting non-equilibrium states in the coupled system of elect…