Professor David Lidzey

Professor of Physics

Contact details

• Room : D18
• Phone : +44 (0)114 22 23501
• Fax : +44 (0)114 22 23555

email : d.g.lidzey@sheffield.ac.uk

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Research interests

• Development and evaluation of organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices
• Organic photonic devices and structures
• Spectroscopy of functional organic materials

Teaching

• PHY331
• PHY435
• First year maths tutor

Departmental administration

• Executive committee
• Research committee
• UCAS admission coordinator

Professional activities

• Lloyds of London Tercentenary Fellowship (1997-99)
• EPSRC Advanced Fellow (1999-2004)
• ERA Foundation Fellow

Recent key publications

• Ultrafast polariton relaxation dynamics in an organic semiconductor microcavity. T. Virgili, D. Coles, A. M. Adawi, C. Clark, P. Michetti, S. K. Rajendran, D. Brida, D. Polli, G. Cerullo, and D. G. Lidzey. Phys. Rev. B 83, 245309 (2011)
• Vibrationally Assisted Polariton-Relaxation Processes in Strongly Coupled Organic-Semiconductor Microcavities. D. M. Coles, P. Michetti, C. Clark, W. C. Tsoi, A. M. Adawi, J.-S. Kim, and D. G. Lidzey. Advance Functional Materials (2011), 10.1002/adfm.201100756
• Carbazole and thienyl benzo[1,2,5]thiadiazole based polymers with improved open circuit voltages and processability for application in solar cells. Hunan Yi, Solyman Al-Faifi, Ahmed Iraqi, Darren C. Watters, James Kingsley and David G. Lidzey. Journal of Materials Chemistry 21 13649-13656 (2011)
• The Nanoscale Morphology of a PCDTBT:PCBM Photovoltaic Blend. P. A. Staniec, A. J. Parnell, A. D. F. Dunbar, H. Yi, A. J. Pearson, T. Wang, P. E. Hopkinson, C. Kinane, R. M. Dalgliesh, A. M. Donald, A. J. Ryan, A. Iraqi, R. A. L. Jones, D. G. Lidzey. Adv. Energy Mater. 1 (2011) 499-504
• The development of nanoscale morphology in polymer:fullerene photovoltaic blends during solvent casting. Tao Wang, Alan D. F. Dunbar, Paul A. Staniec, Andrew J. Pearson, Paul E. Hopkinson, J. Emyr MacDonald,d Samuele Lilliu, Claire Pizzey, Nicholas J. Terrill, Athene M. Donald, Anthony J. Ryan, Richard A. L. Jones, David G. Lidzey. Soft Matter, 6 4128-4134 (2010)
• Observation of the beta-phase in two short-chain oligolfluorenes. W. C. Tsoi, A. Charas, A. J. Cadby, G. Khalil, A. M. Adawi, A. Iraqi, B. Hunt, J. Morgado, D. G. Lidzey. Adv. Funct. Mater. 18 600–606 (2008)