Royal Society University Research Fellow
Fellow of Emmanuel College
Cavendish Laboratory
JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0HE
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Biography:
Dan Credgington received his PhD from UCL in 2010, where he worked on nano-scale patterning and characterisation of conjugated organic molecules. He subsequently joined Imperial College London as a post-doc working on methods to measure the impact of recombination on the performance of organic solar cells, and the link between morphology and device function. In 2012, he joined the Cavendish Optoelectronics group, in collaboration with the commercial OLED developer CDT. In 2014 he took up a Royal Society University Research Fellowship focussing on understanding the behaviour of excitons within modern organic LEDs, and how they can be controlled. Within the wider Optoelectronics group his interests encompass organic and hybrid heterojunction solar cells and new electrode materials for organic devices. He is the Energy Materials theme coordinator for the Cambridge NanoDTC, a Cambridge Nanoforum fellow and an Official Fellow and College Lecturer at Emmanuel College.
Research groups
Research Interests
Our group works on flexible light emitting diodes and lasers made from solution-processable semiconductors. These have huge potential to succeed current lighting and display technologies and can be assembled as easily as printing ink on a newspaper. Our research is highly applied, and covers the physics of organic and hybrid light emitting materials, control of exciton spin in working devices and in-situ measurements of charge and exciton recombination in thin films. We are also collaborating with groups in Materials Science on the development of new scalable electrode materials for flexible electronics.
Dan is currently taking on students with an interest in solution-processed LEDs, lasers and remote phosphors. Those with previous experience of magnetic and/or spectroscopic characterisation of optoelectronic devices, or in developing techniques for in-situ device analysis are particularly encouraged.
Key Publications
Tan, Z.-K., et al., Bright light-emitting diodes based on organometal halide perovskite. Nature nanotechnology, 2014.
Tan, Z.K., et al., In‐Situ Switching from Barrier‐Limited to Ohmic Anodes for Efficient Organic Optoelectronics. Advanced Functional Materials, 2014. 24(20): p. 3051-3058.
Credgington, D., et al., In Situ Measurement of Energy Level Shifts and Recombination Rates in Subphthalocyanine/C60 Bilayer Solar Cells. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2014. 118(40): p. 22858-22864.
Credgington, D., et al., Quantification of Geminate and Non‐Geminate Recombination Losses within a Solution‐Processed Small‐Molecule Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cell. Advanced Materials, 2012. 24(16): p. 2135-2141.
Credgington, D. and J.R. Durrant, Insights from transient optoelectronic analyses on the open-circuit voltage of organic solar cells. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2012. 3(11): p. 1465-1478.
Credgington, D., et al., Non‐Geminate Recombination as the Primary Determinant of Open‐Circuit Voltage in Polythiophene: Fullerene Blend Solar Cells: an Analysis of the Influence of Device Processing Conditions. Advanced Functional Materials, 2011. 21(14): p. 2744-2753.
Fenwick, O., et al., Thermochemical nanopatterning of organic semiconductors. Nature nanotechnology, 2009. 4(10): p. 664-668.