ProfessorThomas Anthopoulos

Thomas Anthopoulos is a Professor of Experimental Physics in the Department of Physics and The Centre for Plastic Electronics, Imperial College London. He received his B.Eng., and Ph.D., from Staffordshire University in UK. He then moved to University of St. Andrews where he worked on organic light-emitting diodes. In 2003 he joined Philips Research Laboratories in The Netherlands to work on organic semiconductors for use in opto/electronic devices and integrated circuits. In 2005 he was awarded an EPSRC Advanced Fellowship and in 2007 a RCUK Fellowship both hosted in the Department of Physics, Imperial College London. His current research interest is focused on the physics of novel organics, inorganics and hybrid materials and devices. Ongoing research projects include:

Novel inorganic transparent semiconductors
High-mobility organic semiconductors & devices
Nanoscale opto/electronic devices & systems
Transparent photo-transistors for invisible electronics
Charge carrier transport in semiconductors & devices
Novel nano-lithography methods for plastic nanoelectronics
Novel device concepts for energy harvesting & generation
Vacancies
For self-funded PhD positions contact Prof. Thomas Anthopoulos
Latest News
Thomas Anthopoulos joins Editorial Board of Advanced Science [Oct. 2014]
Joseph Shaw wins poster prize at E-MRS 2014 Fall meeting [Sep. 2014]
John Labram wins 2014 Elings Prize Fellowship in Experimental Physics [Jun. 2014]
David Beesley wins the EPSRC ICT Pioneers competition for his work entitled "Extending Moore's law via the control of adhesion forces: Next generation technology for sub 10 nm electronics" [Nov. 2012]
Simon Hunter wins the Sigma-Aldrich Prize for best MRes project entitled "Conductive Atomic Force Microscopy as a Tool for Analysing Charge Transport in Organic Thin Film Transistors" [Oct. 2012]
Thomas Anthopoulos joins Advisor Board of Advanced Functional Materials
Thomas Anthopoulos wins European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant (StG) award of €1.5M. The ERC is a highly prestigious five-year award designed to help the next generation of top research leaders in Europe to start or to consolidate their own independent research teams. [see video]
Thomas Anthopoulos wins Ben Sturgeon Award. The Ben Sturgeon Award is made annually by the Society for Information Display (SID), to individuals or groups who have made a significant contribution to the development of displays.
John Labram wins Solid State Physics Thesis Prize 2012 for his outstanding PhD work.
Joseph Shaw wins best DTC-PE poster award in The Society for Information Display (SID) workshop held at Imperial College over the 5-6 September 2011, the 5th meeting of its kind organised in the UK. Cambridge Display Technology, an industrial partner of the PE-DTC, sponsored the session and offered a prize for the best poster. Media Mentions
Composite Collaboration Leads to Faster Plastic Electronics, PR Newswire, April 2012
Flexible electronics hold promise, Wake Forest University, USA, July 2011
Transistors on Plastic, Printed Electronics World, March 2010
Light switch, Goliath, February 2008
Books
Book chapter published: "Advanced in Carbon Nanomaterials: Science & Applications" [Google Books] Book chapter published: "Organic Electronics: Materials, Processing, Devices and Applications" [Sample]Other Significant Activities
Member of the Editorial Board of Advanced Science, Wiley
Member of the Advisor Board of Advanced Functional Materials, Wiley
Further Information
Symposium Organiser, International Materials Research Congress (IMRC) 2015, Cancun, Mexico
Symposium Organiser, Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting 2013, Boston, USA, 2013 MRS Fall
Symposium Organiser, European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) Spring Meeting 2012, Strasbourg, France, 2012 E-MRS Spring
Symposium Organiser, Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting 2011, Boston, USA, 2011 MRS Fall