Sir Richard Friend

University of Cambridge, UK
Professor Sir Richard Friend is at the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge, where he held the Cavendish Professorship of Physics from 1995 to 2020.  He is currently a Director of Research in the Department of Physics, and has support for his research programme from the ERC, the EPSRC and the Simons Foundation.  His research encompasses the physics, materials science and engineering of semiconductor devices made with carbon-based semiconductors, particularly polymers.  His research advances have shown that carbon-based semiconductors have significant applications in LEDs, solar cells, lasers, and electronics.