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The Arthur Nozik Lecture Series honors the research and career of Prof. Nozik, who has been a leader in the thriving ecosystem of renewable energy research that has developed along the front range over the last four decades. This lecture will be presented on Wednesday November 12, 2025.

Sir Richard Friend will be presenting a talk entitled "Light-emitting molecular semiconductors Ìýfor LEDs, solar cells and Ìýspin-optical interfaces", navigating through some of the foundation research that his team has performed in the world of optoelectronic devices and improving the energy efficiency of electronics.Ìý

Those interested in attending and participating in the poster session should register. We have a limit on the spaces available, so register today!

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Biography:

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.Ìý He is currently a Director of Research in the Department of Physics.Ìý HisÌýresearch encompasses the physics, materials science and engineering of semiconductor devices made with carbon-based semiconductors, particularly polymers.ÌýHis research advances have shown that carbon-based semiconductors have significant applications in LEDs, solar cells, lasers, and electronics. These have been developed and exploited through a number off spin-off companies.Ìý He explores novel schemes that seek to improve the performance of LEDs and solar cells, using carbon-based semiconductors.Ìý His current projects with these are on materials with unpaired electron spins which show novel couplings of spin with photo-luminescence.

Professor Friend is a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and a Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Engineering.Ìý He has received many international awards for his research, including Laureate of the Millennium Prize for Technology (2010) the Harvey Prize (2011) of the Israel Institute of Technology, the von Hippel Award of the Materials Research Society (2015) and the Isaac Newton Prize of the Institute of Physics (2024).Ìý He was knighted for "Services to Physics" in the Queen's Birthday Honours List, 2003.