Donal Bradley

Donal Donat Conor Bradley (* 1962 ) is a British physicist who is known for developments in polymer electronics .

Life

Bradley studied at Imperial College London with a bachelor's degree in 1983 with top grades and at Cambridge University , where he received his doctorate in 1987 at the Cavendish Laboratory . In his dissertation he dealt with spectroscopic studies of conjugated polymers. He then continued his research in Cambridge, where he became a lecturer. He was also a Toshiba Research Fellow at the Toshiba Research Center in Kawasaki, Japan . From 1993 he headed a research group at the University of Sheffield , where he worked closely with Dow Chemical in some cases . In 2000 he became Professor of Experimental Solid State Physics at Imperial College and Head of the Solid State Physics Department. There he is director of the Center for Plastic Electronics. In 2011 he became Vice Rector of Imperial College.

With colleagues in Cambridge ( Jeremy Burroughes , Richard Friend ), he developed light-emitting diodes from polymers from 1989 , which Burroughes, Friend and Bradley also patented. He is therefore considered a pioneer in polymer electronics ( printed electronics ). They can be used in screens (hence PLEDD, Polymer Light Emitting Diodes for Displays).

In 2009 he received the Faraday Medal (IOP) , in 2005 the Rajman Prize of the Society for Information Display (with Jeremy Burroughes and Richard Friend ) and in 2005 the Latsis Prize . In 2010 he gave the Bakerian Lecture of the Royal Society ( Plastic Electronics: their science and applications ) and in 2009 the Mott Lecture of the Institute of Physics. In 2003 he received the Descartes Prize as a member of the Richard Friend team.

In 2010 he became a CBE .

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (2004), the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce and the Institute of Physics .

He was involved in setting up several companies to market his inventions and developments: 1992 Cambridge Display Technologies (CDT) for polymer LEDs and Molecular Vision for applications in microfluidic instruments.

Fonts

• JH Burroughes, DDC Bradley, AR Brown, RN Marks, K. Mackay, RH Friend, PL Burns, AB Holmes Light emitting diodes based on conjugated polymers , Nature, Volume 347, 1990, pp. 539-541, abstract

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• Professor Donal Bradley CBE, FRS, FRSA
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