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EPSRC Reference: GR/S85764/01
Title: Basic Technology: A Thousand Micro-emitters Per Square Millimetre: New Light On Organic Materials & Structures
Principal Investigator: Dawson, Professor M
Other Investigators:
Smith, Professor WE Bradley, Professor DD Girkin, Professor J
Parbrook, Professor P Cullis, Professor AG Graham, Professor D
Pethrick, Professor RA Taghizadeh, Professor MR French, Professor P
Watson, Dr I Desmulliez, Professor M Neil, Professor MAA
Researcher Co-Investigators:
Dr D Burns Professor T Wang
Project Partners:
Department: Inst of Photonics
Organisation: University of Strathclyde
Scheme: Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts: 01 July 2004 Ends: 31 October 2008 Value (£): 2,657,253
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Materials Synthesis & Growth Optoelect. Devices & Circuits
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:
Aerospace, Defence and Marine Electronics
Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology
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This ambitious, multi-partner programme unites a number of key emerging UK competencies around the shared vision of an entirely new core technology of UV/Violet micro-optical projection systems, for inducing fluorescence and/or structural changes in organic materials in a finely-controlled manner. At the heart of these systems are innovative, high-density (>1000 elements per sq. mm) arrays of micrometer-sized light-emitting diodes based on AIGaInN/sapphire semiconductor structures in a new wavelength range (280-440nm). Such sources will allow high-frame-rate programmable pattern exposure, with high spatial, spectral and temporal resolution, for major impact in areas as diverse as polymer science, microfabrication and biophotonics. The programme aims to pioneer active imaging systems technology based upon these devices, and to demonstrate their power in four key areas, namely (i) biomedical imaging, (ii) micro/nano fabrication, (iii) light-emitting polymers, and (iv) biosensors. It seeks, furthermore, to promote the interaction between these areas under the common conception of UV-emitting microsystems.
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