Richard Friend

Richard Friend

Friend in Finland in 2010
Born Richard Henry Friend
18 January 1953[1]
London[2]
Fields
Institutions
Alma mater
Thesis Transport properties and lattice instabilities in one and two dimensional metals (1979)
Doctoral advisor
  • Abraham David "Abe" Yoffe[3]
  • Denis Jérome[2]
Notable students Yana Vaynzof
Known for
Notable awards
Spouse Carol Anne Maxwell (née Beales)[1]

Website

Sir Richard Henry Friend (born 18 January 1953) FRS FREng[5] is Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge and Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor at the National University of Singapore. Friend's research concerns the physics and engineering of carbon-based semiconductors.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]

Education

Friend was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge,[1] gaining a PhD in 1979.[22]

Research

Friend's research has been applied to development of polymer field effect transistors, light-emitting diodes, photovoltaic diodes, optically pumped lasing and directly printed polymer transistors. He pioneered the study of organic polymers and the electronic properties of molecular semiconductors. He is also one of the principal investigators in the new Cambridge-based Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (IRC) on nanotechnology and co-founder of Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) and Plastic Logic. Friend has over 600 publications[6][18] and more than 20 patents. Friend’s research has been used to develop flat panel displays and future screens that can be rolled and transported.

Awards and honours

In March 2003 Friend won the IEE's Faraday Medal. He was knighted for "services to physics" in the 2003 Birthday Honours.

In 2010, Friend was elected as one of the three laureates of Millennium Technology Prize for the development of plastic electronics.[23]

In 2011 he was awarded the Harvey Prize of the Technion in Israel.[24] He is a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He was elected a Fellow[25] of the Royal Academy of Engineering[26] in 2002.

His nomation for the Royal Society reads:

“ Distinguished for his experimental study of the electronic properties of novel materials, principally organic materials, both semiconductors and metals, and inorganic materials with "low-dimensional" electronic structure, including layer structure transition metal dichalcogenides and cuprate superconductors. He established the pressure/temperature phase diagrams for transition metal dichalcogenides, showing conditions for CDW (Charge Density Wave) phases and superconducting phases in TaS2, band crossing transition in TiS2 intercalation of transition metal dichalcogenides with various Lewis bases (alkali metals, amines), and use of controlled charge transfer to the host layer to fine-tune electronic structure in order to establish conditions for CDW superlattice formation, and mechanisms for charge transport.

He has made a major contribution to understanding the conditions for metallic, superconducting, magnetic and insulating ground states in organic charge transfer salts. Established the pressure/temperature phase diagram for the incommensurate and commensurate Charge Density Wave phases of TTF-TCNQ. He made the first observations of de Haas van Alphen oscillations in magnetic susceptibility in an organic metal. He and his group has developed polymer processing techniques for conjugated polymers, and demonstrated non-linear electronic excitations through electrical and optical measurements. First construction of MOSFET (Metal Insulator Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor) with polyacetylene as active semiconductor, and demonstration of novel mechanism of operation, with novel behaviour and made the first construction of efficient, large area, polymeric semi-conductor LED's (Light Emitting Diodes), based on polyphenylene-vinylene.[27]

 ”

Personal life

Friend is married to Carol Anne Maxwell (née Beales) with whom he has two daughters.[1] His brother Peter Friend is a professor of transplantation and director of the Oxford Transplant Centre.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "FRIEND, Sir Richard (Henry)". Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press.(subscription required)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Alan Macfarlane. "Interview of Sir Richard Friend". Cambridge University DSpace.
  3. ↑ Richard Friend at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ↑ "List of Fellows".
  5. ↑ "List of Fellows".
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
  7. ↑ Bakulin, A. A.; Rao, A.; Pavelyev, V. G.; Van Loosdrecht, P. H. M.; Pshenichnikov, M. S.; Niedzialek, D.; Cornil, J.; Beljonne, D.; Friend, R. H. (2012). "The Role of Driving Energy and Delocalized States for Charge Separation in Organic Semiconductors". Science 335 (6074): 1340–1344. doi:10.1126/science.1217745. PMID 22362882.
  8. ↑ Chua, L. L.; Zaumseil, J.; Chang, J. F.; Ou, E. C. -W.; Ho, P. K. -H.; Sirringhaus, H.; Friend, R. H. (2005). "General observation of n-type field-effect behaviour in organic semiconductors". Nature 434 (7030): 194–199. doi:10.1038/nature03376. PMID 15758994.
  9. ↑ Stutzmann, N.; Friend, R. H.; Sirringhaus, H. (2003). "Self-Aligned, Vertical-Channel, Polymer Field-Effect Transistors". Science 299 (5614): 1881–1884. doi:10.1126/science.1081279. PMID 12649478.
  10. ↑ Beljonne, D.; Pourtois, G.; Silva, C.; Hennebicq, E.; Herz, L. M.; Friend, R. H.; Scholes, G. D.; Setayesh, S.; Müllen, K.; Brédas, J. L. (2002). "Interchain vs. Intrachain energy transfer in acceptor-capped conjugated polymers". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99 (17): 10982–10987. doi:10.1073/pnas.172390999. PMC 123196. PMID 12177444.
  11. ↑ Wilson, J. S.; Dhoot, A. S.; Seeley, A. J. A. B.; Khan, M. S.; Köhler, A.; Friend, R. H. (2001). "Spin-dependent exciton formation in pi-conjugated compounds". Nature 413 (6858): 828–831. doi:10.1038/35101565. PMID 11677602.
  12. ↑ Schmidt-Mende, L.; Fechtenkötter, A.; Müllen, K.; Moons, E.; Friend, R. H.; MacKenzie, J. D. (2001). "Self-Organized Discotic Liquid Crystals for High-Efficiency Organic Photovoltaics". Science 293 (5532): 1119–1122. doi:10.1126/science.293.5532.1119. PMID 11498585.
  13. ↑ Ho, P. K. H.; Kim, J. S.; Burroughes, J. H.; Becker, H.; Li, S. F. Y.; Brown, T. M.; Cacialli, F.; Friend, R. H. (2000). "Molecular-scale interface engineering for polymer light-emitting diodes". Nature 404 (6777): 481–484. doi:10.1038/35006610. PMID 10761912.
  14. ↑ Sirringhaus, H.; Kawase, T.; Friend, R. H.; Shimoda, T.; Inbasekaran, M.; Wu, W.; Woo, E. P. (2000). "High-Resolution Inkjet Printing of All-Polymer Transistor Circuits". Science 290 (5499): 2123–2126. doi:10.1126/science.290.5499.2123. PMID 11118142.
  15. ↑ Ho, P. K.; Thomas, D. S.; Friend, R. H.; Tessler, N. (1999). "All-polymer optoelectronic devices". Science 285 (5425): 233–236. doi:10.1126/science.285.5425.233. PMID 10398595.
  16. ↑ Sirringhaus, H.; Tessler, N.; Friend, R. H. (1998). "Integrated Optoelectronic Devices Based on Conjugated Polymers". Science 280 (5370): 1741–1744. doi:10.1126/science.280.5370.1741. PMID 9624049.
  17. ↑ Colbert, M. C. B.; Lewis, J.; Long, N. J.; Raithby, P. R.; Younus, M.; White, A. J. P.; Williams, D. J.; Payne, N. N.; Yellowlees, L.; Beljonne, D.; Chawdhury, N.; Friend, R. H. (1998). "Synthesis and Characterization of Dinuclear Metal σ-Acetylides and Mononuclear Metal σ-Allenylidenes". Organometallics 17 (14): 3034. doi:10.1021/om970130p.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Richard Friend's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
  19. ↑ Richard Friend interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 2008-05-21 on YouTube
  20. ↑ Freeview video interview with Richard Friend by the Vega Science Trust (RealPlayer required)
  21. ↑ Friend, R. H.; Gymer, R. W.; Holmes, A. B.; Burroughes, J. H.; Marks, R. N.; Taliani, C.; Bradley, D. D. C.; Santos, D. A. D.; Brdas, J. L.; Lgdlund, M.; Salaneck, W. R. (1999). "Electroluminescence in conjugated polymers". Nature 397 (6715): 121. doi:10.1038/16393.
  22. ↑ Friend, Richard Henry (1979). Transport properties and lattice instabilities in one and two dimensional metals (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge.
  23. ↑ "Professor Sir Richard Friend: Developer of plastic electronics". Millennium Prize. 9 June 2010. Retrieved 10 June 2010.
  24. ↑ Harvey Prize 2011
  25. ↑ "List of Fellows".
  26. ↑ "List of Fellows".
  27. ↑ "EC/1993/12: Friend, Richard Henry. Library and Archive Catalogue". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2014-04-02.