Prof Graham Turnbull

Professor

Researcher profile

Email

gat@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

Graham Turnbull’s research interests are focused on photonic applications of soft materials, including organic semiconductors, plastic lasers, chemical sensing and nanophotonics.

Current research activities include the development of miniature organic and perovskite lasers, explosive vapour sensors, nanoimprint lithography , hybrid optoelectronics, photophysics of organic semiconductors, visible light data communications, and strong coupling in organic materials.

• Postdoctoral positions available - noe currently available
• Applications for PhD projects

 Admin & Teaching

• Head of School (2015-2019)

Collaborative Research Projects

• Hybrid Polaritonics
• Bees for Explosives Detection: NATO SPS project in humanitarian demining
• Super Receivers for VLC

past projects

• TIRAMISU: Humanitarian Demining
• UP-VLC: Visible light communications

External positions

• Chair of the St Andrews Physics Trust 

PhD supervision

• Junyi Gong
• David Webster
• Edward Ogugu
• Michele Duarte Tonet
• Aswin Sasi
• Aveena Abee Varghese

Selected publications

• Organic semiconductor lasers

  Samuel, I. D. W. & Turnbull, G. A., Apr 2007, In: Chemical Reviews. 107, p. 1272-1295 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• How to recognize lasing

  Samuel, I. D. W., Namdas, E. B. & Turnbull, G. A., Oct 2009, In: Nature Photonics. 3, 10, p. 546-549 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Hybrid optoelectronics: A polymer laser pumped by a nitride light-emitting diode

  Yang, Y., Turnbull, G. A. & Samuel, I. D. W., 21 Apr 2008, In: Applied Physics Letters. 92, 16, 3 p., 163306.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Preconcentration techniques for trace explosive sensing

  Gillanders, R. N., Glackin, J. M. E., Filipi, J., Kezic, N., Samuel, I. D. W. & Turnbull, G. A., Mar 2019, In: Science of the Total Environment. 658, p. 650-658

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Flexible and ultra-lightweight polymer membrane lasers

  Karl, M., Glackin, J. M. E., Schubert, M., Kronenberg, N. M., Turnbull, G. A., Samuel, I. D. W. & Gather, M. C., 1 May 2018, In: Nature Communications. 9, 7 p., 1525.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  245 MHz bandwidth organic light-emitting diodes used in a gigabit optical wireless data link

  Yoshida, K., Manousiadis, P., Bian, R., Chen, Z., Murawski, C., Gather, M. C., Haas, H., Turnbull, G. A. & Samuel, I. D. W., 3 Mar 2020, In: Nature Communications. 11, 7 p., 1171.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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