Professor Alastair Buckley
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
School Director of Education
Professor of Organic Electronics
+44 114 222 3597
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- Profile
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I joined the department in September 2008 following 8 years leading research and development in emerging technology company MicroEmissive Displays.
Before that I graduated with a chemical physics degree and a PhD in spectroscopic measurements of discharge lighting.
In industry I was responsible for researching and designing polymer light emitting device architectures and manufacturing schemes for integration with CMOS microelectronic displays (a bit like the ones in Google glass or in virtual reality goggles).
- Research interests
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Currently I have three complementary research themes relating to energy. Only key papers are given. The first theme covers electrode interfaces, devices and manufacturing processes for polymer optoelectronics and the photophysics of molecular materials.
This is the backbone of my research, building on my industrial expertise. I have supervised 5 PhD’s in this field. My research highlight is the statistical experimental determination of the distance power law for energy transfer between molecules in a dielectric matrix.
The second theme covers the field performance and integration of PV systems into the UK electricity network.
This research now dominates my portfolio with an industrial contract with National Grid to provide methods to calculate the contribution of PV power on the UK transmission network. The as developed methods are now live in the National Grid control room.
This work has been funded through a combination of research council, industry and higher education innovation funding and as a result of continued grant capture I now direct the largest UK research database of PV performance (Microgen database).
The third theme investigates future energy systems through collaborative knowledge production. This work was completed in conjunction with social science and humanities researchers and is linked to themes one and two.
It attracted a large EPSRC grant following on from University seed funding of a three student PhD network.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- . Energy, 278, 127702-127702.
- . Inorganic Chemistry, 61(34), 13281-13292.
- . Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 156, 112000-112000.
- . Micromachines, 11(10).
- . IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, 4(1), 194-208.
- . Energy & Environmental Science, 12(6), 1928-1937.
- . Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 7(5), 2283-2290.
- . AIP Advances, 9(1).
- . IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking.
- . Science, Technology & Human Values, 43(5), 785-809.
- . disP - The Planning Review, 54(2), 77-93.
- . AIP Advances, 8(5).
- . IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking.
- . Review of Scientific Instruments, 88(9).
- . Scientific Reports, 7.
- . Energy Policy, 102, 377-384.
- . Building Research and Information, 44(7), 804-815.
- . Applied Energy, 169, 607-628.
- . IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 6(4), 918-923.
- . Materials, 9(4), 235-235.
- . Scientific Reports, 6(1).
- . Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics, 54(2), 216-224.
- . Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 140, 25-32.
- . IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 5(5), 1414-1421.
- . Organic Electronics, 21, 216-222.
- . Applied Physics Letters, 106(7), 073301-073301.
- . Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 17(2), 1435-1440.
- . Solar Energy, 108, 252-263.
- . Organic Electronics, 15(3), 692-700.
- . APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, 104(6).
- . MRS Proceedings, 1657.
- . Applied Physics Letters, 102(18).
- . Advanced Energy Materials.
- . Advanced Energy Materials, 3(4), 410-410.
- . Applied Physics Letters, 102(13).
- . Advanced Energy Materials, 3(4), 505-512.
- . Journal of Lightwave Technology, 31(7), 1033-1044.
- . Rev Sci Instrum, 83(7), 073108.
- . Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, 1443, 34-40.
- . Journal of Applied Physics, 109(8), 084509-084516.
- . Chemistry – A European Journal, 17(16), 4333-4333.
- . Chemistry - A European Journal, 17(16), 4385-4395.
- . SYNTHETIC MET, 160(5-6), 540-543.
- . CHEM PHYS LETT, 468(1-3), 32-36.
- . Organic Electronics, 6(5-6), 221-228.
- . J APPL PHYS, 92(11), 6367-6371.
- Dynamics of Förster energy transfer in polyfluorene-based polymer blends. Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO - Technical Digest, 492-493.
- Energy transfer dynamics in polyfluorene-based polymer blends. CHEM PHYS LETT, 339(5-6), 331-336.
- Time resolved photoluminescence of electroluminescent polymer blends and organic microstructures. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe - Technical Digest, 366.
- . Diamond and Related Materials, 8(2-5), 541-544.
- . Energies, 17(8), 1812-1812.
- The economic impact of location on a solar farm co-located with energy storage. Energy.
- . Energy and Environmental Science, 7(9), 2944-2950.
- The Economic Impact of Location on a Solar Farm Co-Located with Energy Storage.
Chapters
- The place and space of power: Mess, uncertainty and change over time, Enabling the City: Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Encounters in Research and Practice (pp. 48-63).
- , Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) (pp. 459-511). Elsevier
Conference proceedings papers
- . ICC 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 7 June 2020 - 11 June 2020.
- . 2018 IEEE 87th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), 3 June 2018 - 6 June 2018.
- . IEEE International Conference on Communications
- . GLOBECOM 2017 - 2017 IEEE Global Communications Conference, 4 December 2017 - 8 December 2017.
- A low cost photovoltaic maximum power point tracking buck converter for cell phone charging applications. PCIM Europe Conference Proceedings (pp 643-650)
- ATX power supply derived MPPT converter for cell phone charging applications in the developing world. 7th IET International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives, PEMD 2014
- . 7th IET International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD 2014)
- . 2013 International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications (ICRERA), 20 October 2013 - 23 October 2013.
- Effective energy management: UK'S future goals. Proceedings of the 9th Conference on the Industrial and Commercial Use of Energy, ICUE 2012 (pp 33-40)
- . JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION DISPLAY, Vol. 17(7) (pp 611-616)
- P-OLED microdisplay technology. Proceedings of International Meeting on Information Display, Vol. 2006 (pp 105-110)
- Dynamics of Forster Energy Transfer in Polyfluorene-based Polymer Blends. Optics InfoBase Conference Papers
- . Synthetic Metals, Vol. 119(1-3) (pp 575-576)
- . Conference Digest. 2000 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (Cat. No.00TH8505)
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Preprints
- Research group
- Teaching activities
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- PHY346 – Group industrial project in physics. This module gives students the opportunity to develop team work skills in the context of a real industrial project with a client organization.
- PHY248 – Physics with Labview. This is a module in which computer programming is used as a problem solving tool in the context of complex instrumentation problems.
- PHY337/4437 – Physics in an enterprise culture. This module gives students an opportunity to develop and test their own ideas for business.
- PHY250 – I teach differential equations as part of the second year core physics module.
I am one of the academic directors of the . An cross university project to enhance the skills base of physics graduate for technical industry.
I am an academic lead for the level 2 Achieve More programme. This is a University wide initiative to prove a broader and more interdisciplinary education for all undergraduates.
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Director of Education (Sep 2022-present)
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