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We are a multidisciplinary team focusing on solution-processed optoelectronic devices, with a passion for both fundamental science and new applications of these materials and devices.

This year's Göran Gustafsson Prize in Physics goes to LiU professor Feng Gao. His research focuses on how new materials can be used for the next generation of solar cells and LEDs, among other things. The total prize money is SEK 7.5 million.

Cost, technical performance and environmental impact – these are the three most important aspects for a new type of LED technology to have a broad commercial impact on society. This has been demonstrated by LiU-researchers in a new study.

Large-scale production of organic solar cells with high efficiency and minimal environmental impact. This can now be made possible through a new design principle developed at Linköping University.

Professor Feng Gao has been granted SEK 31 million from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation over five years to develop a new type of X-ray technology. The goal is a flexible material that can improve X-ray detector image quality.

Researchers Olaf Hartig and Alexander Gillett have been appointed Wallenberg Academy Fellows at LiU. The five-year grants are intended to make it possible for young researchers to make important scientific breakthroughs.

This summer, Dr Alex Gillett is arriving at LiU from the University of Cambridge, UK. He has been awarded a Wallenberg Academy Fellows grant and will use the funding to build his own lab to conduct research in the field of optoelectronics.

Dr Nakul Jain, a postdoctoral researcher working on organic solar cells (OSC) at Linköping University, has been granted a scholarship from King Carl XVI Gustaf´s 50-year fund for his work to improve the efficiency and stability of OSCs.

Researchers at LiU have developed a digital display screen where the LEDs themselves react to touch, light, fingerprints and the user’s pulse, among other things. Their results could be the start of a whole new generation of digital displays.

The recipients of the “Lisa Meitner Grants for Israel-Swedish Research Collaboration” share 50 million SEK. This year Feng Gao, head of LiU´s Optoelectronics Unit, is one of eight recipients.