Scientific reports
The Organic Materials in Electronics Consortium

The first phase of research at OMEC, generously funded by the EPSRC in the period up to the end of 2005, has resulted in scientific and technical breakthroughs disclosed in 31 refereed journal papers, 3 patents and a large number of conference papers.

These works reflect considerable success in attaining our original aims - to synthesise, characterise, process and evaluate new materials for electronics.

The reports linked below provide an overview of the work undertaken in the initial funding programme:

• First Annual report (November 2003, PDF file, 517kB)
• Second Annual Report (November 2004, PDF file, 482kB)
• Final report (November 2005, PDF file, 391kB)

In 2005/6 the consortium secured further funding from both the EPSRC and the Home Office. As a consequence OMEC has grown, with the addition of three new members:

• Dr Patrick Fairclough, a physical chemist based at Sheffield,
• Dr Aimin Song, and electrical engineer based at Manchester and
• Professor Douglas Kell, an informatics expert based at Manchester

Above right: AFM image of a conjugated polymer nanowire grown between two triangular electrodes.

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