Donal Bradley

Donal Donat Conor Bradley (born 1962 ) is a British physicist who is known for developments in polymer electronics.

Bradley studied at Imperial College London with a Bachelor degree in 1983 with honors and at the University of Cambridge, where in 1987 he received his doctorate at the Cavendish Laboratory. In the thesis he dealt with spectroscopic studies of conjugated polymers. He researched then continue in Cambridge, where he was a lecturer. He was also a year in Kawasaki in Japan Toshiba Research Fellow at the Research Center of Toshiba. From 1993, he led a research group at the University of Sheffield, where he worked closely with partially Dow Chemical. In 2000 he became Professor of Experimental Solid State Physics at Imperial College and Head of the Department of Solid State Physics. He is the Director of The Center for Plastic Electronics. In 2011, he was Vice-Rector of Imperial College.

With colleagues in Cambridge (Jeremy Burroughes, Richard Friend ) he developed from 1989 LEDs from polymers Burroughes, Friendster and Bradley also patented. He is thus a pioneer of polymer electronics ( printed electronics ). They can be used in screens (hence PLEDD, Polymer Light Emitting Diodes for Displays ).

In 2009 he received the Faraday Medal ( IOP ), 2005 Rajman the price of the Society for Information Display ( with Jeremy Burroughes and Richard Friend ) and the Latsis Prize in 2005. In 2010 he held the Bakerian Lecture of the Royal Society ( Plastic Electronics: their science and applications ) and 2009 Mott Lecture of the Institute of Physics. In 2003 he was awarded the Descartes Prize as a member of the team of Richard Friend.

In 2010 he was CBE.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (2004), the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce and the Institute of Physics.

He was involved in the founding of several companies to commercialize its inventions and developments: 1992 Cambridge Display Technologies ( CDT) for polymer LEDs and Molecular Vision for applications in microfluidics instruments.

Writings

• JH Burroughes, DDC Bradley, AR Brown, RN Marks, K. Mackay, RH Friend, PL Burns, AB Holmes Light emitting diodes based on conjugated polymers, Nature, vol 347, 1990, pp. 539-541, Abstract