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Researchers have identified a key mechanism responsible for the lower efficiencies of organic solar cells and shown a way that this hurdle might be overcome. Organic solar cells can do lots of things that inorganic solar cells can’t, but their commercial development has plateaued in recent years, in part due to their...

Members of the Laboratory will be sad to learn of the death of Richard Eden at the age of 99. He received his Cambridge doctorate in 1951 under the supervision of Paul Dirac. He won the distinguished Smith's Prize in 1949 and was elected to a Fellowship at Clare College in 1951. His areas of research at that time were in...

We are sad to learn of the death of Professor Antony (Tony) Hewish on 13 September 2021, aged 97. With his student Jocelyn Bell (Burnell), Hewish played a fundamental role in the discovery of pulsars and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for this discovery, together with fellow radio-astronomer Martin Ryle who was...

Cavendish Laboratory researcher Oleg Brandt is one of the UK’s future science leaders to receive Government funding to help develop and commercialise their innovations. Dr Oleg Brandt , a particle physicist at the Cavendish Laboratory working on the ATLAS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been awarded a...