Advanced Functional Materials and Devices Group, Oxford Physics
@afmdgroup.bsky.social
The Advanced Functional Materials and Devices (AFMD) Group in the Department of Physics at the University Oxford, led by Moritz Riede. Our research focus is organic solar cells (Views my (MR) own).
Huge congratulations 🥳👏 to Victoria Santana Santamaria for her poster "Spectral Selectivity for Vacuum Deposited Agrivoltaic Organic Photovoltaics" and winning an #award at the recent EPSRC Vacation Internship Poster Event in Oxford😀. @EPSRC @OxfordPhysics @StAnnesCollege
December 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Huge congratulations 🥳👏 to Victoria Santana Santamaria for her poster "Spectral Selectivity for Vacuum Deposited Agrivoltaic Organic Photovoltaics" and winning an #award at the recent EPSRC Vacation Internship Poster Event in Oxford😀. @EPSRC @OxfordPhysics @StAnnesCollege
And another #PhD thesis submission last Friday by Bernd Sturza🥳, co-supervised by Prof Robin Nicholas @OxfordPhysics! Big smiles outside of @Exam_Schools (and more memorable than the email confirmation...). Awesome achievement and huge congratulations from us all😀! @UnivOxford
December 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
And another #PhD thesis submission last Friday by Bernd Sturza🥳, co-supervised by Prof Robin Nicholas @OxfordPhysics! Big smiles outside of @Exam_Schools (and more memorable than the email confirmation...). Awesome achievement and huge congratulations from us all😀! @UnivOxford
Anna Jungbluth submitted her #PhD thesis on Monday🥳! Awesome achievement, in particular considering the challenging times through #COVID19 ! Huge congratulations from us all😀! @OxfordPhysics @WolfsonCollege
December 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Anna Jungbluth submitted her #PhD thesis on Monday🥳! Awesome achievement, in particular considering the challenging times through #COVID19 ! Huge congratulations from us all😀! @OxfordPhysics @WolfsonCollege
December 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
A big welcome to Dr Francis Otieno from @WitsUniversity/ South Africa, who has just arrived for a 6-week visit to our group, supported by @NewtonFund @BritishCouncil. Looking forward to working together on organic solar cells together😀. @GCRF_START @Africa_Oxford @OxfordPhysics
December 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
A big welcome to Dr Francis Otieno from @WitsUniversity/ South Africa, who has just arrived for a 6-week visit to our group, supported by @NewtonFund @BritishCouncil. Looking forward to working together on organic solar cells together😀. @GCRF_START @Africa_Oxford @OxfordPhysics
Congratulations to Mr Mohamed Abdelaal for successfully defending his Master Thesis at @Ainshams_Univ 🎓🎉! He researched dilute donor organic solar cells with us at @OxfordPhysics & was supervised in Egypt🇪🇬 by Prof @GhadaBassioni and Prof Abdel Latif. @GCRF_START @Oxford_GCRF
December 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Congratulations to Mr Mohamed Abdelaal for successfully defending his Master Thesis at @Ainshams_Univ 🎓🎉! He researched dilute donor organic solar cells with us at @OxfordPhysics & was supervised in Egypt🇪🇬 by Prof @GhadaBassioni and Prof Abdel Latif. @GCRF_START @Oxford_GCRF
Bingjun Wang, co-supervised w Prof Donal Bradley @KAUST_News, submitted his #PhD thesis yesterday!! Congrats from all😀! We'll celebrate outside once Oxford's #COVID19 numbers are a bit lower...
@OxfordPhysics @ChinaOxfordCOSF (sorry, no picture outside Exam Schools, just this)
@OxfordPhysics @ChinaOxfordCOSF (sorry, no picture outside Exam Schools, just this)
December 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Bingjun Wang, co-supervised w Prof Donal Bradley @KAUST_News, submitted his #PhD thesis yesterday!! Congrats from all😀! We'll celebrate outside once Oxford's #COVID19 numbers are a bit lower...
@OxfordPhysics @ChinaOxfordCOSF (sorry, no picture outside Exam Schools, just this)
@OxfordPhysics @ChinaOxfordCOSF (sorry, no picture outside Exam Schools, just this)
December 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
December 16, 2025 at 5:40 PM
AFMD-Group DPhil student Andreas Lauritzen presenting our results at the GISAXS2019 conference in Hamburg, Germany (https://indico.desy.de/indico/event/22389/). #GISAXS, #GIWAXS @OxfordPhysics @isisneutronmuon @DiamondLightSou
December 16, 2025 at 5:40 PM
AFMD-Group DPhil student Andreas Lauritzen presenting our results at the GISAXS2019 conference in Hamburg, Germany (https://indico.desy.de/indico/event/22389/). #GISAXS, #GIWAXS @OxfordPhysics @isisneutronmuon @DiamondLightSou
"Towards multi-Terawatt clean Photovoltaic Energy Conversion"! Interested? Then submit your abstract by 1st March for the @IUPAC World Chemistry Congress (#Paris, July 7–12, 2019) to our symposium (https://www.iupac2019.org/symposium-2-4) and come to the congress. Thanks😀! #iupac100
December 16, 2025 at 5:40 PM
"Towards multi-Terawatt clean Photovoltaic Energy Conversion"! Interested? Then submit your abstract by 1st March for the @IUPAC World Chemistry Congress (#Paris, July 7–12, 2019) to our symposium (https://www.iupac2019.org/symposium-2-4) and come to the congress. Thanks😀! #iupac100
#PhD submission day today for @GiulioMz, our second PhD-student (or DPhil-student in Oxford-speak...), co-supervised by Prof Robin Nicholas in the @cdtpv !! Congrats from the complete AFMD-Group:-)!!! We're off to the pub now 😀!
December 16, 2025 at 5:40 PM
#PhD submission day today for @GiulioMz, our second PhD-student (or DPhil-student in Oxford-speak...), co-supervised by Prof Robin Nicholas in the @cdtpv !! Congrats from the complete AFMD-Group:-)!!! We're off to the pub now 😀!
Yet unconfirmed squirrel attack on @HarwellCampus at 12:06 BST, all beams down:-(, waiting to resume exp. @DiamondLightSou. @CyberSquirrel1
December 16, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Yet unconfirmed squirrel attack on @HarwellCampus at 12:06 BST, all beams down:-(, waiting to resume exp. @DiamondLightSou. @CyberSquirrel1
#PhD submission day today for Ivan, our first PhD-student (or DPhil-student in Oxford-speak...)!!Congrats from the complete AFMD-Group:-)!!!
December 16, 2025 at 5:40 PM
#PhD submission day today for Ivan, our first PhD-student (or DPhil-student in Oxford-speak...)!!Congrats from the complete AFMD-Group:-)!!!
Beamtime at @DiamondLightSou I07, having fun fixing things, #MacGyver would be proud of us, though we didn't use a paperclip, just tape:-).
December 16, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Beamtime at @DiamondLightSou I07, having fun fixing things, #MacGyver would be proud of us, though we didn't use a paperclip, just tape:-).
It's out! Guest-edited @Materials_MRS JMR Focus Issue on Microstructural Characterization for Emerging PV Materials http://bit.ly/2tkqGj1
December 16, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It's out! Guest-edited @Materials_MRS JMR Focus Issue on Microstructural Characterization for Emerging PV Materials http://bit.ly/2tkqGj1
Another beautiful day @esrfsynchrotron and great data @XMaSBeam today. taking care of business #weekendusers
December 16, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Another beautiful day @esrfsynchrotron and great data @XMaSBeam today. taking care of business #weekendusers
Our outreach volunteers today for #CUWiPUK17, all energized in the lab on a Saturday morning! https://x.com/AFMDGroup/status/845664821295173632/photo/1
December 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Our outreach volunteers today for #CUWiPUK17, all energized in the lab on a Saturday morning! https://x.com/AFMDGroup/status/845664821295173632/photo/1
Mini master class by @sameervk10 explaining ellipsometry with a live demo for #CUWiPUK17 lab tour :)
December 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Mini master class by @sameervk10 explaining ellipsometry with a live demo for #CUWiPUK17 lab tour :)
Not sure @OxfordPhysics HoD meant this with "Look for new opportunities to diversify funding" in his SoN, but let's try!(thanks @Hanyang_YE)
December 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Not sure @OxfordPhysics HoD meant this with "Look for new opportunities to diversify funding" in his SoN, but let's try!(thanks @Hanyang_YE)
Congratulations to the winners of a poster prize, including our @giuliomz (1st left), at the recent @cdtpv Showcase Event in Liverpool!
December 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Congratulations to the winners of a poster prize, including our @giuliomz (1st left), at the recent @cdtpv Showcase Event in Liverpool!
Finished our experiments at @DiamondLightSou last Monday; apart from a few setup issues, all went well & we've to lots of data to analyse:-)
December 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Finished our experiments at @DiamondLightSou last Monday; apart from a few setup issues, all went well & we've to lots of data to analyse:-)
4am, having fun with data at I07 at @DiamondLightSou for an @STFC_Matters project, if only the deposition sources would cool down faster...
December 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
4am, having fun with data at I07 at @DiamondLightSou for an @STFC_Matters project, if only the deposition sources would cool down faster...
AFMD-Group PostDoc @sameervk10 presenting our research @OxfordPhysics Industry day.
December 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
AFMD-Group PostDoc @sameervk10 presenting our research @OxfordPhysics Industry day.