Richard Friend

Sir
Richard Friend
FRS HonFInstP FREng
Friend in Finland in 2010
Born
Richard Henry Friend

(1953-01-18) 18 January 1953 (age 71)[6]
London[3]
Alma mater
Known for
SpouseCarol Anne Maxwell (née Beales)[6]
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisTransport properties and lattice instabilities in one and two dimensional metals (1979)
Doctoral advisor
  • Abraham Yoffe[2]
  • Denis Jérome[3]
Doctoral studentsHenry Snaith[4][5]
Ana Claudia Arias
Anna Köhler (scientist)
Website

Sir Richard Henry Friend FRS HonFInstP FREng[1] (born 18 January 1953) is a British physicist who was the Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge from 1995 until 2020[7] and is Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor at the National University of Singapore. Friend's research concerns the physics and engineering of carbon-based semiconductors.[8] He also serves as Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Singapore.[9]

  1. ^ a b "List of Fellows".
  2. ^ Richard Friend at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ a b c Alan Macfarlane. "Interview of Sir Richard Friend". Cambridge University.
  4. ^ Snaith, H. J.; Arias, A. C.; Morteani, A. C.; Silva, C.; Friend, R. H. (2002). "Charge Generation Kinetics and Transport Mechanisms in Blended Polyfluorene Photovoltaic Devices". Nano Letters. 2 (12): 1353. Bibcode:2002NanoL...2.1353S. doi:10.1021/nl0257418.
  5. ^ Snaith, Henry James (2005). Polymer based photovoltaic diodes (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 890157906.
  6. ^ a b c "FRIEND, Sir Richard (Henry)". Who's Who. Vol. 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  7. ^ "Special Guest Editorial" (PDF). Cavmag. No. 25. May 2020. pp. 3–4.
  8. ^ "Professor Sir Richard Friend". Optoelectronics group, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge
  9. ^ "Research, Innovation and Enterprise Council (RIEC)". www.nrf.gov.sg.