John Lupton
Professor John Lupton Department of Physics
University of Utah
115 South 1400 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0830
USA

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Faculty Website: http://www.physics.utah.edu/people/faculty.html
University of Regensburg Website:
  http://www.physik.uni-regensburg.de/forschung/lupton/


Reasearch Interests
I work in the field of organic semiconductors and am interested in the fundamental optical and electronic properties of these systems. The aim of my research is to develop new frameworks and ideas to enable the creation of truly molecular optoelectronic devices. I started my PhD working on organic light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The bulk of my work focused on the development of a new class of materials based on star-shaped molecules, called dendrimers. I performed a wide range of measurements and calculations on these systems, which also led to the filing of a number of patents.

More recently, I have developed a number of techniques for the characterisation of defects in conjugated polymers using ultrafast fluorescence spectroscopy and gated electroluminescence spectroscopy. Further interests have been in molecular thermometry and semiconductor microcavities. I am now working on using single molecule spectroscopy to gain a microscopic understanding of charge generation and recombination and excitation energy transfer processes as well as assessing the possibility of quantum electrodynamical control of individual excitations. My main focus is on excitonic effects in conjugated polymers, triplet spectroscopy of organic semiconductors and the photophysics of novel inorganic colloidal semiconductor nanostructures.

CV
  1997 B.Sc. in Physics from Durham University (UK); Award of Henry Walters Prize and Chalmers Prize in Experimental Physics  
  1997 CERN Summer student  
  1999 DAAD Research Fellow, University of Marburg (Prof. H. Bässler)  
  2000 Visiting Scientist, University of Rochester, NY (Prof. S. Mukamel)  
  2000 Ph. D. in Physics, University of Durham (Prof. I. Samuel)  
  2000 Research Fellow, University of St. Andrews (Prof. I. Samuel)  
  2001 Project group leader, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz (Prof. G. Wegner)  
  2002 University Assistant, Photonics and Optoelectronics Group, University of Munich  
  2005 Offer of a W2/C3 Professorship (University of Kiel) as well as a Professorship (University of Utah)  
  2006 Associate Professor of Physics, University of Utah  
  2006 Award of the Max Auwärter Prize through the Austrian Physical Society  
  2008 Award of the David & Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science and Engineering  
  2010 RCSA Scialog award  
  2010 Full Professor of Physics and Astronomy  
  2010 Professor of Physics (Chair), University of Regensburg