Angus Currie
Background
Angus Currie grew up in Macclesfield, Cheshire, and received a BSc Degree in Physics with Industrial Experience from the Univeristy of Bristol in 2022. During his undergraduate degree, he completed projects alongside Rolls Royce PLC on High Speed Atomic Force Microscopy of Titanium Super-alloys under Dr. Tomas Martin, and on the Development and Analysis of Optical Security Devices for Currency and Identification at De La Rue International. He joined the Analytical Sciences CDT at the Univeristy of Warwick in 2022 and completed his MSc in 2023 including projects on the THz Spectroscopy of Organic Semiconductors under Prof. James Lloyd-Hughes and Applications of Big Data in Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Complex Mixtures under Prof. Simon Spencer and Dr. Mark Barrow.
Angus began his PhD under Prof. James Lloyd-Hughes in the Ultrafast and Terahertz Photonics Group in 2023, focusing on THz spectroscopy as a Tool for the Analysis of Charge Transport Dynamics in Organic Semiconductors, building on his previous MSc research work.
Current research
Angus' research focuses on organic semiconductors, a class of materials with applications as thin film components in consumer electronics such as flexible or transparent displays, biodegradable electronics and organic solar cells. The charge transport dynamics of these materials are severely limited, with charge mobilities up to 1000× weaker than inorganic materials such as silicon. This is a major barrier to their adoption, and is thought to be due to a variety of factors including dynamic disorder, electron-phonon coupling and interfacial effects.
Angus employs ultrafast time-domain spectroscopy, pump-probe, temperature variation, electro-modulation and 2D spectroscopy to characterise interactions of carriers with phonons, molecular vibrations and interfaces in a range of novel organic semiconductor materials.
