PE-CDT student David Beesley wins the EPSRC ICT Pioneers competition

Plastic Electronics Centre for Doctoral Training, David Beesley wins the presitgious EPSRC ICT Pioneer competition.

From left, Dr Paul Stavrinou, David Beesley, Professor John de Mello and Dr Sophie Armstrong-Brown at the awards ceremony

Plastic Electronics Centre for Doctoral Training student, David Beesley has won the prestigious EPSRC ICT Pioneers competition on 28th November 2012 at the Sheraton Park Lane Hotel in Mayfair.

David started on the CDT programme in October 2009 and is currently working on Organic transistors and complex logic systems under the supervision of Professor  Thomas Anthopoulos and Professor John De Mello. David was awarded a £2,000 cash prize for winning in his category "information overload" for his work on "Adhesion Lithography". The research he presented is a newly developed technique for the mass fabrication of micro and nano scale electrical components on large area substrates. The technique is called adhesion lithography and involves the precision control of adhesion forces on the nano-Newton scale to define features as small as 10nm. The techniqueis a fundamentally new way to pattern electronics without many of the limitations of current generation technology.

David then pitched his project in front of the audience and was grilled by a panel of industry judges, winning an additional £1,000 to help fund the next stage of his research. The judges were especially keen on the commercial applications of the technology and rewarded its potential to benefit the UK economy.

More information on the annual EPSRC ICT Pioneers competition is available on the EPSRC web site:http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/newsevents/news/2012/Pages/ukictpioneers2012winners.aspx