Internationally recognised industrial expert in OLED and PLED technology, with a proven track record of delivering both product development programmes and public/private fundraising. Geoff led the team which produced the best white light polymers and devices and secured over £15M in grant funding for development of PLED lighting. An active supporter of integrated solid state lighting solutions constantly evaluating opportunities for both led and oled lighting schemes.

Geoff sits on several influential technology focused bodies;  Supporting Photonics 21  inEuropeon lighting and displays, as well as emerging technologies in solar harvesting. I am the deputy Chair of the Plastic Electronics Leadership Group (driving the creation of this exciting new industry) and theUK’s PETeC’s technology advisory board. Outside of this he delivered Project Topless….theUK’s only pled R&D consortium targeting high quality white light devices based on single polymer structures suitable for general lighting applications. Geoff also helped to raised over £6million of public funding for this technology sector over the last three years. He is presently focused on the next stage of pled lighting…Project TOPDRAWER, the migration of pled lighting panels towards high yield manufactureable pled luminaires.

 Geoff will be presenting details of the project Topdrawer, it’s status, and the necessary steps to take pled lighting technology through to exploitation.

The Topdrawer consortium comprises: Thorn Lighting (Lead), Cambridge Display Technology, Tridonic, Pilkington, Conductive Inkjet Technologies and theUniversityofDurham. It is a 2½ year, £4.3M  program,  which is due to be delivered in April 2013. Topdrawer will generate and report on manufacturing yield data, manufactured panel performance variation, organic material utilisation, and comprehensive manufacturing/product cost models whilst at the same time working with designers to produce aesthetic but quasi-functional luminaire demonstrators.