The project partners have produced a Special Issue of J.Phys.D: Applied Physics 41 (9), 7th May 2008, covering many aspects of the programme. The Editorial page is attached here, and the Issue contains the following papers. Full access to this Issue is via IOP Publishing.

Guest editor introduction: Dawson/Neil

(INVITED) III-nitride micro-emitter arrays: development and applications Z Fan, J Y Lin and Honsing Jiang

Efficient flip-chip InGaN micro-pixellated light-emitting diode arrays: promising candidates for micro-displays and colour conversion Zheng Gong, Erdan Gu, S R Jin, D Massoubre, Benoit Guilhabert, H X Zhang, Martin D Dawson, Vincent Poher, G K Kennedy, Paul M W French and Mark A A Neil

310-340 nm ultraviolet light emitting diodes grown using a thin GaN interlayer on a high temperature AlN buffer Tao Wang, K B Lee, J Bai, Peter J Parbrook, F Ranalli, Q Wang, R J Airey, Tony A G Cullis, H X Zhang, D Massoubre, Zheng Gong, Ian M Watson, Erdan Gu and Martin D Dawson

Temperature dependent behaviour of 340 nm light emitting diodes incorporating a gallium nitride interlayer Robert Airey, K B Lee, Peter J Parbrook, J Bai, F Ranalli, Tao Wang and Geoff Hill

Design of diffractive optical elements for beam shaping of micro pixellated LED light to a tightly focused spot J S Liu, A J Caley, M R Taghizadeh, Erdan Gu, John Girkin and Martin D Dawson

(INVITED) New light from hybrid inorganic-organic emitters Colin Belton, G Itskos, G Heliotis, Paul Stavrinou, P G Lagoudakis, J Lupton, S Pereira, Erdan Gu, C Griffin, Benoit Guilhabert, I M Watson, A R Mackintosh, R A Pethrick, J Feldmann, R Murray, M D Dawson and D D C Bradley

Novel polymer systems for deep UV micro lens arrays Allan Mackintosh, Alexander Kuehne, R A Pethrick, Benoit Guilhabert, Erdan Gu, C Lee, Martin D Dawson, G Heliotis and Donal D C Bradley

Patterning and integration of polyfluorene polymers on micropixellated UV AlInGaN light-emitting diodes Benoit Guilhabert, Zheng Gong, H-X Zhang, Colin Belton, A Mackintosh, Erdan Gu, M Campoy-Quiles, Paul Stavrinou, Donal D C Bradley, D Pethrick and Martin D Dawson

Light emitting polymer blends and diffractive optical elements in high speed direct laser-writing of microstructures H Suyal, A J Waddie, A MacKintosh, A Kuhne, M R Taghizadeh, R A Pethrick, A McCarthy, A C Walker, Erdan Gu, Martin D Dawson and Donal D C Bradley

(INVITED) Towards large scale CMOS single-photon detector arrays for lab-on-chip applications Edoardo Charbon and Cristiano Niclass

CMOS driven micro-pixel LEDs integrated with single photon avalanche diodes for time resolved fluorescence measurements B R Rae, C Griffin, J McKendry, John Girkin, H X Zhang, Erdan Gu, D Renshaw, Edoardo Charbon, Martin D Dawson and R K Henderson

Fluorescence lifetime imaging using light emitting diodes G K Kennedy, D S Elson, J D Hares, Ian Munro, Vincent Poher, Paul M W French and Mark Neil

(INVITED) Application of blue-green and ultraviolet micro-LEDs to biological imaging and detection Heng Xu, J Zhang, K M Davitt, Y K Song and Arto V Nurmikko

Micro-LED arrays: a tool for two-dimensional neuron stimulation Vincent Poher, N Grossman, G T Kennedy, K Nikolic, H X Zhang, Zheng Gong, E M Drakakis, E Gu, Martin D Dawson, Paul M W French, P Degenaar and Mark Neil