Publications

2023 Publications

• Mohammad Noor-A-Alam and Michael Nolan, “Engineering Ferroelectricity and Large Piezoelectricity in h-BN”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces Article ASAP, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c07744
• Doyle, L.; Cavero, G.; Modreanu, M. “Applying the 12 Principles of Green Engineering in Low TRL Electronics: A Case Study of an Energy-Harvesting Platform”. Sustainability 2023, 15, 11227. https://doi.org/10.3390/su151411227
• Jin Li, Michael Nolan, Christophe Detavernier, “A step toward correct interpretation of XPS results in metal oxides: A case study aided by first-principles method in ZnO”, Journal of Chemical Physics 2023, vol. 159, 034702 https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0154926;  Editor’s Pick
• Miika Mattinen, Jeff J. P. M. Schulpen, Rebecca A. Dawley, Farzan Gity, Marcel A. Verheijen, Wilhelmus M. M. Kessels, and Ageeth A. Bol, “Toolbox of Advanced Atomic Layer Deposition Processes for Tailoring Large-Area MoS2 Thin Films at 150 °C”; ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2023 15 (29), 35565-35579; DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c02466 
• Hiller D., Duffy R., Georgiev V., Weber W., “Group-IV Semiconductor Materials for Nanoelectronics and Cryogenic Electronics”; (2023) Physica Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials Science, 220 (13), art. no. 2300429 https://doi.org/10.1002/pssa.202300429 
• Nikolay Petkov, Margarita Georgieva, Sinan Bugu, Ray Duffy, Brendan McCarthy, Maksym Myronov, Ann-Marie Kelleher, Graeme Maxwell, Giorgos Fagas, “Electron beam lithography and dimensional metrology for fin and nanowire devices on Ge, SiGe and GeOI substrates”, Microelectronic Engineering,2023, 112071, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mee.2023.112071.
• Aein Babadi, Scott Monaghan, Christopher O’Rourke, Michael Braun, Lindsey Brock, Huikai Cheng, Ted Tessner, Paul K. Hurley, Andrew Mills, and Paul C. McIntyre “Atomic-Layer-Deposited TiO2–IrOX Nanoscale Thin-Film Electrocatalysts for Water and Chloride Oxidation: Influence of Local Phase Separation”; ACS Applied Energy Materials 2023 6 (12), 6419-6427; DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.3c00216
• Cara-Lena Nies and Michael Nolan “Incorporation of tungsten or cobalt into TaN barrier layers controls morphology of deposited copper”; 2023 J. Phys. Mater. 6 035008 DOI 10.1088/2515-7639/acdeaa
• Emma Coleman, Scott Monaghan, Farzan Gity, Gioele Mirabelli, Ray Duffy, Brendan Sheehan, Shashank Balasubramanyam, Ageeth A. Bol,  Paul Hurley ; “Scrutinizing pre- and post-device fabrication properties of atomic layer deposition WS2 thin films”;  Appl. Phys. Lett. 123, 011901 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0151592 

• Alessandro Tonon, Enrico Di Russo, Francesco Sgarbossa, Luca Bacci, Nicola Argiolas, Carlo Scian, Yurii P Ivanov, Giorgio Divitini, Brendan Sheehan, Davide De Salvador, Andrea Gasparotto, Vittorio Morandi, Ray Duffy, Enrico Napolitani , Laser induced crystallization of sputtered MoS2 thin films , “Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing” 164, 107616   
• Margarita Georgieva, Nikolay Petkov, Ray Duffy , “3D to 2D perspectives-Traditional and new doping and metrology challenges at the nanoscale” ,  Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 163, 107584 
• Mircea Dragoman , Mircea Modreanu, Brendan Sheehan,  Silviu Vulpe , Cosmin Romanitan , Martino Aldrigo , Adrian Dinescu , Andreea Bianca Serban,  Daniela Dragoman , “Field-induced reversible insulator-to-metal transition and the onset of ferroelectricity in molybdenum trioxide films”, Journal of Applied Physics 133, 215101 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0151117

2022 Publications

• Mohammad Noor-A-Alam and Michael Nolan, Large piezoelectric response in ferroelectric/ multiferroelectric metal oxyhalide MOX2 (M = Ti, V and X = F, Cl and Br) monolayers,  Nanoscale, 2022, 14, 11676  https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2022/nr/d2nr02761e
• Daris Fontana, Francesco Sgarbossa, Ruggero Milazzo, Enrico Di Russo, Emmanuele Galluccio, Davide De Salvador, Ray Duffy, Enrico Napolitani, Ex-situ n-type heavy doping of Ge1-xSnx epilayers by surface Sb deposition and pulsed laser melting, Applied Surface Science,Volume 600,2022,154112,ISSN 0169-4332, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2022.154112.
• Matthew Snelgrove, Caitlin McFeely, Greg Hughes, C Weiland, JC Woicik, Kyle Shiel, PG Mani González, Carlos Ornelas, Óscar Solís-Canto, Karim Cherkaoui, Paul K Hurley, Pravind Yadav, Michael A Morris, Enda McGlynn, Robert O’Connor “Growth chemistry and electrical performance of ultrathin alumina formed by area selective vapor phase infiltration”, Microelectronic Engineering, 266, 111888 (2022) https://doras.dcu.ie/27870/
• Alonso, I., Alpigiani, C., Altschul, B., Pelucchi, E. et al. Cold atoms in space: community workshop summary and proposed road-map. EPJ Quantum Technol. 9, 30 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjqt/s40507-022-00147-w
• Iadanza, Simone, Mendoza-Castro, Jesus Hernan, Oliveira, Taynara, Butler, Sharon M., Tedesco, Alessio, Giannino, Giuseppe, Lendl, Bernhard, Grande, Marco and O’Faolain, Liam, High-Q asymmetrically cladded silicon nitride 1D photonic crystals cavities and hybrid external cavity lasers for sensing in air and liquids” Nanophotonics, vol. 11, no. 18, 2022, pp. 4183-4196 https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2022-0245
• Iadanza, S., Devarapu, G.C.R., Blake, A.,  Alba, P.A., Pedini, J.-M. and O’Faolain, L. Polycrystalline silicon PhC cavities for CMOS on-chip integration. Sci Rep 12, 17097 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-21578-6
• Arbresha Muriqi and Michael Nolan, Role of titanium and organic precursors in molecular layer deposition of “titanicone” hybrid materials , Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 1240–1255, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.103
• Đorđe Dangić, Stephen Fahy, and Ivana Savić, Molecular dynamics simulation of the ferroelectric phase transition in GeTe: Displacive or order-disorder character, Phys. Rev. B 106, 134113, 2022, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.106.134113
• Mattinen, M., Gity, F., Coleman, E., Vonk, J.F.A., Verheijen, M.A., Duffy, R., Kessels, W.M.M., Bol, A.A., “Atomic Layer Deposition of Large-Area Polycrystalline Transition Metal Dichalcogenides from 100 °C through Control of Plasma Chemistry”, (2022) Chemistry of Materials, .DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c01154
• S. Iadanza, J. H. Mendoza-Castro, T. Oliveira, S. M. Butler, A. Tedesco, G. Giannino, B. Lendl, M. Grande, and L. O’Faolain, “High-Q asymmetrically cladded silicon nitride 1D photonic crystals cavities and hybrid external cavity lasers for sensing in air and liquids“, Nanophotonics 2022; 11(18): 4183–4196  doi:10.1515/nanoph-2022-0245

• Mircea Dragoman, Martino Aldrigo, Daniela Dragoman, Sergiu Iordanescu, Adrian Dinescu, Silviu Vulpe & Mircea Modreanu (2022) “Ferroelectrics at the nanoscale: materials and devices – a critical review”, Critical Reviews in Solid State and Materials Sciences, DOI: 10.1080/10408436.2022.2083579 
• Yael Gutiérrez, Anna P. Ovvyan, Gonzalo Santos, Dilson Juan, Saul A. Rosales, Javier Junquera, Pablo García-Fernández, Stefano Dicorato, Maria M. Giangregorio, Elena Dilonardo, Fabio Palumbo, Mircea Modreanu, “Interlaboratory study on Sb2S3 interplay between structure, dielectric function, and amorphous-to-crystalline phase change for photonics” iScience, Volume 25, Issue 6, 2022,104377, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.104377
• S. Saedy, N. Hiemstra, D. Benz, H. Van Bui, M. Nolan and J. R. van Ommen,  “Dual promotional effect of CuxO clusters grown with atomic layer deposition on TiO2 for photocatalytic hydrogen production”, Catal. Sci. Technol., 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2CY00400C.
• Ramin Ghiyasi, Anish Philip, Ji Liu, Jaakko Julin, Timo Sajavaara, Michael Nolan, and Maarit Karppinen “Atomic Layer Deposition of Intermetallic Fe4Zn9 Thin Films from Diethyl Zinc”, Chemistry of Materials” Article ASAP DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c00907

• Varo, S., Juska, G. & Pelucchi, E., “An intuitive protocol for polarization-entanglement restoral of quantum dot photon sources with non-vanishing fine-structure splitting” Sci Rep 12, 4723 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-08535-z
• Dastan, Davoud, Keb, Jafari, Azadeh, Gity, Farzan,  Xi-Tao Yin,  X.-T., Shi, Zhicheng, Alharbi, Najlaa D., Reshi, Bilal Ahmad, Fu, Wenbin, Ţălu, Ştefan, Aljerf, Loai,  Garmestani, Hamid, Ansari, Lida, “Influence of nitrogen concentration on electrical, mechanical, and structural properties of tantalum nitride thin films prepared via DC magnetron sputtering”, Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing,  Volume 128, Issue 5May 2022 Article number 400, DOI: 10.1007/s00339-022-05501-4
• M. P. Jiang, S. Fahy, A. Hauber, É. D. Murray, I. Savić, C. Bray, J. N. Clark, T. Henighan, M. Kozina, A. M. Lindenberg, P. Zalden, M. Chollet, J. M. Glownia, M. C. Hoffmann, T. Sato, D. Zhu, O. Delaire, A. F. May, B. C. Sales, R. Merlin, M. Trigo, D. A.  Reis, “Structural DynamicsObservation of photo-induced plasmon–phonon coupling in PbTe via ultrafast x-ray scattering”, Structural Dynamics 9, 024301 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1063/4.0000133
• Parmish Kaur, Arbresha Muriqi, Jan-Lucas Wree, Ramin Ghiyasi, Muhammad Safdar, Michael Nolan, Maarit Karppinen, Anjana Devi, Dalton Transactions, “Atomic/Molecular Layer Deposition of Cerium (III) Hybrid Thin Films using Rigid Organic Precursors“https://doi.org/10.1039/D2DT00353H
• Daniel Field, James W Pomeroy, Farzan Gity, Michael Schmidt, Pasqualino Torchia, Fan Li, Peter M Gammon, Vishal A Shah, Martin Kuball , Appl. Phys. Lett. 120, 113503 (2022) “Thermal characterization of direct wafer bonded Si-on-SiC“, https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0080668 
• Lynette Keeney, Ian Povey: In book ‘Tailored Functional Oxide Nanomaterials’, “Vapor Phase Growth of Metal‐Oxide Thin Films and Nanostructures”, DOI:10.1002/9783527826940.ch1

• J. Liu, H. Lu, D. W. Zhang and M. Nolan, “Self-limiting Nitrogen/Hydrogen Plasma Radical Chemistry in Plasma-Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition of Cobalt”, Nanoscale,  2022 DOI: 10.1039/D1NR05568B
• S. Simeonov, A. Szekeres, D. Spassov, M. Anastasescu, I. Stanculescu, M. Nicolescu, E.  Aperathitis, M. Modreanu, M.  Gartner, “Investigation of the Effects of Rapid Thermal Annealing on the Electron Transport Mechanism in Nitrogen-Doped ZnO Thin Films Grown by RF Magnetron Sputtering”,  Nanomaterials 2021 Dec 22;12(1):19 doi: 10.3390/nano12010019
• Kalani Moore, Eoghan N. O’Connell, Sinéad M. Griffin, Clive Downing, Louise Colfer, Michael Schmidt, Valeria Nicolosi, Ursel Bangert, Lynette Keeney* and Michele Conroy*, “Charged Domain Wall and Polar Vortex Topologies in a Room-Temperature Magnetoelectric Multiferroic Thin Film” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2022 14 (4), 5525-5536 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c17383

• V. Kumaravel, M. Barbara Maccioni, S. Mathew, S. J. Hinder, J. Bartlett, M. Nolan, S. C. Pillai, “Unravelling the impact of Ta doping on the electronic and structural properties of titania: A combined theoretical and experimental approach” Journal of Physical Chemistry C https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c10805 

• E. Pelucchi, G. Fagas, I. Aharonovich, D. Englund, E. Figueroa, Q. Gong, H. Hannes, J. Liu, C.-Y. Lu, N. Matsuda, J.-W. Pan, F. Schreck, F. Sciarrino, C. Silberhorn, J. Wang & K.D. Jöns, “The potential and global outlook of integrated photonics for quantum technologies”, Nature Reviews Physics  https://doi.org/10.1038/s42254-021-00398-z
• Cara-Lena Nies, Suresh K. Natarajan, Michael Nolan, “Control of the Cu morphology on Ru-passivated and Ru-doped TaN surfaces – promoting growth of 2D conducting copper for CMOS interconnects”,  Chemical Science https://doi.org/10.1039/D1SC04708F
• Sebastian MJ Beer, Arbresha Muriqi, Patrick Lindner, Manuela Winter, Detlef Rogalla, Michael Nolan, Andreas Ney, Jörg Debus, Anjana Devi, “Ferromagnetic Europium Sulfide Thin Films: Influence of Precursors on Magneto-Optical Properties” , Chemistry of Materials  https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c02958
• F. Riedewald, E. Wilson, Y. Patel, D. Vogt, I. Povey, K. Barton, L. Lewis, T. Caris, S. Santos, M. O’Mahoney, M. Sousa-Gallagher, “Recycling of aluminium laminated pouches and Tetra Pak cartons by molten metal pyrolysis–Pilot-scale experiments and economic analysis”, Waste Management, 138 (2022)172  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2021.11.049
• Jennifer Halpin, Lynette Keeney, “Naturally Layered Aurivillius Phases: Flexible Scaffolds for the Design of Multiferroic Materials”, OAJ Materials and Devices, 5(1) (2021). http://caip.co-ac.com/index.php/materialsanddevices/article/view/13

2021 Publications

•  M. Clementi, S. Iadanza, S. A. Schulz, G. Urbinati, D. Gerace, L. O’Faolain, and M. Gall, “Thermo-optically induced transparency on a photonic chip”. Light Sci Appl 10, 240 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-021-00678-4
• Lynette Keeney, Louise Colfer, Michael Schmidt, “Probing Ferroelectric Behavior in Sub-10 nm Bismuth-Rich Aurivillius Films by Piezoresponse Force Microscopy”, Microscopy and Microanalysis, 1-11 (2021) doi:10.1017/S1431927621013726
• A. Curran, F. Gity, A.  Gocalinska, E. Mura, R.E. Nagle, M. Schmidt, B.Sheehan, E.Pelucchi, C. O’Dwyer, P.K. Hurley, “High Hole Mobility Polycrystalline GaSb Thin Film”, Crystals 2021, 11, 1348. https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst1111134
• J. Muñoz-Gorriz, S. Monaghan, K. Cherkaoui, J. Suñé, P.K. Hurley, E. Miranda, “Application of artificial neural networks to the identification of weak electrical regions in large area MIM structures”, Microelectronics Reliability,2021,114312, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microrel.2021.114312.
• Mantu K. Hudait, Felipe Murphy-Armando, Dzianis Saladukha, Michael B. Clavel, Patrick S. Goley, Deepam Maurya, Shuvodip Bhattacharya, and Tomasz J. Ochalski, “Design, Theoretical, and Experimental Investigation of Tensile-Strained Germanium Quantum-Well Laser Structure”,ACS Applied Electronic Materials 2021 3 (10), 4535-4547,DOI: 10.1021/acsaelm.1c00660
• M. Dragoman, M. Aldrigo, D. Dragoman, S. Iordanescu, A. Dinescu and M. Modreanu, “The Rise of Ferroelectricity at Nanoscale: Nanoelectronics is rediscovering the ferroelectricity,” in IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 8-19, Oct. 2021, doi: 10.1109/MNANO.2021.3098217.
• Scott Monaghan, Emma M. Coleman, Lida Ansari, Jun Lin,  Alexandra Buttimer, Patrick A. Coleman, James Connolly, Ian M. Povey, Bryan Kelleher, Cormac Ó Coileáin, Niall McEvoy, Paul K. Hurley,  Farzan Gity, “Structural and Electrical Characterisation of PtS from H2S-Converted Pt” Applied Materials Today 25 (2021) 101163        https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmt.2021.101163
• A.S. Vorobev, G.V. Bianco, G. Bruno, A. D’Orazio, L. O’Faolain, M. Grande, “Tuning of Graphene-Based Optical Devices Operating in the Near- Infrared”   Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(18), 8367 https://doi.org/10.3390/app11188367       
• Nazar Farid, Adam Brunton, Phil Rumsby, Scott Monaghan, Ray Duffy,   Paul Hurley, Mingqing Wang, Kwang-Leong Choy, and Gerard M. O’Connor, “Femtosecond Laser-Induced Crystallization of Amorphous Silicon Thin Films under a Thin Molybdenum Layer”, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c07083  (2021).
•  Pauline Hauchecorne, Farzan Gity, Mickael Martin, Hanako Okuno, Shubhadeep Bhattacharjee, Jérémy Moeyaert, Denis Rouchon, Bérangère Hyot, Paul K. Hurley, and Thierry Baron, “Gallium Selenide Nanoribbons on Silicon Substrates for Photodetection”, ACS Applied Nano Materials Article ASAP DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.1c01141 
• E. Coleman, G. Mirabelli, P. Bolshakov, P. Zhao, E. Caruso, F. Gity, S. Monaghan, K. Cherkaoui,  V. Balestra, R.M. Wallace, C.D. Young, R. Duffy, P.K. Hurley, “Investigating interface states and oxide traps in the MoS2/oxide/Si system” Solid-State Electronics, Volume 186 (2021) 108123, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sse.2021.108123 
• E. Caruso, J. Lin, S. Monaghan, K. Cherkaoui, L. Floyd, F. Gity, P. Palestri, D. Esseni, L. Selmi, P.K. Hurley, “On the interpretation of MOS impedance data in both series and parallel circuit topologies”, Solid-State Electronics,185 (2021)108098, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sse.2021.108098  

• E. Coleman, G., Mirabelli, P. Bolshakov, P. Zhao, E. Caruso, Farzan Gity, Scott Monaghan, Karim Cherkaoui, V. Balestra, R.M. Wallace, C.D. Young, Ray Duffy, Paul K. Hurley, “Investigating interface states and oxide traps in the MoS2/oxide/Si system”, (2021) Solid-State Electronics, 186, art. no. 108123, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sse.2021.108123
•  Đorđe Dangić, O. Hellman, Stephen Fahy, and Ivana Savić, “The origin of the lattice thermal conductivity enhancement at the ferroelectric phase transition in GeTe”, (2021) npj Computational Materials, 7 (1), art. no. 57, DOI: 10.1038/s41524-021-00523-7
• E. Caruso, J. Lin, S Monaghan, K. Cherkaoui, L.  Floyd, Farzan Gity, P, Palestri, D. Esseni, L. Selmi, P.K. Hurley, “On the interpretation of MOS impedance data in both series and parallel circuit topologies” (2021) Solid-State Electronics, 185, art. no. 108098, DOI: 10.1016/j.sse.2021.108098
• J. Cao, Đorđe Dangić, Jose Querales-Flores ,Stephen Fahy, and Ivana Savić, “Electron-phonon coupling and electronic thermoelectric properties of n -type PbTe driven near the soft-mode phase transition via lattice expansion” (2021) Physical Review B, 104 (4), art. no. 045202, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.104.045202
• M. Losurdo, F. Moreno, C. Cobet, M. Modreanu, W. Pernice, “Plasmonics: Enabling functionalities with novel materials”(2021) Journal of Applied Physics, 129 (22), art. no. 220401, DOI: 10.1063/5.0056296
• H. McAleese, Gediminas Juska, I.R.  Jahromi, Emanuele Pelucchi, A.  Ferraro, M. Paternostro, “Distributing entanglement with separable states: assessment of encoding and decoding imperfections”, (2021) Quantum Information Processing, 20 (6), art. no. 210, DOI: 10.1007/s11128-021-03133-w

• C. Marquez, N. Salazar, Farzan Gity, J.C. Galdon, C.  Navarro, C. Sampedro, P.K. Hurley, E.Y. Chang, F. Gamiz, “Hysteresis in as-synthesized mos2 transistors: Origin and sensing perspectives” (2021) Micromachines, 12 (6), art. no. 646, DOI: 10.3390/mi12060646
• O.J. Pemble, M. Bardosova, Ian M. Povey, M.E. Pemble, “A slot-die technique for the preparation of continuous, high-area, chitosan-based thin films” (2021) Polymers, 13 (10), art. no. 1566, DOI: 10.3390/polym13101566
• C. Aivalioti, A. Papadakis, E. Manidakis, M. Kayambaki, M. Androulidaki, K. Tsagaraki, N.T. Pelekanos, C. Stoumpos, C., Mircea Modreanu., G.  Crăciun, C. Romanitan, E. Aperathitis “Transparent all-oxide hybrid nio:N/tio2 heterostructure for optoelectronic applications” (2021) Electronics (Switzerland), 10 (9), art. no. 988, DOI: 10.3390/electronics10090988
• M. Dragoman, M.  Aldrigo, D.  Dragoman, Ian M. Povey, S. Iordanescu, A. Dinescu, Mircea Modreanu, “HfO2-Based Ferroelectrics Applications in Nanoelectronics”, (2021) Physica Status Solidi – Rapid Research Letters, 15 (5), art. no. 2000521, DOI: 10.1002/pssr.202000521
• A. Di Bartolomeo, F.  Urban, E. Faella, A. Grillo, A. Pelella, F. Giubileo, M.B. Askari, N. McEvoy, Farzan Gity, Paul K.  Hurley, “PtSe2phototransistors with negative photoconductivity” (2021) Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1866 (1), art. no. 012001, . DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/1866/1/012001
• T.P. Sheerin, D.S.P. Tanner, Stefan Schulz , “Atomistic analysis of piezoelectric potential fluctuations in zinc-blende InGaN/GaN quantum wells: A Stillinger-Weber potential based analysis” (2021) Physical Review B, 103 (16), art. no. 165201, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.103.165201

• E.E. Mura, A.M. Gocalinska, M. O’Brien, R. Loi, Gediminas Juska, S.T. Moroni, J., O’Callaghan, M. Arredondo, B. Corbett, Emanuele Pelucchi, “Importance of Overcoming MOVPE Surface Evolution Instabilities for >1.3 μm Metamorphic Lasers on GaAs”(2021) Crystal Growth and Design, 21 (4), pp. 2068-2075. DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.0c01498
• S. Rhatigan, L.  Niemitz, Michael Nolan, “Modification of TiO2 with metal chalcogenide nanoclusters for hydrogen evolution” (2021) JPhys Energy, 3 (2), art. no. 025001, DOI: 10.1088/2515-7655/abe424
• F. Platero, A. López-Martín, A.Caballero, T.C. Rojas, Michael Nolan, G. Colón, “Overcoming Pd-TiO2Deactivation during H2Production from Photoreforming Using Cu@Pd Nanoparticles Supported on TiO2(2021)”, ACS Applied Nano Materials, 4 (3), pp. 3204-3219
• S. Kondati Natarajan, Michael Nolan, P. Theofanis, C. Mokhtarzadeh, S.B. Clendenning, “In silico design of a thermal atomic layer etch process of cobalt”, (2021) Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A: Vacuum, Surfaces and Films, 39 (2), art. no. 022603, DOI: 10.1116/6.0000804
• D.  Chaudhuri, M.  O’Donovan, T. Streckenbach, O. Marquardt, P. Farrell, S.K. Patra, T. Koprucki, Stefan Schulz, “Multiscale simulations of the electronic structure of III-nitride quantum wells with varied indium content: Connecting atomistic and continuum-based models” (2021) Journal of Applied Physics, 129 (7), art. no. 073104, DOI: 10.1063/5.0031514
• I. Ranjbar Jahromi, Gediminas Juska, S. Varo, F. Basso Basset, F. Salusti, R Trotta, A. Gocalinska, F. Mattana, Emanuele Pelucchi “Optical properties and symmetry optimization of spectrally (excitonically) uniform site-controlled GaAs pyramidal quantum dots”(2021) Applied Physics Letters, 118 (7), art. no. 073103, DOI: 10.1063/5.0030296
• A. Curran, A. Gocalinska, A. Pescaglini, E. Secco, E. Mura, K. Thomas, R.E. Nagle, B.  Sheehan, Ian M. Povey, Emanuele Pelucchi, C. O’Dwyer, Paul K. Hurley, F. Gity, “Structural and electronic properties of polycrystalline inas thin films deposited on silicon dioxide and glass at temperatures below 500◦C” (2021) Crystals, 11 (2), art. no. 160, pp. 1-11 DOI: 10.3390/cryst11020160
• V.V. Kotlyar, S.S. Stafeev, A.G. Nalimov, Liam O’Faolain ,M.V.  Kotlyar, “A dual-functionality metalens to shape a circularly polarized optical vortex or a second-order cylindrical vector beam”, (2021) Photonics and Nanostructures – Fundamentals and Applications, 43, art. no. 100898, DOI: 10.1016/j.photonics.2021.100898
• G.M. Salgado, D. O’Hare, Ivan O’Connell, “Recent Advances and Trends in Noise Shaping SAR ADCs”,(2021) IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, 68 (2), art. no. 9300225, pp. 545-549 DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2020.3046170
• M.V. Kotlyar, S.  Iadanza, Liam O’Faolain, “Lithium Niobate Fabry-Perot microcavity based on strip loaded waveguides”, (2021) Photonics and Nanostructures – Fundamentals and Applications, 43, art. no. 100886, DOI: 10.1016/j.photonics.2020.100886
• M. Dragoman, M.  Aldrigo, D.  Dragoman, Ian M. Povey, S. Iordanescu, A. Dinescu, A. Di Donato, Mircea Modreanu, “Multifunctionalities of 2D MoS2 self-switching diode as memristor and photodetector”,(2021) Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, 126, art. no. 114451 DOI: 10.1016/j.physe.2020.114451
• M. Noor-A-Alam, O.Z. Olszewski, H. Campanella, Michael Nolan, “Large Piezoelectric Response and Ferroelectricity in Li and V/Nb/Ta Co-Doped w-AlN”, (2021) ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 13 (1), pp. 944-954 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c19620
• S.S. Stafeev, A.G.  Nalimov, V.V., Kotlyar, Liam O’Faolain, M.V. Kotlyar, “Metalens for energy backflow”,(2021) Proceedings of SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering, 11793, art. no. 117930T, DOI: 10.1117/12.2593241
• S. Cuyvers, B. Haq, C. Op de Beeck, S. Poelman, A. Hermans, Z. Wang, A. Gocalinska, Emanuele Pelucchi, B. Corbett, G. Roelkens, K. Van Gasse, B. Kuyken, “Low Noise Heterogeneous III-V-on-Silicon-Nitride Mode-Locked Comb Laser”(2021) Laser and Photonics Reviews, DOI: 10.1002/lpor.202000485
• E. Galluccio, G. Mirabelli, A. Harvey, M. Conroy, E. Napolitani, Ray Duffy, “Cell formation in stanogermanides using pulsed laser thermal anneal on Ge0.91Sn0.09”, (2021) Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 121, art. no. 105399  DOI: 10.1016/j.mssp.2020.105399

• Lynette Keeney, Zineb Saghi, Marita O’Sullivan, Jonathon Alaria, Michael Schmidt, Louise Colfer, “Persistence of ferroelectricity close to unit-cell thickness in structurally disordered Aurivillius phases, Chemistry of Materials”, 32, 10511 (2021); DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c03454
• Kuanysh Zhussupbekov*, Lida Ansari*, John B McManus, Ainur Zhussupbekova, Igor V Shvets, Georg S Duesberg, Paul K Hurley, Farzan Gity**, Cormac Ó Coileáin, Niall McEvoy, “Imaging and identification of point defects in PtTe2,” npj 2D Materials and Applications 5, 14 (2021); DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41699-020-00196-8
• Đorđe Dangić, Stephen Fahy, and Ivana Savić, “Giant thermoelectric power factor in charged ferroelectric domain walls of GeTe with Van Hove singularities”,npj Comput Mater 6, 195 (2020); DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41524-020-00468-3
• Jun Lin, Scott Monaghan, Neha Sakhuja, Farzan Gity, Ravindra Kumar Jha, Emma M Coleman, James Connolly, Conor P Cullen, Lee A Walsh, Teresa Mannarino, Michael Schmidt, Brendan Sheehan, Georg S Duesberg, Niall McEvoy, Navakanta Bhat, Paul K Hurley, Ian M Povey, Shubhadeep Bhattacharjee, “Large-area growth of MoS2 at temperatures compatible with integrating back-end-of-line functionality” 2D Materials 8, 025008 (2021); DOI: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2053-1583/abc460/pdf
• Ji Liu, Hong-Liang Lu, David Wei Zhang and Michael Nolan, “Reactions of Ruthenium Cyclopentadienyl Precursor in the Metal Precursor Pulse of Ru Atomic Layer Deposition” J. Mater. Chem. C, 2021, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D0TC03910A
• Subhajit Biswas, Jessica Doherty, Emmanuele Galluccio, Hugh G. Manning, Michele Conroy, Ray Duffy, Ursel Bangert, John J. Boland, Justin D. Holmes, “Stretching the Equilibrium Limit of Sn in Ge1xSnx Nanowires: Implications for Field Effect Transistors”, ACS Applied Nano Materials Manuscript Status: Published; DOI : https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.0c02569
• Parmish Kaur  Lukas Mai  Arbresha Muriqi  David Zanders  Ramin Ghiyasi, Muhammad Safdar  Nils Boysen  Manuela Winter,  Michael Nolan, Maarit Karppinen,  Anjana Devi, “Rational Development of Guanidinate and Amidinate Based Cerium and Ytterbium Complexes as Atomic Layer Deposition Precursors: Synthesis, Modeling, and Application” Chemistry A European Journal https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202003907 . Open Access
• Farzan Gity, Fintan Meaney, Anya Curran, Paul K Hurley, Stephen Fahy, Ray Duffy, Lida Ansari, “Doping of ultra-thin Si films: Combined first-principles calculations and experimental study,” Journal of Applied Physics 129, 015701 (2021);  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0035693 This paper is featured as the cover letter of the Journal of Applied Physics 
• Jennifer Halpin, Michael Schmidt, Tuhin Maity, Martyn E. Pemble, Lynette Keeney, “Compositional tuning of the Aurivillius phase material Bi5Ti3-2xFe1+xNbxO15 (0≤x≤0.4) grown by chemical solution deposition and its influence on the structural, magnetic and optical properties of the material”, (2021) IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 68, 303 (2021). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TUFFC.2020.2997406
• Mircea Dragoman,  Martino Aldrigo,  Daniela Dragoman,  Sergiu Iordanescu,  Adrian Dinescu,  Mircea Modreanu, “HfO2‐based Ferroelectrics Applications in Nanoelectronics” physica status solidi Rapid Research Letters,  https://doi.org/10.1002/pssr.202000521