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Position Paper

Giorgos Fagas: Publication of Tyndall Position Paper on ‘Ireland’s role in the global semiconductor industry’ (featured in Irish Times, Business Post, Irish Examiner, Silicon Republic). https://www.tyndall.ie/news/tyndall-calls-for-a-chips-strategy-for-ireland//

New Awards

  • Samuel Delgado ( Mentor Michael Nolan): “Digital Twin of Memristive Memory Design and Fabrication for Neuromorphic Computing (DigiMemNeuro)“, SFI-IRC Pathways
  • Sabir Hussain (Mentor Lynette Keeney): “Two-dimensional Semiconductor–Ferroelectric Heterostructures for Disruptive Memory Storage Applications”. SFI-IRC Pathways
  • Cara-Lena Nies (Supervisor Michael Nolan) has been awarded a Research Ireland (formerly IRC) Postdoc Fellowship for her project “Selective capture, elimination and conversion of NOx pollutants using dynamic ferro- and piezoelectric catalysts (DYNAMOCAT)

  • J. Obenlüneschloß, N. Boysen, K. Rönnby, A. Muriqi, V. Hoffmann, C. Abad, D. Rogalla, U. Brokmann, E. Rädlein, M. Nolan, A. Devi, “Rare Mononuclear Lithium–Carbene Complex for Atomic Layer Deposition of Lithium Containing Thin Films”; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, e202513066. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202513066
  • Michele Perego, Alessia Motta, Karl Rönnby, Forest Tung Jie Yap, Gabriele Seguini, Claudia Wiemer, and Michael Nolan, “On the Differences in Trimethylaluminum Infiltration into PMMA and PLA Polymers for Sequential Infiltration Synthesis: Insights from Experiments and First-Principles Simulations”; ACS Applied Polymer Materials Article ASAP DOI: 10.1021/acsapm.5c02680
  • A. Tonon, A. Gupta, E. Di Russo, B. Sheehan, P. Metaxa, A. Arifutzzaman, J. Connolly, J. Lin, I. Povey, F. Sgarbossa, D. De Salvador, E. Napolitani, R. Duffy; Rapid, versatile, and reliable metrology for multi-layer transition metal dichalcogenide thin films using atomic force microscopy to investigate surface grain distributions. Appl. Phys. Lett. 22 September 2025; 127 (12): 123102. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0276152
  • Florian Preischel, Karl Rönnby, Lukas Mai, David Zanders, Detlef Rogalla, Bert Mallick, Michael Nolan, and Anjana Devi; “Near Room-Temperature Atomic Layer Deposition of Magnesium Oxide Using Bis-3-(N,N-dimethylamino)propyl Magnesium(II) and Water”; Journal of the American Chemical Society 2025 147 (35), 31764-31778   DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c08514 
  • V. Patil, H. Neill, B. Sheehan, P. K. Hurley, L. Ansari, and F. Gity, “ Dopingless Ambipolar Field-Effect Transistors Based on MoTe2 2D Material for CMOS Nanoelectronics.” Adv. Electron. Mater. (2025): e00305. https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.202500305
  • Khushabu. S. Agrawal, Paolo LaTorraca, Jonas Valentijn, Roberta Hawkins, Adam A. Gruszecki, Joy Roy, Vasily Lebedev, Lewys Jones, Robert M. Wallace, Chadwin D. Young, Paul K. Hurley, Karim Cherkaoui; “Defects in the  β-Ga2O3(2̅01)/HfO2 MOS system and the effect of thermal treatment”; Accepted in APL materials. Pre-print: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2502.17112