NAP visitors | Carrying out research @ Tyndall

Whilst some projects involve Tyndall staff carrying out various processes others give external researchers an opportunity to visit Tyndall and carry out their own research onsite.

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NAP 256 | Title: Development of embossed plasmonic sensors
Author: Dr. R. Pollard
Institute: Queens University Belfast

Dr. Richard Winfield (Tyndall), Dr. Robert Pollard (QUB), Dr. John McPhillips (QUB), Dr. Jing Rao (Tyndall)
touring the research facilities after the project kickoff meeting at Tyndall in November 2009

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NAP 255 | Title: Development of a Small Geometry Low Power Silicon Synapse as a Building Block for Large Scale SNNs in Hardware
Author: Dr. Jim Harkin
Institute: University of Ulster

Dr. Liam McDaid (UU), Dr. Jim Harkin, (UU), Prof. Steve Hall (Liverpool University),
Dr. Alan Mathewson (Tyndall) and Dr. John Doyle (Tyndall)
at the project kick off meeting in November 2009

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NAP 251 | Title: Sweat Sensor for Sports Physiological Monitoring
Author: Dr. Shirley Coyle, Dr. Fernando Benito-Lopez, Prof. Dermot Diamond
Institute: Dublin City University

Javier Torres-Sanchez (Tyndall), Philip Angove (NAP engineer Tyndall)
Dr. Shirley Coyle (DCU) and Dr. Fernando Benito-Lopez (DCU)
attending the project kickoff meeting in November '09

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NAP 242 | Title: Carbon nanotubes/polysulfone composites
Author: Dr. Dorian Dixon
Institute: University of Ulster

Thomas Dooher (left) from the University of Ulster-Jordanstown visited Tyndall in December 2009
to carry out SEM analysis on carbon nanotube samples, also included is Paul Roseingrave (Tyndall)

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NAP 241 | Title: Wideband millimetre-wave system packaging
Author: Prof. Vincent Fusco, Dr. D. Linton
Institute: Queens University Belfast

(l to r) Mr. Finbarr Waldron (Tyndall) & Dmitry Zelenchuk (QUB)
discussing the project schedule during the kickoff meeting at Tyndall

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NAP 227 | Title: Micromechanical modelling of normal, drug treated and osteoporotic bone using Scanning Acoustic Microscopy
Author: Patrick Wulliamoz
Institute: Trinity College Dublin

(l to r) Tony Compagno (Tyndall) & Patrick Wulliamoz (TCD) analysing samples using the Scanning Acoustic Microscope

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NAP 224 | Title: Investigation of the acoustic properties and homogeneity of a range of materials for ultrasound test phantoms
Author: Louise Cannon
Institute: Dublin Institute of Technology

Louise Cannon (DIT) using the Scanning Acoustic Microscope to analyse samples

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NAP 219 | Title: Formation of Bessel beam using conical refraction for 2-photon ploymerisation
Author: Prof. James G. Lunney
Institute: Trinity College Dublin

Ciaran Phelan (TCD) and Dr. Richard Winfield setting up the conical refraction experiment	Dr. Richard Winfield discussing experimental results with Ciaran Phelan (TCD) & Prof. James Lunney (TCD)

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NAP 217 | Title: Energy-aware Intelligent Wireless Sensor Networks
Author: Richard Tynan, Michael O’Grady, Gregory O’Hare
Institute: University College Dublin

Wassim Magnin (Tyndall), Dr. Richard Tynan (UCD), Philip Angove(NAP enginner) & Dr. Michael O'Grady (UCD) at the NAP project kick off meeting - May 09	Brendan O'Flynn(T), John Barton (T), Dr. Richard Tynan (UCD), Dr. Michael O'Grady (UCD), Wassim Magnin (T) & Philip Angove (NAP enginner) during a progress meeting at Tyndall - October 09

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NAP 215 | Title: Fabrication and characterisation of impedance sensors on silicon/glass with varied gap and pitch interdigitated electrode structure designs
Author: Prof. James A. McLaughlin
Institute: University of Ulster

Dr. Patrick Dunlop (UU-J), Dr. Eyad Hamad (UU-J)
& Dr. Eric Moore (Tyndall) at the project kick-off meeting in July 09

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NAP 214 | Title: Fabrication of carbon nanotube arrays in microfluidic channels/devices and their applications for blood analytes separation and detection
Author: Dr. Susanta Sinha Roy
Institute: University of Ulster - Jordanstown

Ashish Mathur (UU-J PhD student), Dan O'Connell (Tyndall process engineer) and Dr. Susanta Roy (UU-J)
disucssing fabrication process details of the project at Tyndall

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NAP 211 | Title: Spatially Augmented Audio Presentation
Author: Prof. Alan F. Smeaton/Graham Healy
Institute: Dublin City University

Philip Angove (NAP engineer Tyndall) & Graham Healy (DCU) '09	Tyndall ultrasonic & inertial sensor RF headband	Prof. Alan Smeaton(DCU), Graham Healy (DCU) & Philip Angove (NAP engineer, Tyndall) '10

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NAP 210 | Title: Polymer-based ion-selective electrodes in wireless sensing networks for water quality monitoring
Author: Dr. Aleksandar Radu & Prof. Dermot Diamond
Institute: Dublin City University

Project kick off meeting at Tyndall on 18-6-09 (LtoR) Philip Angove (NAP engineer, Tyndall) Dr. Salzitsa Anastasova (Clarity-DCU), Dr. Alexsandar Radu (Clarity-DCU), Dr. John Alderman (Life Science Interface-T), Finbarr Quinlan (PhD Student-T), John Doyle (Design Engineer-T)	Progress meeting at Tyndall on 7-9-09 (LtoR) Prof. Brian Corcoran (Prof at School of Engineering DCU), Dr. Alexsandar Radu (Clarity-DCU), Philip Angove (NAP engineer, Tyndall), Dr. Alan Mathewson (T), Finbarr Quinlan (T), Stephen Byrne (DCU), Dillon Orpen (Mechanical Engineering - DCU), John Doyle (T)

 

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NAP 209 | Title: Estimating Tennis Player Motion via Inertial and Visual Sensing
Author: Dr. Ciarán Ó Conaire
Institute: Dublin City University

Graham Healy (DCU), Mark Gaffney (Tyndall) & Dr. Dr. Ciarán Ó Conaire (DCU)

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NAP 208 | Title: Atomic Layer Deposition of Pre-assembled Microfluidic Chips
Author: Dr. Ram Prasad Gandhiraman
Institute: Dublin City University

Conor Coyle (DCU), Dr. Ian Pover(Tyndall), Dr. Ram Prasad Gandhiraman (DCU)
and Prof. Martyn Pemble (Tyndall) at the project kick off meeting in Tyndall

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NAP 205 | Title: Raman spectroscopy as a non-destructive methodology to monitor stem cell differentiation and cellular processes in vitro
Author: Dr. George A. Burke
Institute: University of Ulster

Ms. Linzi Charters (PhD student in UU) and Dr. Mircea Modreanu (Tyndall) carrying
out analysis on stem cell samples on the Micro Raman Spectrometer

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NAP 204 | Title: Development of novel low-complexity models and optimised voltage actuation strategies for electrostatic RF-MEMS - using nonlinear system identification and advanced control
Author: Dr. Marcin Cychowski
Institute: Cork Institute of Technology

Neil Canty (CIT) & John Love (CIT) testing MEMS switches at Tyndall (Feb 09)

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NAP 203 | Title: Oligonucleotide modified nanopore membranes
Author: Dr. Barry Glynn
Institute: NUI Galway

Dr. Barry Glynn (NUIG), Dr. Gregoire Herzog (Tyndall)  and Dr. Jon Ellis (Tyndall)

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NAP 199 | Title: Micro-reactor system for bio-fuel generation
Author: Professor Toshko Zhelev
Institute: University of Limerick

Project Kick off meeting 19/Feb/09 (L/R) Prof. Toshko Zhelev (UL) , Dr. Erzeng Xue (UL), Tom Healy (NAP team), Richard Murphy (CAD-Central Farication Facility), Jaap Verheggen (NAP MEMS Engineer) & Joe O'Brien (Microsystems engineer-Central Fabrication Facility)	21st September 2009 Jaap Verheggen (NAP MEMS Engineer) & Padraig Mac Suibhne (PhD student UL) working on the Coventorware MEMS simulation package

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NAP 193 | Title: Site preference of ternary elements in binary NiTi alloys
Author: Dr. Syed Fotail
Institute: University of Limerick

Dr. Damien Thompson (Tyndall), Dr. Michael Nolan (Tyndall), X, Dr. Syed Tofail, X

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NAP 184 | Title: Ink-Jetting of NUI Galway’s ArgentinkTM’ silver nanoparticles
Author: Dr. Patrick Fournet
Institute: NUI Galway

Paul Tassie (Tyndall), Dr. Frank Stam (Tyndall) & Dr. Patrick Fournet (NUIG) in the processing lab.	Ink-Jet JetLab II Dispense instrument used for deposition	Dr. Patrick Fournet (NUIG) & Sarah Boyle (Tyndall) characterising the deposited Ag nanoparticles

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NAP 183 | Title: Smart System for Monitoring Concrete Curing & Structural Health
Author: Dr. Gerard Kelly
Institute: Cork Institute of Technology

Philip Angove (NAP engineer) & Bill Quinn (CIT PhD student)	Tyndall wireless motes with antennas attached	Wireless humidity sensor capsule for monitoring cement curing

Tony Compagno (Tyndall) & Bill Quinn (CIT) carrying out humidity tests in the Reliability Laboratory

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NAP 182 | Title: Characterisation of polymers modified with metal nanomaterials and supramolecular cages
Author: Enrico Andreoli
Institute: NUI Maynooth

Enrico Andreoli (MUIM) and Vincent Lodge (SEM lab-Tyndall) imaging samples in the SEM laboratory	Enrico Andreoli (MUIM), Vincent Lodge (SEM lab-Tyndall), and Thomas Healy (Tyndall NAP team) discuss the project progress

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NAP 179 | Title: Fabrication of the optical core of an integrated ratiometric wavelength monitoring device based on Silicon On Insulator (SOI) technology
Author: Agus Hatta
Institute: Dublin Institute of Technology

Harendra Fernando (Tyndall) and Agus Hatta (DIT) discussing the workplan schedule

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NAP 172 | Title: Manufacture of pinhole array masks for CCDs for superresolution in digital holography
Author: Dr. Bryan Hennelly & Thomas Naughton
Institute: NUI Maynooth

Jaap Verheggen (NAP MEMS Engineer) and Dr. Bryan Hennelly (NUIM)
working in the laboratory on the pinhole array for the camera

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NAP 171 | Title: LED – optical filter – optical fibre (LED-OF²) micro-packaged light source devise for fluorescence detection in capillary, microcolumn and microfluidic chip formats
Author: Dr. Mirek Macka
Institute: Dublin City University

Dr. Mirek Macka & Marketa Ryvolova from DCU at the project
kickoff meeting along with Tyndall researchers

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NAP 167 | Title: Characterisation and Simulation of Notched Micro-beams for Investigation of Failure Mechanisms under Shock and Vibration Stimuli
Author: Michael Sheehy
Institute: University of Limerick

Jaap Verheggen (Tyndall) and Michael Sheehy (UL)	The Zygo white-light interferometer used during the project

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NAP 165 | Title: EMμ – Electroactive Monolith μChip – The Next Generation of Separation Science
Author: Prof. Malcolm Smyth
Institute: Dublin City University

Jeremy Galineau (DCU) Jaap Verheggen (Tyndall), Joe O'Brien (Tyndall)
& Dr. Blanaid White (DCU) at the project kick-off meeting

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NAP 162 | Title: Fabrication of a Carbon Nanotube interconnect
Author: Dr. Eric Dalton
Institute: University of Limerick

Dr. Eric Dalton (UL) & Dr. Razeeb Kafil (Tyndall)

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NAP 161 | Title: Development of a Bluetooth layer for the Tyndall mote
Author: Prof. Dermot Diamond
Institute: Dublin City University

Conor Slater, Jer Hayes & Cormac Fay from DCU with Philip Angove (Tyndall NAP engineer) testing the bluetooth layer developed for this project	The Tyndall mote with bluetooth layer

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NAP 160 | Title: Predicting band gap changes of doped nickel and ferric oxides with first principles simulations
Author: Dr. Niall English
Institute: University College Dublin

Dr. Niall English and Dr. Damian Mooney (UCD) and Dr. Michael Nolan (Tyndall) discussing first principles modelling of doping of iron and nickel oxides.	Dr. Niall English and Dr. Michael Nolan (Tyndall) discussing simulation results.

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NAP 157 | Title: Silicon microneedle mediated electroporation to enhance gene and drug delivery for the treatment of cancer
Author: Mr. Timothy Doody/Prof. Gerald C. O’Sullivan
Institute: University College Cork

Tim Doody (Cork Cancer Research Centre, UCC) and Alan Blake (Tyndall)
discussing the design of the microneedles process prior to fabrication

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NAP 155 | Title: Pitch adaptors for VELO silicon strip detector
Author: Dr. Ronan McNulty
Institute: University College Dublin

James Keaveney (UCD), Dermot Moran (UCD), Dr. Tony Smith (University of Limerpool),
Dr. Ronan McNulty (UCD), Dr. Themis Bowcock (CERN) and Alan Blake (Tyndall)

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NAP 153 | Title: Wet Etching of glass wafer, Anodic Bonding to Silicon Wafer and aluminium deposition and wire bonding
Author: Dr. Cormac Eason
Institute: University of Limerick

Vincent Lodge (SEM lab manager) & Dr. Cormac Eason (UL)
coating samples for SEM imaging on the Hitachi S4000

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NAP 150 | Title: Wireless Equine Biomechanical Measurement System
Author: Dr. Brian Caulfield
Institute: University College Dublin

(From left) Dr. Brian Caulfield , Dr.  Ulrik McCarthy Persson (UCD),
John Barton, Philip Angove (NAP engineer) and Sean Harte (Tyndall)
discussing practical deployment of the motes for equine applications

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NAP 149 | Title: Evaluating the effects of surface features at nano- and micro-scales on cell responses to polymer surfaces formed by hot embossing with a microfabricated silicon stamp
Author: Alan Brown
Institute: University of Ulster Jordanstown

Jaap Verheggen (NAP MEMS engineer) & Alan Brown (right)
in the lab when Alan visited Tyndall to start his project in Jan 2008

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NAP 146 | Title: Fabrication of MEMS samples suitable for full-field optical characterisations
Author: Dr. Emilia Mitkova Mihaylova
Institute: DIT

Dr. Emilia Mihaylova (DIT) & Jaap Verheggen (NAP MEMS engineer)

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NAP 144 | Title: Extended Experimental Testing and Verification of a Novel Correlation Diagnostic Tester Methodology for Transmission Line Fault Monitoring, Location and Identification using Pseudorandom Binary Sequences
Author: Dr. A Richard Guinee
Institute: CIT

Mark O'Shea (Tyndall) and Dr. Richard Guinee (CIT)
analysing the reflected PRBS signal from the test cable

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NAP 142 | Title: Ambient airflow microturbine sensor and power generator (AMSPG)
Author: Dr. Norman McMillan
Institute: Carlow Institute of Technology

Mark Heaton (Carlow IT) & Jaap Verheggen (NAP MEMS engineer) using the Zygo white-light interferometer on the microturbines	Microturbine assembly on the interferometer stage

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NAP 136 | Title: Improving the attachment efficiency and stability of DNA probes on gold electrodes
Author: Dr. John Slater
Institute: Letterkenny Institute of Technology

Denis McCrudden (LYIT PhD student) & Micheal Scanlon (Tyndall)

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NAP 130 | Title: Investigation of Real-Time Medium Access Control in Short-Range Mobile Ad Hoc Networks based on 802.15.4 ZigBee
Author: Dr. Stefan Weber
Institute: Trinity College Dublin

Mark Gleeson (TCD) and Philip Angove	25mm mote USB programming board to enable Real-Time Medium Access Control in Short-Range Mobile Ad Hoc Networks based on 802.15.4 ZigBee.

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NAP 129 | Title: Time-Resolved Photoluminescence of nanoparticle-based luminescence enhancement systems
Author: Dr. Colette McDonagh
Institute: Dublin City University

Dr. Daniela Iacopino (Tyndall) & Dr. Ondrej Stranik (DCU)	Fluorescence Intensity image of Ru(II)/Ag NPs patterned surfaces

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NAP 126 | Title: Wireless Sensor Glove with Haptic Feedback for medical training
Author: Mikael Fernström
Institute: University of Limerick

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NAP 124 | Title: Preparation of Uniform Molecularly Imprinted Polymer Beads Using Micro-Fluidic Technology
Author: Dr. June Frisby & Dr. Peter McLoughlin
Institute: Waterford Institute of Technology

Dr. June Frisby (WIT), Rachel Walsh (WIT) & Gregoire Herzog (LSI-Tyndall)	Silicon micro-fluidic device

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NAP 120 | Title: Data-diffraction Metrology Capability Test Programme
Author: Greg Doyle
Institute: Carlow IT

Greg Doyle (foreground), Dr. Norman McMillan (right) from IT Carlow with
Dr. Mircea Modreanu (background) from Tyndall carrying out analysis on the InVia Reflex Raman microscope

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NAP 119 | Title: Metal Oxide Formation at the Surface of Metallic Alloys
Author: Dr. Syed Tofail
Institute: UL

Dr. Syed Tofail (UL) & Dr. Michael Nolan (Tyndall), during visit to Tyndall to discuss first principles computations of NiTi shape memory alloys	Dr. Syed Tofail (UL) & Dr. Michael Nolan (Tyndall) studying the crystal structure of the (110) surface of the NiTi shape memory alloy

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NAP 103 | Title: Development of electrohydrodynamic ion-drag micropumps for microscale electronics cooling systems
Authors: Dr. C. Y. Ching, Dr. A.J. Robinson, Dr. G. O’Donnell
Institute: TCD

Kick off meeting at Tyndall with authors of NAP 103 project
From left: Jaap Verheggen (NAP engineer), Julie Donnelly (NAP technical manager), Dr. A.J. Robinson,
Dr. C. Y. Ching and Dr. G. O’Donnell - TCD

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NAP 100 | Title: Sensor Augmented Sporting Artefact (SASA)
Authors: Dr. Peter Barron
Institute: TCD

Design review/technical discussion meeting held
at Tyndall with Tim Redfern (TCD),  Sean Reilly (TCD) & Philip Angove (NAP engineer)

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NAP 99 | Title: Modelling of chiral quantum dots
Authors: Dr. Yurii Gun'ko
Institute: TCD

Dr. Simon Elliott (Tyndall) and Dr. Yurii Gun'ko (TCD) in front of the
Tyndall high-performance computing cluster, which was used to run simulations
that explain how chirality arises at the surface of a semiconductor quantum dot

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NAP 96 | Title: Wireless Mechanomyography System
Authors: Dr. Catherine Deegan & Niall Campbell
Institute: IT Blanchardstown

Niall Campbell & Dr. Catherine Deegan from IT Blanchardstown (on left)
during a visit to Tyndall to discuss project progress
with Brendan O'Flynn and John Barton from Tyndall

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NAP 94 | Title: Fabrication of the photonic structures on <100> Si by deep reactive ion etching for micro-photonics and optical interconnects
Authors: Dr. Tatiana Perova
Institute: Trinity College Dublin

 

Jim Scully (CFF-Tyndall), Dr. Tania Perova (TCD) & Joe O'BrIen (MEMS engineer-Tyndall) discussing the next fabrication steps of the project	(L-R) Alan Blake (CFF-Tyndall), Brendan McCarthy (E-beam engineer CFF-Tyndall), Anne-Marie Kelleher (Silicon Fab Manager-Tyndall), Anna Baldycheva (PhD student TCD), Joe O'Brien (MEMS engineer-Tyndall), Dr. Tania Perova (TCD) & Jim Scully (CFF-Tyndall) (Feb 09)

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NAP 87 | Title: Design and Fabrication of Notched Micro-beams for Impact Experimentation
Authors: Dr. Jeff Punch
Institute: University of Limerick

Michael Sheehy & Dr. Jeff Punch from UL meeting to discuss design of micro-beams (centre) with Dr. Conor O'Mahony (left) & Jaap Verheggen (right) from Tyndall	Michael Sheehy in the Microsystems fabrication laboratory

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NAP 83 | Title: DNA Microchip for detection of marine bivalve larvae
Authors: Dr. Ivan F. Bendezu
Institute: Letterkenny Institute of Technology

Dr. Ivan Bendezu from Letterkenny Institute of Technology (right) & Dr. Paul Galvin (Tyndall) planning the development of a novel biochip platform for marine species identification (Oct 2006)	Dr. Ivan Bendezu (LYIT) & Dr. Eric Moore (Tyndall) using an epi-fluorescence microscope to view molecular beacons on a DNA microarray (July 2007)

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NAP 82 | Title: Development of WSN in Building Management Systems
Authors: Walter O'Grady & Dr. Marcus Keane Dr. Marcus Keane
Institute: UCC

From left: Javier Torres (Tyndall), Philip Angove (NAP engineer) Walter O'Grady (UCC) and  Frank Murphy (Tyndall)
This project relates to environmental buildings management sensor nodes including airflow, humidity, CO2 and temperature sensors,
providing experimental data for thermal comfort analysis and CFD simulation calibration and will also allow for a comprehensive BMS comparison.

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NAP 80 | Title: SOI CMOS Active Quench/Reset Single Photon Counting Circuit
Authors: Dr. Aoife Moloney
Institute: DIT

Dr. Aoife Moloney (DIT) and Richard Murphy (Tyndall) reviewing the
circuit design on the CAD system

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NAP 77 | Title: Inertial Tracking of Badgers
Authors: Prof. John Davenport and Dr. Paddy Sleeman
Institute: UCC

July 2006 -
Javier Torres (UCC) NAP intern student involved in the design & manipulation of IMU
data to track badgers movements on a map using GIS software. Conversion of IMU
results into useful position data, by enabling a Kalman filter are outputs from his work.

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NAP 76 | Title: Sub-Diffraction Limit Plasmonic Emitters
Authors: Dr. Dominic Zerulla
Institute: UCD

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NAP 67 | Title: Dual-Channel adaptive MAC for WSNs
Authors: Antonio Ruzzelli, Gregory O'Hare, Richard Tynan, Michael O'Grady.
Institute: UCD

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NAP 64 | Title: Drop Impact Testing of Electronic Assemblies
Author: Dr. Bryan Rodgers
Institute: UL

Claire Ryan (Stokes Research Institute, UL) adjusting the impact station.
Claire is evaluating the tolerance of different lead-free solders under impact
conditions by measuring the resistance of an electronic component during impact.

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NAP 62 | Title: Molecular-level Control of Crystal Nucleation
Author: Dr. Humphrey Moynihan
Institute: UCC

Joanne Kelleher (Chemistry Dept, UCC) with Paddy Byrne (Tyndall) setting up the Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC). Joanne is carrying out thermal investigation into the solid-state properties of a polymorphic crystalline solid.

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NAP 61 | Title: Deposition and characterisation of high-k dielectric layers on indium phosphide substrates
Author: Dr. Greg Hughes
Institute: DCU

Eamon O'Connor (Tyndall), Mircea Modreanu (Tyndall), Barry Brennan (PhD student DCU) and Prof. Greg Hughes (DCU) at a project kick off meeting	Rathnait Long (Tyndall) and Barry Brennan (DCU) using the new impedence measurement system	Barry Brennan (DCU) and Francis Chalvet (Tyndall) looking at the Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) of Hafnium Dioxide on InP substrates
	David Kohen (summer student-France), Barry Brennan (DCU) & Mathieu Pijolat (summer student-France) - testing Ebeam deposited HfO2 on InP. The InP was treated with aqueous ammonium polysulfide. The processing was done in Tyndall (III-V Lab), and XPS studies of the interface between the HfO2 and the InP will be done in DCU

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NAP 60 | Title: Celeritas - application of motes in performance art systems
Author: Mikael Fernström
Institute: UL

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NAP 59 | Title: Incorporating and validating sensor capabilities into a pervasive computing simulation tool
Author: Dr. David Lewis
Institute: TCD

Kris McGlinn (TCD) and Philip Angove (Tyndall NAP engineer)

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NAP 53 | Title: Micromechanical modelling of normal, drug treated and osteoporotic bone using non-destructive testing and finite element analysis
Author: Patrick Wulliamoz
Institute: TCD

Left to right: Patrick Wulliamoz (Bioengineering, TCD) and
Tony Compagno (Tyndall) carrying out analysis on the Scanning Acoustic Microscope (SAM).

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NAP 49/50 | Title: Production of thin Si membranes using SOI wafers
Authors: Chris Murray, Sebastian van Dijken
Institute: TCD

 

Left to right: Alan Blake (Tyndall), Chris Murray (CRANN, TCD)
and Dr. Sebastian van Dijken (CRANN, TCD) meeting at Tyndall to discuss the fabrication process.

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NAP 40 | Title: Customised light emitting diodes for enhanced performance optical chemical sensors
Authors: Dr Rod Shepherd and Prof. Dermot Diamond
Institute: DCU

   

Left to right: Prof. Dermot Diamond (DCU), Mahbub Akhter (Tyndall), Dr. Rod Shepherd (DCU)
& Pleun Maaskant(Tyndall) discussing GaN LEDs for sensor applications.

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NAP 35 | Title: Manufacture of novel capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer (cMUT) MEMS
Authors: Dr. William Wright
Institute: UCC

Dr. Bill Wright (UCC) using the white light interferometer with Jaap Verheggen (Tyndall) & Dr. Conor O'Mahony (Tyndall)

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NAP 34 | Title: Analysis of silicas , derivitised using supercritical carbon dioxide
Authors: Gerard O'Sullivan & Norma Scully
Institute: UCC

Norma Scully (Chemistry Dept., UCC) carrying out Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA) on modified silica samples.

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NAP 30 | Title: Fabrication and characterisation of high-k dielectric layers on Germanium and Silicon substrates
Author: Dr. Greg Hughes
Institute: DCU

Left to right: Dr. Greg Hughes (Physics Dept, DCU), Stephen McDonnell (Physics PhD student, DCU)
and Karim Cherkaoui (Tyndall) using the new semi-automatic Cascade probe station to characterise the high k films fabricated.

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NAP 27 | Title: Electrical Characterisation of DNA-templated Gold Nanowires
Author: Prof. Donald Fitzmaurice
Institute: UCD

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NAP 26 | Title: Fabrication of plasic PCR Microchannels
Authors: Brian Barrett and Mark Davies
Institute: UL

Brian Barrett (Stokes Institute, UL) left, & Richard Murphy
(Central Fabrication Facility, Tyndall) reviewing the microchannel design prior to fabrication.

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NAP 24 | Title: Design & fabrication of nanoscale potentiometric pH biosensors using FIB nanolithography
Authors: Prof. Khalil Arshak
Institute: UL

Edric Gill (UL) & Vladimir Djara (Tyndall) loading a wafer into the Scanning Electron Microscope to view fabricated devices

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NAP 18 | Title: Lifetime support for wireless sensor networks
Author: Stephen Brown
Institute: NUIM

Philip Angove (NAP engineer, Tyndall) & Stephen Brown (NUIM) discussing the possible senarios for
delevopment of a new health monitoring layer to expand the 25mm module feature set.

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NAP 16 | Title: Investigation into the mechanism of surface binding of metals to a variety of seaweed species
Author: Dr. Peter McLoughlin
Institute: WIT

Vanessa Murphy (WIT) & Vincent Lodge (Tyndall) carrying out sample
analayis on the scanning electron microscope (SEM) & EDX system.

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NAP 12 | Title: High tuning range MEMS variable capacitor for RF systems (VARICAP)
Author: Dr. Martin Hill
Institute: CIT

Jaap Verheggen (Tyndall), Dr. Martin Hill (CIT) & Dr. Conor O'Mahony (Tyndall)
discussing the MEMS fabrication process

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NAP 11 | Title: Fabrication and testing of integrated chemical micro-sensors
Author: Ronan O'Reilly
Institute: IT Tallaght

Ronan O'Reilly (Dept. of Electronic Engineering, IT Tallaght) at the
mask alignmer in the III-V photolithography laboratory.

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NAP 5 | Title: Growth and characterisation of HfO 2 and ZrO 2 films on silicon
Author: Dr. Robert Barklie
Institute: TCD

Left to right: Adi Negara (Tyndall), Dr. Paul Hurley (Tyndall), Dr. Bob Barklie (TCD) and
Sandra Wright (TCD) during their visit to characterise high k oxides.

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NAP 4 | Title: Fault Tolerance And Low Power Cryptography In Sensor Networks
Author: Dr. Emanuel Mihai Popovici
Institute: UCC

   

 Rachit Agarwal (Microelectronics Department-UCC) using AVR Studio for programming
& de-bugging micro controller layer of the wireless sensor node.

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NAP 2 | Title: Novel implementation of a bias control system for avalanche photodiodes
Author: Dr. Alan P. Morrison
Institute: UCC

 

Left to right: Philip Angove (NAP engineer, Tyndall) & Donal Cronin (Electrical & Electronic Engineering Department, UCC)
reviewing the layout of the control circuit for photon counting applications using an FPGA for signal processing.

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