Awards & Press

• Awards 
• Articles in Popular Press

Awards

O'Carroll, D. & Redmond, G.
Best Paper Award, January-June 2007. 
Microcavity Effects and Optically Pumped Lasing in Single Conjugated Polymer Nanowires.
Tyndall Best Paper Competition, 6th February, 2008.

O'Carroll, D. 
Best Poster Award.
Waveguiding, Microcavity Effects and Optically Pumped Lasing in Single Polymer Nanowires.
Inaugural Tyndall Postgraduate Poster Competition, 14th June, 2007.

O’Riordan, A. 
Selected for Participation in “Photonics Innovation Village”. 
Field Configurable Assembly: A New Integration Process for Manufacture of Optoelectronic Devices.
SPIE Photonics Europe 2004, Strasbourg, France, 26-30 April 2004.

Doyle. H. 
Best Poster Award.
Near-Field Optical Studies of Photoswitchable Fluorescent Supramolecular Information Storage Devices Embedded in Inert Polymer Matrices. 
Trinity College Dublin & Veeco Instruments SPM Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 23 September 2003.

Murphy, D. 
Best Student Presentation.
Olignonucleotide-nanoparticle Conjugates as Tools for Nanoscale Genetic Analysis.
1st Annual Nanotechnology Symposium, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, 5 September 2003.

Articles in Popular Press

"Polymer Photonics: A Template for Lasers"
Nature Photonics, Research Highlights, 1, 202, April 2007.

"Image in Focus: Optically pumped single polymer nanowire laser"
Materials360, Issue 1, March 2007.

"Nanowire Lasers Go Organic"
Nature Nanotechnology, 2, 141,  1 March 2007.

"Nanotechnology: Thin Blue Line"
Nature, Research Highlights,  1 March 2007.

"Introduction to Nanotechnology"
Industrial Pharmacy, December 2006.

"Organic Nanowires for Smaller Solar Cells"
The Engineer, 11 October 2006.

"Polymer Nanowires: Taking It Lightly"
Nanoforum News, 6 October 2006.

"Conjugated Polymer Nanowires Used as Photodetectors"
AZoNano News, 4 October 2006.

"Single Polymer Nanowire Photodetects"
nanotechweb.org, 4 October 2006.

"Polymer Nanowires: Taking It Lightly"
Nature Nanotechnology, Research Highlights,  29 September 2006.

"Integrated Logic Gates"
Chemical Technology, September 2005.

"Former Parthus Executives Invest in Cork-based Firm"
Irish Times, 17 May 2005.

"Field Configurable Assembly: Programmable Heterogeneous Integration at the Mesoscale"
MST News, February 2005

"Members Highlights - Nanotechnology Group, NMRC" 
PHANTOMS Newsletter, Issue 17, November 2004. 

"Being Human: Being Physical"
RTE Radio 1, 10 August 2004.

"Heat Treatment Tunes Conduction for Nanocrystal Assemblies"
nanotechweb.org, 3 August 2004.

"Borrowing from Biology to Manufacture Microchips"
Irish Times, 29 July 2004.

"Electric Fields Assemble Devices"
Technology Research News, 28 July 2004.

"Self-assembly Made Easy"
Advanced Physics Forums, 11 June 2004.

"Self-assembly Made Easy"
physicsweb.org, 11 June 2004.

"SMART Group Photonics Seminar" 
AMT Electronics, March/April 2004.

Evans-Pughe, C. "The Rising of a New Order" 
IEE Review, 49, 42, April 2003. 

"MIMIC of Bacterial Proteins Could Find a Use in Nanoelectronics" 
nanotechweb.org, 28 March 2003.

"Invited Sessions on Research at IMEGO and NMRC" 
IEEE Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology Sector Newsletter, Vol. 26, No. 1, March 2003.

"Members Highlights 1 - Nucleic Acids Chemistry Group (IBMB)-CSIC" 
PHANTOMS Newsletter, Issue 7/8, July/September 2002. 

Newey, J. “World's Best Gather at Electron Devices Meeting” 
Compound Semiconductor Magazine 7, 43-46 (2001).

Hogan, D. "Cork Scientists Lead the Way to Far Frontiers of Technology"
Irish Times, 18 April 2000.