Tyndall Post-Grads Impress in the 2019 Postgraduate Paper Competition

Together with sponsor Catalyst Analog Devices, Tyndall celebrated the winners and finalists of the 2019 Postgraduate Paper Competition this week.

Dr. Fatima Gunning, Senior Staff Researcher & Acting Head of Grad Studies at Tyndall, praised the entries, saying:

This was an exceptionally competitive year with outstanding articles and publications in a cross-section of high-impact journals showcasing Tyndall’s research breadth and excellence.

This year’s panel of eight judges found it particularly difficult to select from the high standard of submitted papers, and for the first time awarded two winners, two runners up, and recognised the remaining eight entrants as finalists.

Winners:

Shane O'Mahony, “Ultrafast Relaxation of Symmetry-Breaking Photo-induced Atomic Forces”, Shane M. O’Mahony, Felipe Murphy-Armando, Éamonn D. Murray, José D. Querales-Flores, Ivana Savić, and Stephen Fahy, Physical Review Letters 123, 087401 (2019).

 

Saroj Kanta Patra, “Exploring the Potential of c Plane Indium Gallium Nitride Quantum Dots for Twin-Photon Emission”, Saroj Kanta Patra and Stefan Schulz, ACS Nanoletters 2020, 20, 234−241.

 

Runners up:

Andrea Pacheco, “Solid phantom recipe for diffuse optics in biophotonics applications: a step towards anatomically correct 3D tissue phantoms”, Sanathana Konugolu Venkata Sekar, Andrea Pacheco, Pierluigi Martella, Haiyang Li, Pranav Lanka, Antonio Pifferi, Stegan Andersson-Engels, Biomedical Optics Express 2090, vol. 10, No.4, 1 April (2019)

 

Rory Cahill, “High power surface emitting InGaN superluminescent light-emitting diodes”, R. Cahill, P. P. Maaskant, M. Akhter, and B. Corbett, Applied Physics Letters 115, 171102 (2019)

 

Finalists:

Amy Kirwan, “Nature of the band gap of Ge:C alloys: insights from hybrid functional density functional theory calculations”, 2019 Semicond. Sci. Technol. 34 075007

 

Cara Lena Nies, “Ru passivated and Ru doped ε-TaN surfaces as a combined barrier and liner material for copper interconnects: a first principles study”, Mater. Chem. C, 2019, 7, 7959

 

Kankana Paul, “Magnetic performances and switching behavior of Co-rich CoPtP micro-magnets for applications in magnetic MEMS”, Journal of Applied Physics 125, 023902 (2019)

 

Kevin Shortiss, “Harmonic frequency locking and tuning of comb frequency spacing through optical injection”, Optics Express, Vol. 27, No. 25, 36976 (2019)

 

Louise McGrath, “Ionic Liquid Based Polymer Gel Electrolytes for Use with Germanium Thin Film Anodes in Lithium Ion Batteries”, ChemistryOpen 2019, 8, 1429–1436

 

Sanjeev Kumar, “A 915MHz Wristwatch-Integrated Antenna for Wireless Health Monitoring”, paper # 1570603765 accepted for publication at EuCAP 2020

 

Stephen Rhatigan, “Effect of Cu doping on the anatase-to-rutile phase transition in TiO2 photocatalysts: Theory and experiments.” Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 246 (2019) 266–276

 

Vuslat Buk Juska, “Cu Nanodendrite Foams on Integrated Band Array Electrodes for the Nonenzymatic Detection of Glucose”, ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 2019, 2, 5878−5889