Lynette Keeney

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Dr. Lynette Keeney is a Senior Researcher and Royal Society-Science Foundation Ireland University Research Fellow in Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, focusing on the synthesis and understandings of room temperature multiferroic thin films. She is an inorganic chemistry graduate from National University of Ireland, Galway (PhD 2005), where she won five University awards. Before joining Tyndall in 2008, she worked as a Chemist in industry (Charles River Laboratories, Pre-clinical Services, Montreal Inc.). She continues to engage with industry on projects involving multiferroic materials development for data storage applications e.g. via a Science Foundation Ireland technology innovation award (2014) and through direct funding from Intel Corp. (2016). Dr. Keeney is a member of the International Advisory Board of ECAPD (European Conference on Applications of Polar Dielectrics), is Tyndall-UCC representative on the Microscopy Society of Ireland Council and is a panel reviewer for Royal Society proposal applications. She was an Irish representative for the COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action MP0904 (Single and multiphase ferroics and multiferroics with restricted geometries (SIMUFER)). Dr. Keeney is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC) and is member of the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control Society. She was a session organiser and committee member for the IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology (Cork, 2018, approx. 400 delegates) and was local organising committee member for the International Symposium on Integrated Functionalities (Dublin, 2019). Dr. Keeney actively engages in public outreach activities e.g. school visits, work experience programmes, public events and has been invited to receptions (2016 and 2019) hosted by the President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins and Mrs. Sabina Higgins, to mark International Women’s Day. In 2015 Dr. Keeney was awarded a prestigious Royal Society/Science Foundation Ireland University Research Fellowship for her research project: ‘Memories are made of this: Multiferroics Research for Future Generation Memories’ and she received the UCC Early Stage Researcher of the Year Award for 2015. Via her Royal Society Award and her recently awarded SFI Frontiers for the Future Project (2020), Dr. Keeney is expanding her research team to explore how sub-unit cell characteristics influence multiferroic behaviour and if these fascinating multiferroic properties can persist close to unit-cell thicknesses.

Research Interests

Research Interests

My field of specialisation is in materials science, particularly in the synthesis, understandings and optimisation of room temperature ferroelectric and multiferroic thin films for beyond CMOS data storage applications.
Our digital universe is doubling in size every two years. The International Data Corporation predicts that by 2020 it will contain nearly as many digital bits as there are stars in the observable universe! Multiferroic materials, possessing simultaneous electric and magnetic memory states, have been road-mapped as promising multi-state architectures for memory scaling beyond current technologies. No such devices currently exist however, as multiferroic materials with room temperature properties are extremely rare.
Based on my understandings of dielectric and magnetic materials and on my expertise in the synthesis of complex and advanced materials, I designed a material system (Aurivillius phase, Bi6TixFeyMnzO18) that exhibits multiferroic (ferroelectric and ferromagnetic) properties in a single homogeneous phase at ambient temperatures. Direct evidence for magnetic-field-induced ferroelectric domain switching at the nanoscale was demonstrated by using piezoresponse microscopy (PFM) under a variable magnetic field. Given that room temperature multiferroics are extremely scarce, development of this material has made noteworthy advances to the multiferroics field, resulting in Nature group publications (M. Schmidt, et al., Sci. Rep., 4, 5712 (2014); L. Keeney, et al., Sci. Rep., 7, 1737 (2017)) and a publication (L. Keeney, et al., J. of the Am. Ceram. Soc., 96 [8], 2339-2357 (2013)) which has been cited 114 times. My latest work demonstrates that the magnetic ions tend to congregate to the centre of the Aurivillius phase structure, aligning close to each other which would permit them to interact and create pathways for long-range magnetic order. Interestingly, the presence of sub-unit cell defects (stacking faults, out-of-phase boundaries) appears to further drive magnetic ions to the central layers. I am therefore eager to exploit this material and to address the intriguing research questions that this tantalising material opens up.

Research Grants

Funder Start Date End Date Title Role
European Union 01-NOV-11 31-OCT-15 Nanoelectromechanical Motion in Functional Materials Principal Investigator
Science Foundation of Ireland 01-JAN-14 30-SEP-18 New Memory cell rest structure devices based on sigle phase. Principal Investigator
Miscellaneous Non Exchequer 01-OCT-15 21-JUN-21 UF140263 RSC University Fellowship Lynette Keeney [X] Principal Investigator
Intel Corporation 01-APR-16 31-MAR-17 Development of test structure to characterize properties of Multiferroic material(s)
Science Foundation of Ireland 03-FEB-17 31-DEC-17 SFI Maternity Allowance Principal Investigator
Science Foundation of Ireland 01-JAN-18 21-JUN-24 Correlation of magnetic and magnetoelectric properties with crystallite orientation and sub-unit cell characteristics in room temperature multiferroic materials Principal Investigator
Miscellaneous 01-JAN-19 31-DEC-23 Assessment of ultra-thin multiferroic thin films for potential use in multi-state data storage applications Principal Investigator
Miscellaneous 02-SEP-19 01-SEP-21 Royal Irish Academy-Royal Society Int Cost-Share Exchange Program 2019 Principal Investigator
Science Foundation of Ireland 01-OCT-20 30-JUN-25 Optimisation of Single Phase Room Temperature Multiferroic Materials Enabling Next Generation Data Storage Principal Investigator

Publications

Peer Reviewed Journals

Year Journal Publication
2020 Advanced Electronic Materials Ferroelectric behavior in exfoliated 2D Aurivillius oxide flakes of sub-unit cell thickness
Keeney, Lynette; Smith, Ronan J.; Palizdar, Meghdad; Schmidt, Michael; Bell, Andrew J.; Coleman, Jonathan N.; Whatmore, Roger W. (2020) Ferroelectric behavior in exfoliated 2D Aurivillius oxide flakes of sub-unit cell thickness. : .
2018 Journal of Applied Physics Exploring ferroelectric and magnetic properties of Tb-substituted m = 5 layered Aurivillius phase thin films
Faraz, Ahmad; Ricote, Jesus; Jimenez, Ricardo; Maity, Tuhin; Schmidt, Michael; Deepak, Nitin; Roy, Saibal; Pemble, Martyn E.; Keeney, Lynette (2018) Exploring ferroelectric and magnetic properties of Tb-substituted m = 5 layered Aurivillius phase thin films. : .
2017 Journal of The American Ceramic Society Direct visualization of magnetic-field-induced magnetoelectric switching in multiferroic Aurivillius phase thin films
Faraz, Ahmad; Maity, Tuhin; Schmidt, Michael; Deepak, Nitin; Roy, Saibal; Pemble, Martyn E.; Whatmore, Roger W.; Keeney, Lynette (2017) Direct visualization of magnetic-field-induced magnetoelectric switching in multiferroic Aurivillius phase thin films. : .
2017 Scientific Reports Direct atomic scale determination of magnetic ion partition in a room temperature multiferroic material
Keeney, L;Downing, C;Schmidt, M;Pemble, ME;Nicolosi, V;Whatmore, RW (2017) Direct atomic scale determination of magnetic ion partition in a room temperature multiferroic material. : NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP.
2015 Journal of Materials Chemistry C Tunable nanoscale structural disorder in Aurivillius phase, n= 3 Bi 4 Ti 3 O 12 thin films and their role in the transformation to n= 4, Bi 5 Ti 3 FeO 15 phase
Nitin Deepak, Patrick Carolan, Lynette Keeney, Martyn E Pemble, Roger W Whatmore (2015) Tunable nanoscale structural disorder in Aurivillius phase, n= 3 Bi 4 Ti 3 O 12 thin films and their role in the transformation to n= 4, Bi 5 Ti 3 FeO 15 phase. : .
2015 Dalton Transactions Quantum chemical and solution phase evaluation of metallocenes as reducing agents for the prospective atomic layer deposition of copper
Gangotri Dey, Jacqueline S Wrench, Dirk J Hagen, Lynette Keeney, Simon D Elliott (2015) Quantum chemical and solution phase evaluation of metallocenes as reducing agents for the prospective atomic layer deposition of copper. : .
2015 Journal of Applied Physics A study of the temperature dependence of the local ferroelectric properties of c-axis oriented Bi6Ti3Fe2O18 Aurivillius phase thin films: Illustrating the potential of a novel lead-free perovskite material for high density memory applications, AIP Advances 5, 087123 (2015)
Ahmad Faraz, Nitin Deepak, Michael Schmidt, Martyn E. Pemble, Lynette Keeney (2015) A study of the temperature dependence of the local ferroelectric properties of c-axis oriented Bi6Ti3Fe2O18 Aurivillius phase thin films: Illustrating the potential of a novel lead-free perovskite material for high density memory applications, AIP Advances 5, 087123 (2015). : .
2015 Chemistry Materials Bismuth Self-Limiting Growth of Ultrathin BiFeO3 Films
Deepak, N;Carolan, P;Keeney, L;Zhang, PFF;Pemble, ME;Whatmore, RW (2015) Bismuth Self-Limiting Growth of Ultrathin BiFeO3 Films. : AMER CHEMICAL SOC.
2014 Physical Review B Large magnetoelectric coupling in nanoscale BiFeO3 from direct electrical measurements
Goswami, Sudipta; Bhattacharya, Dipten; Keeney, Lynette; Maity, Tuhin; Kaushik, S. D.; Siruguri, V.; Das, Gopes C; Yang, Haifang; Li, Wuxia; Gu, Chang-zhi; Pemble, Martyn E.; Roy, Saibal (2014) Large magnetoelectric coupling in nanoscale BiFeO3 from direct electrical measurements. : .
2014 Journal of Materials Chemistry C Atomic layer deposition of Cu with a carbene-stabilized Cu (i) silylamide
Hagen, Dirk J and Povey, Ian M and Rushworth, Simon and Wrench, Jacqueline S and Keeney, Lynette and Schmidt, Michael and Petkov, Nikolay and Barry, Se’an T and Coyle, Jason P and Pemble, Martyn E (2014) Atomic layer deposition of Cu with a carbene-stabilized Cu (i) silylamide. : .
2014 Scientific Reports Absence of evidence ≠ evidence of absence: statistical analysis of inclusions in multiferroic thin films
Schmidt, M.; Amann, A.; Keeney, L.; Pemble, M.; Holmes, J. D.; Petkov, N.; Whatmore, R. W. (2014) Absence of evidence ≠ evidence of absence: statistical analysis of inclusions in multiferroic thin films. : .
2014 Advanced Functional Materials Interesting Evidence for Template-Induced Ferroelectric Behavior in Ultra-Thin Titanium Dioxide Films Grown on (110) Neodymium Gallium Oxide Substrates
Deepak, Nitin and Caro, Miguel A and Keeney, Lynette and Pemble, Martyn E and Whatmore, Roger W (2014) Interesting Evidence for Template-Induced Ferroelectric Behavior in Ultra-Thin Titanium Dioxide Films Grown on (110) Neodymium Gallium Oxide Substrates. : .
2013 Smart Materials and Structures Flexible-CMOS and biocompatible piezoelectric AlN material for MEMS applications
Jackson, N;Keeney, L;Mathewson, A (2013) Flexible-CMOS and biocompatible piezoelectric AlN material for MEMS applications. : IOP PUBLISHING LTD.
2013 Journal of The American Ceramic Society Magnetic Field-Induced Ferroelectric Switching in Multiferroic Aurivillius Phase Thin Films at Room Temperature
Keeney, L,Maity, T,Schmidt, M,Amann, A,Deepak, N,Petkov, N,Roy, S,Pemble, ME,Whatmore, RW (2013) Magnetic Field-Induced Ferroelectric Switching in Multiferroic Aurivillius Phase Thin Films at Room Temperature. : .
2013 Journal of Applied Physics Atomic vapor deposition of bismuth titanate thin films
Deepak, N; Zhang, PF; Keeney, L; Pemble, ME; Whatmore, RW (2013) Atomic vapor deposition of bismuth titanate thin films. : .
2012 Journal of Applied Physics Room temperature electromechanical and magnetic investigations of ferroelectric Aurivillius phase Bi[sub 5]Ti[sub 3](Fe[sub x]Mn[sub 1 – x])O[sub 15] (x = 1 and 0.7) chemical solution deposited thin films
Lynette Keeney, Claudia Groh, Santosh Kulkarni, Saibal Roy, Martyn E. Pemble and Roger W. Whatmore (2012) Room temperature electromechanical and magnetic investigations of ferroelectric Aurivillius phase Bi[sub 5]Ti[sub 3](Fe[sub x]Mn[sub 1 – x])O[sub 15] (x = 1 and 0.7) chemical solution deposited thin films. : .
2012 Journal of Applied Physics Crystallographic and magnetic identification of secondary phase in orientated Bi5Fe0.5Co0.5Ti3O15 ceramics
Palizdar, M,Comyn, TP,Ward, MB,Brown, AP,Harrington, JP,Kulkarni, S,Keeney, L,Roy, S,Pemble, M,Whatmore, R,Quinn, C,Kilcoyne, SH,Bell, AJ (2012) Crystallographic and magnetic identification of secondary phase in orientated Bi5Fe0.5Co0.5Ti3O15 ceramics. : .
2012 Journal of Applied Physics Room Temperature Ferroelectric and Magnetic Investigations and Detailed Phase Analysis of Aurivillius Phase Bi5Ti3Fe0.7Co0.3O15 Thin Films
Lynette Keeney, Santosh Kulkarni, Nitin Deepak, Michael Schmidt, Nikolay Petkov, Panfeng F. Zhang, Stuart Cavill, Saibal Roy, Martyn E. Pemble and Roger W. Whatmore (2012) Room Temperature Ferroelectric and Magnetic Investigations and Detailed Phase Analysis of Aurivillius Phase Bi5Ti3Fe0.7Co0.3O15 Thin Films. : .
2012 Physical Review B Ordered magnetic dipoles: Controlling anisotropy in nanomodulated continuous ferromagnetic films
Maity, T;Li, SP;Keeney, L;Roy, S (2012) Ordered magnetic dipoles: Controlling anisotropy in nanomodulated continuous ferromagnetic films. : AMER PHYSICAL SOC.
2012 Nanoletters Nanoscale Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Properties of Sb2S3 Nanowire Arrays
Varghese, J;Barth, S;Keeney, L;Whatmore, RW;Holmes, JD (2012) Nanoscale Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Properties of Sb2S3 Nanowire Arrays. : AMER CHEMICAL SOC.
2012 Applied Physics Letters The structural and piezoresponse properties of c-axis-oriented Aurivillius phase Bi5Ti3FeO15 thin films deposited by atomic vapor deposition
Zhang, PF;Deepak, N;Keeney, L;Pemble, ME;Whatmore, RW (2012) The structural and piezoresponse properties of c-axis-oriented Aurivillius phase Bi5Ti3FeO15 thin films deposited by atomic vapor deposition. : AMER INST PHYSICS.
2011 Chemical Vapor Deposition Nucleation and Chemical Transformation of RuO2 Films Grown on (100) Si Substrates by Atomic Layer Deposition
Salaun, A,Newcomb, SB,Povey, IM,Salaun, M,Keeney, L,O’Mahony, A,Pemble, ME; (2011) Nucleation and Chemical Transformation of RuO2 Films Grown on (100) Si Substrates by Atomic Layer Deposition. : .
2010 Optics Communications Moth-eye-structured light-emitting diodes
Jing Rao, Lynette Keeney, Richard Winfield (2010) Moth-eye-structured light-emitting diodes. : .
2010 Journal of Applied Physics Piezoresponse force microscopy investigations of Aurivillius phase thin films
Keeney, Lynette; Zhang, Panfeng; Groh, Claudia; Pemble, Martyn E; Whatmore, Roger W; (2010) Piezoresponse force microscopy investigations of Aurivillius phase thin films. : .
2009 Dalton Transactions Anomalously slow rates of reduction of iron(III) polypyridine complexes by triphenyl verdazyl radicals in acetonitrile
Sandra Conway, Lynette Keeney and Michael J. Hynes (2009) Anomalously slow rates of reduction of iron(III) polypyridine complexes by triphenyl verdazyl radicals in acetonitrile. : .
2005 Dalton Transactions Electron transfer reactions of tris(polypyridine)cobalt(III) complexes, [Co(N-N)3]3+, with verdazyl radicals in acetonitrile solution
Lynette Keeney and Michael. J. Hynes (2005) Electron transfer reactions of tris(polypyridine)cobalt(III) complexes, [Co(N-N)3]3+, with verdazyl radicals in acetonitrile solution. : .
2005 Dalton Transactions Kinetics and mechanisms of the electron transfer reactions of oxo-centred carboxylate bridged complexes, [Fe3([small micro]3-O)(O2CR)6L3]ClO4, with verdazyl radicals in acetonitrile solution
Lynette Keeney and Michael J. Hynes (2005) Kinetics and mechanisms of the electron transfer reactions of oxo-centred carboxylate bridged complexes, [Fe3([small micro]3-O)(O2CR)6L3]ClO4, with verdazyl radicals in acetonitrile solution. : .

Book Chapters

Year Publication
2016 Novel approaches for genuine single phase room temperature magnetoelectric multiferroics
Lynette Keeney, Michael Schmidt, Andreas Amann, Tuhin Maity, Nitin Deepak, Ahmad Faraz, Nikolay Petkov, Saibal Roy, Martyn E Pemble, Roger W Whatmore (2016) Novel approaches for genuine single phase room temperature magnetoelectric multiferroics. : Wiley.

Conference Publications

Year Publication
2015 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2015 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MICROELECTRONIC TEST STRUCTURES (ICMTS 2015)
Jackson, N;Olszewski, OZ;Keeney, L;Blake, A;Mathewson, A (2015) PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2015 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MICROELECTRONIC TEST STRUCTURES (ICMTS 2015). : IEEE.
2014 ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Gangotri Dey, Simon D Elliott, Jacqueline Wrench, Lynette Keeney, Martyn Pemble (2014) ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. : .
2012 Applications of Ferroelectrics held jointly with 2012 European Conference on the Applications of Polar Dielectrics and 2012 International Symp Piezoresponse Force Microscopy and Nanoscale Phenomena in Polar Materials (ISAF/ECAPD/PFM)
Deepak, N. Zhang, P., L. Keeney, Pemble, M. E. and Whatmore R. W. (2012) Applications of Ferroelectrics held jointly with 2012 European Conference on the Applications of Polar Dielectrics and 2012 International Symp Piezoresponse Force Microscopy and Nanoscale Phenomena in Polar Materials (ISAF/ECAPD/PFM). : .
2011 Applications of Ferroelectrics (ISAF/PFM), 2011 International Symposium on and 2011 International Symposium on Piezoresponse Force Microscopy and Nanoscale Phenomena in Polar Materials, 24-27 July 2011 , Vancouver, BC.
M. Palizdar, T. P. Comyn, M. B. Ward, A. P. Brown, J. Harington, S. Kulkarni, L. Keeney, S. Roy, M. E. Pemble, R. Whatmore, C. Quinne, S. H. Kilcoyne, and A. J. Bell (2011) Applications of Ferroelectrics (ISAF/PFM), 2011 International Symposium on and 2011 International Symposium on Piezoresponse Force Microscopy and Nanoscale Phenomena in Polar Materials, 24-27 July 2011 , Vancouver, BC.. : .
2010 IEEE International Symposium on the Applications of Ferroelectrics (ISAF) 2010
Meghdad Palizdar; Tim Comyn; Santosh Kulkarni; Lynette Keeney; Saibal Roy; Martyn Pemble; Roger W. Whatmore (2010) IEEE International Symposium on the Applications of Ferroelectrics (ISAF) 2010. : .

Professional Activities

Professional Associations

  • [2005] Member
  • [2019] Council Member
  • [2020] Member

Education

  • [2005] NUI Galway – PHD
  • [2010] University College Cork – Postgrad Cert. in Teaching & Learning in HE

Committees

  • [2011] COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action MP0904 on single and multiphase ferroics and multiferroics with restricted geometries (SIMUFER),
  • [2016] International Advisory Board of ECAPD (European Conference on Applications of Polar Dielectrics), International Advisory Boardmember
  • [2019] Microscopy Society of Ireland, Council member
  • [2019] Graduate Studies Committee, Micro-nano Systems academic representative on the Tyndall Graduate Studies Committee
  • [2019] Local organising committee member: International Symposium on Integrated Functionalities, Dublin, August 2019, Local organising committee member: International Symposium on Integrated Functionalities, Dublin, August 2019
  • [2017] Local organising committee member: IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology, Cork, July 2018., Local organising committee member, session organiser and session chair, IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology, Cork, July 2018.

Employment

  • [2008] Tyndall-UCC – Staff Researcher
  • [2005] Charles River Laboratories Preclinical Services Montreal, Inc. – Chemist, Analytical Chemistry, Laboratory Sciences Division

Outreach Activities

  • I have been active in various outreach activities including: volunteer helper during Discovery Exhibition, Science Week Ireland (2008-2012) activities and the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition (2011-2012), Cork City Council/SFI Carnival of Science (2019), Cork Science Festival, Celebrate Open Science (2019). Participated in outreach activities including school workshops (2009-2020) and during Nano Week (2009). Gave a public talk on my research in the Blackrock Castle Observatory Science Café (2011). Gave an interview for ‘Science Spin’ magazine (2012), Silicon Republic (2016; https://www.siliconrepublic.com/careers/research-researcher-tyndall-ucc-cork) and the Irish Times (2019; https://www.irishtimes.com/business/innovation/better-data-storage-through-chemistry-1.3959109). In November 2015, I spoke at Tyndall-UCC’s Careers in Chemistry event, which was sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The purpose of this careers session was to enthuse and inform students about the
  • Teen-Turn Mentor 2018
  • Host CEIA Transition Years in a ‘hands on’ materials science laboratory experiment.

Journal Activities

  • Applied Physics Letters – Referee
  • Advanced Functional Materials – Referee
  • Journal of the American Ceramic Society – Referee
  • J Appl Phys – Referee
  • Journal Of Materials Sciencejournal Of Materials Science – Referee
  • physica status solidi (a) – Referee
  • Phys Chem Chem Phys – Referee
  • Mat Sci Eng B-Solid – Referee
  • [2016] Acs Appl Mater Interfaces – Referee
  • [2016] Journal Of Materials Chemistry Cjournal Of Materials Chemistry C – Referee
  • Advanced Materials – Referee
  • Chemistry of Materials – Referee
  • J. Alloys and Compounds – Referee
  • Journal Of Materials Science – Referee
  • Nanoletters – Referee
  • Sci Rep-Uk – Referee
  • Smart Materials and Structures – Referee
  • P Roy Soc A-Math Phy – Referee
  • Acs Applied Nano Materials – Referee
  • Proceedings Royal Society of London. Series A – Referee

Other Professional Activities

  • 2014: Conference Chair: Symposium I (Solution processing and properties of functional oxide thin films and nanostructures), European Materials Research Symposium, Spring 2014 Meeting, Lille, France.
      
    2014: Poster Competition Juror: Symposium I (Solution processing and properties of functional oxide thin films and nanostructures), European Materials Research Symposium, Spring 2014 Meeting, Lille, France.

    2016: Conference Chair: ‘Session 2a – ECAPD-ISAF Controversial Ferroelectrics and Devices’ at ECAPD/ISAF/PFM, Darmstadt, 21 August 2016.

    2016: Student Poster Competition Juror at ECAPD/ISAF/PFM, Darmstadt, Germany, 21 August 2016.  

    2013: Invited seminar ‘Room Temperature Magnetic-Field-Induced Ferroelectric Switching in Multiferroic Aurivillius Phase Thin Films’, 7th October 2013 at ETH Zürich (Prof. N. Spaldin and Prof. M. Fiebig’s groups).

    2013: Industry talk ‘Room Temperature Magnetic-Field-Indu

  • Proposal Reviewer for The Royal Society Newton International Fellowship Panel, Panel 3: Natural Sciences (“physical” sciences)
  • Proposal Reviewer for The Royal Society Resilient Futures Challenge-Led Grants in the Materials Sciences discipline
  • Session Organiser and Chair for the Nanoelectronics: Advanced
    Memories I session of IEEE Nano 2018
  • Session chair for ‘Characterization & Properties of Ferroelectrics’ at ECAPD 2018
  • 2019 to present: Local organizing committee member for the International Symposium on Integrated Functionalities, University College Dublin, August 2019.
  • 2019: ‘Best contributed talk’ judge at MSI Winter Symposium, 15-16 Jan 2019.
  • 2019 to present: Micro-nano Systems centre academic representative of the Tyndall Graduate Studies Committee and internal examiner of Ph.D. examinations.

Disclosures

  • [2011] A structure employing Aurivillius phase ferroelectric crystals
  • [2012] Catalytic Copper Atomic Layer Deposition at low temperature

Honours and Awards

  • [2015] – Royal Society/Science Foundation Ireland University Research Fellowship
  • [2015] – UCC Early Stage Researcher of the Year Award
  • [2016] – Honoured at a celebration of ‘Women in Science’, hosted by President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins and Mrs Sabina Higgins, in Áras an Uachtaráin, January 2016.
  • [2018] – Received ‘Overall Best Talk’ at the Tyndall Internal Conference, 2018
  • [2019] – Honoured at Aras an Uachtarain

Teaching Activities

Teaching Interests

Lecturer and examiner of Materials Chemistry course CM1001, University College Cork.