Completed Research Grants
- SFI Principal Investigator Grant 2012 “Growth, Oriented Attachment and Large Scale Vertical Assembly of Ternary and Quaternary Semiconductor Nanorods for Low Cost Photovoltaics (11PI-1148)
- Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Technologies Centre (PMTC) “Pharmaceutical Packaging Technologies for product traceability, utility and integrity protection”
- IRCSET Enterprise Partnership Scheme PhD Studentship with Intel Ireland “Advanced Electrical and Structural Characterization of Strained Semiconductor Nanowires Synthesized by Self Seeded Processes in Solution”
- IRCSET Enterprise Partnership Scheme PhD Studentship with Intel Ireland “Investigation of Cu15Si4 Nanowires as a replacement for copper Interconnects”
- EU 7th Framework, FP7-2011-GC-ELECTROCHEMICAL-STORAGE, Single Stage, Advanced Manufacturing Processes for Low Cost GREENerLi-ION Batteries (GREENLION);
- EU 7th Framework, FP7-NMP-2011-SME-5, Two Stage, Label Free Nanoscopy Using Infra Red.( LANIR): 280804-1 LANIR CP-TP,
- HEA Cycle 5, INSPIRE Graduate programme in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 1 PhD student 4 years + consumables
- SFI Travel Grant (Ajay)
- IRCSET EMBARK PhD Fellowship Synthetic Routes for Semiconductor Nanorods of High Elemental Abundance and Low Toxicity for Integration into Low Cost solar cells
- IRCSET, Enterprise Partnership INTEL Ireland, ,Modulation of Surface Roughness on Silicon Wafers for Controlled and Localised Growth of Non Seeded Silicon Nanowires, PhD fellowship,
- SFI, TIDA, 06/IN.1/I85 TIDA Feasibility 10, Assemblies of Nanocrystal Encrusted Carbon Spheres for Low-Cost and Wear-Resistant Superhydrophobic Coatings, 2010-2011, PI.
- SFI, Travel Grant, 06/IN.1/185STTF09, Atom Probing of Non-seeded Semiconductor Nanowires, 2009
- National Access Programme (Tyndal) NAP 205 “E-Beam channels for nanorod alignment” SFI, National Access Programme, NAP 89, Lithographic Patterning of Trench devices on a Conducting Substrates for Perpendicular Semiconductor-Nanorod Assembly
- IRCSET, EMBARK, Investigation of Electronic Properties of Semiconductor Nanorod Superlattices,
- Strategic Research Cluster “Biomimetic materials for advanced solar energy conversion” [ PI’s : UCD (11), UL (3), DCU (2)]
- SFI Principal Investigator Grant 2011 “Electric field Assembly of Semiconductor Nanorod Superlattices on-Chip”
- EMBARK Postdoctoral Researcher 2 years
- Enterprise Ireland Proof of Concep “Method of forming Interdigitated Nanorod Arrays for Solar Cell Applications”
- IRCSET Enterprise Partnership Intel Ireland PhD Studentship ‘Multicomponent Attachment to II-VI Nanorods and their Hierarchical Assembly’
- EU Marie Curie Outgoing and Return Fellowship
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