Trinity College Dublin

Magnetism is a 2000 year-old science which is undergoing a renaissance. It underpins dramatic advances in information technology and electromagnetic engineering. Magnetism also provides systems for fundamental studies of phase transitions, random disorder and physics in low dimensions. There are fascinating and ill-explained effects of magnetic fields in chemistry and biology.

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back: Dr. Jiafeng Feng, Ciarán Fowley, Zhu Diao, Peter Dunne, Dr. Byoung-Sun Chun, Chris Murray, Dr. Karsten Rode, Dr. Huseyin Kurt, Dr. Tomohiko Niizeki, Kaan Oguz, Dr. Plamen Stamenov, Dr. Adriele Prina-Mello, James Waldron, Gaspare Varvaro, Prammy
front: Dr. Gen Feng, Dr. M. Venkatesan, Jenni Drewes, Emer Brady, Prof. Michael Coey, Crystelle Lionti, Catherine Boothman, Fiona Byrne, Marita O'Sullivan.
not pictured: Simone Alborghetti, Jacqueline Ballentine-Armstrong, Franklyn Burke, Tracy Byrne, Jun-Yang Chen, Darragh Crotty, Michael Finneran, Gabriela Kassouny, Delphine LeBeugle, Lorena Monzon, Greg Szulczewski, Huseyin Tokuc.

Founded in 1980 by J. M. D. Coey, we are the most active magnetism research group in Ireland. The first M.Sc. graduated in 1982 and the first Ph.D. in 1984. Since then, the Magnetism and Spin Electronics Group has produced 46 M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses and provided training for many undergraduate students from Ireland, France, and Germany. The group has also hosted 25 postdoctoral fellows and visiting professors from all over the world and numerous short-term visitors.

The group currently includes 18 staff members, postdocs and graduate students as well as visitors, project and summer students. Our research activities include:

• Nanofabrication
• Half Metallic Oxides
• Spin Electronics
• Permanent Magnets
• Magnetic Electrochemistry
• Natural Magnetic Materials 


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