Welcome

Back-row (l-r): Rafael Ramos, Floriano Cuccureddu, Dr Victor Usov, Dr Sumesh Sofin, Michael Sexton, Sundar Raja Vadapoo, Savas Ulucan, Dr Karsten Fleischer, Ruggero Verre, Dr Guido Mariotto, Olaf Luebben, Warren O'Neill, Brendan Doherty, Kenneth Gotlieb. Front-row (l-r): Ciaran McEvoy, Cormac O Coileain, Dr Sunil Arora, Prof Igor Shvets, Paul McElligott, Dr Han Chun Wu, Barry Heffernan, Joanna Baginska, Vincy Gheeraraughese

The Applied Physics Research Group, lead by Prof Igor Shvets, is part of the School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin. It is a multi-faceted research group whose activities range from conducting oxide surface science investigations, spin electronics, the fabrication and characterisation of nanowire arrays using a patented Atomic Terrace Low Angle Shadowing (ATLAS) technique, and the transport and magneto-transport investigations of thin films and low dimension structures. Our main project at present is working towards a new generation of electronics components (transistors, memory elements, etc) based on nanowire arrays.

More recently, the group has diversified into cleaner energy research,which culminated in the opening of the Cleaner Energy Lab (CEL) in December 2008.