Professor Barry McMullin, Director, Rince Institute, DCU; Dr Gandhiraman, BDI, DCU; Professor Patrick McNally, Director of Nanomaterials and Processing at the Rince Institute, DCU; Professor Navakanta Bhat, Centre for Nano Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India; Dr. Noel Murphy, Head, School of Electronic Engineering, DCU; Dr. Stephen Daniels, Director, Energy and Design Lab at the Rince Institute, DCU

Indian professor outlines next generation nanodevices

Prof. Navakanta Bhat, Centre for Nano Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, gave a talk to staff and researchers in DCU's Research Institute for Networks and Communications Engineering (RINCE) Institute.

Dr Stephen Daniels and Professor Patrick McNally welcomed Professor Navakanta Bhat to the Nanomaterials Processing Laboratory in the Rince Institute.

Prof Bhat is from a major Centre of Excellence in Nanoelectronics in India, whose core activities map directly onto a number at DCU.

The funding for the visit was awarded jointly to Dr Ram Gandhiraman of DCU's Biomedical Diagnostics Institute (BDI) and Professor Bhat through the Government of India India-Ireland Co-Operative Science Programme.

Professor McNally said, "We are very excited that much of their core research activities map directly onto research already carried out in DCU. This includes next generation nanodevices for low power and energy efficient computing, and advanced technologies for packaging next generation microchips for applications such as medical devices, mobile phones and tablet computing. Over the period of his visit we will be building on established student and research exchanges and consolidating joint research between DCU and the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore".

Professor Bhat's talk, 'An Overview of Research in Nanodevices and Sensors Lab', presented the genesis of the Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE) at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.

"This is a unique centre in India, which was established to create devices, technologies and societal applications by harnessing the potentials of nanotechnology. With a state of the art 14,000 sft National Nanofabrication Centre and 7,000 sft Micro and Nano Systems Characterization facility, we are uniquely positioned to carry out research, development and prototyping", he said.

He went on to present his research accomplishments in high-k gate dielectrics, schottky junctions on Germanium and Graphene transistor modeling and experiments.

Finally, he gave a summary of his team's research in the area of gas sensors, bio sensors and inertial sensors.