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Sustainable aviation research centre launched

Trinity, in partnership with Ryanair, EU’s greenest airline, today announced the launch of a new Ryanair Sustainable Aviation Research Centre.This landmark initiative – the first of its kind in Ireland – has been made possible...

29 Apr 2021

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Congratulations to Prof. Luke Drury on being awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the College

Congratulations to Prof. Luke Drury, Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics in the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies on being awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the College. Luke was Honorary Andrews’ Professor of Astronomy in TCD

29 Apr 2021

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Professor Jonathan Coleman secures ERC proof of concept grant

Professor Jonathan Coleman, the School of Physics and lead PI at AMBER, the SFI Centre for Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research, has secured an European Research Council (ERC) Proof of Concept grant worth €150,000.

12 Jan 2021

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Prof. Charles Patterson SOOMAT project awarded SFI grant

Professor Patterson was awarded €234,871 for his Simulation of Organic Optoelectronic Materials using Many-Body Theory (SOOMAT) research project. This research brings together chemistry, quantum physics and high performance...

10 Nov 2020

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Prof. Lewys Jones awarded with SFI Frontiers Grant for his project, Maximum Information-efficiency Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy

Professor Lewys Jones was awarded €423,845 for his research on improving the performance of electron-microscopes which are used in research. Better image resolution and chemical mapping (each down to the atomic-scale) can then...

10 Nov 2020

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Prof. David McCloskey receives SFI Frontiers for the Future Award to investigate strong visible absorption in deeply subwavelength semiconductor films

Light reflecting from thin films creates strong interference patterns like those seen in soap bubbles or oil slicks. This effect known as thin film interference usually requires films with thickness greater than one quarter of ...

10 Nov 2020

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QuSys group discover uniquely quantum effect in erasing information

Researchers from QuSys group in the School of Physics have discovered a uniquely quantum effect in erasing information that may have significant implications for the design of quantum computing chips. Their surprising discovery...

16 Oct 2020

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Prof. Brian Espey recognised with international award

Professor Brian Espey of the School of Physics has been honoured with the Hoag-Robinson award of the International Dark Sky Association. The IDA, based in Tucson, Arizona, makes this one award each year to recognise outstanding...

15 Oct 2020

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Bronze AS Award conferred to school of Physics, Trinity College Dublin

School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland recognises advancement of gender equality and maintained the British Athena Swan Bronze award from AdvanceHE (2020 – 2023).

21 Sep 2020

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Ultra-fast magnetic switching with potential to transform fibre optical communications

Researchers from the Magnetism group, based in the School of Physics and CRANN have discovered that a new material can act as a super-fast magnetic switch. When struck by successive ultra-short laser pulses it exhibits “toggle...

15 Sep 2020

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