Dr. Aidan Quinn

Head of Nanotechnology group and Deputy Head of Materials & Devices), Tyndall National Institute

Dr. Aidan Quinn is Head of the Nanotechnology Group at the Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, Ireland. The group’s research programme includes development of chemical synthesis, molecular self-assembly and agile processing routes for scalable fabrication and integration of nanostructures and electrodes. Applications include nanoscale sensing and energy storage, novel graphene-based transparent electrodes and resistive memories. He has published over 60 papers in leading peer-reviewed journals and has filed two patent applications.


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Dr. Aidan Quinn
Head of Nanotechnology group and Deputy Head of Materials & Devices), Tyndall National Institute
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Dr. Quinn is a Principal Investigator with CONFIRM.

• PhD in Physics, Trinity College Dublin
• BSc in Experimental Physics and Mathematical Physics, University College Dublin

• National Advisory Committee for the EuroNanoForum 2013
• Member of the Institute of physics
• Member of the American Physical Society
• Member of the American Vacuum Society
• Member of the Materials Research Society

• Nanofabrication (optical and electron-beam lithography, selfassembly, Nano structure templates)
• Nanometrology (scanning electron microscopy, scanning probe microscopy)
• Hybrid Fabrication
• Variable-temperature electrical characterization (4.2 – 400 K)
• Raman spectroscopy of carbon-based nanomaterials

Dr Quinn also lectures (part-time) to undergraduates and postgraduates in the Electrical & Electronic Engineering and Physics departments at UCC on Nanoelectronics and Computational Physics, respectively. He has acted as external examiner for Ph.D. candidates in Ireland, the Netherlands and Sweden and has delivered invited tutorial presentations at postgraduate summer schools in Italy and the United Kingdom.

Dr. Quinn has filed two patent applications and has acted as a consultant on future research directions in Nanotechnology in Ireland, both as a member of the ICSTI Nanotechnology Task Force and a panel member of the Forfás NanoIreland Technology Assessment Exercise.

Dr. Quinn’s research is focused on development of hybrid fabrication routes for nanostructured electrodes for energy storage and sensing applications on semiconductor chips as well as plastic and metal foil substrates.

(2005) 'Microporous silicon and biosensor development: structural analysis, electrical characterisation and biocapacity evaluation' Lillis, Brian and Jungk, Cornelia and Iacopino, Daniela and Whelton, Andrew and Hurley, Eileen and Sheehan, Michelle M and Splinter, Alexandra and Quinn, Aidan and Redmond, Gareth and Lane, William A and others (2005) 'Microporous silicon and biosensor development: structural analysis, electrical characterisation and biocapacity evaluation'. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 21 (2):282-292 [Details] (2014) 'Au nanorod plasmonic superstructures obtained by a combined droplet evaporation and stamping method' Schopf, Carola and Mart'in, Alfonso and Burke, M'iche'al and Jones, Daniel and Pescaglini, Andrea and O'Riordan, Alan and Quinn, Aidan J and Iacopino, Daniela (2014) 'Au nanorod plasmonic superstructures obtained by a combined droplet evaporation and stamping method'. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2 (18):3536-3541 [Details] (2012) 'Non-Covalent Functionalization of Graphene Using Self-Assembly of Alkane-Amines' Long, Brenda and Manning, Mary and Burke, Micheal and Szafranek, Bartholomaeus N and Visimberga, Giuseppe and Thompson, Damien and Greer, James C and Povey, Ian M and MacHale, John and Lejosne, Guaylord and others (2012) 'Non-Covalent Functionalization of Graphene Using Self-Assembly of Alkane-Amines'. Advanced Functional Materials, 22 (4):717-725 [Details] (2014) 'Low sheet resistance titanium nitride films by low-temperature plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition using design of experiments methodology' Burke, Micheal and Blake, Alan and Povey, Ian M and Schmidt, Michael and Petkov, Nikolay and Carolan, Patrick and Quinn, Aidan J (2014) 'Low sheet resistance titanium nitride films by low-temperature plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition using design of experiments methodology'. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A, 32 (3) [Details]

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