John Barrett

Funded Investigator

Prof. John Barrett is a founder and Head of Academic Studies of the Nimbus Research Centre at Cork Institute of Technology (CIT). His research is focused on packaging, miniaturisation and embedding of cyberphysical systems in materials, objects and structures with particular emphasis on challenging and harsh application environments. He has been a lecturer and researcher in CIT since 1999 and was previously Assistant Director of Tyndall National Institute, where he also managed the Smart Systems research group. He has been active in Irish and European research in the areas of packaging and systems integration for 35 years and has won extensive research funding from national/EU programmes and industry. He has supervised over 35 postgraduate research students and has made over 100 publications and presentations in topics related to his field, including a number of invited national and international presentations. In addition to his research, he is active in communicating emerging technologies to non-expert audiences from primary school level upwards and in training researchers in presentation and public speaking skills. He is also Chair of CIT’s Postgraduate Research Board, responsible for developing, implementing and monitoring postgraduate academic quality standards across the Institute.


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Prof John Barrett
Funded Investigator
Software Systems, HCI, Security & Integration
NIMBUS (CIT)

Professor Barrett’s research is focused on packaging, miniaturisation and embedding of cyber-physical systems in materials, objects and structures with particular emphasis on challenging and harsh application environments. He has been a lecturer and researcher in CIT since 1999 and was previously Assistant Director of Tyndall National Institute, where he also managed the Smart Systems research group. He has been active in Irish and European research in the areas of packaging and systems integration for 35 years and has won extensive research funding from national/EU programmes and industry. He has supervised over 35 postgraduate research students and has made over 100 publications and presentations in topics related to his field, including a number of invited national and international presentations. In addition to his research, he is active in communicating emerging technologies to non-expert audiences from primary school level upwards and in training researchers in presentation and public speaking skills. He is also Chair of CIT’s Postgraduate Research Board, responsible for developing, implementing and monitoring postgraduate academic quality standards across the Institute.
Dr. Barrett is a Funded Investigator with CONFIRM

• PhD in Microelectronics, University College Cork
• MEngSc in Microelectronics, University College Cork
• BEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College Cork

Senior Member IEEE

• Packaging
• Miniaturisation and embedding of cyber-physical systems in materials, objects and structures with particular emphasis on challenging and harsh application environments.

• John Barrett has been involved in applied R&D for over 30 years, almost all of it with enterprise and other non-academic partners.
• Proven track record of collaborations with companies both large and small in Ireland and within a wide range of EU-funded programmes.
• Delivery of services such as reliability testing and failure analysis to over 50 different Irish companies.
• Founded and ran the European Space Agency Reliability Laboratory at Tyndall National Institute, supporting qualification of microelectronic devices for space applications.
• John is a member of the Executive of the Nimbus Research Centre, which operates the very successful TEC Gateway, supporting 50-60 Irish companies every year in new technology development and commercialisation.
• In undergraduate and postgraduate education, he has supported the training of hundreds of technologists who now work for Irish companies.

Professor Barrett’s research focuses on the areas of expertise outlined above. Has been active in nationally funded and industry-funded research and in EU collaborative programmes since 1983.

  1. Rojas and J. Barrett, "A Novel 3-D Embedded Module for Displacement Measurement in Metal Structures," IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology, vol. 7, no. 11, pp. 1765-1773, Nov. 2017. doi: 10.1109/TCPMT.2017.2749278

 

George, J.; Compagno, T.; Rodgers, K.; Waldron, F.; Barrett, J., "Reliability of plastic-encapsulated electronic components in supersaturated steam environments," in Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology, IEEE Transactions on , vol.5, no.10, pp.1423-1431, Oct. 2015, doi: 10.1109/TCPMT.2015.2470596

 

William Quinn, Ger Kelly, and John Barrett, “Development of an embedded wireless sensing system for the monitoring of concrete”, Journal of Structural Health Monitoring”, 11(4), July 2012, pp. 381–392, doi:10.1177/1475921711430438.

 

David Rojas and John Barrett, “Experimental Analysis of a Wireless Sensor Network in a Multi-Chamber Metal Environment”, Proceeding of the 22nd European Wireless Conference, Oulu, Finland, 18-20 May 2016, pp. 494-99.

 

  1. George, T. Compagno, F. Waldron and J. Barrett, “Reliability Analysis of Plastic Encapsulated Coin Batteries under Harsh Environmental Conditions”, 4th Electronics Systems Integration Technologies Conference, ESTC2012, Bruges, Belgium, September 2012. DOI: 10.1109/ESTC.2012.6542109.

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