Entries by Ann Heffernan

Rinn Semiconductors Centre launched by Minister James Lawless

We are delighted to announce Ireland’s new national semiconductor research centre, Rinn Semiconductors, which has been launched to advance chiplet-based architectures through next generation heterogeneous integration and advanced packaging technologies.  Hosted at Tyndall National Institute, Rinn Semiconductors is part of the new Rinn Network, representing a total investment of €460M by the Irish government and Research Ireland. With a […]

Prof Sanathana Konugolu Venkata Sekar Elected Optica Fellow

IPIC’s Prof Sanathana Konugolu Venkata Sekar has been elected a Fellow Member of Optica.  Optica is the society dedicated to promoting the generation, application, archiving and dissemination of knowledge in the field. Commenting on his election Prof Konugolu ‘I am truly honoured by this recognition from Optica. Being elected a Fellow alongside inspiring leaders like Prof. […]

Prof Sanathana Konugolu Venkata Sekar has been named on the Photonics 100 2026

IPIC’s Prof Sanathana Konugolu Venkata Sekar has been named on the Photonics 100 2026 list by Electro Optics, recognising him as one of the industry’s most innovative people and a global leader shaping the future of photonics. The Photonics 100 is published annually by Electro Optics and highlights the top 100 individuals driving transformative change […]

Photonics Ireland Conference 2025

It’s a wrap! Photonics Ireland 2025 took place in Cork from 3rd to 5th September 2025, bringing together 208 participants from academia and industry to share knowledge, exchange ideas, and build new connections. The program featured keynote talks, parallel sessions, a panel discussion, an industry session and poster presentations that sparked engaging discussions and showcased […]

Early Career Researchers Secure Research Ireland Funding

Two of IPIC’s early-career researchers have been awarded funding under Research Ireland’s Pathway Programme. The €23 million investment was announced by James Lawless TD, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, in support of emerging research across Ireland. Making the announcement, Minister Lawless said: This investment, through Research Ireland’s Pathway programme, will support emerging […]

IPIC leading €3 million EIC Grant for Advancements in Quantum Technologies

We are very pleased to announce that a pan-European consortium, led by IPIC’s Dr Gediminas Juska, has been awarded a European Innovation Council (EIC) grant through its Pathfinder Open instrument. The grant, worth €3M, is titled QCEED “Quantum Dot Coupling Engineering (and dynamic spin decoupling/deep nuclei cooling); 2-Dimensional Cluster State Generation for Quantum Information Processing” […]

Chip Scale Review – article

Co-packaging of photonic and electronic ICs on glass interposers – article by IPIC’s Peter O’Brien and Das Kumar. Flipchip packaging of photonic chip on multi-level glass electrical interposer and alignment of microlens array with integrated micro prisms for out-of-plane coupling.  Read the full article here. Chip-Scale-Review_Mar-Apr_2025-digital

Photonics Ireland 2025

IPIC is delighted to announce our hosting of the Photonics Ireland conference 2025 in Cork from 3rd to 5th September 2025 at Radisson Blu Hotel, Cork/Ireland. We invite you to the 11th instalment of this biennial conference and welcome submissions for oral and poster presentations and especially encourage PhD students and early career researchers to […]

FAME III – Third edition of the Workshop: Fundamentals and Advances of MOVPE processes

The workshop will take place in the auditorium “Bergès” at the GreEn-ER building, 21 Avenue des Martyrs, Grenoble on 12th-13th June 2025.  This workshop will focus on epitaxy and related fundamental processes in MOVPE (and other closely related epitaxial techniques). The motivation is to stimulate exchanges in the European MOVPE community. In this sense, the workshop […]

PIADS release their 2024 Research Report

In 2024, CDT Photonic Integration and Advanced Data Storage (PIADS) have once again been a hive of activity, and our PhD students have been involved in countless projects across the photonics and magnetic data storage landscape. Enjoy browsing through our report as our students share their research successes and collaborations with industry partners.

Photonic Integration and Advanced Data Storage (PIADS) – update on some recent viva success!

2024 marks the year in which an important milestone in the Centre for Doctoral Training PIADS was achieved by several of our students. PIADS, having started in 2019, saw it’s first PhD students successfully completing their viva. Huge congratulations to: Dr Ayse Ozcan Atar PhD project: Inverted laser structures for photonic integration: epitaxy, simulation and […]

Valentia Island Symposium on Subsea Cable Security and Resilience

Public engagement @IPIC, on Thursday 10th October, researchers from Dublin & Cork’s Optical Communication department visited Valentia Island in County Kerry as part of the Valentia Island Subsea Cable Symposium at the Valentia Island Transatlantic Cable Station. Researchers engaged in presentations on the history, security and geopolitics of subsea cables. Furthermore, they then met with […]

Groundbreaking research at IPIC aims to eliminate skin colour bias in healthcare

IPIC’s Dr Sanathana Konugolu has been awarded €1.58 million from renowned funding body, European Research Council (ERC), to support his groundbreaking research project NOBIAS: “Novel diffuse Optical method to combat skin colour bias in non-invasive optical biomarker sensing devices”. Skin colour bias in optical healthcare devices affects 2.2 billion people of colour worldwide. Dr. Konugolu’s project, […]

Optical Fibre Communications Workshop

The UCC/Tyndall OPTICA Student Chapter are pleased to invite you on the 3-5 September 2024 to Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland for a workshop on Optical Fibre Communications: from networking to infrastructure challenges. From submarine to terrestrial fibre communication networks and beyond, dive into the basics with us for an insightful 3-day workshop with industry […]

explorer 2024

On May 2nd, Explorer 2024 concluded successfully with projects pitching their deep tech pre-commercialisation projects.   Seven enthusiastic and hard working teams presented their outcomes. Congratulations to all involved, especially to the winning team “PIXSA” from the Centre for Advanced Photonics & Process Analysis (CAPPA), Munster Technological University: S. Hadi Badri and Samira Jastan presented their […]

IPIC’s Photonics Packaging Group partners with MIT on chip development

IPIC’s Photonic Packaging Group let by Prof. Peter O’Brien have been awarded funding by the National Science Foundation in the US to diversify and strengthen the supply chain for manufacturing and packaging of semiconductor devices.  This collaborative project, FUTUR-IC is a reference to the future of integrated circuits, or chips, through a global alliance for […]

FAME – Second International Workshop on Fundamentals and Advances of MOVPE processes

After the success of the first edition, the second edition of FAME (2024) – Second International Workshop on Fundamentals and Advances of MOVPE processes will be held at Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands) on July 8-9th 2024. As before, this workshop will focus on epitaxy and related fundamental processes in MOVPE (and other close enough […]

Frank Peters receives SFI Industry Partnership Award 2023

We are delighted to congratulate our colleague Prof. Frank Peters on receipt of SFI Industry Partnership Award 2023.  This is in recognition of his work with IPIC in partnership with Rockley Photonics, University College Cork & Tyndall National Institute. Frank has been working  in photonic research for over 30 years, he has filed over 80 […]

IPIC All Centre Day – The Power of Open Networks

Recently IPIC gathered members from across all institutions; Tyndall National Institute, Munster Technological University, Dublin City University, National University of Ireland Galway, Trinity College Dublin, University College Cork and University of Limerick.  We workshopped the following topics: – Research Integrity Education and Public Engagement Entrepreneurship / critical thinking Career Development Teamwork – the power of […]

Paper in top 3 IEEE Photonics Technology

Paper III-V-on-Si DFB Laser With Co-Integrated Power Amplifier Realized Using Micro-Transfer Printing published by IEEE is currently in the top 3 downloaded in IEEE Photonics Technology letters this year.   This work was supported in part by both the European Union and Science Foundation Ireland (SFI).   Credit goes to a number of Researchers, including IPIC’s own Brian […]