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National Microelectronics Research Centre
"Lee Maltings", Prospect Row
Cork, Ireland
Tel : + 353 21 490 4093
Fax : + 353 21 427 0271
Email : admin@nmrc.ie
Web : www.nmrc.ie
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Finbarr Waldron
Tel : + 353 21 490 4093
Email : finbarr.waldron@nmrc.ie
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NMRC, Ireland's ICT Research Institute was originally established in 1981 with a staff of 20 people. Since then, it has grown to become the largest multidisciplinary research institute in Ireland and has achieved the scale necessary to compete in the international R&D market. NMRC now has a critical mass in excess of 250 research staff along with a significant research infrastructure currently valued at over EURO 100 million.
NMRC has a dual mission, firstly to be a Centre of Excellence in selected Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) fields, and secondly to be a key part of the national science, technology and innovation infrastructure. This is achieved through supporting existing indigenous and multinational industry, providing highly skilled staff for Irish industry and stimulating new industrial development and inward investment from foreign companies.
* Ongoing NMRC ICT research themes encompass critical topics in microtechnologies, photonics, nanotechnology and research at the ICT / Bio interface. Primary research activities may be summarised as follows:
* Research in Microtechnologies targets the development of key microelectronic and microsystem technology modules for future ICT with specific research programmes in simulation, process technology, devices, integration & packaging and reliability.
* Photonics research at NMRC is focused on the development of core platform technologies in the areas of light sources, interconnect and biophotonics along with complimentary research activities in modelling, characterisation and novel photoprocessing with applications ranging from communications to semiconductor materials processing and biomedical diagnostics.
* Research in Nanotechnology focuses on the design, development and understanding of the novel nanoscale materials, structures and devices that will be required to provide logic, memory and interconnect functionality at the ultimate levels of miniaturisation.
* ICT / Bio research at NMRC is a cross-disciplinary activity at the interface between ICT and the biological and chemical sciences aimed at the development of integrated microsystems for high-throughput, point- of-care or in-field diagnostics, in-vivo biomedical therapeutics and neural interfacing.
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People
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Finbarr Waldronhe obtained a BE in electrical engineering from University College Cork in 1991 and the Higher Diploma in Microelectronics from University College Cork in 1996. From 1991 to 1994, he worked at the National Microelectronics Research Centre (NMRC) as a research engineer responsible for the establishment and operation of a reliability test laboratory. During this time he was responsible for supporting the reliability test requirements of the European Space Agency's Microelectronics Technology Support Laboratory (MTSL) at NMRC. He also participated in a number of ESPRIT and BRITE-EURAM research projects in advanced microelectronic packaging. In 1994 he became Industry Services Manager for the Interconnection and Packaging group and established an engineering team to provide reliability test, materials analysis and reverse engineering services to Irish & European Industry. Since 1994, this has become a successful business unit in NMRC and currently provides services to over 60 client companies. The team also supports the advanced research activities at NMRC. Since 1997 Finbarr has become responsible for the expansion and development of packaging, reliability test and analysis services at NMRC. He has also worked with number of multinational companies on research projects focussing on enhanced product reliability, new product development & process improvement. Finbarr has managed NMRC's activities in a number of EU and National Research projects and is also responsible for the day-to-day management of NMRC's research infrastructure access programmes.
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NMRC's role in the MASMICRO project will be a materials evaluation one. NMRC will use its range of Thermomechanical characterisation equipment (including Thermo-mechanical analyser, thermo-gravimetric analyser, differential scanning calorimeters, dynamic mechanical thermal analyser and tensile/compressive testers) to evaluate prototypes from the new processes which will be developed in the project. As the future applications for the microformed materials are envisaged to be in the medical devices and microelectronics packaging areas, NMRC will also bring the significant experience it has built up in both areas to bear in the developmental stages of the manufacturing processes. |
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