Professor Roger Whatmore, cluster co-principal investigator at the Tyndall National Institute, Cork gives an overview of the largest research facility in Ireland and places emphasis on how their post graduate programmes are delivering real world solutions and driving innovation.

1. Research Leadership,
Innovation
and
Tyndall National Institute
Roger W. Wh t
R W Whatmore
CEO
Tyndall National Institute
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2. Why Do Research?
• Why Does Society Fund Research?
– F d
Fundamentally
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• Jobs and Wealth Creation
– Innovation
• Attracting new investment
• Creating new companies addressing new markets
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– People
• Education levels must increase with time
• Irish people must be as highly educated as possible
– National Prestige
• “Feel Good” factor
“Feel-Good”
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3. “Closed” Innovation
The “Closed Paradigm”
Research Development
Boundary of Firm
Research
Projects Market
Examples:
Bell Laboratories
The “Virtuous Circle” Xerox PARC
Fundamental Technology Breakthroughs
Increasing investment in R&D New Products and Features
Increasing Sales and Profits Via Existing
Business Model
Chesborough: “Open Innovation”
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4. “Open” Innovation
Research Development
New Market
Boundary of Firm
Research
Projects Traditional
Market
Examples: Produces:
CISCO Dynamic environment
Intel Drive to innovate
Ability to address new markets
quickly
Chesborough: “Open Innovation”
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5. Open Innovation Needs
• Creative, dynamic environments
– New ideas and companies being rapidly
created (and destroyed)
•“
“Smart”, well educated people
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– Risk, entrepreneurship
• Access to excellence
– At least at internationally-competitive levels
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• Good, rapid access to new, developing
markets
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6. Role of the Research Institute
• Producing research excellence
• Producing “smart” highly educated PG s
smart PG’s
and PD’s
• Providing an attractive research
environment
– International researchers
– Facilities and infrastructure
– Access to National research funding
• Industry Access
– Physical
– Intellectual
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7. Working with FDI / IDA / SFI –
Photonics for Exascale Computing
• IBM has established exascale stream computing
research collaboratory in Dublin
• Exploits Tyndall’s core photonics technologies and
expertise in exascale computer interconnect
– Multidisciplinary collaboration also includes researchers from
Trinity College Dublin, NUI Galway, University College Cork &
IRCSET, with support from IDA
NEC Earth Simulator
(#1 i t 500 li t 2002 2004)
in top500 list 2002-2004)
Exascale ~ 1018 FLOP/sec
IBM Blue Gene/L : Lawrence Livermore
National Lab (photo: Wired, Feb 2008)
• >40% o $ 50 p oject cost
0% of $250M project
in interconnection network
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8. Tyndall National Institute
• Established in 2004
• >420 research
engineers, scientists,
students, interns &
support staff
• Critical mass of
researchers
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• Largest research
institute in Ireland
• >€200M capital
p
investment
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9. Tyndall’s Technical Activity & Market Areas
Photonics – Micro/Nanoelectronics - Microsystems
MIcrobolometer
Red VCSL
Quantum dots
Photonics Microsystems Microsensor module
• Telecoms • Wireless Sensing
• Automotive • Analysis
• Lighting • Healthcare
• Energy • Environment
Component Integration & Energy Scavenger
Packaging
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Micro/nanoelectronics
• Health
• Mobility
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Coherent WDM 50nm nanopores
• Security
• Communications
• Entertainment
High-κ Materials
9 SOI NanoTransistor & molecular electronics
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10. Technology or “Grand Challenges”?
“Grand Challenges” for society
• Communications & Computation
• Energy
• Health
• Sustainable development
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11. Science, Technology, Innovation & Education
Science, Technology and Innovation
High Quality Science & Engineering PIs & Researchers
Delivering leading edge research results
Outputs:
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Enterprise, Solutions for
Communications
Innovation and Industry
nics
Industry Growth Licenses
anoelectron
crosystems
High quality Photonics Health Hi Pot Start-ups
Commercialisation PIs
Innovation
& Partnerships
Researchers Environment
E i t
Microna
Mic
Industry
Delivering
collaboration
Commercialisable
Solutions & Value from Energy Patents
Research
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Foreground
Ph µNe µSy Shared IP
Output: Students
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Outputs: Science, Technology, Publications & Patents and Post-Docs
Background Tyndall IP
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12. Tyndall and Human Capital – Research Students
Physics
trical Engineering
Chemistry
160
oelectronics
Microelectronics
mistry
140 Masters
nce
sics
Electrical Eng
Chem
Scien
Micro
Phys
Elect
120 PhD
Other Sciences
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2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 (to
Date)
Unique features of graduate education at Tyndall:
• Multi-disciplinary approach to ICT education and strong
project team ethos
• Close affiliation to industry through project themes and
direct industry participation through EU and EI projects
• Provision of state-of-the-art R&D infrastructure and
hosting of undergraduate and postgraduate students
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13. Funding Diversity - PRTLI / SFI / EI Synergy Examples
PRTLI SFI EI Output
E-beam J-P Colinge Junctionless Transistor
PI Grant
MOCVD E. Pelucchi Quantum
PI Grant Dots
& Lasers
ALD/ M. Pemble Oxide Coatings
AVD PI Grant &
FORME SRC
Photonics PiFAS SRC Packaged
Packaging
P k i lasers
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14. Some examples of Innovative Success
• A license deal
• Collaborative R&D with a major FDI
multi-national
multi national
• Servicing the technical business needs of
a major FDI multi-national
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• A Tyndall spinout
• A high-tech device fabrication and supply
service
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15. New materials for transparent electronics
CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF Ba-doped SrCu2O2; Challenge: A p-type transparent
blue=Ba, green=Sr, pink=Cu, red=O.
conducting oxide (TCO) for
transparent electronics.
Question Posed: Can we use
modelling to design a new p-type
TCO instead of traditional trial-and-
error approach?
Result: Predicted a novel TCO, with
optimal composition for
Ba distorts the structure, reducing Cu-Cu interactions transparency: Ba-doped SrCu2O2.
and increasing the transparency to visible light. By
contrast, other dopants reduce the transparency. Experiments by European partners
confirmed its properties. Material
SrCu
S C 2 O2 Ba-doped
B d d
SrCu2O2 was patented and licensed to
doping widens
band gap
Umicore.
more
transparent to
visible light
European ICT-FET project: ‘Novel
ICT FET Novel
advanced transparent conductive
SCHEMATIC ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE showing gap
between conduction band and Cu-derived valence band
oxides’ (NATCO).
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16. High-k Materials for Future Electronics
Tyndall-Intel collaborative research
into high-k/III-V MOSFETs
• Industrial Relevance: high speed and low
power transistors for future CMOS using Prototype High Mobility FETs for future
high-k/III-V materials on silicon. high speed and low power logic
• Key Challenge: Control and understanding of Pd
the high-k/III-V interface defect density (DIT)
High-k
can lead to improved MOSFET performance.
InGaAs
• Tyndall Research Achievement: Marked
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improvement of high-k/III-V interface using
novel interface control layers (MgO and Reducing high-k/III-V interface DIT is critical
Al2O3) and in-situ H2S passivation. for high mobility and switching speed
• Full In0.53Ga0.47As high-k/III-V MOSFETs show bility µ [cm /Vs]
In0.53Ga0.47As Mobility comparison
carrier mobility 4x greater than obtained
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1200
for In0.53Ga0.47As
with strained silicon. 800 high-k/III-V and a
Strained
high-k/Si based
• Strong collaboration with Intel (i Ireland and
S ll b i ih l (in l d d Silicon
Sili
Peak Mob
400
Silicon MOSFET
USA), involving joint materials research and 0
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an Intel researcher in residence at Tyndall.
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17. Design Technology Evaluation
Solving Industrial Problems
Tyndall in support of ADI
product developments:
• Electrical measurement of new and
re-designed IC's. IC Design Evaluation. TLP Measurements.
• Process transfer comparative
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performance evaluations.
• Application specific performance
measurements.
• TLP assessment of ESD structures.
• FIB adjustment of designs and re- Design and technology Intellectual Property
evaluations. protection investigation and claim charting.
• P
Process monitoring.
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• Patent infringement investigation. Wafer level parameter
measurements, 1/f noise
• Benchmarking of designs and
and RF performance
technologies.
technologies characterisation.
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18. Tyndall Spinout – Avalanche Photodiode Array
SensL, Silicon Photomultiplier Array
(
(SPMArray) based on Avalanche
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Photodiode (APD) technology
Fabricated in the Tyndall silicon
processing facility
• World-leading technology
– Capable of detecting single photons of light
– Developed from 10 years+ Tyndall research
– Major applications in Medical diagnostics, Nuclear Medicine and Low
Light Imaging i l di Fl
Li h I i including Fluorescence of Bi h i l species
f Biochemical i
– The SPMArray is the first commercially available, solid-state, large
array detector based on silicon photomultiplier technology.
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19. Devices to Industry - Radiation Transducers
RAD1 RADFET chip Sicel’s OneDose system: dosimeter patch with RAD1 and the reader
• RADFET = Radiation Sensing Field Effect Transistor
• World-leading supplier of RADFETs (ESA, NASA, JAXA, CERN, …)
• OneDose surface dosimetry system: already in the US market
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– Radiotherapy treatment
– First FDA approval of Tyndall technology
• Annual RADFET sales 350,000 units
• Order for 240,000 units received Q3 2007
240 000
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20. EU Funding
• EU Funding has been, and is critical to
been is,
Tyndall’s development and activity
• Brings:
– Funding
– C ll b ti across th whole of EU with
Collaboration the h l f ith
100’s of companies and RTD organisations
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World-class international collaborations
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• Allows us to bring-in Irish companies
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21. EU Project Example - PIEMAN
Partners
• Challenge
– Develop a radically-new optical fibre
network concept that will deliver:
• Substantial increases in broadband
communication rates for
residential and business users
• Significant network simplification
– Lower equipment cost
– Lower operational cost
– Easier to manage and maintain
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22. Network Today
Customers connected by copper
Core
Metro
Exchange building
• Electronic switching nodes
• Power hungry
• Numerous (~6000 in typical
large EU country)
business and Access
residential customers
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23. Network Evolution: Fibre-to-the-home
Customers connected by Fibre
Higher bandwidths,
but network complexity
and cost remains hi h
d t i high
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24. Network Evolution: PIEMAN
PIEMAN Advantages
Simplifies network
• All optical network
p
reducing equipment &
operating costs − 5 × Span (100km)
− 10 × Bandwidth
− 10 × No of Customers
No.
− Highly shared (WDM)
• Enables elimination of
electronics and
exchanges
− From ~6000 to ~ 200 in
typical large EU country
− Major power savings
relative to the copper
network
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25. Innovation
• Open Innovation
– Widely adopted as a successful business
approach to Research and Technology
Development
– Irish environment is well suited to servicing
this need with:
• High quality people
• High quality facilities
• Access to flexible funding instruments
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26. The Immediate Future
Sustaining R&D investment is key to economic recovery
• Retaining our experts
• Training our graduates
• Maintaining our reputation for excellence
• Leading in state-of-the art
• Remaining attractive to FDI
• Building upon our success
• Generating growth
Innovate our way
into economic recovery and growth
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27. Thank You!
Any Questions?
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