• Monolayer doping of germanium with arsenic: A new chemical route to achieve optimal dopant activation 

  Kennedy, Noel; Garvey, Shane; Maccioni, Barbara; Eaton, Luke; Nolan, Michael; Duffy, Ray; Meaney, Fintan; Kennedy, Mary; Holmes, Justin D.; Long, Brenda (American Chemical Society, 2020-08-03)

  Reported here is a new chemical route for the wet chemical functionalization of germanium (Ge), whereby arsanilic acid is covalently bound to a chlorine (Cl)-terminated surface. This new route is used to deliver high ...
• Localized partitioning of enantiomers in solid samples of sulfoxides: importance of sampling method in determination of enantiopurity 

  Flynn, Aaran J.; Ford, Alan; Maguire, Anita R. (American Chemical Society, 2020-07-02)

  Localized partitioning of amorphous enantioenriched aryl benzyl sulfoxides in the solid state can lead to substantial variation in enantiopurities, even for sulfoxides which do not show detectable levels of self-disproportionation ...
• Multi-scale theory and simulation of direct-gap group-IV semiconductor alloys 

  Broderick, Christopher A.; O'Halloran, Edmond J.; Dunne, Michael D.; Kirwan, Amy C.; Andreev, Aleksey D.; Schulz, Stefan; O'Reilly, Eoin P. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020-07-13)

  Alloying of Ge with other group-IV elements - C, Sn or Pb - represents a promising route to realise direct-gap group-IV semiconductors for applications in Si-compatible devices, including light-emitting diodes and lasers, ...
• Studies in asymmetric synthesis: I. the asymmetric α-alkylation of N,N-dimethylhydrazones II. the asymmetric aldol-Tishchenko reaction of (S)-tert-butanesulfinyl imines for the introduction of 2, 3, 4 and 5 new chiral centres in one pot 

  Mackey, Pamela (University College Cork, 2020-08-30)

  This thesis is split into two sections based on two different areas of research. Part 1 The asymmetric α-alkylation of ketones is one of the most fundamental yet challenging transformations in organic chemistry. Recently ...
• Atomic layer deposition of metal oxides for photovoltaic applications 

  Ryan, Louise P. (University College Cork, 2020-01-05)

  Organic-inorganic halide perovskite solar cells have gained a lot of traction in recent years due to their high power conversion efficiencies (PCE), >20%, tunable band gap and low fabrication costs. However, as the maximum ...

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