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Professor Ignatius Mcgovern

Fellow Emeritus (Physics)
      
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Professor Ignatius Mcgovern

Fellow Emeritus (Physics)

 Iggy.McGovern@tcd.ie

 


I have been in the Physics Department at Trinity College since 1979; previously I held research positions in the University of Wisconsin, University of Pennsylvania and the New University of Ulster. I am married to Eileen Patten and we have a son, Eoin. My main extracurricular activity is creative writing; a first collection of poetry 'The King of Suburbia' was published in late 2005 by Dedalus Press
  Condensed matter, electronic, magnetic and superconductive properties   Surface and interface physics   Surface chemistry
Project Title
 DIODE
From
01.02.00
To
31.01.05
Summary
DIODE (designing inorganic-organic devices) is a network of physicists, chemists and engineers, focusing on the fundamentals of how a thin interfacial layer of organic molecules can improve Schottky diode performance
Funding Agency
EU
Programme
IHP
Project Type
RTN
Person Months
150
Project Title
 Organic Semiconductor Nanostructures
From
01.06.02
To
31.05.07
Summary
The fundamentals of adsorption of organic molecules are investigated by a combination of laboratory techniques such as XPS and STM (at DCU) and the central facility of synchrotron radiation, available at various European centres
Funding Agency
HEA
Programme
PRTLI
Person Months
90
Project Title
 Synchrotron X-ray spectroscopic investigations of electronic structure in organic semiconductors
From
01.10.04
To
30.09.07
Summary
This project combines traditional photoelectron spectroscopy with x-ray absorption/emission methods to examine the electronic and geometric structures of organic semiconductor thin films
Funding Agency
SFI
Programme
Basic Research Grant
Person Months
36
Project Title
 The fabrication and characterisation of high-k dielectric/InP based devices
From
01.09.06
To
31.08.09
Summary
This collaborative project (PI: Prof G Hughes of DCU) will optimise the deposition of high-k dielectric thin films on passivated surfaces of indium phosphide, using the combination of scanning tunneling microscopy and photoelectron spectroscopy, using laboratory and synchrotron radiation sources.
Funding Agency
SFI
Programme
Research Frontiers
Person Months
36
Project Title
 Porphyrin-based nanomeshes as a novel route to molecular electronics
From
01.07.08
To
30.06.11
Summary
An investigation of the conditions for creating nanomeshes via covalent bonding of suitably modified porphyrin molecules; the principal techniques are scanning tunneling microscopy and soft x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
Funding Agency
Science Foundation Ireland
Programme
Research Frontiers Programme 2008
Project Type
basic research

Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
Details Date From Date To
American Vacuum Society
Institute of Physics
McIntyre J, Verma N.K, Smith R.J, Moore C, Nerl H, McEvoy N, Berner N, McGovern I, Khan U, Lyons P, O'Neill L, Nicolosi V, Duesberg G.S, Byrne H.J, Coleman J, Volkov Y, A comparison of catabolic pathways induced in primary macrophages by pristine single walled carbon nanotubes and pristine graphene, RSC Advances, 6, (70), 2016, p65299 - 65310, Notes: [Export Date: 15 September 2016], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
Cano, M., Khan, U., Sainsbury, T., O'Neill, A., Wang, Z., McGovern, I.T., Maser, W.K., (...), Coleman, J.N., Improving the mechanical properties of graphene oxide based materials by covalent attachment of polymer chains, Carbon, 52, 2013, p363-371 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Evans,DA Andrew D.A., Vearey-Roberts,A. R. A.R., Roberts,Owain R. O.R., Williams,Gruffudd T. G.T., Cooil,Simon P. S.P., Langstaff,David P. D.P., Cabailh,Gregory G., McGovern,Ignatius T. I.T., Goss,Jonathan P G J.P.G., Transport and optical gaps and energy band alignment at organic-inorganic interfaces, Journal of Applied Physics, 114, (12), 2013, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Sainsbury, T., Satti, A., May, P., Wang, Z., McGovern, I., Gun'ko, Y.K., Coleman, J., Oxygen radical functionalization of boron nitride nanosheets, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 134, (45), 2012, p18758-18771 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Berner, N. c.; Sergeeva, Y. N.; Sergeeva, N. N.; Senge, M. O.; Cafolla, A. A.; McGovern, I. T., Adsorption of 5,10,15,20-tetrakis(4-bromophenyl)porphyrin on germanium(001), Physica Status Solidii C, 9, 2012, p1404 - 1407, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Iggy McGovern, Safe House, Dublin, Dedalus Press, 2010, Notes: [Collection of poetry], Book, PUBLISHED
D. A. Evans, A. R. Vearey-Roberts, O. R. Roberts, A. C. Brieva, A. Bushell, G. T. Williams, D. P. Langstaff, G. Cabailh, and I. T. McGovern, Real-time monitoring of the evolving morphology and molecular structure at an organic-inorganic semiconductor interface: SnPc on GaAs(001) , J. Vac. Sci. Technology B, 48, 2010, pc5f5 - c5f11, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
B. N. Holland, G. Gavrila, D. R. T. Zahn, A A Cafolla, C. McGuinness, and I. T. McGovern, Adsorption of lead phthalocyanine on the hydrogen-passivated Ge(001)-2x1 surface, physica status solidi (c), 7, (2), 2009, p218 - 221, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Mustafa Lotya, Yenny Hernandez, Paul J. King, Ronan J. Smith, Valeria Nicolosi, Lisa S. Karlsson, Fiona M. Blighe, Sukanta De, Zhiming Wang, I. T. McGovern, Georg S. Duesberg and Jonathan N. Coleman, Liquid phase production of graphene by exfoliation of graphite in surfactant/water solutions , Journal of the American Chemical Society , 131, (10), 2009, p3611 - 3620, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
B N Holland, A A Cafolla, C Stephens and I T McGovern, Adsorption of lead phthalocyanine on the Ge(111)-c(2 × 8) surface , e-Journal of Surface Science and Nanotechnology , 7, 2009, p234 - 238, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
  

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Science and poetry: not so different? in, editor(s)Philip Coleman , On Literature and Science, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2007, pp211 - 222, [Iggy McGovern], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED

  


Award Date
Fellow of Institute of Physics 2003
Fellow of Trinity College 1990
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow 1986
My general area of research is Surface Physics, specifically the photoelectron spectroscopy of semiconductor surfaces using synchrotron radiation. My principal interest has been in the adsorption of small molecules on clean, ordered semiconductor surfaces; the area has a connection with device processing. More recently, research has focused on organic molecule adsorption. Synchrotron radiation has a unique combination of properties of intensity, tunability, polarisation and time-structure; when applied to traditional spectroscopy such as photoelectron spectroscopy, there is both a quality enhancement and the opportunity to p[erform novel variations on the technique, such as 'near-edge absorption fine structure ' or NEXAFS and 'photoelectron diffraction' or PhD