Comparison of ANN and DoE for the prediction of laser-machined micro-channel dimensions. Karazi, S.M; Issa, A; Brabazon, D. Optics and Lasers in Engineering 2009
Our materials growth and processing research develops novel materials and processing methods directed towards applications in high-tech microelectronics, sensing, and sustainability, working in collaboration with key industrial and scientific partners.
About the Research Area
Novel materials coupled with precision processing techniques enable unique functional devices on sub-micron and nanometre length scales. The ability to work at the interface of materials growth and processing, and to utilise a wide variety of processing techniques, including non-equilibrium plasma methods, enables us to access a broad range of parameter space and to develop innovative new materials, composites and structures suited to specific applications. Our wide range of analysis and characterisation techniques provide us with detailed understanding of the scientific basis of the material and device behaviour and these techniques are designed to maximise their relevance to the high-tech manufacturing sector by replicating industrial conditions to give our work maximum impact.
Research Projects
Materials Growth and Processing Publications
Structural analysis, elemental profiling, and electrical characterization of HfO2 thin films deposited on In0.53 Ga0.47 As surfaces by atomic layer deposition. Long, R.D; O’Connor, É; Newcomb, S.B; Monaghan, S; Cherkaoui, K; Casey, P; Hughes, G; Thomas, K.K; Chalvet, F; Povey, I.M; Pemble, M.E; Hurley, P.K. Journal of Applied Physics 2009
Dimensions and cost prediction modelling of Nd: YVO4 laser internal micro-channel fabrication in PMMA. Karazi, S.M; Brabazon, D; Ben Azouz, A. Nanotechnology 2010: Electronics, Devices, Fabrication, MEMS, Fluidics and Computational – Technical Proceedings of the 2010 NSTI Nanotechnology Conference and Expo, NSTI-Nanotech 2010 2010