Lida Ansari

Background

About Lida Ansari

I am a senior staff research scientist at the Micro-Nano Systems (MNS) Centre, Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork (UCC), Ireland. I have received my PhD in Microelectronics from Tyndall, UCC in 2013 and awarded best PhD student BOC bursary for my PhD research work in 2012. My doctoral research work was focused on atomic-scale simulation of nanoelectronic devices. I was then awarded Irish Research Council (IRC) fellowship on developing semimetal-based nanosensors and nanoelectronic devices. My activities involve Emerging Materials and Devices for future nanoelectronic, ICT and spintronics applications, including simulation of emerging device concepts. My research focus is on addressing key technological challenges that are essential to the future evolution of Integrated Circuits (ICs) beyond Moore’s Law, needed for the future Trillion Sensor economy of the Internet of Things (IoT), and smart systems/cities. I have gained a wealth of experience in nano-scale material simulations and design of electronic devices through collaborative projects with industry, and by delivering industry-level, high-standard and high-impact research. In particular, my research interest is low dimensional semiconductors and semimetals for beyond classical CMOS integration, surface effects in nanowires and other low-dimensional systems, atomic scale models for nanowire transistors and emerging device concepts. I have had collaborative research projects and technical engagements with international industrial multinationals, including Intel and TSMC. I am the lead inventor of a US patent (US 10658460 B2) and an invention disclosure on “semimetal-based devices”. I was on the Technical Program Committee and one of the local organisers of the NANO conference held at UCC in July 2018. Over the past 10 years I have served as technical reviewer for peer-reviewed journals including ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Transactions on Electron Devices, Applied Physics Letters, and Journal of Applied Physics, among others. My role involves- project management- budget management and purchasing- PhD student supervision and mentoring- dissemination of results in peer-reviewed articles