SEMICON Europa 2016

MIchael Morris
Director, AMBER Research Centre
AMBER, Trinity College Dublin, Chemistry


Prof Michael Morris is the Director of AMBER and Professor of Surface and Interface Chemistry at Trinity College Dublin. AMBER is the national material research centre and is co-funded by government and industry to provide disruptive science into industry partners. Prof. Morris was at University College Cork for over 20 years before moving to Trinity and he retains a research group in Cork and the Tyndall National Institute. He has worked in the area of self-assembly for over 20 years and has published over 200 papers in this area. These self-assembly methods have been used to generate ultra-low dielectric constant thin films and create nanowires and nanowire arrays. His current work focuses on the development of block copolymer techniques to nanopattern surfaces for electronic device applications. Prof. Morris has also applied some of these techniques to the development of food packaging materials in both film and membrane form where nanopatterns can improve antimicrobial and hydrophobic properties of polymers. Prof. Morris is a partner on the EU sponsored PLACYD programme aiming to insert block copolymer lithography into device fabrication. Prof. Morris has worked closely with collaborators at Intel both in Ireland and in Components Research in Portland. He also works with a number of other industrial partners including, Alcatel-Lucent, Merck Millipore and Glantreo in examining how inexpensive nanopatterning and nanostructure may be used in other applications which include advanced surface cooling and antimicrobial surfaces.

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