• Dr. Christopher Broderick’s research will produce an enhanced understanding of new capabilities in nanowires - filaments of semiconductor material one-thousandth the breadth of a human hair.
• Dr. Broderick is the fourth UCC scientist to receive a Royal Society-Science Foundation Ireland University Research Fellowship.

Professor Seamus Davis, School of Physics, UCC has received the American Physical Society’s Oliver E. Buckley Prize in Condensed Matter Physics at a ceremony in Las Vegas, an accolade that recognises 25 years of work and his development of quantum microscopes that allow direct atomic scale imaging of quantum matter existing within advanced materials.

Macroscopic Quantum Matter Research Group, School of Physics, UCC have new material on a Superconductor breakthrough that could be significant for the future of quantum computing.  

This new superconductor may provide a solution to one of quantum computing’s greatest challenge. Using one of the world’s most powerful quantum microscopes, researchers have discovered a spatially modulating superconducting state in a new and unusual superconductor material uranium ditelluride (UTe2). 

A gamma-ray burst known as GRB 230307A caused a vast explosion more than a million times brighter than our entire Milky Way galaxy which rippled across the universe. Dr. Kennedy observed it from earth using a European Southern Observatory’s New Technology Telescope based in Chile but accessed remotely from in his own home in Cork.