Dr. Duane has worked on a number of research projects in collaboration with industrial partners and has acted as a consultant in the area of semiconductor devices for a number of indigenous and multinational companies. He has been issued three U.S. patents in the area of semiconductor devices. Two of these patents were the outcome of an industrial collaboration with Bourns to investigate new over-voltage protection devices. Another patent on a novel memory device was issued as a result of his Ph.D. work. Dr. Duane currently leads an SFI funded research programme in the area of dielectric charging for MEMS devices. One of the papers from this programme was chosen last year by the Editors of Applied Physics Letters to be included in special edition Editor's Choice 2012 which represents the best research across the entire journal. He is also currently responsible for improving the performance of the Tyndall RADFET technology and has already significantly increased production yield and is currently investigating two novel device structures to increase sensitivity. He has published a number of articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings.