Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE110100235
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$180,000.00
Summary
Interfacial mapping facility. New electronic materials and devices impact on everyday life in areas such as photovoltaics, biotechnology and healthcare. This facility will provide researchers with the unique capability of mapping both the structure and electronic properties of materials on the nanoscale. It will be an essential tool for developing new electronics based on nanotechnology.
Narrow band gap silicon: understanding and exploiting this new silicon phase. This project aims to study for the first time exciting new forms of conducting and insulating silicon that can be formed by simply pressing down on silicon with an indenter tip. As well as producing new science, the technological outcomes involve new devices and processes of significance to electronics and solar industries.
Performance bottlenecks in ultra-scaled field-effect transistors. The comparison of commercial and atomically-precise devices will result in the long sought after atomistic metrology knowledge. Such knowledge is required to achieve a leap forward in device understanding and design in order to improve speed, reliability and energy consumption.
Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE150100001
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$410,000.00
Summary
Collaborative advanced spectroscopy facility for materials and devices. Collaborative advanced spectroscopy facility for materials and devices: This project aims to enable advancements in electronics, photonics, biomedicine, and sensing through a collaborative, open access facility for advanced optical and chemical spectroscopy of thin films, materials, and devices. The intended capabilities include high-speed, precise and state-of-the-art spectroscopy tools which enable in situ characterisation ....Collaborative advanced spectroscopy facility for materials and devices. Collaborative advanced spectroscopy facility for materials and devices: This project aims to enable advancements in electronics, photonics, biomedicine, and sensing through a collaborative, open access facility for advanced optical and chemical spectroscopy of thin films, materials, and devices. The intended capabilities include high-speed, precise and state-of-the-art spectroscopy tools which enable in situ characterisation at sub-micron scales and cryogenic temperatures, under bio-simulated environments, down to single pixel resolution, with parallel imaging and spectroscopy, and of fluids and biomaterials. The instrumentation will include cryogenic sub-micron photoluminescence and micro-Raman spectroscopy, single pixel optical and dark field spectroscopy, continuous wave terahertz time-domain spectroscopy, wide wavelength microscopic spectroscopy, and temperature-jump kinetics spectroscopy. It is expected that these complementary instruments will accelerate research in materials and devices for plasmonics, nanoelectronics, biomedicine, biochemistry, security, and forensic science.Read moreRead less
A silicon-compatible light source on a silicon-on-insulator platform. Silicon is emerging as an important photonic material owing to the cheap processing methods developed for electronics. This project aims to capture key technology for integrating photonic components onto silicon. It can bring social and commercial benefits to Australia such as high-level research as well as opportunities for commercialisation.
Nanostructured ferroic oxides: Why does defect-induced nanoscale heterogeneity matter? Ferroic oxides are an important class of functional materials used in applications such as storage memories, medical devices and smart sensors. This project will significantly impact the fundamental understanding and development of ferroic devices by revealing the underpinning interface mechanisms that govern their behaviour in nanostructured form.
Bioelectronic logic. This project aims to understand ion-electron interactions relevant to bioelectronics, and create transducing interfaces. Bioelectronics is a frontier field which aims to connect biological systems with modern electronics and so create biomedical devices. Transducing ion and electron signals using a biocompatible functional interface is difficult since ion and electron physics are different. By combining individual transducers, this project intends to demonstrate ground-break ....Bioelectronic logic. This project aims to understand ion-electron interactions relevant to bioelectronics, and create transducing interfaces. Bioelectronics is a frontier field which aims to connect biological systems with modern electronics and so create biomedical devices. Transducing ion and electron signals using a biocompatible functional interface is difficult since ion and electron physics are different. By combining individual transducers, this project intends to demonstrate ground-breaking bioelectronic logic capable of interface-level processing. The stretch goal is to test this new logic with a biological neuronal model. The project could deliver new science and interfacing elements to integrate tissue and circuitry, and demonstrate these in a real biological model.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE120101899
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$375,000.00
Summary
Developing the next generation of single and entangled photon sources. Low noise and efficient sources of single and entangled photons are important resources to implement a scalable platform for large-scale quantum information tasks. This project will develop the prototypes for these sources which will be suitable for a wide range of interesting applications in quantum information.
Room Temperature Quantum Devices based on Spins in Organic Semiconductors:
Characterisation, Control and Development. Organic semiconductors are widely used in optoelectronic devices - recent work has also demonstrated that they contain coherent quantum spin states, even at room temperature. This project will use spin resonance and control techniques from quantum physics to determine the processes which limit coherence in these materials, determine ways to overcome these limitations, and then i ....Room Temperature Quantum Devices based on Spins in Organic Semiconductors:
Characterisation, Control and Development. Organic semiconductors are widely used in optoelectronic devices - recent work has also demonstrated that they contain coherent quantum spin states, even at room temperature. This project will use spin resonance and control techniques from quantum physics to determine the processes which limit coherence in these materials, determine ways to overcome these limitations, and then incorporate the materials into devices which exploit the power of these quantum systems at room-temperature. This project advances the prospect of ubiquitously incorporating quantum technologies into everyday applications, impacting fields from information storage to sensing.Read moreRead less
Industry Laureate Fellowships - Grant ID: IL230100072
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$3,759,824.00
Summary
Unleashing the combined power of electrons and holes for quantum computing. Large scale quantum computers promise unprecedented power with applications ranging from searching large databases for images and video, to optimising traffic routing, cryptography, and simulating advanced new materials and drug designs. This Fellowship will partner with Diraq, a world-leading Australian company developing a revolutionary new silicon quantum computing technology, to solve key issues in the race to scale ....Unleashing the combined power of electrons and holes for quantum computing. Large scale quantum computers promise unprecedented power with applications ranging from searching large databases for images and video, to optimising traffic routing, cryptography, and simulating advanced new materials and drug designs. This Fellowship will partner with Diraq, a world-leading Australian company developing a revolutionary new silicon quantum computing technology, to solve key issues in the race to scale from small scale prototypes to industrially relevant quantum computers. It will integrate electrons and holes, semiconducting and superconducting functionalities, into a single platform, link with industrial partners, and reinforce Australia's leadership position in quantum computing technologies.Read moreRead less