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
Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE100100116
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$350,000.00
Summary
Facilities of thermophysical characterisations at nanometre scale for development of advanced materials, energy technologies and biomedical components. Australia's energy, mining, metallurgical, defence, pharmaceutical and biomedical industries are spearheading the advancement of technologies in the global competitive market. They are the engines of Australian economic strength. Future progress of these industries will be largely driven by advances in materials. The installation of the propose ....Facilities of thermophysical characterisations at nanometre scale for development of advanced materials, energy technologies and biomedical components. Australia's energy, mining, metallurgical, defence, pharmaceutical and biomedical industries are spearheading the advancement of technologies in the global competitive market. They are the engines of Australian economic strength. Future progress of these industries will be largely driven by advances in materials. The installation of the proposed facilities will add a new dimension to high-level research performance and significantly enhance the capability for characterisation of various forms of materials and biomedical components in Australia. The continual development of advanced materials and energy technology will potentially provide a sustainable means for meeting the increasing global challenge for the industries.Read moreRead less
Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE140100104
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$500,000.00
Summary
Collaborative facility for high resolution fabrication, imaging, and characterisation of nanostructured materials. Collaborative facility for high resolution fabrication, imaging, and characterisation of nanostructured materials: The development of the next generation of electronic, optical, and biomedical devices requires methods that can quickly manipulate and characterise matter at the nanoscale. This project will establish new tools that will allow researchers to build novel device structure ....Collaborative facility for high resolution fabrication, imaging, and characterisation of nanostructured materials. Collaborative facility for high resolution fabrication, imaging, and characterisation of nanostructured materials: The development of the next generation of electronic, optical, and biomedical devices requires methods that can quickly manipulate and characterise matter at the nanoscale. This project will establish new tools that will allow researchers to build novel device structures and analyse them at nanoscale spatial resolutions. The new facilities are required to meet the demands of a growing number of innovative projects being undertaken within a large multidisciplinary consortium of research groups. The facilities will be housed in state-of-the art laboratories and managed as open access resources for researchers which will enable advances in the areas of energy harvesting, environmental monitoring, and electronics.Read moreRead less
Special Research Initiatives - Grant ID: SR0354735
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$10,000.00
Summary
Australian Network on Microelectronics, Optoelectronics and Microelectromechanical Systems. The Network will encompass semiconductor microelectronics, optoelectronics, sensors and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). Fundamental research in these areas enables the technological advances that underpin rapidly developing industries such as information and telecommunications technologies, defence, aerospace, medicine, and remote sensing. Exciting challenges exist in designing new devices that exp ....Australian Network on Microelectronics, Optoelectronics and Microelectromechanical Systems. The Network will encompass semiconductor microelectronics, optoelectronics, sensors and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). Fundamental research in these areas enables the technological advances that underpin rapidly developing industries such as information and telecommunications technologies, defence, aerospace, medicine, and remote sensing. Exciting challenges exist in designing new devices that exploit unique semiconductor systems and technologies. By sharing capabilities and resources (both capital and human), the network will enable the issues associated with such novel materials and devices to be addressed in a targeted manner. The network will also guarantee the ongoing future of research in the area by actively involving early career researchers and postgraduate students.Read moreRead less
Diamond glass: An all-carbon technology for neural networks and biosensing. This project aims to use plasma deposition to synthesise diamond glass with the highest purity and the most diamond-like character so that it meets the strict requirements for emerging device applications. The extreme properties of diamond glass arise from the diamond-like bonding of the majority of its atoms. This amorphous, wide bandgap semiconductor is also the hardest known glass. The maximum diamond-like content pos ....Diamond glass: An all-carbon technology for neural networks and biosensing. This project aims to use plasma deposition to synthesise diamond glass with the highest purity and the most diamond-like character so that it meets the strict requirements for emerging device applications. The extreme properties of diamond glass arise from the diamond-like bonding of the majority of its atoms. This amorphous, wide bandgap semiconductor is also the hardest known glass. The maximum diamond-like content possible in diamond glass coatings is unknown, so determining its ultimate performance is difficult. Expected applications include medical diagnostics, non-volatile memories and programmable chips.Read moreRead less
Foundations for Physically Unclonable nano-Security on Silicon. This project aims to develop an on-chip physical unclonable function (PUF) based on recent progress in nanotechnology to generate unprecedented number of unique signatures. This is significant because these signatures can be used for preventing fraud and counterfeiting, protecting sensitive data and securing communications. PUFs will play an extremely vital role in future security systems. The PUF in the proposed project will be sim ....Foundations for Physically Unclonable nano-Security on Silicon. This project aims to develop an on-chip physical unclonable function (PUF) based on recent progress in nanotechnology to generate unprecedented number of unique signatures. This is significant because these signatures can be used for preventing fraud and counterfeiting, protecting sensitive data and securing communications. PUFs will play an extremely vital role in future security systems. The PUF in the proposed project will be simple, fast, tiny, energy efficient and highly secure as a result of the abundant nano-fabrication variations. The outcome of this project will be a prototype of a super high secure nanoelectronic-based PUF that will be tested to evaluate the technology and its security against malicious attacks.Read moreRead less
Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE160100228
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$400,000.00
Summary
Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic Device Fabrication Facility. Low temperature co-fired ceramic device fabrication facility:
This project seeks to establish a low temperature co-fired ceramics fabrication facility. New kinds of ‘meso-scale’ structurable ceramic processes are filling the technological and dimensional gap between microsystems in silicon and macro microsystems, as the platform can now structure microdevices in the range from a few micrometres to millimetres. This facility would pro ....Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic Device Fabrication Facility. Low temperature co-fired ceramic device fabrication facility:
This project seeks to establish a low temperature co-fired ceramics fabrication facility. New kinds of ‘meso-scale’ structurable ceramic processes are filling the technological and dimensional gap between microsystems in silicon and macro microsystems, as the platform can now structure microdevices in the range from a few micrometres to millimetres. This facility would provide a resource for Australian researchers to create novel electronic materials and devices that will be key to achieving breakthroughs in micro/nano-technologies and telecommunications. This project expects to support cutting-edge research into multilayer ceramic microsystems such as microelectromechanical systems, wireless sensors and actuators, radio frequency and microwave devices, microfluidic packaging, interfacing and implantation of ultra-fast photoelectrons and acoustic wave devices.Read moreRead less
Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE130100128
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$670,000.00
Summary
Helium and neon ion microscope for sub nanometer imaging and fabrication. The project's proposed instrument would add a new desperately needed capability to Australia's high resolution microscopy centre and nano fabrication facility and enable a wide range of users to image, measure, build and design complex nanostructures at the atomic level and upwards.
Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE160100062
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$700,000.00
Summary
Silicon LPCVD Facility for Nanoelectronics, Quantum Computing & Solar Cells. Silicon low-pressure chemical vapor deposition facility:
This project aims to complete Australia’s first manufacturing line for nanoscale devices. It aims to establish a low-pressure chemical vapour deposition system to complete the existing silicon complementary metal-oxide semiconductor process line. It is currently impossible to fabricate many devices compatible with industrial manufacture, limiting device reliabili ....Silicon LPCVD Facility for Nanoelectronics, Quantum Computing & Solar Cells. Silicon low-pressure chemical vapor deposition facility:
This project aims to complete Australia’s first manufacturing line for nanoscale devices. It aims to establish a low-pressure chemical vapour deposition system to complete the existing silicon complementary metal-oxide semiconductor process line. It is currently impossible to fabricate many devices compatible with industrial manufacture, limiting device reliability and path to commercialisation. The tool is designed to incorporate four furnace tubes for growing thin layers of electronic materials, including polycrystalline-silicon, epitaxial silicon, and silicon-nitride. One unique aspect will be growth of isotopically-enriched silicon-28 that is essential for spin-based quantum computing. The tool would support a wide range of projects nationally in silicon micro/nano-systems, advanced photovoltaics, and quantum technologies.Read moreRead less
Centre For Translational Neuroscience: A Modular Platform For Translating Discovery Into Health Outcomes
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$2,623,735.00
Summary
Clinical Centre of Research Excellence in Translational Neuroscience will provide people, pathways and resources to create a novel platform to take the outputs of Neuroscience Discovery programs though to improved patient outcomes for common brain diseases. A critical role will be to train and equip the best and brightest of the next generation of researchers to undertake internationally competitive translational neuroscience research that makes a difference to the health of our community.