Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE160100071

Funded Activity Summary

Light-bending strategies of next generation scalable plasmonic devices. This project will focus on a goal of engineering novel plasmonic metamaterials for manipulating light at the nanoscale. In particular, it will employ curved anodized alumina templates as well as 3D hybrid structures to explore light bending and strong resonances at the visible spectral range. Plasmonic metamaterials offer a unique ability to control subwavelength light propagation, for achieving unprecedented sensing sensitivities and emerging nanophotonics phenomena. However, fabrication challenges and high losses hamper their application in the visible spectral range. Engineering these plasmonic structures in a scalable manner should strengthen Australia’s economy, lead to new industrial companies in the emerging field of plasmonics, attract international investments and create job opportunities.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-03-2016

End Date: 15-04-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $300,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Photonics and Electro-Optical Engineering (excl. Communications) | Functional Materials | Nanotechnology | Nanofabrication, Growth and Self Assembly

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Emerging Defence Technologies | Expanding Knowledge in Technology |

Other Keywords

Emerging Defence Technologies | Expanding Knowledge in Technology | Functional Materials | Nanofabrication, Growth and Self Assembly | Nanotechnology | Photonics and Electro-Optical Engineering (excl. Communications)

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