Category: News

  1. Astrolight 2016

    Members of the Optics Group and other members of the University’s OSA and SPIE Student Chapters attracted enormous attention with their display at Astrolight 2016 at Scienceworks on 10 September. PhD student Rory Speirs and new MSc student Gijs van Pamelen set up the hugely popular laser maze. Lili Sun from the Astrophysics group presented […]

    optics.physics.unimelb.edu.au/2016/09/20/astrolight-2016

  2. Research Fellow Position Available

    Applications are now being sought for a post-doctoral fellow in Nanophotonics. Details here. Note that applications close 31 July 2016. Contact Ann Roberts for more information.

    optics.physics.unimelb.edu.au/2016/07/15/research-fellow-position-available

  3. New Nature Communications review paper

    Ken Crozier and co-authors have published a review article, Quantum mechanical effects in plasmonic structures with subnanometre gaps, in Nature Communications. The paper can be found at: www.nature.com/ncomms/2016/160603/ncomms11495/full/ncomms11495.html.

    optics.physics.unimelb.edu.au/2016/07/07/new-nature-communications-review-paper

  4. ARC Linkage success

    In May 2016, Ken Crozier was awarded a grant by the Australian Research Council (ARC), as part of their Linkage Program.  The project is entitled “Colour matching on a chip” and is a collaborative project with Palette.  Chief Investigators are Ken and Jiatian Liang from Palette

    optics.physics.unimelb.edu.au/2016/07/07/arc-linkage-success

  5. Ken Crozier awarded DARPA grant

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency  (DARPA, USA) has awarded a grant on “Long wave infrared photodetectors based on nano-optics and two dimensional materials” to Ken Crozier with Professor Ali Javey (University of Caifornia-Berkeley) as co-PI.

    optics.physics.unimelb.edu.au/2016/07/07/ken-crozier-awarded-darpa-grant

  6. Group members demonstrate new ‘plasmonic pixel’

    Tim James and Ann Roberts are co-authors with Paul Mulvaney of a paper recently published in Nano Letters: ‘The Plasmonic Pixel: Large Area, Wide Gamut Color Reproduction Using Aluminum Nanostructures.’ Nano Letters. DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b01250, The images below show a rendering in aluminium nanostructures (right) of the photograph on the left. Read more in an article […]

    optics.physics.unimelb.edu.au/2016/06/21/group-members-demonstrate-new-plasmonic-pixel

  7. ARC Discovery Project Grant success

    Ann Roberts, Tim Davis and collaborators Daniel Gomez (CSIRO) and Kevin Webb (Purdue) were awarded an ARC Discovery Projects grant from 2016-2018 to investigate metasurfaces for imaging and optical information processing.

    optics.physics.unimelb.edu.au/2015/12/11/arc-discovery-project-grant-success

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