Review in Advanced Optical Materials

Lukas Wesemann, Tim Davis, Jingchao Song and Ann Roberts contributed to the new review article 'Plasmonic Near‐Complete Optical Absorption and Its Applications' that was recently published in Advanced Optical Materials. It reports recent progress on the development of metasurfaces and thin film structures that produce strong absorption bands in the visible and longer wavelength regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, due in part to the excitation of plasmonic resonances. The article can be downloaded here.

New ACS Photonics publication

Group members Tim Davis and Ann Roberts are co-authors on a paper published in ACS Photonics on 22 January: Plasmene Metasurface Absorbers: Electromagnetic Hot Spots and Hot Carriers. The research, led by our collaborator Daniel Gomez (RMIT University) showed that a thin sheet of a tightly packed, self-assembled, two-dimensional lattice of metal nanoparticles, called plasmene, supported by a subwavelength dielectric film deposited on top of a mirror can be used in surface-enhanced spectroscopy and in the generation of plasmonic hot carriers. More information and link to the article here.

Rob Scholten receives AOS John Love Award

At the 2018 AIP Congress, Professor Robert Scholten was announced as the 2018 recipient of the Australian Optical Society John Love Award which recognises those who have made a significant contribution to technical optics. The acknowledgement of Professor Scholten's establishment of MOGlabs is well deserved.

ARC Grant Success

Members of the optical physics were successful in the recently announced round of ARC Grants. Rob Scholten was successful leading a new Linkage Project grant with Industry Partner MOGLabs: High-brightness wavelength tuneable lasers for quantum science.  Rob is also a co-CI with our colleague Andy Martin on a new Discovery Project Grant: Controlling spin coherence with rotation. Ann Roberts is a co-CI on a Linkage Infrastructure grant led by A/Professor Qiaoliang Bao at Monash University: Multi-functional 3D imaging system for micro and nanoscale devices. This grant will deliver important new tools for the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication.

Emil Wolf Outstanding Student Paper Prize

Congratulations to Faris Shahidan who was awarded an Emil Wolf Outstanding Student Paper Prize for his recent presentation, Towards Scalable Fabrication of Plasmonic Colour via Nanoimprint Lithography at OSA Frontiers in Optics in Washington DC! Faris also represented the University's OSA student chapter at the associated student leadership conference. 

Attendees at the OSA Student Leadership Conference

Kelvin’s completion seminar

Zhe "Kelvin" Xu succesfully gave his PhD completion seminar to the School of Physics on 8 October. Kelvin (second from right) and advisory panel consisting of supervisors, Ken (right - main supervisor) and Ann (co-supervisor) and committee chair Lloyd Hollenberg (on left) are shown in the photo taken after the seminar.

Vivek, Jiajun and Jasper visit University of Manchester

Members of Ken's team visited the University of Manchester from 1-5 October to make measurements in the laboratory of Dr Patrick Parkinson.  Jasper and Vivek gave presentations in the School of Physics and Astronomy.  In addition, all three had the opportunity to tour the National Graphene Insitute.

L-R: Jasper, Jiajun & Vivek

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