Scientists have created lasers from perfect crystals one hundredth of the diameter of a human hair. Like the fibres of a toothbrush, the team created an array of vertical crystals, termed nanowires, on a platform, and succeeded in making them simultaneously...

The accidental creation of a tent mere microns in area has enabled a breath test for diabetes, which could change the lives of millions of people with the disease. The new device, developed at ANU, could supersede the finger-prick that are a daily burden...

The heart of future quantum devices could be lit up by arrays of tiny glow-sticks, developed by ANU physicists. A group from the Department of Electronic Materials Engineering (EME) manufactured an array of tens of thousands of indium phosphide nanowires...

In the search for optimum hydrogen production researchers have found decorating their electrodes with tiny metal flowers boosts the process significantly. Dr Asim Riaz said the structures not only enabled efficient electrolysis (splitting water into...

A series of clever design tweaks have boosted the efficiency of solar-powered hydrogen production, using cheap and readily available materials. After COVID, hailstorms and bushfire smoke disrupted plans to develop entirely new solar components, the team...

Shiyu Wei is working on tiny pillars made from indium phosphide. With diameters less than one hundredth the diameter of human hair, these nanowires, as they are called, have remarkable properties that can be used for building microscopic lasers, antennae...

A new miniscule nitrogen dioxide sensor could help protect the environment from vehicle pollutants that cause lung disease and acid rain. The sensor is an array of nanowires, in a square one fifth of a millimetre per side, which means it could be easily...

Physicists have developed a new tiny laser that could be used by the thousand to make future dynamic 3D holograms. Unlike a 2D screen made up of coloured dots, each pixel in a hologram would need to be a microscopic laser with precise control of the light...

Holograms made from arrays of tiny wires are a step closer after a new study of nanostructure fabrication revealed the tricks to making nanowires reliably. Physicists at the Australian National University node of TMOS studied growth of gallium nitride...

A thin layer of metal foil could be the key to making green hydrogen production from solar energy a commercial reality. A team led by scientists at the ANU Research School of Physics used nickel-based foils to create robust, cheap and efficient water...

Leading nanotechnology and physics researcher, Distinguished Professor Chennupati Jagadish, will be the next president of the Australian Academy of Science. He is the first Australian of Indian descent to take up the role and will commence in May 2022. The...

Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have achieved a new efficiency record for hydrogen cells that can convert water into hydrogen simply using sunlight. Lead author Dr Siva Karuturi says hydrogen has an important role to play in solving...

Physicists have unveiled a design for a high-precision detector in the shape of a golden bow tie, that could enable a new generation of safe, compact scanners. Two tiny triangles of solid gold connected by two nanowires form the bow tie detector, which...

New miniature sensors developed at ANU could be the key to future safer medical imaging and security scans. A team of physicists that developed a detector for terahertz radiation made from nanowires one hundredth the diameter of a human hair, a million...

ANU researchers have developed a suitable material to allow brain cells to grow and form predictable circuits, which could lead to the development of prosthetics for the brain. The research was a multi-disciplinary collaboration between physics, engineering...

Distinguished Professor Chennupati Jagadish has been elected an Honorary Fellow of the Indian Academy of the Sciences, one of only two in 2017. Professor Jagadish has had a successful career researching photovoltaics, nanotechnology and semiconductor...

Scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) have improved the performance of tiny lasers by adding impurities, in a discovery which will be central to the development of low-cost biomedical sensors, quantum computing, and a faster internet. Researcher...

Distinguished Professor Chennupati Jagadish has been awarded Australia's highest honour for his service to physics and engineering, leading a string of ANU academics recognised in the 2016 Australia Day Honours. Professor Jagadish was appointed a Companion...

The School Seminar series will be held at 4:00pm on the third Thursday of the month, March-November. The dates are: 4:00pm Thursday 20 March 4:00pm Thursday 17 April 4:00pm Thursday 15 May 4:00pm Thursday 19 June 4:00pm Thursday 17 July 4:00pm...

Faster, smaller electronics are one step closer with researchers from The Australian National University successfully making the first room temperature lasers from gallium arsenide nanowires. “The wires and lasers will lead to much faster, much...

RSPE School Seminars will be held at 4:00pm on the third Thursday of the month March through to November in the Leonard Huxley Theatre. Thursday 28 March. Dr Bianca Haberl, EME. Chair: Drew Parsons Physics under Pressure: New Phases of Silicon and Germanium Thursday...

2012 SPEAKERS Leonard Huxley Theatre Following Thursdays at 4pm   Speakers from RSPE Departments    22 March - Dr Dinesh Venkatachalam, EME   (Chair, Drew Parsons) Memories taking resistive turn: Resistive switching...