Category: Manipulate (Research Theme 2)




Kitchen foil unlocks the future of terahertz technology

A new photonics breakthrough uses light to control light, enabling fast, reversible tuning of metasurfaces for future optical chips and holographic tech. [...]

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Controlling Light with Light Using Dyed Liquid Crystals

A new photonics breakthrough uses light to control light, enabling fast, reversible tuning of metasurfaces for future optical chips and holographic tech. [...]

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Tiny Device from RMIT Researchers Monitors Skin Health

Australia’s harsh sun is infamous for damaging our skin. But what if you could track your skin’s health at home using something smaller than a credit card? [...]

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Infrared Innovation Heats Up with a Nano-Tunable Filter

A new nanoengineered approach promises to make infrared spectrometers dramatically cheaper, more compact, and more robust — by replacing bulky moving optics with a heat-tunable metasurface. [...]

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Tiny and Powerful – Metamaterial Lenses for Phones and Drones

Researchers from TMOS and ANU have developed breakthrough multilayer metalenses that bring powerful, lightweight optics to smartphones, drones, and satellites. This scalable meta-optics design overcom [...]

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Beam Me Out, Scotty. A new tractor beam technology aims to minimize biopsy trauma.

Researchers at TMOS, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems, have taken an important first step in the development of metasurface-enabled tractor beams—rays of light th [...]

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New metasurface-based edge detecting filter for remote sensing transforms crop monitoring

Optical metasurfaces have enabled analog computing and image processing within sub-wavelength footprints, and with reduced power consumption and faster speeds. While various image processing metasurfa [...]

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New breakthrough in 3D stretchable devices fabrication makes robots more human.

Realising three-dimensional stretchable structures of functional materials with a minimum footprint on Silicone polymer is highly desirable in soft robotics, stretchable electronics, and photonics. [...]

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Continuous non-invasive glucose sensing on the horizon with the development of a new optical sensor.

Researchers at TMOS, the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems, have taken an important step towards eliminating this discomfort. Their RMIT Universi [...]

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Protecting children and pets: Innovative metasurface prevents cars from overheating

Every year in Australia, more than 5000 children are rescued after being left unattended in a car. Not all of those children are saved before they succumb to death by heatstroke, with at least ten Aus [...]

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