Category: News
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. [...]View
Detection Chip Revolutionises Plastic Pollution Monitoring
Dr Lukas Wesemann (University of Melbourne), Associate Professor Brad Clarke, and collaborators from the University of Stuttgart and TMOS have developed a low-cost “optical sieve” that detects nan [...]View
Butterfly Wings Inspire Solution to Impossible Problem
An international team of researchers has developed a first-of-its-kind method to cheaply, portably, and powerfully detect harmful nanoplastic particles—advancing global efforts to understand their i [...]View
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 [...]View
Manipulating Light to Create the Technologies of the Future
TMOS is pioneering next-gen optical tech using metasurfaces to create ultra-thin, efficient devices for AR, healthcare, and quantum communications. [...]View
TMOS Annual Report 2024 – Message from the International Scientific Advisory Committee
The theme of this year’s TMOS Annual Report, From Foundations to Frontiers, captures precisely what makes this Centre of Excellence so inspiring. TMOS continues to lay solid scientific foundations t [...]View
TMOS 2024 Annual Report – Message from the Centre Advisory Board
As we move further into a decade defined by global uncertainty and rapid technological change, one thing is clear: the nations that will lead are those that invest in foundational scientific research [...]View
Tuning Entanglement With an Asymmetric Metasurface
ANU and TMOS researchers have developed an InGaP metasurface that generates entangled photon pairs with tunable precision — a major step for quantum communication and hyperentangled systems. [...]View
TMOS 2024 Annual Report – A Message from our Centre Director
2024 was a busy year for the Centre, marked by numerous exciting scientific highlights and notable personal recognitions. [...]View
Reconstructive Infrared Microspectrometers
The University of Western Australia is spearheading a project to develop compact, low-power infrared microspectrometers using cutting-edge technologies like metasurfaces and MEMS. [...]View