Category: Research




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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Bringing It All Together: Combining Metasurface Technologies to Deliver Point-of-Care Diagnoses

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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Beyond heat: new infrared filter for thermal cameras could detect pollution and disease

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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Novel Photonics Materials Are Needed to Drive the Second Quantum Revolution

What if quantum devices could be reprogrammed like software? TMOS researchers are exploring programmable photonic systems that could transform how we build and scale quantum technologies. [...]

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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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Microfocussing System Set to Transform Infrared Detectors

Researchers have developed a highly sensitive method for detecting hotspots in the environment, such as bushfires or military threats, by harnessing the focussing power of meta-optical systems. [...]

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Growing Crystals for Metasurface Lasers Gives Record Efficiency

TMOS researchers have achieved record efficiency by growing metasurface laser crystals instead of sculpting them. Led by Dr Wei Wen Wong, the team’s new method produces atomically smooth nanostructu [...]

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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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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 [...]

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