Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE0989615
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$300,000.00
Summary
Melbourne Platform for Surface Characterisation of Structured Materials. The Australian economy is gradually expanding its manufacturing base through the development of the nanotechnology and biotechnology sectors. This will lead to production of a more diverse range of elaborately transformed goods. A key contributor to these export opportunities will be the nanotechnology sector since at the present time no country has a real nanotechnology based economy and there are many niche markets availa ....Melbourne Platform for Surface Characterisation of Structured Materials. The Australian economy is gradually expanding its manufacturing base through the development of the nanotechnology and biotechnology sectors. This will lead to production of a more diverse range of elaborately transformed goods. A key contributor to these export opportunities will be the nanotechnology sector since at the present time no country has a real nanotechnology based economy and there are many niche markets available for smaller countries such as Australia. This proposal helps to build quality control and characterisation infrastructure that will facilitate prototyping and design of nanoscale devices and sensors for next generation manufacturing.Read moreRead less
Microprobing of Crystal Polarisation in Polycrystalline Compound Semiconductors. We will improve the quality of polycrystalline compound semiconductor thin films, grown by chemical vapour deposition. The novelty of the project is divided between applying new methods to assess film quality and deposition development. An expected outcome will be a measurement system with the unique capability of probing the spatial variation of dielectric polarisation with sub-micron resolution. Polycrystalline ....Microprobing of Crystal Polarisation in Polycrystalline Compound Semiconductors. We will improve the quality of polycrystalline compound semiconductor thin films, grown by chemical vapour deposition. The novelty of the project is divided between applying new methods to assess film quality and deposition development. An expected outcome will be a measurement system with the unique capability of probing the spatial variation of dielectric polarisation with sub-micron resolution. Polycrystalline GaN recently been taken to state of the art performance at Macquarie University, will be the trial material. The information obtained will inform material improvement, with the ultimate aim of fabricating polycrystalline, GaN-based transistors and blue light-emitting diodes on glass substrates.Read moreRead less