Performance bottlenecks in ultra-scaled field-effect transistors. The comparison of commercial and atomically-precise devices will result in the long sought after atomistic metrology knowledge. Such knowledge is required to achieve a leap forward in device understanding and design in order to improve speed, reliability and energy consumption.
Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE150100001
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$410,000.00
Summary
Collaborative advanced spectroscopy facility for materials and devices. Collaborative advanced spectroscopy facility for materials and devices: This project aims to enable advancements in electronics, photonics, biomedicine, and sensing through a collaborative, open access facility for advanced optical and chemical spectroscopy of thin films, materials, and devices. The intended capabilities include high-speed, precise and state-of-the-art spectroscopy tools which enable in situ characterisation ....Collaborative advanced spectroscopy facility for materials and devices. Collaborative advanced spectroscopy facility for materials and devices: This project aims to enable advancements in electronics, photonics, biomedicine, and sensing through a collaborative, open access facility for advanced optical and chemical spectroscopy of thin films, materials, and devices. The intended capabilities include high-speed, precise and state-of-the-art spectroscopy tools which enable in situ characterisation at sub-micron scales and cryogenic temperatures, under bio-simulated environments, down to single pixel resolution, with parallel imaging and spectroscopy, and of fluids and biomaterials. The instrumentation will include cryogenic sub-micron photoluminescence and micro-Raman spectroscopy, single pixel optical and dark field spectroscopy, continuous wave terahertz time-domain spectroscopy, wide wavelength microscopic spectroscopy, and temperature-jump kinetics spectroscopy. It is expected that these complementary instruments will accelerate research in materials and devices for plasmonics, nanoelectronics, biomedicine, biochemistry, security, and forensic science.Read moreRead less
Nanostructured ferroic oxides: Why does defect-induced nanoscale heterogeneity matter? Ferroic oxides are an important class of functional materials used in applications such as storage memories, medical devices and smart sensors. This project will significantly impact the fundamental understanding and development of ferroic devices by revealing the underpinning interface mechanisms that govern their behaviour in nanostructured form.
Bioelectronic logic. This project aims to understand ion-electron interactions relevant to bioelectronics, and create transducing interfaces. Bioelectronics is a frontier field which aims to connect biological systems with modern electronics and so create biomedical devices. Transducing ion and electron signals using a biocompatible functional interface is difficult since ion and electron physics are different. By combining individual transducers, this project intends to demonstrate ground-break ....Bioelectronic logic. This project aims to understand ion-electron interactions relevant to bioelectronics, and create transducing interfaces. Bioelectronics is a frontier field which aims to connect biological systems with modern electronics and so create biomedical devices. Transducing ion and electron signals using a biocompatible functional interface is difficult since ion and electron physics are different. By combining individual transducers, this project intends to demonstrate ground-breaking bioelectronic logic capable of interface-level processing. The stretch goal is to test this new logic with a biological neuronal model. The project could deliver new science and interfacing elements to integrate tissue and circuitry, and demonstrate these in a real biological model.Read moreRead less
Room Temperature Quantum Devices based on Spins in Organic Semiconductors:
Characterisation, Control and Development. Organic semiconductors are widely used in optoelectronic devices - recent work has also demonstrated that they contain coherent quantum spin states, even at room temperature. This project will use spin resonance and control techniques from quantum physics to determine the processes which limit coherence in these materials, determine ways to overcome these limitations, and then i ....Room Temperature Quantum Devices based on Spins in Organic Semiconductors:
Characterisation, Control and Development. Organic semiconductors are widely used in optoelectronic devices - recent work has also demonstrated that they contain coherent quantum spin states, even at room temperature. This project will use spin resonance and control techniques from quantum physics to determine the processes which limit coherence in these materials, determine ways to overcome these limitations, and then incorporate the materials into devices which exploit the power of these quantum systems at room-temperature. This project advances the prospect of ubiquitously incorporating quantum technologies into everyday applications, impacting fields from information storage to sensing.Read moreRead less
Industry Laureate Fellowships - Grant ID: IL230100072
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$3,759,824.00
Summary
Unleashing the combined power of electrons and holes for quantum computing. Large scale quantum computers promise unprecedented power with applications ranging from searching large databases for images and video, to optimising traffic routing, cryptography, and simulating advanced new materials and drug designs. This Fellowship will partner with Diraq, a world-leading Australian company developing a revolutionary new silicon quantum computing technology, to solve key issues in the race to scale ....Unleashing the combined power of electrons and holes for quantum computing. Large scale quantum computers promise unprecedented power with applications ranging from searching large databases for images and video, to optimising traffic routing, cryptography, and simulating advanced new materials and drug designs. This Fellowship will partner with Diraq, a world-leading Australian company developing a revolutionary new silicon quantum computing technology, to solve key issues in the race to scale from small scale prototypes to industrially relevant quantum computers. It will integrate electrons and holes, semiconducting and superconducting functionalities, into a single platform, link with industrial partners, and reinforce Australia's leadership position in quantum computing technologies.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE130101148
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$375,000.00
Summary
Quantum state translation in integrated optics: enabling multicolour quantum processing. This project aims to use nonlinear effects in photonic waveguide devices to shift the energies of photons, single particles of light, from one state to another. This will have a profound impact on provably secure quantum communication and potentially provide novel routes to the building of a quantum computer.
Electrical spin resonance detection techniques for nanotechnology applications. Spin resonance, the science which underpins magnetic resonance imaging, is an extemely useful tool which is currently incompatible with nanotechnology. This project will develop methods to integrate spin resonance techniques and nanotechnology, which will significantly impact both fundamental research and technological advances.
Australian Laureate Fellowships - Grant ID: FL190100167
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$2,895,366.00
Summary
The CMOS Quantum Processor: A path to scalable quantum computing. The project aims to develop a quantum computer processor based on a new technology developed by Professor Dzurak in 2014-15. Remarkably, the qubits, or processing elements, utilise the silicon metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors that constitute today’s microprocessor chips, so existing production plants can be used to fast-track development. The project will realise proof-of-principle systems with 10-20 qubits, to r ....The CMOS Quantum Processor: A path to scalable quantum computing. The project aims to develop a quantum computer processor based on a new technology developed by Professor Dzurak in 2014-15. Remarkably, the qubits, or processing elements, utilise the silicon metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors that constitute today’s microprocessor chips, so existing production plants can be used to fast-track development. The project will realise proof-of-principle systems with 10-20 qubits, to resolve critical issues related to readout, error correction, and long-distance on-chip coupling, to take the technology to a commercial-ready stage. Quantum computing is one of the great scientific challenges of this century, with important applications in pharmaceutical design, finance and national security.Read moreRead less
Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE130100109
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$200,000.00
Summary
A multiscale electrochemical, magnetoelectric and electromechanical characterisation facility for advanced materials and devices. This infrastructure for advanced materials characterisation will boost Australia's capabilities in creating functional materials and nanostructured interfaces. It will yield new materials and functional interfaces with the best performance for applications in nanotechnology, communications, the environment and security.