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How TMOS ensures equitable recruitment practices

Diversity in STEM is something many organisations are striving toward. While progress has been made, there is still a long way to go. As awareness grows of how intersectionality compounds the barriers [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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. [...]

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