Category: Research
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? [...]View
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. [...]View
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 [...]View
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
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
Old movies and new tech to allow us to see back in time with deep space imaging
Observing distant galaxies, stars and cosmic events is the closest thing we have to time travel. Because light can take millions or even billions of years to get to us, by looking into deep space we c [...]View
Quantum imaging breakthrough achieved with ultra-thin nonlinear metasurfaces
Scientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS) nodes at the Australian National University (ANU) and University of Melbourne (UoM) have pioneered a new qua [...]View