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Functional Materials and Microsystems Research Group at RMIT University

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25.01.2022 Our collaborative work on terahertz polarisation convertors that have high bandwidth and angle of operation has appeared in APL Photonics (Open Access). Congratulations to Rajour Tanyi Ako and All! https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5116149

24.01.2022 We are excited to announce that Dr Ben Cumming is joining our team! Ben will lead 3D nanofabrication for optical neuromorphic devices and holograms for the ARC CoE TMOS at RMIT node! Ben's photo features a Melbourne W Class tram 3D nanoprinted at 1:210000 scale!

24.01.2022 Congratulations to Professor Madhu Bhaskaran on being named among the 40 Under 40 most influential Asian-Australians (and Category Winner in Science & Medicine)! The online ceremony celebrated amazing contributors to society - our congratulations to everyone!

24.01.2022 Using naturally-occurring crystal facets in silicon, we have realised broadband and efficient terahertz absorbers! Congratulations Aditi Upadhyay and all our collaborators! https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.382458

24.01.2022 Congratulations to Prof Madhu Bhaskaran on being awarded the 2020 Frederick White Medal by the Australian Academy of Science. This work recognises her research on stretchable electronics and its potential impact.

24.01.2022 Congratulations Dr Md Ataur Rahman! Very pleased to announce Ataurs PhD completion in the same week as excellent media coverage for his work. Ataur created significant advancements in wearable and sensor technologies.

24.01.2022 Congratulations to Mei Xian (Jamie) Low on a successful PhD Confirmation of Candidature! We look forward to her research outcomes on stimuli-modulated two-dimensional materials.

24.01.2022 Congratulations Shubhendra Kumar Jain on completion of a successful PhD milestone! His work on novel GaN photodetectors and heterostructured-devices is part of a joint RMIT University and Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) India PhD project.

23.01.2022 We celebrated our FMM Research Day virtually - and hope to spend time in person with these smiling faces soon! Congratulations Dr Shruti Nirantar - recipient of the 2020 FMM Prize for consistent research excellence!

23.01.2022 Congratulations to Rajour Tanyi Ako on his successful completion of the final PhD milestone seminar! He has achieved excellent outcomes on new fabrication materials and design for terahertz devices.

23.01.2022 We have demonstrated flexible memory devices, where choice of electrode can create different switching mechanisms! Congratulations Md Ataur Rahman and All! https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b20585

23.01.2022 Congratulations Peter Elango on the successful confirmation of PhD candidature! Exciting work on skin-mounted sensors for health, wellbeing and performance we are keen to see in practical use!

22.01.2022 Always wonderful to come together as the entire team - our once in 3 week COVID-19 isolation meeting! Included extended team members too!

21.01.2022 Congratulations Dr Ganganath Perera on being awarded a 2020 Malcolm Moore Industry Research Award through a bequest to @ResearchRMIT! Project will create smart biosensing face-masks with Soterius Australia Pty Ltd (http://soterius.com.au/)! RMIT University The Actuator Our collaborator Dr Leah Heiss is a successful recipient too to drive user-centric design of smart patches for aged-care support and monitoring with Vlepis Solutions Pty Ltd!

21.01.2022 Congratulations Aditi Upadhyay on the successful second PhD milestone presentation! Keen to see continuing outcomes from research activities in terahertz and optical absorption and coupling phenomena!

21.01.2022 Our collaborative work using crystal lattice symmetry for terahertz metasurface plasmon-induced transparency has appeared in Applied Physics Letters! Congratulations Rajour Tanyi Ako and Simon Nickl on their outstanding microfabrication! https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0009785

20.01.2022 Our work on extremely precise and selective conductometric biosensors has appeared in 'Small'! Congratulations Dr Ganganath Perera, Dr Taimur Ahmed, Dr Leah Heiss, and all! https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202005582

19.01.2022 The ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS) has been announced today with funding support of $34.9 million. We are excited to be partnering with many partners to revolutionise optical technologies using new materials and devices. Stay tuned as we cast technology in a new light! Professor Madhu Bhaskaran will lead the RMIT Node and direct the equity and diversity activities of the Centre. http://tmos.org.au/

18.01.2022 We look forward to sharing outcomes of our 'Women in STEM' recruitment round for ARC CoE TMOS at RMIT! We received >80 eligible applicants in a very competitive pool. Stay tuned for those announcements and our initiative to Re-Connect careers.

17.01.2022 Our collaborative work on terahertz 2D photonic crystal waveguides is on the cover of Advanced Materials Technologies! Microstructured silicon between gold layers for guiding terahertz waves for integrated devices. https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.202070039

17.01.2022 We are nearing a decade of exciting research activities. All outcomes have been driven by connections between people, teams, and with industry. We are re-branding to show how we connect the dots to transform ideas to products! Our leadership team formally adds Sumeet Walia as one of the Co-Leaders and you can find out more on our refreshed webpage: http://fmm.rmit.edu.au/

17.01.2022 Our work on artificial electronic skin that can sense touch, temperature, and pain stimuli has appeared in Advanced Intelligent Systems! Congratulations to Md Ataur Rahman and everyone involved! https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202000094 https://www.rmit.edu.au/news/all-news/2020//electronic-skin

17.01.2022 Congratulations Dr Taimur Ahmed on being named a 2020 Victoria Fellow! Very proud of another team member working to use international collaboration for Victoria's benefit.

16.01.2022 Pleased to announce that Dr Shruti Nirantar has commenced today as a Research Fellow with us! She will work on MAGIC nanoelectronics, an Australian Research Council Discovery Project 2020!

15.01.2022 Our collaborative work on terahertz metasurfaces with engineered asymmetry to observe dual plasmon-induced transparency has appeared in Optics Express! Congratulations Rajour Tanyi Ako on the precise polyimide microfabrication and the outcome! https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.393714

15.01.2022 Congratulations Aram Arash, Shruti Nirantar, and Md Ataur Rahman on recent PhD theses submissions! Always a major achievement, even more so during COVID-19s work-from-home period! All three have led new nanotechnology and nanoelectronics advancements!

14.01.2022 Our collaborative work on enhancing bandwidth for terahertz reflect arrays has featured on the inside front cover of Advanced Optical Materials! Congratulations Rajour Tanyi Ako and All! Cover: https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.201970076 Article: https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.201900791

14.01.2022 Our collaborative work on high-efficiency polarization convertors for terahertz frequencies has appeared as a Editors Pick in APL Photonics! Congratulations Rajour Tanyi Ako and all on novel multilayer device using cyclic olefin copolymer! https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5144115

13.01.2022 Congratulations once again to Sruthi Kuriakose on being named one of Engineers Australias Most Innovative Engineers 2020! Her work has been featured on SBS Malayalam! https://www.sbs.com.au//malayalee-student-in-australia-s-t

11.01.2022 Congratulations Dr Aram Arash! A successful PhD completion today. Aram made discoveries in growth and application of oxide 2D materials. A challenging end moving countries and a pandemic to boot. Great outcome!

10.01.2022 Congratulations Saleha Sarowat Sakeeba on the successful confirmation of candidature presentation! We look forward to the outcomes from her research on rapid-response oxide-based biosensors for inflammation and nutrition biomarker detection!

09.01.2022 Congratulations Sruthi Kuriakose on successful completion of the final PhD milestone! Excellent research outcomes on controlling properties of two-dimensional semiconductors for electronic and optoelectronic applications!

08.01.2022 Our collaborative work on using fractal symmetry meta-atoms to create scalable metasurfaces for terahertz frequencies and beyond has appeared in Optical Materials Express Congratulations Rajour Tanyi Ako and All! https://doi.org/10.1364/OME.9.004138

07.01.2022 As COVID-19 makes us work from home, we have to be innovative with research activities and progress. Just as important is maintaining connections. The team had a virtual check-in chatting about kids, pets, gardening, gaming, exercise, art, and sleeping - and snippets of good news too! And of course, plenty of laughs!

06.01.2022 Congratulations Mingjie Yang on a successful confirmation of PhD candidature milestone! Mingjie is working on miniaturised, label-free biomarker sensors for continuous health monitoring.

05.01.2022 Our review article led by Dr Shanmuga Sundar Dhanabalan is now online in 'Advanced Photonics Research'. We explore opportunities for non-invasive, optical biodetection. https://doi.org/10.1002/adpr.202000076

05.01.2022 Thank you to Shubhendra Kumar Jain for his excellent contributions to our team! He heads back to India tomorrow after over a year with us, working on 2D-3D heterostructured devices - as part of his joint AcSIR and RMIT PhD program.

05.01.2022 An invited review on dielectric materials and structures for terahertz metasurfaces has appeared in Advanced Optical Materials! Congratulations Rajour Tanyi Ako, Aditi Upadhyay, and All! https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.201900750

04.01.2022 Congratulations Shruti Nirantar and Edwin Mayes on their work explaining experimental procedures in the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE)! Video guides will be added after COVID-19 lockdown eases! https://www.jove.com//in-situ-transmission-electron-micros

04.01.2022 Extremely pleased to announce team members and collaborators have been recognised in the annual RMIT University Research Awards for excellence and impact! Congratulations Shruti Nirantar, Sruthi Kuriakose, and Leah Heiss - all amazing researchers and #WomeninSTEM. Shruti Nirantar receives the ‘Vice-Chancellor’s Prize for Research Excellence HDR’: She says I love research because it is more than just the science and every day is different! This award is inspirational to kee...p going on the road I have been heading down. Sruthi Kuriakose receives the ‘RMIT Award for Research Impact HDR Design’. She says I enjoy investigating and engineering properties of atomically thin materials as every application needs a particular dimension/ thickness of the material. It's fascinating that the same material can be tailored for a range of applications like high-speed electronics, novel brain-like devices and ultraviolet sensors. Leah Heiss is recipient of ‘Vice-Chancellor's Award for Research Excellence ECR Design’. She says I'm so passionate about improving the design of wearable health technologies through human centred design." Congratulations once again and to all the other recipients! Our collective efforts to create impact for society is always a team effort! See more

03.01.2022 Our collaborative work on sensing ultra-thin sub-10-nm films using terahertz metasurfaces has appeared in Applied Physics Letters! Congratulations Rajour Tanyi Ako and All! https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5110383

03.01.2022 Congratulations Dr Shruti Nirantar - a newly-minted Doctor of Philosophy! Shruti has made original and significant contributions to nanoelectronic technologies for memory devices and semiconductor-free transistors. Look forward to her next achievements!

02.01.2022 Excited to share our collaborative outcome in Advanced Materials Technologies! Mei Xian (Jamie) Low and Rajour Tanyi Ako created new microfabrication approaches to realise these terahertz inverse photonic crystal waveguides! https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.202000117

01.01.2022 Congratulations to Sruthi Kuriakose for recognition as one of Australias Most Innovative Engineers 2020! We are proud of her outstanding advancements in 2D materials and nanoelectronics! https://www.createdigital.org.au/innovativeengineers/ We are especially proud that Sruthi has made it 5 years in a row that our team members!

01.01.2022 Congratulations Shruti Nirantar on being awarded an Australian Nanotechnology Networks (ANN) Overseas Travel Fellowship! ANNs early-career researcher support enables visit to the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba (once possible) for research into novel nanoelectronic brain-inspired memory devices.